| 单词 | prescient |
| 例句 | Virginia's posture toward assumption was now making his prophecy look prescient. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In some cases, we will find that Eratosthenes was prescient in his thinking; in others, that he was sloppy or mistaken, but that his errors had the fortuitous effect of canceling each other out. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Some prescient part of him saw the two paths diverging in the yellow wood. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a prescient question, for Frank Oppenheimer’s association with Lawrence’s lab would end abruptly, following the disclosure of his earlier membership in the Communist Party. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Poetic though they sound, and I appreciate that you’ve just described both tender ballads of love and socially prescient commentary, I still don’t believe this rings any bells.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z With all the advantages of hindsight, Jefferson’s strategic assessment of 1796 appears more and more prescient: Whoever followed Washington was probably doomed to failure. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Olanna had been expecting the harsh sound for so long that a prescient shiver went through her just before she heard it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In retrospect, that statement seems prescient, but it merely reflected the mood already widespread among the young in Durham’s black community as America stood poised on the cusp of a new and turbulent decade. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Altogether, the abstract was, in the words of Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, "one of the most prescient documents in the history of physics and astronomy." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But it's a prescient metaphor for many of the issues that Jace Clayton tackles in his book about modern encounters among music, culture and technology. In 'Uproot,' Jace Clayton takes a worldwide tour of the digital underground 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z I think both men were prescient about the problems we find ourselves in today. James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Three years later, given the wave of uprisings that began within the past year in Tunisia and Egypt and that has continued to roll through the Middle East, her views now seem extremely prescient. Books of The Times: Upheaval and Hope in a Land of Turmoil 2011-08-01T23:00:10Z Heaton finally emerges to reveal the 8th, and modern, deadly sin: Gossip, which seems particularly prescient as the phone hacking scandal erupts outside. Paul Heaton's The 8th ? review 2011-07-10T17:16:01Z It was a prescient choice, anticipating the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s and our current turmoil over undocumented workers. Kirk Douglas’s Film ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ 2012-07-28T22:47:18Z Especially now, as institutions around the world reel from the pandemic’s financial blow, cutting programs and staff, she said she believed Dia’s instinct to remain low to the ground was prescient. Dia 2.0: Facing the Future 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z This unnervingly prescient Swedish dramatist, who lived from 1849 to 1912, portrayed relationships propelled by an ambivalence that scorched and withered. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z And she was prescient about what we’re facing today: the growing gap between rich and poor, the effect of technological innovation in the workplace, the inability of Democrats and Republicans to address gross injustice. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Goddess of Anarchy’ 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Baroque opera explored elements of gender fluidity in a way that now seems prescient. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z For David, the book is a moment to reflect on how his brother’s body of work — once received as so incendiary by some — has only grown more prescient with time. Spike as seen through his brother’s lens, in a new book 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z In the second half, the raggedness of the U.S. defense made Chastain’s criticisms seem prescient; the Canadians took so many shots on goal that Solo seemed without hope. Women’s soccer earns World Cup rematch — barely 2012-08-07T12:05:00Z And even when we were filming it six months ago, we didn't know how prescient and of-the-time our show would be. "Mrs. Davis" star Betty Gilpin on her risk-taking acting style: "I like playing high stakes" 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z He was not apologetic; in fact, he said that he had been prescient, and that the crisis of public faith now undermining science arose precisely because scientists did not heed his advice. Bruno Latour, Philosopher on the Social Basis of Scientific Facts, Dies at 74 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Didion’s 1991 essay about the case in The New York Review of Books was prescient in the doubts it raised. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The Granta selection, chosen by a panel of writers, editors and critics, carries weight because the magazine's first selection, in 1983, proved prescient. Zadie Smith on Granta best young novelists list 2013-04-15T19:21:14Z What's weirder still is that the incidents seem oddly prescient of one of his upcoming movies, "Knock Knock." In Keanu Reeves' bizarre intruder incidents, life imitates art 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Plus the "backstage" antics of some hapless BBC executives prove all too prescient. TV highlights 22 December 2010-12-20T01:05:01Z And in a prescient moment, dad and son discuss whether there should ever be a “Star Wars” sequel. Review: ‘Boyhood’ _ simple story, stunningly told 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z In one scene in the book, on a quiet hike during the early days of their relationship, Salinger provides Maynard with prescient advice, which she reproduces without comment: Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z And, 30 years on, the novel feels doubly prescient. The Silent House by Orhan Pamuk – review 2012-10-12T21:55:06Z Chaplin’s film is a masterpiece, or something close to it — prescient, daring and almost unbearably tragic, an optimistic and sentimental plea for reason in a world teetering on the edge of the abyss. ?Battleship?: Dumbest military spectacle ever? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z Some of the dystopias currently on offer seem not so much prescient as disturbingly present. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Featuring songs about alienation, capitalism and the impact of modern technology, "OK Computer" sounds oddly prescient in a politically divided and anxious Britain in 2017. Sound of silence opens UK's Glastonbury before Manchester classics fill the void 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z “Read two months into lockdown, it feels creepily prescient: We are all living in the desert now.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z A prescient former employee used to whip them up for the staff, and they went down so well that the latte ended up on the menu. Turmeric latte: the ‘golden milk’ with a cult following 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z For today, the film’s observations on the intersection of media and politics seem uncannily prescient, anticipating the triumph of two populists on opposite sides of the pond: Donald J. Trump and Boris Johnson. From All-Star Flop to Astute Satire in Just 50 Years 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z In the 2006 documentary “Al Franken: God Spoke,” Mr. Franken, the comedian, activist and future senator from Minnesota, offered a quote that would prove prescient for more than its choice of verb: “Celebrity trumps ideology.” Franken and Trump, Hiding Behind Their ‘Jokes’ 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z “She was prescient 25 years ago. This storytelling started in her hometown and … then she goes on to capture it around the world.” America exports its addiction to bling across the globe; Lauren Greenfield captures it with her camera 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z And the movie wound up being prescient in more ways than one. Heaven Can Wait: Back in LA, Rams go for a Hollywood sequel 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z His first impression is prescient: When he sees her standing outside Merrywood, her grand childhood home, he thinks, “She doesn’t look like she belongs there any more than I do.” He Knew What Jackie Gave Up for the Kennedys. This Is His Story. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Read two months into lockdown, it feels creepily prescient: We are all living in the desert now. Ben Ehrenreich’s Dispatches From the Beginning and End of the World 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z He possessed the rare gift of being a filmmaker who seemed to be able to step outside of the mainstream with a prescient overview. Edgar Wright, Alice Lowe, John Landis and Ben Wheatley on zombie king George A Romero 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The journey took place in 2016 — but after Kabul fell to the Taliban last year and the U.S. withdrawal forced tens of thousands of Afghans to flee the country, the book feels prescient. A Journalist Went Undercover as a Refugee. It Became an Act of Love 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Jones impresses again and imbues Sophie with a wise head and a gently haunted manner that speaks to an almost prescient awareness of how all this is likely to end. Sundance film festival 2013: Breathe In – first look review 2013-01-21T17:42:59Z Ernst Mach was part of this group — he was not convinced that atoms exist, though in many other ways he was prescient. David Byrne Likes Reading Aloud to His Friends 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z For nearly half a century, the book has stoked fears of immigration that have, to its supporters, seemed increasingly prescient as growing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers have arrived in Europe in recent years. A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z It’s mid-May and El-P and his musical partner, Michael “Killer Mike” Render, are talking about their new album, “RTJ4,” and even they probably couldn’t have prepared for how prescient El-P’s statement would become. Run the Jewels return, right on time 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z A terrific weekend of films influenced by George Orwell's prescient novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" begins Friday with a triple feature led, as it should be, by the big-screen adaptation "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Egyptian Theatre salutes Orwell with film series 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z When the station canceled the show, Mr. Frankel briefly became a prescient voice in the wilderness for diversity on the radio. Erwin Frankel Dies at 76; Introduced the U.S. to World Music 2012-03-02T02:32:59Z Nauman has changed the way we define what art is and what is art, and made work prescient of the morally wrenching American moment we’re in. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z As our worlds careened off the cliffs of normalcy, some books were so prescient — so very well timed — that you had to wonder: What did these authors know that we didn’t? The most 2020 books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z It turned out that their plan was prescient. The Gonzo Artists Arrive in Cleveland 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z He awoke in a sweat, feeling both scared and prescient. Books of The Times: Roger Lowenstein Traces ?The End of Wall Street? 2010-03-31T22:53:00Z But alone, Degas suffers from doubt about his work because he is “not gifted, is not prescient, he is not an auteur, he is only a draftsman, a servant, a plodding poseur.” ‘I Always Loved You’: the flames of an artistic passion 2014-01-29T23:40:36Z In the film, there’s a prescient scene in which an activist likens her personal relationship with a man to the one between Ukraine and Russia: The Hot Docs Festival Shows Documentaries Shot in Ukraine 2014-04-18T18:37:42Z "What makes it a very prescient story to both Liverpool and Northampton is that they are both industrial centres exploring extraordinary levels of immigration and social change." Miller drama set for world premiere 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Second place went to Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” the prescient warning about man-made damage to the planet. Perspective | Here’s a list of the 10 greatest works of journalism of the past 10 years. Care to argue about it? 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z “On so many fronts, he was so prescient,” she added. City Ballet to Bring Balanchine Dances to MoMA for Lincoln Kirstein Show 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z If anything, the play now seems more prescient, since the painting at its centre is of the Battle of Lepanto, fought by a Christian alliance against the Ottoman empire. This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z It is one of several prescient scenes in “Time Shelter,” which was a best seller in Bulgaria in 2020 and, in May, won the International Booker Prize for fiction translated into English. This Bulgarian Writer’s Books Bend Time 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s a prescient account of Trump’s business ethics, calculated manipulation of his inner circle, flair for fact-free hyperbole and nascent political ambitions at a time when anyone who knew him thought he was joking. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Other parts, especially on the spread of viruses, are prescient. New & Noteworthy, From Astrophysics to Reading Nabokov 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The promise and theft of the American dream from Black families provides the backdrop for the film’s prescient message about changes that were coming to Black communities across the country. ‘Boyz N the Hood’ at 30: A Vivid Examination of Racism at Work 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z But Minaj’s message seemed quite prescient considering what happened less than two weeks after “Anaconda” premiered: hackers stole a bunch of nude photos from a number of female celebrities and posted them on the Internet. After Celebrity Photo Hack, Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' Video Looks Even More Provocative 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Submitted for your approval: Mr. Fred Staples, early 30s, a rising executive whose vaulting ambition o’erleaps itself in a cautionary tale of corporate ladders and moral compromise that will prove eerily prescient 60 years later. Eerie parallels to today's workplace pressures, moral choices in '50s Serling work 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z And suddenly Mr. Smith’s playful excess, once deemed obscene, feels prescient and perfect. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Reissued on Blu-ray, “The Long Good Friday” has become something of a period piece itself: a prescient portrait of the Thatcher years, created just as they were getting under way. DVDs: Class Alliances and Ambition in Thatcher Time 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z But the warning was prescient, and as the darkness and cold has crept on us, I find those words haunting and unshakable. Perspective | Joe Biden warned of a ‘dark winter.’ Why does living in it feel so . . . unreal? 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Much of “Be More Chill” could have been staged in the late 20th century, when the first “Matrix” movie came out, without seeming out of place or even prescient. Review: Anxious Teenagers Learn to ‘Be More Chill’ on a Big Stage 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” — the last show organized by Enwezor and his only one devoted exclusively to art by African Americans — feels retrospective rather than prescient. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Its lyrics — “Uniforms of fake bravery/ Authority earned from nothing/ The threat of steel/ So you won’t feel” — are eerily prescient. Rock sideman steels the show: Jason Narducy comes off the road and produces a second album as solo act Split Single 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Yet he proved prescient in this regard, too. The Limits of American Cinephilia 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z What was most attractive and prescient about this art was its impermanence. ‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,’ a Victory Lap at MoMA 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z For while Paik was so prescient about future technologies, he was desperately wrong about their applications. Standing Up for Humanity in a World of Screens 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Lem’s fiction is filled with haunting, prescient landscapes. Review | Stanislaw Lem has finally gotten the translations his genius deserves 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The most prescient notice was the New Yorker critic Pauline Kael’s. ‘Saturday Night Fever’ at 40: You Should Still Be Dancing 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The book felt radical in its day; to a contemporary reader, it is almost absurdly prescient. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z While Blunt would be a practically perfect Globe winner, the H.F.P.A. will probably go for Colman, so as to seem more prescient. Which Movies Will Win at the Golden Globes? 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z I just started that, and dear Lord, is it prescient. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z David Cronenberg: It was about three years ago, and the attraction wasn’t that the novel was prescient or because of its historical place. Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z Still, the show is worthy of notice, because Paik is, as is quite evident here, a prescient thinker as well as a born entertainer. Nam June Paik’s Work at Asia Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z McCay toured the vaudeville circuit with his films, and his hopes for the future of the medium were artistically ambitious, even if he turned pessimistic — not to mention startlingly prescient. ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z “Business, Numbers, Money, People,” flashed in midair in “Computer World,” a song released in 1981 that was tersely prescient about big data and surveillance. Music Review: Kraftwerk in Concert at the United Palace Theater 2014-04-02T21:23:44Z The speech is both so prescient to now — to the undermining of things that Americans typically put faith in — but also so completely impossible for a politician to say now. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Griffith is amazing and this film is extremely prescient. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "The Ides of March" 2011-10-05T13:18:05Z His recently finished play Revelations is rich and personal and of the moment; it is also horribly prescient about a death that has come far too soon. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z That Ms. Oliveros might find common cause with a courageous, assertive female leader, thriving in a futuristic milieu of instantaneous long-distance travel and telepathic communication, could only strike longtime followers of her work as prescient. The Composer Pauline Oliveros Stays Busy at 80 2012-08-11T22:02:08Z From beginning to end, the play is shot through with a prescient sense of uncertainty. ‘In These Uncertain Times’ Review: Love, Loss and Zoom 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z She is very prescient in either taking advantage of or adopting new media even before they permeate culture.” Gillian Wearing Has Turned Masks Into an Art Form 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z In a recent telephone conversation, Mr. Sellars spoke about setting Mozart in Trump Tower, a decision that now seems oddly prescient. Remember When ‘Figaro’ Was Set in Trump Tower? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z But I have plenty to say about her beautifully rendered, deeply affecting, thoroughly thoughtful and surprisingly prescient fourth book, which takes place during the four holy days leading up to Ash Wednesday. A Rich, Beautifully Rendered Mystery Evokes 15th-Century England 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z That effect, it’s revealed, is a weirdly prescient echo of today’s dominant headlines – the National Enquirer, long chummy with Trump, essentially created his image as a celebrity famous for being famous. Scandalous: behind the sordid inner workings of the National Enquirer 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z "Now lots of people have become famous who can't do anything, so that was a prescient vision." Frank Sidebottom ... 'He'd have died to be in?the charts' 2010-06-25T23:15:00Z And the final bit, in which Rock showed how little concordance there was between Oscar voters and black moviegoers, was a masterstroke then and looks prescient now. Chris Rock Is the Perfect Choice for Next Year's Oscars 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z It also proved prescient as Mima is trolled by a fake home page created by her sinister admirer. Animation That Broke the Rules 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In short, Sorkin undercuts the suspense at once to make his favorite characters seem astoundingly prescient, while others come off as clueless. Will McAvoy, you’re so smart! 2012-07-23T18:30:00Z But Mr. Lanier is as lively and accessible as he is prescient. Books of The Times: Beach Reads From Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen and More 2013-06-06T21:14:31Z “He’s a prescient collector and a very gifted convener,” Richard Armstrong, the museum’s director, said in a telephone interview. Guggenheim Gets New Chairman, and Second Ever Black Female Trustee 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z “It Can’t Happen Here,” which Sinclair Lewis wrote in 1935, is the cautionary tale at its best: warning, chilling, clarifying … and, sadly, prescient. Trump is stranger than fiction: John Altman on writing thrillers today 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Now, many of her fans believe she was prescient about “half” of Trump’s base. Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ speech shocked voters five years ago — but some feel it was prescient 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, “OK Computer” sounds eerily prescient in light of today’s post-election gloom. At 20, Radiohead’s “OK Computer” becomes an album for the Trump era 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z “The Handmaid’s Tale” has been on and off best-seller lists for 35 years, and has rarely seemed more prescient. In Margaret Atwood’s Essays and Speeches, Some Hazards of the Trade 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z I think he was pretty prescient in the way he wrote about humans as organisms, as creatures, subject to our biology and our environment. Writing family stories: Jason Tougaw on his memoir 'The One You Get' 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z It seems prescient – there are amazing parallels with the Euro crisis we're now witnessing. My TV hero: Faisal Islam on John Pilger 2011-08-01T19:00:09Z On the other hand, the otherwise prescient prophesy from Maggy the Frog said she would have just three children, who have already come and gone. ‘Game of Thrones’: 7 Questions for the Season 7 Finale 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Once reviled, her solitary vote against the Afghan invasion is now being reframed as an important, prescient moment in American history. Barbara Lee doesn’t feel vindicated for voting against Afghan war: ‘I almost wish ... I had been wrong’ 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z But to the cynical, it felt like the workings of a darkly prescient marketing strategy. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The film transforms itself into a hallucinatory end-of-the-60s trip that, with its exploration of identity and sexual fluidity, seems incredibly prescient several decades on. 'Performance? I still don't fully understand it' – behind the scenes photos from the cult classic 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Alan's barrage of programme ideas now seem particularly prescient – Gordon Ramsey's new Channel 4 programme is indeed, "Cooking in Prison" – while Partridge's statement that "If you don't make it, Sky will" also seems apt. Six to watch: Alan Partridge's best bits 2012-06-22T11:05:44Z The idea that Paik was uncannily prescient is particularly hard to shake. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Yet Lee’s vision was not only necessary, it proved remarkably prescient. Bamboozled: Spike Lee's masterpiece on race in America is as relevant as ever 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z It is easy, or tempting, to see Mailer as prescient, since his description is of a recognizable Trump-era caste. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The author's vision and style, he suggested, were inextricably linked; "Orwell was not only prescient, but precisely perceptive in capturing not only his world, but any near future world." Reader reviews roundup 2012-10-05T15:31:28Z One image of her holding the mask between her legs is a prescient counterpoint to Tracey Emin's photograph of herself, in which she clutches a pile of banknotes and coins to her crotch. PhotoEspaña 2013: the 1970s feminist avant garde 2013-06-14T15:50:00Z Speaking of movie potential, the screen rights have reportedly already been sold — making the £100,000 check that Power wrote to herself in a Law of Attraction money exercise seem positively prescient. Review | Is there such a thing as too much self-care? One woman found out. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z I argue for and against the Second Amendment from a more prescient perspective, given the degree of gun violence currently plaguing the nation. Second Amendment time-traveling: If only the framers could have envisioned the NRA 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z The prescient creator of that tune — and those words — is Michael Friedman, who died on Saturday, of complications from AIDS, at 41. Michael Friedman, a Man of Many Voices and a Gift for Prophecy 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s a documentary of a documentary, taking us inside a photo shoot in one of those camps, in Macedonia, and shows Mr. Collins’s prescient interest in the encroaching “reality” genre. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z "Fifty years ago, Norman's People for the American Way was prescient in calling out the Religious Right's attack on our civil liberties," said Reiner. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z As a toddler, his very first word was “Up” — a bit of babble that seemed prescient when his first published novel, “This Side of Paradise,” became a soaring bestseller in 1920. Book review: ‘West of Sunset,’ a novel about F. Scott Fitzgerald by Stewart O’Nan 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z And now she’s produced a marvelous book about exactly how prescient the darn thing was. Jill Abramson’s Book Charts Journalism’s Stormy Seas, With Some Personal Regrets and Score-Settling 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Perhaps he is, in fact, our most prescient artist—the only one who saw the end of the world coming on, fast. The Weird and Vast and Periodically Devastating Music of Scott Walker 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Saidi, who was born in Belgium to parents from Morocco, dislikes being told he was prescient. His Idea for Fighting Terrorism? Funny Plays 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z In saving every bit of ephemera from the beginning of their company, the designer and Bergé were either extraordinarily prescient or incredibly egotistical. Perspective | Richmond exhibition further cements Yves Saint Laurent’s legacy 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Yet today, the Christopher Nolan film, and particularly the Joker, typifies something more relevant: a prescient example of modern online troll culture. Perspective | ‘The Dark Knight’ and Heath Ledger’s Joker were a prophecy of our troll culture 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It's a cautionary tale of a world without feminism, and after the excesses of the Taliban's regime in Afghanistan seems more prescient than ever. Margaret Atwood 2011-03-08T00:05:16Z What a prescient title: In his new novel — after “Beartown” and “A Man Called Ove” — Backman again captures the messy essence of being human, and what it’s like to be pushed to the brink emotionally. Fall reading: 12 books to keep you occupied for the rest of 2020 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z In 2018, the president made remarks at the turkey pardon that now appear prescient, if ironic. The president pardons a turkey, one of the more normal things he’s done this month 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s an eerie, prescient coincidence, now that Ms. Mullen has taken the role of Mag. A Mother-Daughter Brawl: In ‘Beauty Queen,’ Marie Mullen Now Knows Both Sides 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z A Russian insider had been providing the American Embassy in Moscow with unconfirmed but what turned out to be prescient information about Putin’s inner circle around the same time Trump was presiding over the pageant. Was the 2016 Election a Game of ‘Russian Roulette’? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Gore, was anyone prepared to listen to Payne and Taylor’s prescient warnings about the fragility of democratic norms or to acknowledge their diagnosis of the rot afflicting the whole system. What America Gets Wrong About Tracy Flick 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Joseph wrote the play before the pandemic, which seems prescient. ‘Letters of Suresh’ Review: Returning to the Fold 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z It was a prescient moment, as the impending new decade ushered in what the late food critic Jonathan Gold referred to as the phenomenon of the "era of Egg on Everything." Jammy eggs are the best party eggs 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z That choice would prove prescient, reflecting Brooklyn Rider's twin passions for embracing and eschewing tradition. Brooklyn Rider: String quartet goes all over the map 2012-01-27T19:00:07Z Still, the show’s willingness to address racial issues in the L.A.P.D. may have been its most daring and prescient element. ‘The Untouchables’ TV Series: Old-School Gangster Trapping 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z He also finds the movie prescient in its depiction of a world saturated by intrusive, omnipresent advertising. Am I in Manhattan? Or Another Sequel to ‘Blade Runner’? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z “It is this unique and fascinating opportunity to examine an incredible amount of prescient literary work,” he said. Was Norman Mailer Canceled? His Publishers Say No. 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z However, there is nothing more prescient than the show’s final season where Matthew Santos, the country’s first president of color, assumes office. Ten years on from the West Wing finale, the show's shadow still looms large 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z As electronic dance music, or E.D.M., rules the airwaves and LCD’s disco-punk sound seems more prescient than ever, the revival was largely embraced, even if it was also a foregone conclusion. LCD Soundsystem, Split Up in 2011, Joins the Reunion Circuit 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z At Pangea, the veteran performance artist Penny Arcade started developing “Invitation to the End of the World PT 2: Notes From the Underground” in February, and now considers its title prescient. Determined to Salvage the Fall, Cabaret Plots Its (Outdoor, Online) Return 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z A story line from last season feels especially prescient today. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z How could an artist this smart, this prescient, this frank, transparent, curious, ruminative and courageous — this funny — escape your notice? Blackness, Gayness, Representation: Marlon Riggs Unpacks It All in His Films 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Miranda quickly emerged as a fan favorite, with her surprisingly prescient style. Cynthia Nixon Confronts Miranda on the Campaign Trail 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “The glamour and decadence, that chic sensibility, it was so prescient,” he said. Up Close: Whitney Sudler-Smith?s Love Letter to the ?70s 2010-04-28T22:23:00Z It seems only fair that we extend our discussion to Off Broadway — which, before its houses were also shuttered, provided some of the most original, powerful and prescient theater of the past year. Off Broadway’s Season Shook Up Norms of Life and Theater 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Her coverage is a prescient depiction of fast fashion and “influencer” culture. Hear Them Roar 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Connie Converse’s songs, misfits in their own time, seem eerily prescient today in expressing our ache and ambivalence. Connie Converse’s Time Has Come 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Kubrick's visceral and prescient take on such themes as artificial intelligence, extraterrestrials and their role in human evolution was adapted with novelist Arthur C. Clarke from one of his short stories. Clark Gregg's 5 favorite sci-fi movies 2012-05-03T16:56:09Z Janov was not quite as prescient a thinker as he’d hoped, but the idea that yelling is a pretty good way of relieving tension has endured. The Decline of Yelling 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z After thwarting the harassing caresses of the man who hired her, she becomes a reporter at the Iranian Majlis, or parliament, posing her prescient questions to the most important men in Iran. The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Which is awfully prescient for a guy who thinks the wireless is a passing fad. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Thomas and the Heterosexual Household 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z “The masters of the short story come to no good end,” wrote Ernest Hemingway, in a bitterly prescient moment. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The wittiest number, Mr. Leonhart’s “ Double Cross,” was an absurdly complicated film noir parody; the most sobering, Paul Simon’s wistfully prescient “American Tune.” Music Review: Maureen McGovern at Birdland - Review 2011-11-09T23:26:51Z The idea of a "verbal being" that cannot understand laughter is rather frightening, and perhaps prescient. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z These were the grim, prescient ruminations that preceded Herzl’s writing of “The Jewish State” and the first Zionist Congress of 1897 in Basel. Millenniums of Tribulation 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z She was extraordinarily prescient and influential, and today’s defining ecological ethic in gardening — healing the planet, sheltering wildlife — draws a direct line to her life’s work. A garden movement loses a leader 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z They also note how the pilot — and the series at large, really — was in many ways prescient. 'West Wing' Fans, Rejoice: The Series Now Has A Podcast 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z His multifold career — as experimental film- and video-maker, composer, musician and sound artist — still looks radical and prescient a half-century after it began. Art In Review: TONY CONRAD: ‘Doing the City: Urban Community Interventions’ 2012-09-27T20:03:03Z Otherwise, you might find yourself thinking, uneasily, of the play’s prescient moral, spoken by Sganarelle: “To have power and a wicked soul — that’s a terrible thing.” ‘Dom Juan’ Review: The Perks of Being a Professional Hypocrite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z While Nick is a prescient businessman and a fair-dealing boss, no one could possibly live up to Justin’s oxygenated ideals of manhood, competence and sexual vitality. ‘The Spark and the Drive,’ by Wayne Harrison Mr. Hanks said in the statement: “I am pleased to join the effort to remember their leader who went on to become one of our most prescient and wise of Presidents.” Tom Hanks Joins Panel Trying to Build Eisenhower Memorial 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z “What he said about what was going to happen with Syria, what he said was going to happen with Russia — all of those things he was prescient on,” Ann says. Ann Romney can feel Hillary Clinton’s pain 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Brooker has been congratulated for producing work that with hindsight seems impressively prescient. Expecting the worst helped me prepare for it, says Charlie Brooker 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z His prescient warning, after the not-guilty verdicts were given to the LA police officers, that the jury had ignited a bomb serves as a soundbite that stands up. LA riots on film: the projects marking the 25th anniversary of an uprising 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z They were often prescient, choosing high quality or groundbreaking work by artists who went on to become well-known. An everyday couple, their valuable art and how SAM got it 2013-05-29T23:40:33Z Ten minutes later he dropped me off at the Island Link and left me with a prescient farewell: “See you next year.” Off the Tourist Grid in the Bahamas 2013-01-30T22:27:14Z At a moment when contemporary artists are experimenting with ways to express hybrid or fluid identities, she looks prescient. Cologne Museum Dives Into German Artist’s Once-Lost Fantastical World 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z But the cross-genre star also offered a few accidentally prescient words, Mr. Lawrence recalled. Clues to the Mystery of Prince’s Final Days 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z With each subsequent murderous attack — the ones last week in Brussels, the attacks in Paris last year, in January and November — the film seems ever more prescient. Before the Brussels Attacks, Portents From a Film 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z In 2020, the strand of the story that focuses on the failure of government to deal with an escalating apocalypse feels prescient. What travel writers are reading right now 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Yet there’s something eerily prescient about his calling for a Protestant epic, because that’s exactly what his novels, the Rabbit books especially, amount to. Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania 2010-06-21T14:48:00Z But is Curtis mentally ill, like his mother, or merely prescient? What’s on TV Thursday: Iggy Pop in ‘Gimme Danger’ and Jenny Slate’s Movie Picks 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z This was highly prescient of you, as this is a repeating pattern for me. @Work Advice: Updates on bullying, bedbug and leave disputes 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Ma, whose 2018 debut novel “Severance” proved eerily prescient in hinging on a global pandemic, won the fiction award for her surreal short story collection. Ukrainian Author Andrey Kurkov Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Did you have any idea how prescient it would be? Ian McShane Puts All His [Expletives] in the Right Place 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter called it “a sweet, uncomplicated film whose message about self-compassion and community feels especially prescient.” The Next Act for Marcel the Shell (and Jenny Slate) 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z For more than a century, “A Doll’s House” has occupied hallowed ground, revered as thought-provoking theater that made a prescient argument for women’s autonomy. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z But his general pessimism about the world that lay in wait in the 21st century now looks remarkably prescient, at least next to the Pollyannaish forecasts of techno-optimists, democracy promoters and globalization enthusiasts. Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z “He was so prescient in the way in which he understood film,” Mr. Hanhardt said. Inside Art: Lauder Art at Neue Galerie, Warhol Films at Whitney 2011-09-22T20:00:32Z “It is a privilege to appear in Lillian Hellman’s eerily prescient play, at this specific moment in history,” she said. The Best (and Worst) of the 2017 Tony Awards 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Those outfits may have been questionable to some at the time but they would also appear to be very prescient. Kevin Rowland: 'My motto is "never not shopping"' 2012-07-10T15:23:00Z Kennedy also wanted the garden installed in short order, ominously prescient of the brevity of his time there. Melania Trump’s Rose Garden redo draws criticism, but it’s long overdue 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z In that, the Raf Simons shows seem to be eerily prescient. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z In this instance, Schiff was talking specifically about Trump’s plans to “compromise our elections,” and his words proved tragically prescient. A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Doten amplifies questions raised in his first novel, 2015’s “The Infernal,” about the costs of the Internet’s pervasiveness, questions revealed as scarily prescient mere months after its publication. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Friedman produced prescient segments on the minimum wage and the oxytocin epidemic. Jena Friedman: the outrageous talkshow host women have been waiting for 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Considering he predicted Donald Trump’s win, it wasn’t the last time he was prescient. From assassinations to 9/11: How the Oscars respond to political turmoil 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z As ever, though, the Kings have once again shown themselves to be savvy enough predictors of where America would be with regard to our system of justice in the springtime of 2020 to seem prescient. "The Good Fight" maps a way to pull victory out of a string of losses 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Dystopia has continued to feel prescient, she says. Diane Lane: ‘It’s a relief to be the protagonist instead of the girlfriend’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z As if her sorrow had made her prescient. Gloria: a short story by Alice McDermott But as decade after decade pile up in the years since his senseless murder, Lennon's dictum seems even more prescient. John Lennon’s brilliant "Gimme Some Truth" is an urgent plea for 2020, too 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z So much so that Sondheim’s songs and Weidman’s book conjure a delusional mind-set that sounds eerily prescient. Perspective | In words and music, New York theaters take aim at an America at war with itself 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z A few months ago, a news report of a couple from Quebec fleeing covid-19 for a small town in the Yukon made this an oddly prescient story. Review | The perfect science fiction, fantasy and genre-bending tales for the chilly days ahead 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z You could read Lawrence Wright’s prescient new pandemic thriller, “The End of October,” if you dare. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z As we enter the age of 3-D printing, looking at her work feels particularly prescient. Museum & Gallery Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Everyone knows of Carson’s prescient warnings about the damage of pesticides. Perspective | Down the garden path: A new show tracks America’s love affair with plants 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The episode turned out to be remarkably prescient. “Big Little Lies” Season 2 Was a Metaphor for Power in Hollywood After #MeToo 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “All I remember is that there was one card which became prescient: Kendall wins but loses.” 