| 单词 | prologue |
| 例句 | He opened his mouth to speak the prologue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I watched her fall convincingly into poverty and despair, once abandoned by the wicked count—who was the prologue speaker in his black cloak. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Lola was pacing the floorboards, one hand to her brow as she skimmed through the first pages of the play, muttering the lines from the prologue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Maybe he sees it now as a prologue to these tapes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The past may be prologue, but it’s with me, every day. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Widget pauses before he starts, letting the tent and the tree settle into silent prologue while Poppet waits patiently. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z High school was just a prologue to the real novel. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The tale of Cadmus and his daughters is only a prologue to the greater story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Say, what’re you doing today, anyhow? All dressed up and mooning around like the prologue to a suttee. Did you go to Psychology this morning?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The silence into which Briony read the prologue was tense. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z For the prologue, he recounts the story of the woman with the calabash. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The "Funeral Achievements", or armor and sword of Henry V, on public display at Westminster Abbey in Shakespeare's time and written into the prologue of Act 5 of his play "Henry V", are included. UK exhibition stresses Shakespeare's relevance today 2012-07-18T15:06:30Z After its spying-stuffed-moose prologue, your novel segues easily into filling readers in on the Danish cartoon issue. ‘The Happiest People in the World,’ Brock Clarke’s New Novel 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z “It’s like a prologue, a great way to introduce myself and Maboud,” he said. In ‘Homebound,’ 10 playwrights write a Web series as unpredictable as the life we’re living 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Some critics from the left have already begun picking apart its supposed overreliance on military interviewees; its “American bias”; its statement, in the prologue, that the war “was begun in good faith, by decent people.” Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Tackle the Vietnam War 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The chaos commences in a prologue set in the dead of a winter’s night in the shogun’s palace. Book review: ‘The Iris Fan,’ a thriller by Laura Joh Rowland 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z A wilful oblivion: the protagonist's name, Oh Dae-su, as he drunkenly harangues the police in the prologue, means "one day at a time". Seoul searching: how politics plays out in South Korean cinema 2012-11-07T13:31:27Z There must be: The book begins with a Vietnam-era prologue in which a young man, shot down in a helicopter, inexplicably cries out the name “Vibiana!” Review: Michael Connelly’s ‘The Wrong Side of Goodbye,’ a Mystery Traveling the Freeways 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z In fact, one wonders if the budget was blown on scene one because nearly every other action set piece that follows lacks the originality or velocity of the prologue. The Expendables 2: Locked and Overloaded 2012-08-16T12:00:05Z The images of what was happening then provide a prologue to the horrors we are witnessing now — and amount to an unheeded warning. ‘Donbass’ Review: War in Ukraine, the Prequel 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Wadsworth’s strength at handling crowd scenes is clear from the prologue, set in a monastery near Moscow in 1598, where the police are bullying a crowd into begging Boris to accept the throne. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z "The prologue is typical of women like me," author and musician Sarah Ramey writes in her new memoir. Mystery illnesses are on the rise with women, whom doctors are dismissing as "nervous Nellies" 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Eliminating the prologue, a Soviet-set discussion of the ethics of land use that is often excised, Mr. Doyle places Brecht’s dovetailing stories of endurance in an unspecified contemporary context. Theater Review | 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Brecht?s Test of Devotion, Set Amid Modern Warfare 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z Ethan’s mom, Jan, is supposed to be just as squeaky-clean a parent as David, but she has disappeared by the end of the book’s prologue. Books of The Times: Caught - By Harlan Coben - Never Look Away - By Linwood Barclay - Mom and Pop Thrillers 2010-03-25T22:42:00Z The calm prologue to chaos is a given, a space during which audiences might rest in the false confidence of knowing they’d be smarter and do things differently than the poor suckers onscreen. The politics of Important TV: Why "The Terror" and "Our Boys" won't get the "Chernobyl" treatment 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z A prologue introduces us to the pre-Columbian city through post-conquest historical maps of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital that became Mexico City, and Cuzco, the former Incan capital in Peru. How Latin America Was Built, Before Modernism Came Along 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Daisey then cut parts of his one-man show and added a prologue in which he addresses the questions raised by critics. Artist hits back at critics after Apple firestorm 2012-03-19T21:18:08Z Set in Vienna in the 1880s, it's about what Huston in his prologue portentously describes as "Freud's descent into a region almost as black as hell itself, man's unconscious and how he let in light". Freud 2012-08-04T23:05:28Z Gold then softens the transition from real life to drama by having Michael Patrick Thornton, who otherwise plays Lennox and one of the assassins, deliver an amusingly potted prologue like a Catskills tummler. Review: In a New ‘Macbeth,’ Something Wonky This Way Comes 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Tied together with a Mother Goose prologue and epilogue, the resulting short film was successfully sold to schools and libraries. Ray Harryhausen dies aged 92: master of stop-motion animation 2013-05-07T19:06:34Z The scene we see in the prologue is the two of them at a bar — later that night, Wayne kills Michael and buries him on my uncle’s property in Upper Michigan. Thank you for killing my novel 2012-07-05T22:12:00Z Even so — if the past really is prologue — that may not be enough. A hellscape of lies and distorted reality awaits journalists covering President Trump 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z In a witty prologue to the play Mr. Ives credits Molière with having mixed “the batter for tonight’s soufflé,” but it is his own inexhaustible verbal dexterity that makes it rise so deliciously high. | 'The School for Lies': Glittering Opprobrium in Iambic Pentameter 2011-05-02T04:27:03Z A long prologue firmly establishes June's tenacity and what follows only reinforces this impression. The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z It was written in 1935, though an agitprop prologue was added in 1944, adapting words from Genesis about darkness descending upon a divided kingdom, to suggest support for the liberation of France from Nazi occupation. Review: In ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Beasts With Burden of Judging 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The opera begins with an ominous prologue that takes place in a realm between heaven and hell. Review: Rubinstein’s ‘Demon’ Is Redeemed in a Rare Staging 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Except for a chilling prologue, the book starts innocently enough. Ron Miscavige’s life in Scientology: “It was inhuman as far as I’m concerned” 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The only thing I’m sure I learned in my desultory high-school years is the sonnet prologue to “Romeo and Juliet,” which a frightening ninth-grade English teacher demanded I memorize, or else. The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z As the prologue to the evening feast, it should be prolonged with warm drinks, spiced confections and a brunch of festive breads that can be prepped the night before. Start Christmas Morning With Something Sweet 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Maltman, throughout, was a mesmerizing presence, especially in his revelatory approach to the prologue of "Pagliacci," which he treated like proto-Postmodernism. Dudamel coaxes a sense of urgency from two of opera's staples 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The prologue, in Putivl, takes place in a simple public meeting room with yellow-beige walls, a ceiling of wood beams and dangling electric lights. Music Review: A New Vision for ‘Prince Igor’ at the Met 2014-02-07T11:38:03Z Straightforward enough, but in the opera, far too much incident is crowded into 19 scenes, not counting a prologue and epilogue — an uninterrupted trudge of exposition. Review: An Opera Sings of a World on the Verge of Ending 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z In the first scene, for example, the prologue is delivered more or less intact, minus a “doth” here and there. Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z One thing he noticed: “Witness” features a prologue on the farm before shifting to the city, which “helps acclimatize you to the visual world of the farm.” The Inspiration Issue: Rian Johnson Builds a Better Time Machine 2012-09-26T16:08:34Z The prologue of Kevin McKenzie’s version for American Ballet Theater that began a week of performances at the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday, has several. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ at Met Opera House 2012-06-26T21:12:40Z But first "How the World Was" opens with a splash of color: a 20-page prologue that illustrates the Southern California of today. 