'They're damaged': Succession’s Jeremy Strong on sibling hell – and that cringey rap 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The trilogy from Del Toro and Hogan was written several years ago, before the current Ebola outbreak, but it sure does seem prescient against the current backdrop. 'The Strain': Anti-vampire forces unite in 'For Services Rendered' 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z It is a brilliantly prescient cartoon capturing the mood of the period and the operation of its ruling ideology. Political cartoons, trivial and inconsequential? I think not 2013-07-11T23:30:33Z In his 1924 essay “A Letter From Germany,” Lawrence is uncannily prescient about Europe’s shifting temperament. From Nabokov and Lawrence, Giants of 20th-Century Fiction, New Volumes of Nonfiction 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z In memory of last year's protests Although Women Without Men was completed before last year's protests, Neshat's decision to emphasise the political background of the story now seems prescient. Shirin Neshat: A long way from home 2010-06-13T21:01:00Z The final minutes, which raise the question of whether the Arctic will always remain cold enough to keep the blob imprisoned, now seem eerily prescient. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The zone of death around ancient ruins will soon become a familiar science fiction trope, as in Stephen Vincent Benet’s prescient 1937 story of Earth after the Great Burning, “By the Waters of Babylon.” Review | A look at the post-apocalyptic world envisioned in the novel ‘After London’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z A prescient remark, as it turns out, and one that suggests I should have taken Morrissey's powers of prediction more seriously. Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z It is weirdly prescient — pointing the way not only to where she would go as a writer but also a path the country would take in the years to come. Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z It could have been a prescient description of Alfred’s experience in this “Atlanta” episode. Welcome to the Future. ‘Atlanta’ Has Been Waiting for You. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z President Carter made a valiant effort in his prescient “Crisis of Confidence” address, and was nearly burnt at the stake. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Set during the election of a demagogue who battens on the fears of an underemployed populace threatened by thousands of foreign-born refugees, “A Man Lies Dreaming” feels disturbingly prescient. ‘A Man Lies Dreaming’: Imagining Hitler as a low-rent private detective 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z On this score, however, his thinking was prescient: It’s the dominant ethic in a cash-bloated art world today. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Lawrence's grasp of what kind of future this implies for men and women, for society, for the earth itself, is extraordinarily complex and prescient. Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence 2011-03-19T00:06:22Z Especially prescient is a meticulous all-capitals Helvetica rendering of the word EGG, which echoes the earliest work here, from 1963: a drawing that simply and tantalizingly states “SOMETHING.” The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z It all sounded kind of unbelievable when the show premiered 3 ½ years ago, but after the NSA revelations in 2013, “Person of Interest” almost seems prescient. Martin Freeman in ‘Sherlock’ — and FX’s upcoming ‘Fargo’ 2014-01-17T19:09:21Z But the reintroduction of “The Expanding Universe” should win Ms. Spiegel and her prescient oeuvre an overdue ovation from a new generation of vintage-electronics performers and admirers. Rediscovering the Electronic Music Godmothers 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z Although the politics are dirty and the politicians dirtier, May’s prescient plot actually dates back to 1979, two years before this novel was first published in England. Philip Kerr’s Last Novel and a New Series From Alexander McCall Smith 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Fitzgerald was prescient about this as so much else. Bye to ‘Real Housewife’ Hair 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z She raised a question that is now prescient in retrospect: Are the Instant Pot's glory days are behind us? Burned out: How Instant Pot went from cult favorite to Chapter 11 bankruptcy 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Her prescient photographs of environmental degradation portray the human cost of building a dam that flooded the Berryessa Valley near Napa. Empathy and Artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z At the party, she talked of how “eerily prescient” the 80-year-old play was to today’s audiences. Ben Platt and Laurie Metcalf Celebrate at Tonys After-Parties 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s an approach that might well have warmed the heart of that prescient champion of multiculturalism in the arts — and son of Russian immigrants — Joseph Papp. Reinventing Shakespeare, According to the Gospel of Joseph Papp 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z According to prescient predictions made by Austrian scientist and philosopher Rudolf Steiner in 1923, honeybee colonies are collapsing right on schedule. 'Queen of the Sun': Documentary hopes to ease sting of honeybee crisis 2011-03-03T21:01:09Z “The Viking thing has been done to death, so I was dead against it,” he said, but more prescient minds on the regional council prevailed. On the Nordic Trail in Scotland 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Gliding in the clear water, it occurred to me how prescient my guide’s time-travel reference had been. Rapa Nui Is Remote. And Then There’s Its Isolated North Coast 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z “You had a presidential candidate who was handsome and smart and had prescient ideas, and was the front-runner, and suddenly he disappeared from the landscape without really a thought of why,” he said. Politicians’ sex lives used to be off limits. One scandal changed everything. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z “Appleseed,” a highly welcome addition to the growing canon of first-rate contemporary climate fiction, feels timely, prescient and true. A Novel Charts Earth’s Path From Lush Eden to Barren Hellscape 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z That is, if you were prescient enough to plant plenty of them last fall. Plant lilies in November for summer garden lovin’ 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z As he tries to calm his prescient horse, his father says, "It's not his pain that's bothering him but that of his rider." Galadriel, the "Rings of Power" horse girls and why they matter to Middle-earth 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The line shocked many at the time, but Trump’s sentiment proved somewhat prescient: Despite a series of statements that many political observers found outrageous, Trump was elected president last month, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump's boast that he could 'shoot somebody' tops Yale list of 2016's notable quotations 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Some people confused him with being a prophet or at the very least prescient. Which Bob Dylan will we see this weekend? | Concert preview 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Her warning about who to avoid at the club proves prescient. ‘This Is Not Berlin’ Review: A Teenager Learns to Let Loose 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z A novelist prescient enough to publish those sentences in 1983 proved himself fully deserving of the call from the Swedish Academy in 2006. The Silent House by Orhan Pamuk – review 2012-10-12T21:55:06Z “Vicuña” was staged once before, by the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, right before the 2016 elections, and it proved eerily prescient. ‘Vicuña’ is a comedy tailored to troubled political times 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z With the popularity of sites like Longreads.com and tools like Instapaper, their concept of “slowing down the Internet” has come to seem prescient. Arts Journal in Cyberspace Finds a Home on the Ground 2011-08-17T22:18:37Z It even seemed to have something prescient to say about the bittersweet gratifications of the coming virtual world we now so thoroughly inhabit. House of Holes by Nicholson Baker ? review 2011-08-11T13:30:01Z Refn visited Jodorowsky in Paris before beginning both "Drive" and "Only God Forgives" for tarot readings as to their prospects that he says proved startlingly prescient. Alejandro Jodorowsky's renewal continues with 'The Dance of Reality' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z “The Other Side of the Wind” is also, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient—possessed of passions that were rare at the time of its making but eventually became celebrated, then became commonplaces. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Noland was prescient in the ’90s, translating cool ’60s minimalism into dark, politicized critiques of power and violence, and showing how these phenomena are shrouded in myths championing patriotism, social mobility and meritocracy. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z A depiction of gang life in South Central LA, the film felt prescient, coming a year before the Rodney King trial. Cuba Gooding Jr on OJ Simpson: 'It could have been me in that Bronco' 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z When Mike shows up later at Saul’s office to report that Walt is a high school chemistry teacher with cancer, he also delivers a prescient warning. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 11 Recap: Back to the Beginning 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z “It was, in a way, lucky, maybe prescient. We just happened to catch the tenor of the times. It didn’t seem to lose any of its relevance.” David Byrne says audiences seem ‘thrilled’ to be in theater 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z And then there’s the hopeful — and hopefully prescient — title of the book: “This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing.” Review | The inspiration for Maisie Dobbs? Jacqueline Winspear’s memoir offers charming clues 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z But Dr. Doherty, who also uses "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Death of a Salesman" to teach family dynamics, said that some midcentury works remained surprisingly prescient. ArtsBeat: Couples Counseling for 'Virginia Woolf"s George and Martha 2012-11-14T20:44:10Z Made months ago, this prescient work greets visitors to “Home — So Different, So Appealing” at LACMA. Essential Arts & Culture: Chicago architecture biennial, 'The Red Shoes' hits L.A. and more PST: LA/LA 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z There are a few things in that special that I would imagine you'd see a new way and perhaps say, "Well, that was kind of prescient." From gas masks to kente cloth, "Sherman's Showcase" Juneteenth special is well-timed and prescient 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Season three of the Emmy Award-winning series arrives on streaming service Hulu on Wednesday with its portrait of life in the fictional U.S. state of Gilead as seemingly prescient as ever. New season of 'Handmaid's Tale' not meant to be 'torture to watch,'... 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z This prologue is such a bravura display of Mr. DeLillo’s literary powers, odds are the reader will be propelled through the rest of this dazzling and prescient novel. A Prescient Novel Retains Its Power 2011-07-14T22:46:28Z But, in an eerily prescient move, it was programmed last year. The Classical Music Event of the Summer Is in Salzburg’s Shadow 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Six years ago, the artist Anicka Yi created an exhibition on a theme that now feels eerily prescient: human fears of viral contagion. The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z The 12-track album was recorded last summer but finds itself quite prescient, with uplifting messages of togetherness and unity. Jason Mraz to give earnings from new album to social justice 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The political drama “The West Wing” is occasionally described as prescient. How Pop Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Planned before the latest wave of falling statues, “Monuments Now” looks prescient today. Monuments That Celebrate Communal Struggles, Not Flawed Men 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z And the work in this small, moving survey, organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, looks startlingly prescient now with its references to racism and violence. Museum & Gallery Listings for Sept. 23-29 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z He used augmented reality for a prescient but lambasted high-tech concert series a decade later. Graham Nash Has a Few More Songs Before He Goes 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Not just prescient and wise, wicked and funny. TV review: Black Mirror; Penguins - Spy in the Huddle 2013-02-11T23:05:01Z Apple’s commercial of marching automatons turned out to be the prescient and prevailing one. Crazy Eddie’s Life Was Insane! 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z But neither he nor Ms. French’s most prescient readers can be sure where the suspenseful, ever-twisting “Faithful Place” is headed. Books Of the Times: Tana French?s Thriller ?Faithful Place? 2010-07-11T21:25:00Z Perhaps George Orwell was prescient in "1984" when he wrote, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." In health care access, doctor privilege is real. This is how it works 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z But the ideas remain, and they are wiser and more prescient than is sometimes acknowledged. From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z And then there’s “Arabesque,” the album’s most prescient achievement. Coldplay attacks social and political unrest with hope on "Everyday Life" 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z From the first, Mr. Capote had a canny understanding of fame and a prescient sense of celebrity’s untapped potential. 50 Years Ago, Truman Capote Hosted the Best Party Ever 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Museum leaders made a prescient decision in 2012 to buy the 1923 Terminal Refrigerating and Warehousing Co. building in Southwest Washington, a site near the Mall and ripe for development as a tourist hub. Perspective | The new Bible museum tells a clear, powerful story. And it could change the museum business. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z And like many R.E.M. albums, its themes–ruminations on obsession, identity and fame–seem eerily prescient and timeless. R.E.M.’s “Monster” ranked from start to finish: An underappreciated, polarizing album that’s aged very well 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Compellingly simple and made with rudimentary technology, much of the work in “Digital Pioneers” is astonishingly beautiful and seems both brave and prescient given the extreme sophistication of “Decode.” Design: London Portrays Past and Future of Digital Art 2009-12-14T11:34:00Z At one point, McCartney even makes a prescient joke about her. ‘Get Back’ series dispels, and confirms, some Beatle myths 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Set in a near future with ever more concentrated wealth for those at the top of the corporate pyramid and bewildering living costs and debt for everyone else, “The Transition” is bleak but prescient. 'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z A far more interesting and topically prescient thread can be found, as usual, in Claire’s world. Perspective | In Starz’s enjoyably escapist ‘Outlander,’ a relevant story line about finding the cure 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z In retrospect, its message seems prescient: 9/11 was seven months away. The Year in Fashion: Down with the Élites! 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Weapons experts could argue that Wells’s “War of the Worlds” was his most prescient book, imagining hordes of Martians armed with chemical weapons and invasive plant life. Analysis | The novel that inspired ‘Blade Runner’ didn’t predict our current reality, but these writers did 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z But I reread the book and realized how prescient it is and how trenchant and how funny it is. Sheik navigates Broadway, pop worlds 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The technology is all there, apparently: the show could be either one of those fantasies that will look quaint in 20 years' time, or genuinely prescient. Brilliant biennale 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The title turned out to be eerily prescient. They Fixed Pornography 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z While he conceived and created some of the most prescient, influential and galvanic music of the second half of the 20th century, Tony Conrad would have bristled if you had called him a composer. Review: Tony Conrad, ‘Completely in the Present’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z "The Defender of the Faith," which appears in the same collection, is prescient in its argument against violence perpetrated on behalf of religion. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z How do you respond to people who say your “Rumors of War” piece seems prescient in light of the movement to tear down Confederate monuments? Kehinde Wiley on Protests’ Results: ‘I’m Not Impressed Yet’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Their heeding of Selingo’s prescient advice for the privileged could further deepen racial and socioeconomic stratification in higher education, to the detriment of the disadvantaged. A Separate and Unequal System of College Admissions 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z And though he remained focused on Caribbean politics, he was also prescient about a global resurgence of white supremacy in the 21st century, long before it became obvious. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z In “Snap+Share,” perhaps the most prescient example of mail art is Kawara’s “I Got Up …,” a set of touristy picture postcards he mailed on a daily basis to friends or colleagues from different locations. Tracing the Roots of Photo Sharing, From Mail Art to Instagram 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The attention comes as his portraits of Russia as a decaying former empire that’s sliding backward under a militaristic, violent and repressive regime have come to seem tragically prescient. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z “We were all joking among ourselves,” McSweeny said, “that if that guy Trump got elected, this would be the most politically prescient piece of opera ever produced in America. Well, that happened.” A new opera about a dictator may or may not be about Trump. It depends whom you ask. 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z This is one of many observations people have called “prescient” in the days since the news of his death first broke. Matthew Perry's death reminds us what we need to be doing right now 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z The sitting was encouraged by Mr. Corman’s mother, an apparently prescient casting director. Celebrity Polaroids Give New Life to Dead Film 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Houellebecq’s writing proves again to be timely and even prescient, capturing the roiling unrest among much of France’s middle class. 13 Books to Watch For in November 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The impulse was prescient and saved them a lot of difficulty. Shirley Farmer speaks through paintings 2010-06-21T16:09:00Z So prescient, in fact, was Jackson's statement, that you half-expected him to break off half way through to compliment juror No 3 on her floral maxi dress. Daniel Maier's World of lather 2011-08-05T23:04:00Z Stiglitz: The inequality crisis Topics: , Inequality, Nobel Prize, , Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, one of America’s most prescient voices, wrote an article for Vanity Fair several months before Occupy Wall Street was born. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z With its prescient timing and abundant details, the article looked very much like an “authorized” leak, a bit of news stage-managed by White House officials. What’s in a ‘scoop’? The White House has a strategy for that. “Falsettos” was eerily prescient in its presentation of one such family, well before it became almost — normal. Review: ‘Falsettos,’ a Perfect Musical, an Imperfect Family 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The 1996 novel was seen as a prescient foretelling of the weapons of mass destruction intelligence scam that paved the way for the US invasion of Iraq. A glimpse into Guantánamo Bay's library 2013-05-03T15:38:29Z Regardless of what happens at the ballot box, the band’s new songs are likely to remain as prescient as they were when they were written. “Maybe we can rejoin the Union with this one”: Drive-By Truckers are finally an “American Band” 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Bernard, who was born Perry Arnold Baker but became best known as the Omnipotent Oom, is a colorful, still-marginal figure who was prescient about the popularity of yoga in American life. Books of The Times: ?The Great Oom,? by Robert Love, on Yoga?s Pierre Bernard 2010-04-14T22:33:00Z Knebel’s son, Jack Knebel, said the family was gratified to see the book republished, and that his father would likely be shocked to see how prescient his novel was. A 1965 Novel About an Unhinged President Is Being Rereleased 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z After an ominous and prescient dream about a storm, Montalbano deals with problems of mounting seriousness. New in crime fiction: Billingham, Furst and the return of Inspector Montalbano 2012-06-06T22:35:08Z But the point is that he wasn’t prescient. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z More than 20 years later, he seems eerily and depressingly prescient. Review: Walter Laqueur’s ‘Putinism’ Dissects a Canny Russian Leader 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z And although Mr. Takada’s global inspirations now seem prescient, the Internet has taken much of the romance out of distant travel and the digital world has transformed fabrics and prints. Special Report: Fashion: Humberto Leon and Carol Lim of Opening Ceremony on their challenge at Kenzo 2011-09-09T12:03:38Z The vintage footage of Cohn discussing Trump plays as alternately prescient and groan-worthy. ‘Bully. Coward. Victim.’ Review: The Paradox of Roy Cohn 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Meg Wolitzer’s “The Female Persuasion” feels almost prescient in its exploration of gender politics, corporate corruption and, ultimately, how much is enough when it comes to personal sacrifice. Review | Meg Wolitzer’s ‘Female Persuasion’ captures our era’s gender politics 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z That preemptive pity proved to be prescient, but it was an easy call anyhow. Review | The art of rebellion: The son of a famous painter tries to reframe his life 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z But it’s the brand’s aesthetic that, in hindsight, seems truly prescient. They laughed when Diddy launched a fashion line. Then he changed the industry. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z If we'd paid more attention to Berry's wisdom regarding sustainable agriculture, "we could have saved ourselves a lot of pain," says Pollan of his prescient predecessor. Michael Pollan "In Defense of Food: The Omnivore's Solution" 2011-01-12T03:01:04Z Comprising a title novella and stories, this prescient and wide-ranging debut depicts finely drawn Black characters awash in microaggressions across Virginia, past and present. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Knowing that mankind will destroy itself, prescient scientist Hari Seldon undertakes the building of a galactic empire to preserve all knowledge. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z With prescient timing, Kushner, a playwright both celebrated and controversial, wrote “Homebody” and a longer, more populace companion play, “Kabul,” soon before 9/11. The female psyche is focus of 2 new Seattle shows 2013-06-06T20:39:46Z Was he fanatical or prescient, crazy or uncompromisingly principled? 'Midnight Rising' illuminates John Brown 2011-11-03T22:11:08Z "Fifty years ago, Norman's People for the American Way was prescient in calling out the Religious Right's attack on our civil liberties," said Reiner. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z That same year, she made “Steps in the Street,” a prescient depiction of the devastation of war. 11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “I think I probably bought my own sense of why this felt prescient and important to tell now and no doubt, I suspect the other actors felt the same,” she says. Carmen Ejogo: 'Hollywood wasn’t ready for someone who looked like me' 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z In the long run: The prescient Sutch was a spur to political parties realising they had to appeal to young voters, too. We mean it, maaan!: the lost art of the pop manifesto 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z Perhaps that, too, is prescient: After a period of separation, he and Messner are once again spending time together, even though he’s not yet sure what the future holds for their relationship. Lindsey Buckingham Has Survived It All 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The focus is “The Birth of the World,” a prescient painting that might even qualify as a “lost masterpiece.” Miró’s Greatness? It Was There From the Start 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In many ways, Radiohead has been our century’s most prescient political group. Radiohead Thinks the Internet Is Turning Us All Into Creeps 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Of the two, Soderbergh has proved far more prescient, adaptive and flexible. Perspective | The Stevens — Soderbergh and Spielberg — defined late-20th-century film. Can they agree on its 21st-century future? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Airing “The Vietnam War” now feels right, and prescient. Ten years in the making, "The Vietnam War" is broad and stunning 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z To my ears, this now sounds oddly prescient. Why graphic novels are more than picture perfect 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z The decision to fund anti-Soviet militancy in Afghanistan was a well-informed national security decision made through the cold-war lens, just not a prescient one. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z That play, “Liquid,” now leaves her cold, but its topic — young professionals forging corporate careers in the corporate sector — was prescient. Drama! Music! Financial Shenanigans! 2010-02-20T05:21:00Z Mr. Lickona says he has his fingers crossed that a new crop of talent taping the show this year will make the show’s bookings look just as prescient down the line. Texas Monthly: Giving Viewers Some New Music to Treasure 2012-09-23T07:03:02Z The writing was often prescient: The series was written before the Sept. Television Review: Kiefer Sutherland Returns in ‘24: Live Another Day’ 2014-05-02T22:21:07Z Now it seems prescient — and, to his generation, pointless. Perspective | I thought Amazon’s new cashier-free store was creepy. My teenage son couldn’t care less. 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Not for the first time, this playwright looks prescient. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z As we are increasingly asked to rate everything from restaurants to taxi journeys, series three opener Nosedive – set, as per, in a familiar but also unnerving near-future-slash-alternate-reality – felt particularly prescient. Black Mirror: the five best episodes so far 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s not eerily prescient or ripped from the headlines: rather, its themes of suspicion, deceit and frustrated good intentions allow it to tell a story that’s both topical and eternal. REVIEW: The Honorable Woman 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In particular, you become conscious of a prescient feminist streak in “Streetcar,” a piercing awareness of a society that values its women according to youth and attractiveness. Review: A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z It operated as “a kind of landlords’ militia in the countryside,” as White wrote in a prescient, 1980 cable that analyzed the forces that would fuel the country’s civil war. The diplomat and the killer: Death squads, dirty war and the untold story of H. Carl Gettinger 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z When I want to know what’s happening in the world of international terrorism, the frighteningly prescient writing of Daniel Silva is often a better source than the news and nonfiction. Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Well, in 1998, one very prescient regulator, Brooksley Born, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, tried, and failed, to initiate a unilateral disarmament policy. Six reasons we may have another bank crisis 2012-08-20T17:53:00Z “It was planned before Covid, but became prescient with the timing,” said Martha A. Gilmer, the chief executive of the symphony. San Diego Gets Its Answer to the Hollywood Bowl, Just in Time 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z On paper, his vision should seem more prescient now than ever. Natural Born Killers at 25: the problem with Oliver Stone's hit film 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Choosing to film in Oklahoma for this documentary seems very prescient. "Aftershock" directors on how the anti-midwife campaign wrought the Black maternal mortality crisis 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z In the New York Times interview, Charles McGrath mentioned the novel to Roth, saying that the novel “seems eerily prescient today,” alluding to its conservative president in parallel with Donald Trump. David Simon is adapting Philip Roth's 'The Plot Against America' for television 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z But a turning point came with the publication of his prescient novel “The Plot Against America” in 2004. Philip Roth’s journey from “enemy of the Jews” to great Jewish-American novelist 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s an unfortunate mystery there’s no mature work by Price, but the early one, from 1957, is beguilingly prescient. The Met Museum Sees More Clay in Its Future 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Vowell combines gruesome historical details and prescient political insights, all with a healthy dose of cheek. Time for a Literary Road Trip 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z And the work in this small, moving survey, organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, looks startling prescient now with its references to racism and violence. Museum & Gallery Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z He added: “I was a very prescient kid.” ArtsBeat: For His Children's Book, Weird Al Gets a Weird App 2011-06-15T16:16:36Z Perhaps most impressive today is its uncannily prescient analysis of the fabled American dream as it frays around the edges in the 21st century. ‘Assassins,’ Sondheim and Weidman’s Musical, in London 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The lumberjack looked prescient rather than crazy when Obey decided last month not to run for re-election, saying he was "bone tired." Sean Duffy of 'Real World' shoots for House seat 2010-07-07T03:50:00Z As the monstrous, tragic, annoying, delusional Rupert Pupkin, he is utterly transfixing, and his unhinged obsession with the cult of celebrity made the film hugely prescient. Robert De Niro: five best moments 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Many people say Wally’s a prescient artist, and I’ve seen it. Drama as Protest: ‘Our Complacency Is Dangerous’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z No, I mean Hunter Thompson, the prescient political thinker who transformed a community with a radical campaign.” The Great Art Behind Hunter S. Thompson’s Run for Sheriff 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z But as Felt does shadowy battle with a president determined to overturn Washington institutions, constitutional norms and the FBI, it also feels prescient and inescapably of-the-moment in Trump vs. Perspective | At the Toronto International Film Festival, you can feel anxiety in the air — and on the screen 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z In an age of habitat destruction and climate change, this long and steady work of documentation has become vitally important and prescient. Got milkweed? One man’s research efforts into plant biodiversity. The play is very prescient about fake news and how we’re in trouble if television falls into the wrong hands. Bryan Cranston: ‘I’m a mutt. I relate to that. It’s what I am’ 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Birnbaum's video, she says, was incredibly prescient for the way it employed the idea of the remix, as well as its nontraditional story telling. Moment of Friday: Artist Dara Birnbaum's 1970s Wonder Woman mash-up 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Certainly there’s a sense that the Hunger Games trilogy was very prescient. In debt, out of luck: why Generation K fell in love with The Hunger Games 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Her illustrations are prescient precursors of the Internet’s inexhaustibly rich supply of cat pictures: LOLcats of the Edwardian age. The Bittersweet Announcement of a New Beatrix Potter Book 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Yet the themes it explores — post-Soviet nostalgia, uncertainty about Russia’s place in the world, anxiety about escalating conflict — seem eerily prescient. What Is Russia Thinking? A ‘Documentary Opera’ Tries to Answer. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The show first became a prescient and even cathartic success 15 years ago, at the outset of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Are ‘24: Legacy’ and ‘Homeland’ really worth the added anxiety right now? 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z It was confessional and diaristic, with things that look, in our age of reality TV and blogs, prescient. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z Now that we live in the land of Zoom, that seems strangely prescient. Party Like It’s 1959 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Art from the 1970s and ’80s is presented as prescient of what’s being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past. At ‘Greater New York,’ Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Belafonte was strikingly prescient about the ways in which taste could and would be politicized, and especially about how treacherous it is to confuse consumption with action. Harry Belafonte and the Social Power of Song 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Its conversations about activism and race seem eerily prescient. Anne Washburn Just Wants Her Trump Play to Be Irrelevant 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z And the scene is even more poignant and prescient given last week’s fatal shooting in Charlotte, and the ensuing attempt by the police to conceal video of the violent episode. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 2: Day One 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The movie is prescient in the ways that hope turns sour, even as it’s respectful of the memory of better days. Recalling When Canada Was ‘Hollywood North.’ 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z So I enjoyed "Greendale" immensely, just as scenes from the Gulf reminded me how prescient it is. Comics: Graphic novel "Neil Young's Greendale" is satisfying 2010-06-15T18:59:00Z I think his demand for the right to have a private life was valorous, utterly justified and prescient, given our era’s headlines. 'The Escape Artist': Thomas Beller Talks About J. D. Salinger 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z BAILEY: My favorite short films are similarly prescient, though admittedly, every movie I see these days seems an accidental commentary on our new normal. Now Playing: The South by Southwest Film Festival, Sort of 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Now the focus will be on his legacy and his prescient decision, decades ago, to usher the library into the digital age. Library of Congress’s leader retires, finding a successor for its next chapter 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Take Robert Adams: Artistically somewhat conservative, Mr. Adams is also an ardent environmentalist whose photographs, dating to the 1960s, feel amazingly prescient — often radical — today. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Robert Adams: The Place We Live,’ in New Haven 2012-09-01T04:29:48Z The flash-forward to the Lincoln Memorial was prescient. Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Mike Davis, an urban theorist and historian who in stark, sometimes prescient books wrote of catastrophes faced by and awaiting humankind, and especially Los Angeles, died on Tuesday at his home in San Diego. Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z We venture into town to visit the cluttered storefront galleries of sometimes unscrupulous art dealers, and the erudite but combative enclaves of prescient collectors such as the Steins. Review | How Picasso’s she-devils changed art forever 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Its deadpan lyrics about transportation, media and ubiquitous technology are still tersely prescient. Talking to Ralf H?tter of Kraftwerk 2012-04-15T21:15:41Z The best number is the catchiest though hardly the most adventurous song: “She Works Hard for the Money,” written when Summer, whose instincts were sharply prescient, was trying to lose the disco mantle. With 'Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,' heaven knows the Queen of Disco deserved better than this 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Did you ever expect to be so prescient? In comedy-thriller "12 Hour Shift," blood and chaos reigns as a murderer terrorizes a hospital 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z When a young Chechen Muslim man arrives in Hamburg with a questionable inheritance from his Russian father, it sets off a chain of regrettable incidents that at times feel eerily prescient. No one wears a white hat in the uncomfortably real 'A Most Wanted Man' 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z About 10 years ago, there appeared a fascinating, woefully prescient documentary called “Nursery University,” all about the cutthroat competition for placements at New York’s more prestigious preschools. ‘A Kid Like Jake’ Review: Cutthroat Kindergartens 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z A current exhibition, “Autonomy Lost and Regained,” which opened in 2021, “has proven to be eerily prescient,” said Michael Andrec, the center’s archivist. Canvases, Clay and Cameras, Preserving the Spirit of Ukraine 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z “What a prescient thing we did there including housing.” D.C. got everything it wanted out of CityCenterDC — except the crowds 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It was a prescient corralling of the names who would go on to dominate British over the years to come. Granta list celebrates fresh crop of British novelists 2013-04-15T19:00:01Z Now, as art fairs are canceled, museums close and auction houses consider whether to call off their spring sales in response to the coronavirus, Mr. Zwirner seems prescient. Art Galleries Respond to Virus Outbreak With Online Viewing Rooms 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Carrozzini’s timing was both wistful and prescient; his mother passed away in December. Filmmaker son of longtime Vogue Italia editor focuses his lens on her provocative work, life 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Handmaid’s Tale’ has been called prescient by many,” he wrote, “and right now, in the place where real life and entertainment meet, there’s no higher praise.” Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z His fellow directors thought he was barmy; we now can see that he was just too prescient, too early. Why The Black Panther can hold its head up high 2012-06-06T15:46:19Z Those deeply personal decisions turned out to be prescient. She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. Now Her Fiction Is Crossing Into Reality. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z “Do The Right Thing” was not prescient in forecasting Garner’s death, it was archival in rendering a version of Stewart’s. The Powerful Perspective of “Queen & Slim” 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z And then there’s the 1995 original, still as gorgeous and prescient as ever. The Live-Action Birth of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z With her deeply resonant low register, she created a character who is tragically prescient about the unfolding disaster. Opera Review: ‘Madama Butterfly,’ With Amanda Echalaz in the Title Role 2014-01-17T21:30:43Z Sizable cash reserves established in 2005 by a prescient board of directors are why. Strong cash reserves, vigorous fundraising, keep wolf from Lyric Opera's door 2011-05-23T21:42:00Z And each bears revisiting for their wit and embrace of America’s quirks as well as a prescient concern for our future as a republic. Please shut up, Mr. President, and read some books 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z A brilliant and rather prescient satire on 1930s nationalism and indeed fascism, but also a hilarious comedy. Comfort films to watch while self-isolating – ranked! 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Though written years before Donald J. Trump announced his candidacy, and first produced in London in the fall of 2015, the play may strike some as oddly prescient. Drama as Protest: ‘Our Complacency Is Dangerous’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Back then, Gaultier seemed almost prescient, always a few steps ahead of the chattering classes and contemplating the topics that would eventually cause tortuous debate, tension or general social upheaval. As Jean Paul Gaultier takes a bow on ready-to-wear, a look back at a fashion agitator Corey’s novels seem eerily prescient, and more quickly than one might have predicted. “The Expanse”: Syfy’s futuristic drama returns and looks more probable than ever 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z They were prescient: The address is just a mile from what is today the Honolulu Fish Auction, where the Tamashiro brothers buy seafood before dawn six days a week. Home to Hawaii in Search of Poke 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The taut drama was quickly understood to be a prescient take on gender dynamics in the nascent #MeToo era. A Filmmaker’s Fraught Specialty: Women at Work and the Men Who Scare Them 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z The title was prescient: the history of the Némirovsky-Epstein family and the publications surrounding them are complicated—as if viewed simultaneously through both ends of a telescope. A Strange and Beautiful Book About a Mother Who Disappeared 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z On “Idol” his mature tone maybe unfairly marked him as an ambitious traditionalist in the 1980s mold, but his skittish late-season performances proved more prescient. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z That the play is so prescient does not mean that its story is over. Review: This Time, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Really Does Explode 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Rihanna's prescient choice to shift gears with the 2017 establishment of her Fenty beauty and fashion companies was the entrepreneurial masterstroke that moved her from being merely wealthy to the world's youngest self-made billionaire. Rihanna and the pressure on Black artists to be political 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z “It’s such a prescient commentary on where we are now,” he said. Bret Easton Ellis Takes In ‘American Psycho’ the Musical 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z But given its flair at misremembering the past, misjudging the present and misforecasting the future, “prescient” and “precise” are not among them. Possessed: Poloroid Instant Camera - Possesed 2011-09-09T20:30:18Z Though the interview took place before the church shootings, both Davis and McBath offered comments that were eerily prescient given the events in Charleston on Wednesday night. In '3 1/2 Minutes,' an eerie prefiguring of the Charleston shootings 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z I ask Mr. Thiel about a prescient theory he proffered when I had dinner with him at the convention — again, flipping conventional wisdom — that Hillary was making a mistake by being too optimistic. Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z “The mathematical contributions von Neumann made in the mid-20th century now appear more eerily prescient with every passing year,” Bhattacharya writes, alluding to this book’s excellent title. ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Whatever the shortcomings of their efforts, which look alternately prescient and old-fashioned these days, many later artists, especially German ones, stand on their shoulders. Art Review: Bleak Visions From Early-20th-Century Rebels 2011-03-24T22:07:05Z “A line I wrote in ‘The Last Unicorn’ when I was in my early twenties,” Beagle said, turned out to be as prescient, for better and worse, as anything he’s written since. Peter Beagle, Author of ‘The Last Unicorn,’ Is Back In Control 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Hall has said Campbell's play "possesses a subject matter that is important and prescient, his characters smack of authenticity and there's a searing emotional depth to the piece that is both arresting and heartbreaking". Addicts' hostel inspires debut play 2013-09-19T11:33:10Z The final lines of movie were prescient about the rise of the American science-fiction film, out of the B-movie trenches in the 1950s and into the firmament of the industry’s A-list several decades later. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The song was prescient, not just in its references to environmental catastrophe, but also because its lyrics about dingy basements and drug use would soon be reflected in Danny Whitten's descent into heroin addiction. Neil Young: a beginner's guide 2012-10-01T16:12:28Z I spent much of the early pandemic period studying Tyson’s incisive delivery and analyzing these poems, whose prescient themes resonate even more potently today. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Though he wrote and recorded the album in 2018, long before Messner filed for divorce, he now believes some of the stormiest songs were “a little bit prescient.” Lindsey Buckingham Has Survived It All 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z All these decades later, the play can be understood as a prescient work about apathy, action and mutual aid. Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan and the Draw of a Neglected Hansberry Play 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Fortunately for Democrats, Will is not as prescient as he wants them to believe. George Will to Bill Maher: Robert Mueller’s investigation is unconstitutional 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Aside from its tendency toward leisurely travelogue, “The Self-Propelled Island” consists largely of slapstick comedy, prescient satire of capitalist privilege and melodrama. Michael Dirda takes a new look at a little-known Jules Verne novel 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z He never imagined “Exit West” would become so grimly prescient, with the crisis in Syria displacing millions, and nationalist movements gaining ground in the West. Global Migration Meets Magic in Mohsin Hamid’s Timely Novel 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Twenty-five years later, Joel's decision to walk away from the recording side looks rather prescient. Billy Joel’s “River of Dreams” at 25: Why his most personal work was a perfect last record 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z He wouldn’t necessarily call his series prescient, either. "Drunk History" may be the most necessary show on TV now 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z "Most of the arguments made against the printing press were correct, even prescient," he says. Spare a Flickr of sympathy for professional photographers 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Now, given how speedy tempos are across pop, hip-hop, R&B and more, they seem like prescient geniuses, though still absurd. The Week Ahead: Aug. 14 ? 20 2011-08-11T15:36:07Z This character suddenly looking back becomes quite prescient and quite lovable in their attempts to suggest that there's more than this binary way of thinking about gender and thinking about identity. "Lyric writing is not easy": Michael Stipe looks back on creating REM's "New Adventures of Hi-Fi" 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z The reappearance of his work here comes at a time of deep reckoning and crisis — from the pandemic to political and ecological meltdowns — which has made his work feel all the more prescient. It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z There is also an element of the first modern celebrity in Houdini, who understood marketing and self-promotion in ways that seem eerily prescient. In 'Houdini,' Adrien Brody wants to 'convey the truth of an illusion' 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Her 24th book, “The Four Winds,” which comes out on Tuesday, seems eerily prescient in 2021, with its Depression-era tale of blighted land, xenophobia, fear of contagion — and determination to join forces and rebuild. Kristin Hannah Reinvented Herself. She Thinks America Can Do the Same. 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The same ideas for which Papanek was once mocked seem increasingly prescient. Design: Victor Papanek: An Early Champion of Good Sense 2011-05-15T17:30:06Z There is prescient meaning in every anecdote Brockenbrough includes, down to the poem Donald wrote in elementary school: “I like to hear the crowd give cheers, so loud and noisy to my ears.” A Trump Biography for Teens Is a New Lens on the President’s Totalizing Awfulness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z In both is a prescient exposé of the cruelty of paradigms, the constrictions of the Muslim woman liberation tale and the often maddening centrality of the veil within it. The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The prescient tale, written by Lena Waithe, sees a black couple’s first date go wrong when they shoot a cop in self-defence before going on the run. The early favourites: who might be winning Oscars in 2020? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z He said a few prescient voices in the 1980s were warning about climate change. Learning to live with — even enjoy — insects in the garden 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z And Balla’s “Numbers in Love” from 1920-23, a startlingly prescient painting whose extruded numerals and planes recall the Futurist love of speed, also suggests a 1960s artist trying to reconcile Pop Art and hard-edge abstraction. Art Review: ‘Italian Futurism, 1909-1944,’ at the Guggenheim 2014-02-20T23:31:22Z Although the film was not an overwhelming critical favorite, the Weinstein Co.'s strategy of opening it in limited release the weekend of the Globes announcement was prescient. 2010-01-15T07:58:00Z His stump appearances in his outlaw 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns were a guilty pleasure for the reporters who followed him, a hilariously clever, and prescient, exhibition of right-wing populism. Patrick Buchanan Reveals Himself to Be the First Trumpist 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Whatever criticisms there were of Season 4, it was remarkably prescient. ‘Arrested Development’: We Sat Down With the Cast. It Got Raw. 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Timely, prescient and true, the book tracks the planet’s progression from lush Eden to barren hellscape. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z At a time when the first tremors of punk were emanating from New York City, the essay was a timely, even prescient call to arms for a new uprising. Mick Farren, British Rock ’n’ Roll Renaissance Man, Dies at 69 2013-08-01T03:34:55Z Wuorinen’s complaints against the commercial sheen of minimalism were certainly cranky, but they also proved eerily prescient: Every other ad on TV now features some form of aggressively arpeggiated piano or productive-sounding marimba. Perspective | The late composer Jon Gibson helped save minimalism from itself 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Were you just being prescient, or did you summon his presidential candidacy into being by raising it? The Simpsons' Matt Groening: 'President Trump? It's beyond satire' | First Dog on the Moon 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z One of the items in the archive is a school report for the 16-year-old Ballard, and extremely prescient it was too. JG Ballard archive acquired for British Library 2010-06-10T15:10:00Z In 1993 her clear vision of an American landscape where Los Angeles is burning, drugs are epidemic, racism rages and guns do the loudest talking was eerily prescient. Picture Books About Kindness, Compassion and Peace in a Turbulent World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z For a show that splits the difference, try IFC’s “Brockmire”: a sharp-tongued baseball comedy that, in its fourth and final season, takes an odd and oddly prescient dystopian turn. Review: ‘Brockmire’ Is the Dystopian Baseball Comedy We Need 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z But for those whose taste for dystopian suspense is undiminished, Beukes’s tale of a mother and son making their way across a post-pandemic-ravaged landscape is prescient and taut. Review | In Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland,’ a mother and son go on the run in a post-pandemic America 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The show, announced by the museum on Tuesday, is being described by organizers as “incredibly prescient and timely,” a “direct response to the national emergency of Black grief” and a “form of collective therapy.” Some of America’s best Black artists are joining forces for a show about Black grief — conceived by a legendary curator who died last year 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z How can an artist so original, so thrillingly indifferent to convention and the tyranny of good taste — let alone one so prescient — remain untranslated and unread? A French Writer Who Blurred the Line Between Candor and Provocation 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z The group’s program will span the range of Mr. Borden’s prescient oeuvre. The Week Ahead: June 26 ? July 2 2011-06-24T14:32:49Z It is prescient, really, how connected it is to the Trump era. Martin Scorsese: ‘Maybe The Irishman is the last picture I'll make’ 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z What is the most prescient episode in the 15-year history of “South Park”? Talk: Talk: Trey Parker and Matt Stone of ?South Park? 2011-09-25T04:00:53Z It dares you to call it glib, but actually it's a thoughtful, prescient satire on the war on drugs, packed with neat twists and funny-horrid setpieces. Thrillers roundup 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Another eerily prescient song, this 1991 number is Larson’s look at what we might now call white male privilege, written for a show called “Skirting the Issues.” Beyond ‘Rent’: 4 Glimpses of the Unheard Jonathan Larson 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Robocop, with its prescient satire on corporate greed on the mean streets of future Detroit, might just be even better. The next Paul Verhoeven? I'd buy that for a dollar 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The vision that made Gregory so funny was also what made him so alarmingly prescient. Joe Morton, 'Turn Me Loose' and the sly comic activism of Dick Gregory 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The novel’s political intrigue and corruption, and the sadness that accompanies the sense of helplessness in the face of a great evil, is prescient. A Timely Dystopian Thriller With Sexual Assault and Political Corruption at Its Core 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Today, her art is ever more prescient — of the current interest in recycling slight materials, in ephemerality and in what might be called a feminine/feminist sensibility. Review: ‘Gego: Autobiography of a Line’ Highlights a Sculptor’s Kinetic Work 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z More than a year on, with that proposition tested daily, Obama’s decision to make his last trip abroad to the birthplace of western democracy looks prescient. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Mostly, however, they feel fresh and wildly prescient, predicting perfectly how consciousness has mutated even further in a digital and biotech age. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z The film was inadvertently prescient about the idea of 15 minutes of fame. How we made The Blair Witch Project 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Odd in scale, spatial illusion and gravity of mood, these images are fittingly painted in a solid, workmanlike style and are startlingly prescient of 19th-century French artists like Courbet and Manet. Le Nain Brothers’ Prescient Work at Kimbell Art Museum 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z There was something prescient in Anderson’s depiction, in 2012, of a combustible charismatic leader pushing alternative facts. To appreciate the ‘Masterworks’ of Paul Thomas Anderson, here are 5 essential movies of his to watch 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z His ecological warnings were prescient, and not without cost. ‘Becoming Cousteau’ Review: The Old Man and the Sea 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s a scene both nostalgic and prescient, one that traces the roots of our current political morass and the media that feed off it. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The songs felt painfully prescient or woefully ironic. “No one will ever have sex with me again”: Why I stayed in the closet about my HIV 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Ideally, of course, we would watch all four, as well as the first “Borat” movie, which today looks more prescient than preposterous. Perspective | Movies are rushing to impact the election. Don’t ask whether they’ll work. Ask whether they’ll last. 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z This prescient and mordantly funny science-fiction anthology is smart enough to be just barely ahead of its time. Review: ‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror and Soul in the Machine 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z With a burst of new attention to phrases like diversity, equity and inclusion over the past two years, Sphinx’s steady, patient work has come to seem prescient. They Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But unless Lachlan is hiding something up his sleeve, which is entirely possible, its title may not be prescient as much as it is a matter of common sense. Rupert Murdoch's retirement won't break Fox News — yet 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Not exactly a battle speech, perhaps, but robertwiloughby suggests Network: "From the most prescient film ever, the greatest call to arms". Clip joint: cockneys 2013-06-26T10:50:38Z If you really want to be prescient, foresee and help head off this backlash. The Creator of ‘Jessica Jones’ Serves Up a Dark Mirror for Our Moment 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z In an eerily prescient moment, Wells threatens to assume even more power and “put this lumbering old beast of government out of its misery,” he writes. Review | An online warehouse gone rogue. Driverless cars, hijacked: Fiction that feels eerily possible. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s not a political film, per se, but it is difficult not to view it as prescient. ‘American Honey’: Open Highways, Free Spirits 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The inclusion of a haute couture camouflage outfit — this during the depths of despair over the Vietnam debacle — shows how prescient the collection was about a look that still rules the runways today. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent: Revolutionary Romantic 2010-03-09T19:28:00Z These paintings were part of an incessant, prescient stream of self-promotion and self-representation, one that included marketing materials and heavily retouched photographs. Celebrating Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z And ‘The Leavers’ — it’s about immigrants and so I thought it was very prescient. What Debra Messing Can’t Travel Without 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The Good Fight is a darkly comedic legal drama that is so prescient, so close to the headlines, it feels as if viewers are watching it live. Mamma Mia's Christine Baranski on schmoozing with Cher and meeting Trump 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Just days earlier, in a prescient coincidence, a group of independent and nonprofit exhibitors met in Utah at the Art House Convergence, an annual gathering just before Sundance. The nasty world of theater ‘clearances,’ and why it matters to filmgoers 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It left Noah free to focus on his interview with Christie, and lo and behold, the little piece of advice I threw at Noah yesterday turned out to be prescient. Trevor Noah finally nails it: Why his third “Daily Show” episode was by far the strongest yet 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Writing in Byte, Gregg Williams comprehensively broke down the machine’s specs and groundbreaking capabilities—and made a prediction about the Mac’s future that was prescient, but also mistaken. What reviewers said about the first Mac when it debuted 30 years ago 2014-01-25T18:00:00Z And talking about being prescient: The reason Diallo is wearing a gas mask and in that music video is a DJ is because we love Daft Punk. From gas masks to kente cloth, "Sherman's Showcase" Juneteenth special is well-timed and prescient 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The Trump administration’s focus on immigration makes it even more prescient but Ridley will take no credit for that. Guerrilla's John Ridley: 'As Three Kings went through the system, George Clooney was unblackified' 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z The latter quote feels eerily prescient, if not contemporary — as do many sentiments expressed by the band then. 1987’s “Document” feels especially applicable to America in 2017 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Given the grim history of the 20th century, this Bosch-like scene seemed eerily prescient. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z To be certain, it will take prescient and enlightened minds to manage Maine’s last great fishery correctly. Have you eaten your last lobster? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z But that prescient season was broadcast two years ago, and the program was canceled in 2019. What Was the Problem With ‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Rachel Cline’s new novel, “The Question Authority,” is prescient for its setting: a fictional artsy private school in Brooklyn Heights. Review | A new novel will reignite your #MeToo rage 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Of course, we now know that in real life the precious cargo arrived in New York Harbor, and that their grandiosity turned out to be prescient. A Novel Based on the Life of Peggy Guggenheim 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Alberto Burri’s prescient paintings — in patched, burned and otherwise abused burlap, plastic or wood — form a lavish, beautiful and admirable, if sometimes monotonous retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Not to slight the dance itself: Martha Graham’s “Chronicle,” from 1936, is as spellbinding and prescient as ever. Review: Exploring Nature and Nightlife at Martha Graham 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z “You can see influences that are prescient about the way artists are working right now,” Ms. Halbreich said. Inside Art: At Cosmopolitan Resort in Las Vegas, Yoko?s on View 2010-08-05T21:30:00Z And it doesn’t hurt that he was the director of “Contagion,” the 2011 film that now seems oddly prescient. Her Role at HBO Max? Challenging Netflix 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Oliver said that his team’s old off-air jokes about the Trump administration were proving prescient. John Oliver Says the Russia Scandal Is Like ‘Stupid Watergate’ 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z In this, Collins was prescient, even if her specific vision of the violence on which such a world might be organized is fantasy. Real-life hunger games 2012-08-07T20:03:00Z But time has rendered it deeply prescient: Barley occupied a perfectly sealed echo chamber of self-conscious idiocy, and he self-branded furiously, long before social media came for our souls. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z It was an apt — and, it turns out, prescient — bit of wishful casting. In ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,’ Tina Fey finds a character tailor-made for her 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Better yet, Melisande trades one bureaucracy for another to prescient and hilarious effect. Best science fiction and fantasy books to read this month 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s a statement that seems especially prescient in the wake of last week’s election, and it tapped into what Jaar was feeling leading up to his album’s release. Nicolas Jaar unleashes an aural and visual attack at 9:30 Club 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The plot creates a context in which these characters’ fears — of false-flag operations and state tyranny — are fully justified, and their motives for stockpiling arms eventually look prescient. ‘The Standoff at Sparrow Creek’ Review: Finding the Killer in a Warehouse Full of Guns 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Your 2004 novel, “The Plot Against America,” seems eerily prescient today. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Her work, like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “just seems so prescient,” he said. Confronting Grief, With Margaret Atwood, in ‘The Nurse Antigone’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z “The novel’s political intrigue and corruption, and the sadness that accompanies the sense of helplessness in the face of a great evil, is prescient.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Though the conference was planned before Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated many Caribbean islands whose economies rely heavily on tourism, the timing seemed prescient. Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Its impeccable serious-mindedness is nothing to scoff at; what some saw as ponderous now seems merely prescient. 2001: A Space Odyssey: No 1 2010-10-21T10:54:00Z Sonnabend, quiet but deep and prescient, deserves that kind of accounting. Art Review: ‘Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New’ at MoMA 2013-12-19T22:57:15Z Still, the book is eerily prescient, documenting yet another moment of great social unrest that preceded the killing of George Floyd and the demonstrations of this year. Examining the Fraught Subject of Guns and Police 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z In 1934, he wrote a poem with the prescient title “Egyptian Spring”: My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Most of all, the show’s setting, a prescient send-up of Cool Britannia fashion, publicity and celebrity promotions, opened the way for “Sex and the City.” Television Review: ?Absolutely Fabulous? 20th Anniversary Specials - Review 2012-01-05T22:43:52Z A strangely paced episode that seems to have several endings, but compelling throughout – prescient even, with its wider theme of newsroom-centred controversy. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 19-23 November 2012-11-19T07:00:00Z It will also convince readers that Hamilton — the nation’s first treasury secretary and one of its most prescient economic policy makers — should not be pushed from the $10 bill. Review: ‘The Quartet,’ by Joseph Ellis, Details the Constitution’s Gang of Four 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z In addition to the prescient nonconformity of his creations, which disregarded gender binaries, Sprouse’s collaborations with Teri Toye made him one of the first designers to work with a transgender model. After Making a Splash in Manhattan, an Artist Gets His Due Back Home 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The presidential election results aren’t directly referenced in “The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!” but they add prescient urgency and relevance to Deb Hiett’s quirky new culture war satire at the Met Theatre in L.A. Where the middle-class dream turns into the world's worst game show 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z An opening group singalong of Farnesy’s You’re The Voice was perhaps too prescient, but really, who can argue with a bagpipe solo? The Voice 2013: Harrison Craig an unsurprising winner 2013-06-17T21:33:08Z As usual, the comic is filled with prescient insights, which we can’t wait to see more of in his forthcoming CNN series “United Shades of America.” W. Kamau Bell shares his amazing response to white male comedians “when they go ‘Blah blah blah blah racist, offensive, sexist statement'” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Stick to the first run, however, and the scares are among the most prescient of recent times. Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Today these words sound both prescient and a bit quaint. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z In “Hell,” current members seek out ways to enhance their initiation rituals from a troubled former brother and “house legend,” who offers horrific and prescient insights into the damaging effects of their traditions. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The current storyline in which his former agent blackmails him by releasing tapes of his massively offensive rants was filmed prior to the Mel Gibson/Charlie Sheen/Christian Bale meltdowns, and seem remarkably prescient. Have you been watching ? Entourage 2011-03-22T14:19:48Z Du Bois has never looked more usefully prescient than in the present, when Otherness, in its many varieties, is at once widely acknowledged and under vicious, reactive siege. Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z The debates were prescient: how will technology change literature? How the Edinburgh writers' conference changed the world of literature 2012-08-11T15:58:34Z In hindsight the story, written in 1936 but rejected by her publisher, seems both strangely prescient and unaware. Ir?ne N?mirovsky: New Biography and Short Stories 2010-04-25T23:32:00Z Released in 1987, it was a brilliant, prescient taste of what was to come: the crash later that year; the insider trading scandals. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z “If your view of how society functions under capitalism is that it’s a constant crisis, when another crisis happens . . . your outlook then seems very prescient, in a way that’s not really gratifying,” Combs says. D.C. punks Bad Moves expand their sound but keep their focus on ‘Untenable’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z La Monte Young's 1957 String Trio took the blade to the 12-tone technique for what became a prescient prelude to Minimalism. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z As such, it has proved surprisingly prescient; many of America’s current cultural fault lines first became apparent here. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z His 1983 novel, “Chasing the Dragon,” was widely cited as a prescient description of the political backdrop that prompted pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019, followed by a sweeping crackdown. Ni Kuang, Prolific Hong Kong Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 87 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z I shared the widespread enthusiasm for J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” last year, but the must-read book for Trump’s election and presidency remains Charles Murray’s astonishingly prescient “Coming Apart.” Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z |
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