'How the World Was' a vivid tale of a 20th century California boyhood 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The season opens with a wordless prologue, a mood-setting vignette of tragedy and compassion, like something from “2001” or “The Tree of Life.” Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Starts Over Beautifully in Season 2 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z What's past is prologue and what is present is what we are going to see in future. Showtime's "The One and Only Dick Gregory" pays tribute to the legend who left comedy for activism 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me,” Ellison writes in the prologue. Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” as a Parable of Our Time 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z There is an art to the preparation of a sacrifice, and as the prologue draws to its shivery end, we sense the intoxicating power of that art. Characters Who Crave a Return to the Past, Human Sacrifice and All 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z In the prologue, Mann also makes the questionable assertion that “Brando’s acting, as great and as important as it is, is not the most interesting thing about him.” Review | ‘The Contender’ remembers Marlon Brando as an actor and so much more 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Much of the prologue seems preoccupied with establishing what Morris isn’t interested in talking about or revealing. Mark Morris: Loves Dance, Hates Brussels 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z But the discomfort of that scene pales next to the images used as a prologue for it, cast onto a suspended sheet by an overhead projector. Review: ‘I’ll Never Love Again,’ From a Teenage Girl’s Diary 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Later, Tempest recited the prologue of “The Bricks That Built the Houses,” which is essentially a prose poem about her characters loving and leaving their London neighborhood. Kate Tempest’s Transformations 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The center is emphasizing the need to grasp the contemporary moment, but what about the past as prologue? Reinventing the International Center of Photography for the Selfie Age 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z They also bear the knowledge of the dispiriting aftermath: that the Oslo accords were not to be the prologue to lasting peace. Review | ‘Oslo’ is an incisive, and dispiriting, look at a stunning pact between Israel and the PLO 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z And there he is, the Great One, narrating the prologue as if he’s delivering his opening TV monologue. ‘How Sweet It Is!,’ by Thane Rosenbaum 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z This take on the prologue prepares you for Mr. McVicar’s updating. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The theatre of death is playing out and milking its dreadful prologue to the bitter finale. Readers recommend: songs about capital punishment – results 2013-07-11T13:00:00Z If past is indeed prologue, it’s also a peek at how the new president and first lady will write the next chapter in their adopted town. Joe Biden’s Washington: How the president might engage with the city Trump ignored 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Tommy Orange’s debut novel begins with a heartbreaking prologue on the history of America’s indigenous peoples — from the first “Thanksgiving” through massacre and expulsion to the lives of present-day “urban Indians.” Best new audiobooks for that long summer drive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Is it because of the prologue that I know he’s a creeper, or is he just a creeper? “The Wrong Light”: Sex, lies and the story of Mickey Choosetha 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z After the Holocaust prologue, the film warps to what a title card refers to as the “not too distant future”. Can X-Men: Apocalypse pull together 16 years of mutated plotlines? 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z But the prologue to all this development moved at a much slower pace. Jaffa Is Tel Aviv’s Unexpected Luxury Hotspot 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In his prologue, Blake declares Grant’s story “a celebration, a cautionary tale, and a compelling human drama — far stranger than any fiction.” Review | A look at the man who helped solidify Led Zeppelin’s hard-partying reputation 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z After a scene that announces the play’s coyly unstable narrative — “Was there a prologue I should be aware of?” Review: Playwriting and Bug-Hunting Wed in ‘The Catastrophist’ 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The book opens with a prologue in which we are privy to the thoughts of an unknown person, standing on a beach. ‘The Decagon House Murders’ evokes Agatha Christie — in Japan 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The prologue is well-handled, suspenseful and alarming, but much of what follows seems at least a little bit silly or confused. 'Eye Candy' a promising dip into crime genre for MTV 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z If past is prologue, then one night next May, a funny-looking insect — plump, brown, hunched — will emerge from the ground, crawl up the nearest vertical perch and cast off its mantle. Perspective | Fall is prime tree planting season, but what about next spring’s cicada eruption? 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Between the prologue and the epilogue, the story is told in alternating chapters by each woman. Review | Who’s telling the truth? ‘Tangerine’ is a twisty tale of friendship, death and deceit 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z After a brief prologue, it opens with him working in a meat-processing plant in Germany. ‘R.M.N.’ Review: A Bleak Diagnosis for Romania 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z She wouldn’t care; as she writes in the prologue, “I regret half of this story and the other half is the sound you heard.” ‘Reckless’ review: Chrissie Hynde’s memoir is part bravado, part regret 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z The past is prologue, but also the present — their present. When Truman is your grandpa: The complicated lives of presidential descendants 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The prologue sets the tone for the sobering rumination on mortality to come. Review | Jim Carrey the actor-writer deconstructs Jim Carrey the character in ‘Memoirs and Misinformation’ 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z As a prologue, it was playful, strange, militaristic, cool — an apt setup for a dance that showcases a bit of everything: from graceful, gliding swoops to one-armed balances that pull hip-hop back to tap. Review: At Fall for Dance Festival, Female Power 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z In the prologue, we meet two men, still young, in encounters with their parole officer. Review: The Jobs Are Gone in ‘Sweat.’ So Are People’s Hopes. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z A prologue explains how he came to be disgraced in both fields. The Provocative, Preposterous Power of “Insatiable” 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The prologue begins with the playful barbarism of a party game that amounts to Whack-a-Turk and the incapacity of European women to achieve their own liberation is emphasized by the men. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z As “the last American military action about which there is anything like a positive consensus,” World War II is “the good war that served as prologue to three-quarters of a century of misbegotten ones.” ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The set for the “Boccanegra” prologue evokes Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”: a moody plaza in an anonymous city, saturated in dark color. Critic?s Notebook: Where Opera Is Stretched Yet Unbroken 2011-07-05T21:30:26Z Mr. Tcherniakov includes a filmed episode after the prologue showing close-ups of worried soldiers, flashes from explosions, and, finally, the twisted corpses of fallen troops. Music Review: A New Vision for ‘Prince Igor’ at the Met 2014-02-07T11:38:03Z The opera opens with a prologue featuring Whitman facing the audience, with about a dozen beds in a ramshackle wood hospital barely visible behind him. Review: Matthew Aucoin’s ‘Crossing’ Is a Taut, Inspired Opera 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Most of this is covered in the prologue. The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z “I’m not interested in self-expression but in expressiveness,” Morris once said in an interview and repeats in the prologue. Mark Morris: Loves Dance, Hates Brussels 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Part of what made the “Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy a success was that Jackson and his team simplified Tolkien’s saga, beginning with a prologue that explained what viewers needed to know. ‘The Rings of Power’ Premiere Recap: All is Not Calm in Middle-Earth 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Here, he does something similar with a real figure — a prologue informs us that what follows is “not historical fiction but fictional history” — and turns out an engaging plea for active government and elementary civics. ‘JQA’ Review: Fictional History That Resonates Today 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z “Crazy Rich Asians” first flaunts its peacock feathers in a prologue set in London in 1986. Books of The Times: Kevin Kwan’s ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Depicts a Cult of Opulence 2013-06-30T21:39:42Z The story begins with a prologue set in an unnamed Midwestern city in the spring of 2009. ‘Mr. Mercedes,’ by Stephen King But if past is prologue, meat and dairy lobbyists will counter these measures. Vegan Fridays for all? More schools offer plant-based meals 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In the book’s histrionic, italicized prologue, he collapses on the defense table “like a Spartan on his shield, stark and horrifying.” The Defense Rests? Scott Turow’s Favorite Lawyer Is 85 and Still Arguing 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z By way of prologue, Ms. Packer gives us several different readings of the notorious speech of submission delivered by Kate at the end of “The Taming of the Shrew.” | 'Women of Will': Tamed or Tragic: Tina Packer?s Tour of Shakespeare?s Women 2010-06-24T21:25:00Z Her Behn is innately quizzical — the Restoration-style prologue outlines the ambiguities of the play’s title — yet she is absolutely set on achieving literary glory. Review | Having it all as the first female playwright in ‘Or,’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The film’s prologue takes place in 1919 and introduces us to Herschel, the hardships that he endures in the old country, and his courtship of his wife, Sarah. Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen on Playing Ancestral Homies 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z The stage version audiences will see at the Pantages features not only a 14-minute “American in Paris” ballet, but also a dance opening prologue and some ballet at the end of Act I. Gene Kelly's widow recalls magic of the film 'An American in Paris' as the stage version comes to SoCal 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Daniel Harding brought philosophy and music back into juxtaposition, however, in his performance with the London Symphony Orchestra, by prefacing the tone poem with a reading by Samuel West of the book's prologue. LSO/Daniel Harding ? review 2011-02-13T22:01:02Z And “Fear the Darkness” does not initially seem to be about anything very heinous, even if it begins with the clichéd blunt, violent prologue. Becky Masterman’s ‘Fear the Darkness,’ With Brigid Quinn 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z But we also know from the first page where everything will lead, as Doughty includes a prologue in which her protagonist is cross-examined in the dock of the Old Bailey as an accessory to murder. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty – review 2013-06-08T08:31:01Z Wright's own bungled misadventures back in Wells form the basis of The World's End's prologue. The World's End: meet Edgar Wright 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z As he writes in a director’s note, the opera’s prologue sets out a theme of “the human as vulnerable rather than heroic.” Review: Puppets Are the Stars in ‘Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Just pages into the prologue of “This Is the Fire,” the reader finds the author in tears. Don Lemon’s New Book Hopes to Guide America Through a Conversation About Race 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z And in a wordless prologue we observe the tense interaction between the affluent-looking gentlemen in their morning suits and the Jews in their Orthodox garb. | 'The Merchant of Venice': Al Pacino Brings His Shylock to Shakespeare in the Park 2010-07-01T02:01:00Z The first minute is very slow and dark, a zen prologue of slow-evolving patterns. MoveTube: Gangnam Style and the changing face of South Korean hip-hop 2012-10-05T16:30:43Z And just as with many detective novels, "Human Capital" opens with a prologue: The cyclist is hit by an unknown driver in a Jeep. Paolo Virzi steps out of comedic comfort zone in 'Human Capital' 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z The movie arrangers created a new overture, doubled the size of the opening dance prologue, moved scenes around and added musical overlays to the two-and-a-half-hour movie. ?West Side Story? Score to Be Played by Philharmonic 2011-09-06T21:53:07Z In the Serenade, composed in 1943, a prologue and epilogue for solo horn frame settings of five British poems through the ages about the evening and death. New Recordings: Britten’s Serenade and Nocturne by Tenor Mark Padmore 2012-07-08T03:53:15Z Set in Watergate-era Pittsburgh, Nemerever’s “These Violent Delights” opens with a brief and utterly disturbing prologue that promises an act of violence later in this macabre story. Debut Novels About Seamy Underbellies and Dark Turns 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z If past is prologue, I'm right to be concerned that “Sons” will sink in its ocean of plot rather than swim. Sons of Anarchy "Poor Little Lambs" recap: War comes to Charming 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z CNN’s chief media correspondent has added a new prologue and 12 new chapters on the election and the Capitol raid to the paperback edition. New in Paperback: ‘The World’s Fastest Man’ and ‘Our Time Is Now’ 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z The opening sentence, the prologue, I wrote that about halfway through the writing of the book, and when I wrote that sentence, I realized this is the way the book should be. Book Talk: Booker nominee Thayil offers bleak Bombay portrait 2012-10-11T09:01:42Z There is even a note of unexpected poignancy as we see the tousled, dashing corsair of the prologue succeeded for the main body of the opera by the much older, wiser Doge. Simon Boccanegra 2010-06-30T11:54:00Z In a prologue, we've seen how Danny, then sporting a comically oversized nose, learned that the woman he was about to marry 20 years ago was just after him for his money. 'Just Go With It'? Sandler and Aniston should have said no 2011-02-10T18:11:03Z The novel opens with a pair of prologues. After 'The Cartel,' Don Winslow's cop novel 'The Force' is sneakily subversive 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Nice additions include a real Dulcinea appearing to Don Quixote in the prologue. ‘Don Quixote’: At Kennedy Center, the Royal Ballet flirts with greatness 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z In the prologue you talk about how there have been “unwindings” every few generations, followed by rebirths. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z Sarah Moss’s eerie new novel, “Ghost Wall,” opens with an incantatory prologue. Characters Who Crave a Return to the Past, Human Sacrifice and All 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The heartbreak of the prologue was all too familiar: an unarmed Black teen, shot dead by a White police officer. Review | ‘We Are Not Like Them’ continues an important conversation. We shouldn’t look away. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The family drama “Two Ways Home” opens with a whirlwind prologue, finding its heroine in a crisis of her own making. ‘Two Ways Home’ Review: A Spare Family Drama Unfolds in Iowa 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z So it begins in the present, with an overwritten prologue about the first whiffs of trouble. Books of The Times: ‘Straight Flush’ by Ben Mezrich 2013-05-22T21:41:01Z And as a result, where the pilot felt more like a prologue, or a brief indie movie, this felt like an episode of a TV show. Girls Watch: The Group 2012-04-24T14:41:45Z Based on a script written by Joel and Ethan Coen in the 1980s, the film opens with a cheery prologue promoting the charms of Suburbicon, which include a church and a mall. George Clooney tackles 'original sin' of slavery and racism in dark comedy 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z A brief prologue shows us Mary on the day of her execution in England in 1587, but before the axe falls we're transported to the French court 29 years earlier. Spy for the Queen of Scots by Theresa Breslin – review 2012-08-17T21:55:01Z He made a start, by creating three sensual, chilling mini films, which were shown before the prologue and two acts. Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z The prologue is not just an effective way to frame the show and cushion the impact of its more offensive elements. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z In a prologue to this Labyrinth Theater Company production, the engaging Ms. Beck reassures us that her gun isn’t real and poses no threat to our safety. Review: ‘The Insurgents’ Stars Cassie Beck in a Lucy Thurber Drama 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z As is his wont, Mr. Brown begins with a crazily grandiose prologue, this one a little more unhinged than usual. Books of The Times: ‘Inferno,’ by Dan Brown 2013-05-12T21:14:59Z In the prologue, for example, you get a much more brutal look at the treatment of prisoner 24601, who appears to be enslaved on a ship. A fresher 'Les Miz' for a new generation 2011-02-07T17:38:54Z The British actor Andrew Garfield nevertheless seems like improbable casting for the prologue Spider-Man. Fancy that: the golden age of the sexy geeky leading male 2012-07-27T21:59:00Z Instead, she opens with a prologue in which she describes a childhood holiday to Vermont. The Long Goodbye: A Memoir of Grief by Meghan O'Rourke ? review 2011-08-12T11:15:01Z “It starts with the bees,” the spooky prologue tells us, “and it’ll end this way too.” A Buzzworthy Debut About a Mysterious and Secluded Artists’ Retreat 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s also likely that this escape is what he thought he wanted as he insisted on leaving home in the opera’s prologue. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Prince Igor’ Aims to Integrate Movement and Storytelling 2014-03-07T23:01:11Z “I could bore you with the history, but you wouldn’t listen,” says Egerton in the prologue. How the Robin Hood myth was turned on its head by rightwingers 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The book opens with a prologue of sorts: a portrait of the women’s section of the Bensonhurst synagogue that Ms. Lagnado and her mother joined after immigrating. Books of The Times: The Arrogant Years ? By Lucette Lagnado ? Review 2011-09-08T22:27:21Z And surely the attack must have something to do with the prologue, right? ‘Je Suis Karl’ Review: Not Marx. The Opposite, In Fact. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z He was 50 years old at the start of 1932, and the previous Christmas he’d painted a brace of pictures, on view in a prologue here, that prefigure the dreamlike, indulgent, violent year to come. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z I shifted a lot around in this prologue — I’m on Draft No. 80, I believe — but I never changed the first line.” How to Craft an Opening Line to Electrify a Theater Audience 2012-10-28T04:10:05Z Kamala Harris’s new memoir, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” begins with a prologue set on Nov. 8, 2016, the night Harris was elected a United States senator from California. With a Possible Presidential Bid in 2020, Kamala Harris Talks About Her New Book 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The first shot after the prologue is a closeup of Walt’s weatherbeaten hand; the possibility of working with one’s hands is often a focus of “Breaking Bad.” Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The Marcus worldview — the notion that pop culture matters as much as history and literature — is perfectly distilled in the prologue, where he connects the immortal sweep of art to Little Richard. New & Noteworthy Books, From Italian History to Asian Politics 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The film begins with a prologue in which Mr. Gitai, pictured in stills, is shown strolling alone on a beach to the strains of a Mahler symphony. 2010-01-13T00:41:00Z I was readying an epilogue, never guessing a prologue would be in order. She Slipped Past My Age Filter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Walt Whitman, who knew Wilde but had died in 1892, acts as a spectral master of ceremonies, philosophizing in a prologue and commenting intermittently throughout. Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z In an alarmingly banal prologue, we see silent archival footage of a 1970s "scientific seance" in which a table levitated. 'The Apparition': not a ghost of a chance of being good 2012-08-24T17:26:04Z The journalist asked her to clarify whether that was just set in the Wizarding World, rather than serving as any kind of prologue to the tale of the boy who lived. J.K. Rowling: 'Fantastic Beasts' Is More of a 'Harry Potter' Prequel 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Essentially dispensing with the didactic prologue, Mr. Kulick’s staging, using a translation by James and Tania Stern, with lyrics by W. H. Auden, tosses us quickly into the chaos of political upheaval. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z In his prologue, Gladwell mentions his personal connection — he lived in England as a child, surrounded by reminders of the war, which nurtured a lifelong obsession. 15 New Books to Watch For in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Much of the play takes place in 2000, with a prologue and other scenes that are set eight years later. Review: The Jobs Are Gone in ‘Sweat.’ So Are People’s Hopes. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Here Ms. Bullock sang Samuel Barber’s masterpiece from 1947, “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” based on a highly atmospheric text from the prologue to James Agee’s novel “A Death in the Family.” Review: Young Concert Artists Gala Offers Stars in the Making 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z After he nukes the alternate reality, he wakes up back in Australia to find the floodwaters receded and his dad sitting on the roof — just like the disappointed end-of-the-world-er in this season’s prologue. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 7: Bombs Away 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z This is the uncut version of the ballet, with prologue and apotheosis, which I far prefer to the pure-dance adaptation performed by most companies today. Dance Review: Ratmansky’s ‘Firebird,’ for American Ballet Theater 2012-06-12T22:16:25Z Alice’s response: “I thought of the few works of Shakespeare I knew and the line that frequently rattled in my brain — what’s past is prologue.” In a Thriller About Girlfriends, Which Femme Is Fatale? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z “Evie doesn’t trust the snake, obviously” the Kings write in a brief prologue set in an Eden-like clearing featuring exotic animals and a large tree. Stephen King and Son Team Up for a Novel About Women Whose Sleep Should Not Be Disturbed 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z In the prologue of the book, the protagonist is in his cellar lair playing Armstrong’s “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue,” over and over again. How Glenn Ligon Is Using Black and Blue to Begin a Dialogue 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z After a brief prologue set in 1862 on the Cape of Good Hope, Mosse’s epic opens in a stinking prison cell in Toulouse. Review | ‘Burning Chambers’ is a sweeping historical novel that puts current events in perspective 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z The New York assault was a prologue of what Phillips was in for aboard ship. 'It savaged my life': military sexual assault survivors fighting to become visible 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z “I’m going to keep it really simple today,” he said, before reading aloud the first five paragraphs of the book’s prologue, during which he choked up several times. Creator and Fans Hit it Lucky With 'Hamilton' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In a prologue, Jonathan Waldman reveals that his father wrote a dictionary of robotics and that he had a youthful passion for the subject. A Team of Engineers Invented a Brick-Laying Robot. This Is Their Story. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z And the endearment, especially as Ms. Danner pronounces it, feels like a fitting prologue for a play that considers the Broadway star as a vanishing species. Blythe Danner Stars in ‘The Country House’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The words set in the final verse refer to the prologue from the Gospel of John, a reading usually reserved for Christmas morning. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Nemerever does a crafty job of slowly ratcheting up the tension and guiding us back toward the awful event hinted at in the prologue. Debut Novels About Seamy Underbellies and Dark Turns 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Graphic sex and bloody violence are inextricably linked in “Here Comes the Devil,” a muddled supernatural thriller that fails to capitalize on either its horrific prologue or eerie location. | 'Here Comes the Devil ': ‘Here Comes the Devil,’ Horror From Mexico 2013-12-12T23:52:11Z All is sweetness in the church courtyard off West 11th Street where the prologue to “Novenas for a Lost Hospital” takes place. Review: ‘Novenas’ Offers Prayers for a Hospital That Died 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Once again there is a pre-opening credits prologue, set in Jakarta in 2003, revealing the origins of the mayhem we heard about on Joel’s radio in Austin last week. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 2: Exit Through the Gift Shop 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z All of that prologue — all of which, by the way, is totally true — was to get the reader to know, and hopefully to trust, the witness. William Peter Blatty talks literature, life after death and lousy movies 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z In his prologue to the 1485 edition, he promised that readers would find therein "noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue and sin". For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z The work, featuring 12 scenes and a prologue, centers on young Princess Irene, a rare heroine for what she is not: saved by a prince or a victim of fate. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z Particularly at this moment, when the case of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager killed by an armed neighborhood-watch volunteer, has become a heated cause, the 1960s look a lot like prologue. 'Mad Men': Times change and a battle rages outside 2012-03-24T04:30:10Z This disconcerting prologue segues into a series of ever more disconcerting scenes. ‘Lippy,’ a Chilly Play From Ireland's Dead Centre 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z 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 From a new interpolated prologue on, Europe appears just as racist and sexist as Turkey, if not more so. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, as a prologue explains, magic is tough to learn. ‘Onward’ Review: An Expected Journey 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The most impressive bit of all however was the prologue, which told the tale of – please forgive my transcription – “Nannu Ninni”, an Old God of prehistoric Siberia. American Gods recap: season one, episode five – David Bowie rules the world 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z With such a prologue it is no surprise that the more important paintings went through the roof. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z In the wake of the prologue leak, many diehard Gaylors were expectedly disappointed and even angry that their favorite pop star appears to be merely an ally and not queer herself. Taylor Swift dispels "Gaylor" rumors to the dismay of many fans who feel queerbaited 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z He adds a prologue to show us the death of Cinderella’s natural mother. A magical ‘Cinderella’ with a human touch 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Consider the rainbow of hues that turn up in this book’s short prologue, which describes the breathless getaway from the heist. Books of The Times: Supposition as Research: A Sort-of-True Story About NASA and a Thief 2011-07-13T21:30:37Z “After the End came the Beginning,” Ma writes in the opening line of the prologue. The End Is Near in Two Dystopian Debut Novels 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But once the prologue got going, it was gently comic, with appealing music that blends Broadway sass and Baroque pastiche. Review: Kelli O’Hara’s Operatic Turn in ‘Dido and Aeneas’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The only winged creature we see her with is a live vulture, which appears in a prologue to the show. Theater Review: ‘The Testament of Mary,’ at the Walter Kerr Theater 2013-04-23T02:00:01Z If it’s true that the past is prologue, then it’s also fair to say that we live now in an age of remix, remakes and reboots. The return of blaxploitation: why the time is right to bring back Shaft and Foxy Brown 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z In the prologue, four young siblings in New York City scrape together their money to see a fortuneteller who reveals each child’s eventual death-date. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Now, however, the musical’s links to today have been embellished by a new prologue and epilogue, conceived by director Bartlett Sher. Who is an American? Look to the current crop of musicals to tell you. 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The film includes some of Stone’s “rules,” including: The past is prologue. For documentary filmmakers, our crazy news cycle is a nightmare — and a dream come true 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z As if to trumpet the transformation, it even starts, after a jaw-dropping teaser of a prologue, with a projected credit sequence. Review: At Stratford, ‘Coriolanus’ Is Riveting and Troubling 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z But the characters, who are meant to be archetypes, are so disconnected from one another, and from the prologue and epilogue, that they don’t form any kind of world. Review: In ‘Elijah Green,’ Archetypes in Search of Meaning 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z A new prologue, by the Israeli author Sivan Ben Yishai, is little more than an extended read-through of the dramatis personae. On German Stages, Women Take Control 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z In a prologue and five parts, this 70-minute show moves right along — and it does gather steam, piling on imagery and music as the actors transform into clowns. Review: ‘A Pink Chair’ Explores a Polish Playwright, but Finds Little 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Including prologue and epilogue, the film has 12 chapters. Life in chapters in ‘The Worst Person in the World’ 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Since Die Walküre is of Wagnerian length, the dramatic prologue and operatic performance will be split over two evenings. Manchester international festival lines up play on life of Marina Abramovic 2010-09-30T23:33:00Z Ali Smith’s new novel opens with a perplexing prologue: a story within a story about a man on an exercise bike whose eyes and mouth are covered by what look like mailbox flaps. Books of The Times: ?There but for the,? by Ali Smith - Review 2011-10-18T20:34:14Z A modern-dress prologue gives way to traditional period costumes, and Robert Brill’s stark but imposing set designs are perfectly integrated with the festival stage. Critic’s Notebook: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’ 2012-08-19T21:11:38Z And this move — adding a prologue to the Requiem, with an epilogue on the way — was hardly as unusual as Mr. Honeck’s presentation of the Requiem itself. Review: Mozart’s Requiem Gets a Fresh Spin at the Philharmonic 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z It’s a lot to think about, but Churchill sets the stage clearly with a rhyming prologue. Michael Kahn on a dreamy ‘Cloud 9’ at Studio Theatre 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z With that recent past as prologue, it was hard to read Ms. Selinger’s essay without wondering if Mr. Chang was finally in for it this time. From Toxic Chefs to Covid, Restaurant Workers Deserve Better 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The games shouldn’t be viewed as prologues but as more like companion pieces, he said. Marvel games to get a whole lot more 'Ant-Man' content 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The songs are just as catchy, melodic, and surprising as most Sondheim — even if a bit reminiscent, sometimes startlingly so, of "Into the Woods," especially its prologue and "Last Midnight." “Assassins” is Stephen Sondheim's killer musical that we don’t talk about 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, “Frozen’s” Broadway demise may be a dismal prologue to a tale of unhappy endings for some productions with previously healthy prognoses. Citing the pandemic, Disney puts Broadway’s ‘Frozen’ permanently on ice 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The prologue is breathless and slangy, befitting the point of view of a hormonal rocker having his mind blown. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z “The Harder They Come” is never dull, but the body of the novel never reaches the peak of its prologue and feels somehow depth-resistant, which is an odd failing given its potential. T.C. Boyle’s new novel takes us to America’s far-right edge 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The creators have said that an entire prologue focused on Barbara, including her sexual encounter with Batman, was included in the film to develop her character in a way that the comic failed to do. Why People Are Upset About the 'Batman: The Killing Joke' Movie 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z A doctrinal prologue presents the purpose of marriage for men as the assertion of virility rather than the consecration of devotion. Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z The death of Mr. Maxwell’s mother figures in “Paradiso,” in the first of three extended soliloquies that follow the robot’s prologue. Review: Richard Maxwell Considers Life After Life in ‘Paradiso’ 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z In a hallucinatory prologue that begins at what can’t quite be discerned as dawn or dusk, the camera pans a lakeside landscape, and trees seem to dissolve into sound waves. Metaphysical Moments in ‘A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The first episode of this futuristic thriller, set in the occupied city of Tantillion where science is banned, is available to download from tomorrow and there's also a free prologue. Radio head: The Minister of Chance 2011-03-16T08:00:03Z An early section — a kind of extended prologue to the main action — recalls the celebrated montage in “Up” that compresses a long marriage into a few short minutes. ‘Lightyear’ Review: Infinite Buzz 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The remarkable change was evident from the beginning prologue, the scene in which baby Aurora is blessed by her godmother fairies and then cursed by the evil Carabosse. ABT's 'Sleeping Beauty' at Segerstrom a lush return to tradition 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The famous pink stucco house with green shutters is evoked through a reconstructed facade by the Broadway set designer Scott Pask, a kind of prologue to the installation’s three dramatic episodes. In the Garden: Giverny in Four Square Feet in Queens 2012-07-11T22:23:36Z “Better Call Saul” opens with an arresting black-and-white prologue, a glimpse of Saul after Walt’s death. ‘Better Call Saul,’ a ‘Breaking Bad’ Spinoff on AMC 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z A brief but horrific prologue outlines Eichmann’s place in the Nazi regime. A Mossad Show Heavy on Spycraft Recounts Eichmann’s Capture 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Galland’s Arabic text comprised what scholars refer to as the “core” stories of “The Arabian Nights,” beginning with the prologue that explains their astonishing origin. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The prologue ends when David disappears into the nearby Mission Street Woods — a haunted stretch of forest bordering the town — never to return to this world. Review | Twenty years after ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky delivers a thrilling surprise 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z For Barnes, this prologue is essentially a device to introduce the art and personalities of what is evidently one of his favorite historical periods. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z But this, as you are likely aware, was all prologue. Streaming overview: What HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, and Peacock have to offer 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z This kind of literary fandom, as Geoff Dyer once wrote, in his case, about D. H. Lawrence, involves a backward reading in which “the finished works serve as prologue to the jottings.” What Color Were Kafka’s Eyes? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z As he observes in the prologue to his new biography, “The Grand Tour,” Jones was “above all a master interpreter” rather than, primarily, a songwriter. “The Grand Tour: The Life and Music of George Jones” 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Sometimes, she said in the book’s prologue, when he could not sleep, he would settle into her bed and confess his troubles while she sat nearby. Petraeus Biography Underscores Ethics Questions for Authors 2012-11-14T00:36:11Z “The story of their tiptoeing between the power of free will and the danger of becoming self-absorbed is significant on a universal level,” Wulf writes in her prologue. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z This prologue, its expressive physical dexterity easily worth admission, foreshadows the superbly realized merger of content and form ahead. 'Ajax in Iraq' at Miles Memorial Playhouse 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z And it is the perfect prologue for everything that follows. Review: In ‘The Damned,’ Ivo van Hove Finds the Mortal Chill in a Nazi Fire 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z After a wobbly prologue, the singing was mostly good or better. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z It's also overstuffed with prologues, flashbacks and long, boring councils among dwarves, wizards and elves as Jackson tries to mine enough story out of J.R.R. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2012-12-06T00:16:06Z All of this is a prologue to Clark’s very funny, and quickly viral, photograph. Jason Chaffetz Rolls Toward Infamy 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Pittman addresses the stereotypes inherent in a state so full of contradiction upfront, in a prologue titled “The Punchline State,” then gets on with showing just how complex Florida can be. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z This first section is merely prologue for a different story. T.C. Boyle’s new novel takes us to America’s far-right edge 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z In his prologue, Weschler sets a high standard for himself when he writes that in his relationship with Sacks he was “a sort of Boswell to his Johnson.” A Biography of Oliver Sacks, Written by His Boswell 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Having so established the dramatis personae, the song's lachrymose glide is affecting as never before; edit away Hayes' tear-etched prologue, and its impact would be profoundly lessened. Pop's long players: sometimes extra length makes all the difference 2012-05-17T08:46:17Z Not content to have made Jimmy's End and its prologue Act of Faith, he has thought up all sorts of surplus fantasies that might flavour future episodes set in the same world. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z During the book’s violent prologue, he finds himself “making a mental list of the future dead” and calculating that he will have to kill someone he really cares about. Books of The Times: Charlie Huston’s ‘Skinner,’ a Thriller With a Troubled Hero 2013-07-14T21:41:57Z Lindy's life was changed by the abduction of her still-missing younger sister, during a prologue set three years before the main action; now she uses her skills to help others in similar situations. 'Eye Candy' a promising dip into crime genre for MTV 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Eventually, these seemingly disparate threads come together, though the first third of “The Days to Come” can feel more like a long prologue than a fully engaged aspect of the story. New Political Thrillers Head to the Brink of Disaster (and Dive In) 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z A prologue and five acts is the norm for these operas — Juilliard omits the prologue, in accordance with later practice during Rameau’s day — with each act consisting of dialogue scenes and a divertissement. An Opera Worth Fighting Over 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The Nazis, we see in a prologue, stole the gold in question from the French. ‘American Renegades’ Review: Navy SEALs Plan a Caper 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The Boston Lyric Opera’s solution was to commission Richard Beaudoin, a composer on the Harvard faculty, to write a short, independent work that could be used as a prologue. Music Review: Oppressor?s Tale, Written in Oppression 2011-02-02T23:08:54Z And what of the ancient book — the Marjean codex — that Cade forcibly took from the owners of a French chateau in the book’s prologue? Newly Released - Novels by Drew Perry, Anne Lamott, Ace Atkins and Others 2010-04-14T22:48:00Z Laced with Conceptual jokes, painterly deftness and reckless disregard for tradition, they form a marvelous prologue to the Museum of Modern Art’s anticipated Polke retrospective, opening on April 19. Museum and Gallery Listings for April 11-17 2014-04-10T22:59:28Z Even in the Jakarta prologue, the first real sign that something isn’t right is when the professor cuts into a subject’s leg and no blood spills out — only a fibrous white substance. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 2: Exit Through the Gift Shop 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z These passages, as well as a spoken prologue used at the opera’s North American premiere, will be included in Salzburg this year. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Then the deafening blast of a factory whistle breaks in, and the orchestra starts the prologue, a subdued, murmuring minor-mode riff over which the hushed chorus sings: “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.” Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Beginning with a prologue set in North Korea, there's never a doubt about how tough a superspy Evelyn Salt really is. 'Salt': Angelina Jolie is breathless in action-packed spy thriller 2010-07-22T17:22:00Z A new prologue features the composer and librettist planning their next opera and admiring some Japanese objects. Reviving ‘The Mikado’ in a Balancing Act of Taste 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z An elaborate and probably unnecessary prologue finds Scotland Yard functionaries viewing a film that asks a dark question: “What Is Wrong With the Youth of England?” Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z In the book’s first few pages Mr. Rushdie suggests that his story was an opening skirmish in the battle against radical Islam and a kind of prologue to Sept. Books of The Times: In ‘Joseph Anton,’ Salman Rushdie Revisits Death Threat 2012-09-17T19:01:12Z It says two novellas quite obviously in the prologue. John Waters: “I like writing books just as much as making movies” 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The earliest of these is the prologue to one of the most rollicking ancestors of the modern novel, Boccaccio's The Decameron. A plague in both these novels: why does disease make such infectious fiction? 2011-01-12T17:28:16Z Similar notes often appear in the prologues of scientific innovation or inventor profiles, interestingly enough. "The Big Bang Theory" of evolution: The show honored smart misfits and let them grow 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z When Jonas Maines tried to read a draft of his family’s story this past summer, he got through only the first few paragraphs of the prologue before throwing it across the room. Review: Becoming Nicole Shows a Family in Transition 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z If past is prologue, it is only be a matter of time before superior financial resources and that flood of attack ads turn public opinion Romney's way. Romney, Santorum fight headed for climax 2012-04-04T10:05:00Z In the general prologue, the Author warns that audience members might feel surprise or offense at Alvita’s thirsty frankness: Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z That prologue — in which a huge bust of Coriolanus mysteriously starts speaking — is a pretty good example of the thrilling stagecraft Mr. Lepage delivers throughout. Review: At Stratford, ‘Coriolanus’ Is Riveting and Troubling 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z A quizzical prologue sets up two long sets of intricate variations in myriad styles, with echoes of Neo-Classical Stravinsky and ironic Shostakovich. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Sure enough, as early as the prologue, Farrow tackles a conversation between a Russian and Ukrainian, gamely rolling his R's and even speaking a few Russian phrases. Ronan Farrow's voices (and other audiobook delights) helped me get through this year 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z This episode, dubbed “BK, NY,” kicks off with a prologue shot by del Toro himself that fills in some mythology about the modern origins of the strigoi, the Romanian word for "vampire." 'The Strain' recap: Vampire plague hits in 'BK, NY' 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “Aristotle allows you a prologue! The best thing that can happen is that the play plots against you. It hoodwinks you. My plays aren’t intent on making things clear.” The Freewheeling Playwright Jez Butterworth Takes On Ireland’s Troubles 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z In the prologue, all seven stalked onto the stage, executing movements that — like their costumes — differed from dancer to dancer. From canvas to stage 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z But it was decided to give Iglehart the show's prologue, "Arabian Nights," in which the main characters are introduced. James Monroe Iglehart releases the genie inside 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z In its evocation of stillness and madness, it captures the flavor of Ellison’s prologue perfectly. How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z It is a fitting prologue for a play that perpetually examines itself, from every possible angle, and yet manages to transform self-consciousness from something that paralyzes into something that propels. Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The neighborhood of this particular strangeness is a remote abbey in 1952 Romania, where a nun hangs herself in a prologue. Review: In ‘The Nun,’ a Franchise Resumes Its Scary Habits 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In the prologue, he describes himself as someone “not at all sure he has ever had a single ‘spiritually significant’ experience,” a pretty straitened admission even for an avowed atheist. A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z In the prologue to “The Rings of Power,” we see the evil Morgoth make pioneering use of the winged beasts in battle. Fantasy Face-Off: ‘The Rings of Power’ vs. ‘House of the Dragon’ 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z “Something always told me when to run,” Tina says in a prologue to “My Love Story,” though readers will sometimes wish she’d listened to that voice more. Review | Tina Turner looks back on her horrific first marriage — and much more — in ‘My Love Story’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z As editor Amit Majmudar writes in the prologue, “We poets are the absolute antitheses of Trump. We are at the other end of the spectrum: we are his negative image.” ‘We poets are the absolute antitheses of Trump’: a new collection takes a stand 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z At the northeast corner of the National Archives building sits Robert Aitken’s sculpture “The Future,” inscribed with some famous words from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”: “What is past is prologue.” A hellscape of lies and distorted reality awaits journalists covering President Trump 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z I read these words: We meet Ben, a onetime rich kid and stoner, who sustains some kind of head injury in the novel’s prologue. Thank you for killing my novel 2012-07-05T22:12:00Z In the prologue, a baby — an adult dancer with a baby’s huge, roughly drawn head and bulging arms and legs — emerges, kicking its way to life and haltingly learning to walk. Nearly 100, the Salzburg Festival Doesn’t Wait to Celebrate 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z How seriously can you take a company that starts its “Swan Lake” — season after season, complacently — with a prologue that ends with the sorcerer von Rothbart tenderly abusing an imitation swan? Critic?s Notebook: Injuries and Triumphs Color a Ballet Season 2011-07-10T22:01:07Z What he’s up to comes through immediately in the prologue. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z In the prologue to “Romeo and Juliet,” the chorus tells the audience that the tale will unfold within “the two hours’ traffic of our stage.” Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z In a prologue the prisoner’s mother relates a recurring nightmare in which a spectral man appears to be the malevolent king, Philip II, only to morph into the figure of death. Music Review: Philharmonic and Gerald Finley in ‘Il Prigioniero’ 2013-06-07T20:26:14Z The conductor Marek Janowski also charted the transition from a lively sound in the prologue to a suaver, more sumptuous one, moving with nimble energy throughout. Review: A Soprano’s Sound Floods the Met in ‘Ariadne’ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z We meet the Tucks in a prologue that may confuse anyone not familiar with the story. Review: ‘Tuck Everlasting’ Swaps Out the Circle of Life for an Eternally Unspooling Ribbon 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z “That Summer” opens with a prologue that is one long held breath. Review | Jennifer Weiner understands women. Her new novel, ‘That Summer,’ shows us why. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z This winter season acts as a prologue to a wider plan, stretching forward over the next five years. Tennant heads RSC's winter season 2013-01-23T11:32:25Z The prologue of the first episode of the series charts his own journey from protest-marching, poetry-writing college activism to the resigned fatalism that defined his initial reaction to the death of George Floyd last spring. Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. and the Voices of ‘Resistance’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z She also took the very minor role of Stella in the prologue and epilogue. The opera villain was forced to lip-sync and a new star couple emerged at L.A. Opera's 'Tales of Hoffmann' 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z There is one flaw though: the actual games start around the tenth chapter and before that is just a kind of prologue. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - review 2012-10-02T14:00:00Z The real Emily Dickinson, as a prologue to the pilot tells us, published only a few poems and spent much of her late life alone in her room. ‘Dickinson’ Is an Offbeat Literary Origin Story, Written in Fire 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Violence makes an early entrance in a prologue, when a much younger Strawl inexplicably murders his wife. 'Lonesome Animals': Crimes, punishment in 1930s Eastern Wash. 2012-05-24T20:21:04Z Choral prologue now states the argument, which choral finale will resolve, and prepares the listener for the themes, dramatic and musical, that will be treated in the core of the work. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z Or, as she puts it in a prologue, “This is not a story about forgiveness.” | 'Revenge': ?Revenge? on ABC Places Emily VanCamp in the Hamptons 2011-09-20T12:00:00Z They nickname him “Sneaky Pete,” and he’s almost a footnote in this prologue — until the thugs mention his real name. Joe Ide Adds More Breathless Action to the Mix in ‘Wrecked’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The colonial narrative in western Canada showcases tales of frontier progress, Confederation and railways while smallpox gets elbowed into the prologue. North America’s forgotten plague 2013-05-04T18:00:00Z Launched as a webcomic, this post-apocalyptic adventure opens with a riveting prologue, as clustering citizens try to get their minds around the beginnings of a pandemic. Perspective | Six graphic novels to read while you self-quarantine 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The prologue depicting backstage preparations for the performance of an opera is then followed by that opera - a work based on Greek mythology exploring the purity of real love. Strauss' 'Ariadne,' Puccini's 'Boheme' both please 2012-08-06T23:01:05Z In the prologue, the horn-player has to play without using valves, which makes the instrument sound antique – and, to our ears, out of tune. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z The first half of the performance, the opera's prologue, was especially engaging. Small opera group offers engaging 'Ariadne' 2011-08-14T14:11:08Z In many ways the conversation is structured like a traditional three-act play, with prologue and epilogue, and framed in such a manner that it offers some surprises along the way. Life Streaming 2010-06-25T21:45:00Z From the prologue, the narrative flashes back to a depiction of Charlotte's Irish father, Patrick Brontë. Unrequited love fuels the 'Fiery Heart' biography of Charlotte Brontë 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Even the prologue to “The Travelers” is frenzied. Review: In ‘The Travelers,’ Danger at Every Destination 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Much of the book is a prologue to war, with all the attendant politics and maneuvering. Review | Leigh Bardugo’s ‘Rule of Wolves’ is the latest action-packed installment in the Grishaverse saga 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z A track called “Why She Loves” opens with a saxophone prologue in free tempo, slips into a melody played as if on tiptoe and opens up to a trumpet solo with no visible horizon. Review: The Trumpeter Adam O’Farrill Shines in ‘Stranger Days’ 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The past is prologue — at least it was in this place, on this night. At the Gridiron dinner, a Republican governor roasted Trump 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z In Benjamin Percy’s “The Ninth Metal,” the big weirdness arrives right away, in a brief prologue. All the World Needs Is a Glowing Blue Supermetal From Space 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “Each of us,” he observes in a prologue, “sees the city in our own way .… From the rift between sleep and waking bursts of lights .… The mind’s eye is set free .… The invisible is revealed.” 'The Spectators' illustrates the push and pull of city life 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z “I do hope you’re following this,” the professor of neuroscience says to his students in the dizzying prologue of Lydia R. Diamond’s drama “Smart People.” Review: A Campus Caldron Too Hot to Touch in ‘Smart People’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z "I'll Be Right There" opens with a kind of prologue that takes place long after the novel's main events. Kyung-sook Shin's 'I'll Be Right There' finds artful solace 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z He explained why in the prologue of an anthology of his work published after the operation. Miguel Delibes, Prolific Spanish Writer, Dies at 89 2010-03-18T05:38:00Z But, in a theatre, almost everything before the interval becomes a prologue; the star part of Wonka isn't activated for an hour. When the script doesn't live up to the staging 2013-07-05T12:00:25Z After starting with Götterdämmerung in 2009, he's going back to the second opera, dividing it across two evenings, and prefacing the first act with a specially commissioned prologue. The best classical music for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:12Z No part of the picture measures up to the book's chilling prologue: a three-page portrait of a child's desperation. The Girl Who Played With Fire: Moony Over Noomi 2010-07-11T07:55:00Z Hugh’s performance is one of my all-time favorites, especially in the prologue—talk about being hit square in your chest by someone’s talent! Anne Hathaway on Les Miz, Singing Live and the Power of Hugh Jackman 2012-12-06T13:00:37Z We get fifteen minutes of behind-the-scenes prologue to the show, which happened last week, at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn. Rihanna’s “Savage X Fenty Show” Puts a Super-Fun Face on End-Stage Capitalism 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z “Little Family” begins with an intriguing prologue addressed directly to the reader, who will be forced to return to it again and again over the course of the book. A ‘Little Family’ Against the World 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z A prologue to Tales Of Us: A foggy creek lies ahead, dragonflies buzz in your ear, and as you tiptoe to the water’s edge, vibrant colors swirl around like melted Crayola crayons. Goldfrapp’s Impressive New Album: Tales Of Us 2013-09-20T12:00:56Z After the prologue, a ramshackle hospital on the outskirts of Washington comes into view. Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z A prologue issue to the series will be released in March, followed by the first of the seven issues in April. Real world to collide with heroes & villains 2010-12-21T19:43:14Z That story begins with an enigmatic prologue that takes place 50 years before the primary narrative begins. Review | Twenty years after ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky delivers a thrilling surprise 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z So the idea with The World's End prologue is that Gary has that night stamped into him, and he needs to get back to that level of perfection. The World's End: meet Edgar Wright 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z Unexplainable things have happened in this location long, long ago, as that biblical prologue to last week’s episode illustrates. 'The Leftovers' Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: What if It's No Safer Here? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z So asks a speaker in the prologue of “Bluebeard’s Castle,” Bartok’s mysterious and otherworldly . The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z An instrumental prologue was so cinematic you expected a credit roll. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z And then Ms. Mandel lowers the boom, wrapping up what is truly a killer prologue. Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven,’ a Flu Apocalypse 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The original prologue and epilogue, allegorical paeans to the young Louis XIV, were replaced with shorter vocal pieces from Rossi’s catalog. Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The book’s prologue is a tribute to women — those in the Bible, and more recent figures from Held Evans’ own family tree. A new book on faith from popular author who died in 2019 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The character tells the audience, in a quick prologue to the play, that he is not the real Taki but rather a stand-in who looks like him. ‘Out of Time’ Review: Once Sidelined, Now Taking Center Stage 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z On Broadway the characters did not appear as adults until after a somewhat dour prologue about the hard-knock life of ogres. Arts & Leisure: Flops on Broadway? Fix Them Overseas 2011-07-29T13:56:39Z “Works of Yoko Ono,” as her concert at the Sogetsu Art Center was called, was the prologue to a six-performance series by Cage, whom Mr. Ichiyanagi had invited for his first Japanese sojourn. Hearing Yoko Ono All Over Again 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Pandarus is now a bookend of sorts: He gets to declaim the prologue and at the end of the play jauntily bids the audience adieu with a promise to “bequeath you my diseases.” Review: ‘Troilus and Cressida,’ a Trojan War Love Story 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The pas de deux for Alice and the Knave, introduced in the prologue and threaded through the story, are crucial to the production’s failures even as they succeed on their own terms. ‘Alice’s Adventures’ in Ballet, Love Story Added 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z So far I’ve only read the prologue and Chapter 1, but I wrote about her amazing discoveries in my last book, “Seeds of Hope.” How Books Led a Young Jane Goodall to Live Among the Chimps 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z That’s where he is when he raps the prologue to the play, rhyming fiercely about “an entire generation of black men who were never allowed to be.” Review: Living, and Dying, While Black in ‘Scraps’ 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Based on a script written by Joel and Ethan Coen in the 1980s, the film opens with a cheery prologue promoting the charms of Suburbicon, which include a church and a mall. George Clooney tackles 'original sin' of slavery and racism in dark comedy 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Dudamel begins the prologue like a bullet going off — no settling into a drama, but the trauma of explosion. Gustavo Dudamel's Hollywood Bowl 'West Side Story' is a story for right now 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The first symphony would have been what preceded the long prologue to the opera, the text of which appears in the libretto but the music for which has been lost. The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Jiménez’s characters show “the cruel injustice of Peruvian life,” says Víctor Vich, a professor of cultural studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru who wrote the prologue for the artist’s book. Artist publishes 100 drawings from Peru’s COVID-19 pandemic 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z It was the prologue to a concert devoted to musical kinships: between Cuba and New Orleans, and between generations. Music Review: Varied Music Legacies Find Much in Common 2011-02-27T22:45:05Z In an arresting, music-free prologue, Rihanna coolly waits in a bustling Kingston train station, raises her gun, and fires a fatal shot to the head of a man in the crowd. Should Rihanna's dark revenge fantasy be banned? 2011-06-02T15:15:00Z The novel begins with a prologue set in 2017 that depicts an all too familiar sight: a mass shooting, this time at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Review | Don Winslow’s ‘The Border’ offers a harrowing look at the war on drugs 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The Pabst is prologue: The explanation for your headache this morning. Style Invitational Week 1169: Be caustic by acrostic 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z In an animated prologue, we learn of the war between vampires and humans, of how the Church saved humanity by training a warrior caste of priests to fight the bloodsuckers. 'Priest': Heaven help us 2011-05-13T16:47:04Z “Wolf Hall” was a superb but not essential prologue to the second book’s more fine-tuned war of nerves. Janet Maslin’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:46Z Skeptics call it a bloodless “video-game war,” a mere prologue to the nation’s wars following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, too short to be historically significant. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z As the ballet opens, we see a prologue in which two young princes, Polixenes of Bohemia and Leontes of Sicilia, play together. The Magical Transformations of ‘The Winter’s Tale’ 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The prologue to Honegger’s oratorio, which begins with the chorus singing “Darkness! Darkness! And France was without form and void,” was added in 1944 to invoke the Nazi occupation of the country. ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Distilled to Her Essence at the New York Philharmonic 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z “I enter into the archive,” Machado writes in the prologue, “that domestic abuse between partners who share a gender identity is both possible and not uncommon, and that it can look something like this.” November must-read books: Lynda Barry's comics, Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House" and more 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Throughout the film, prologue undermines payoff as scenes are shot in exceedingly deliberate takes. Review: ‘Dark Crimes’ Finds Jim Carrey as a Brooding Cop 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z After a prologue, “Wall” unfolds in scabrously poetic, honest, linear manner, its fictional archetypes intersecting in hilarious and disturbing ways. Stonewall remembered in 'Hit the Wall,' with a resonance for today 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Luckily the orchestra, under Lothar Koenigs, were playing so adroitly that the slipped dialogue and consequent collapse of surtitles in the prologue hardly mattered, expertly brought back on course by the nimble conductor. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z In 1979 Balanchine revived “Apollo” in a reduced version, removing its minimal scenery, cutting its prologue and revising its ending. Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z “My goal isn’t to pile on the stark cautionary fare. Nor am I aiming to crack some ‘talent code,’” she writes in the prologue for “Off the Charts,” to our great relief. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z We've already seen that in the prologue — a young girl murdered her parents there four years before. 'House at the End of the Street': Lawrence not afraid of being scared 2012-09-21T17:12:04Z "So I wrote a prologue and handed it to the first author and he and the others started to write." Writers unite for crime thriller "No Rest For the Dead" 2011-07-04T11:34:20Z In Pasadena, an extended prologue frames the piece within the ruins of an abandoned, once majestic theater, its decay lavishly detailed in David F. Weiner's scenic design. Pasadena Playhouse tweaks 1960s' 'The Fantasticks' for a post-9/11 era 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z “The men’s stories began to bleed together,” she writes in the book’s prologue: Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Originally conceived as the second half of an evening that would begin with a Molière play, it was revised in the form of a prologue and an opera proper. Review: ‘Ariadne,’ the Most Operatic Opera, Bows in Cleveland 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z We know, from the prologue where we first encounter him, that Darren is in trouble with the law. Ben Lerner’s ‘The Topeka School’ Revisits the Debates of the ’90s 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Though Purcell wrote a prologue for “Dido,” the music has been lost. Review: Kelli O’Hara’s Operatic Turn in ‘Dido and Aeneas’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z And he hired Damon Runyon to write a prologue connecting the film to the war effort. The truth behind the legend of Lou Gehrig 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Evans begins his production with a visual prologue in which the black and white cast members form into two separate groups in the middle of the stage. Summertime, and the Revivals in London are Breezy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The irrepressible Tovey didn’t disappoint those who await his witty remarks, offering some as a prologue to Act 2 of Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty” after intermission. Bramwell Tovey and Ray Chen deliver fun and fire for fans at Disney Hall 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z As Michael Axworthy points out in the prologue to this long, dense, meticulously fair and scholarly work, the myths about Iran are tenacious. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-25T10:00:01Z And it’s hard to think of a more fitting prologue to the weeks of innovation and mayhem ahead. Theater Review: Radiohole’s ‘Inflatable Frankenstein’ at the Kitchen 2013-01-06T22:46:36Z In the novel’s horrific prologue, a laborer reeling from drought and debt slaughters his starving family and swallows a deadly dose of insecticide. Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee After the title is picked, one actor steps up to recite a prologue, all in unrehearsed rhyme. Shakespeare gets the improv treatment with a comic troupe 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Only in its prologue and coda does the show provide some solid, graspable idea of Merton’s beliefs and practices. Review: ‘The Glory of the World,’ About Thomas Merton 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The strengths, at least, are immediately apparent, in piece and prologue alike: youthful vigour, a relish in dancing for its own sake, an invigorating mix of contemporary and African styles. Tavaziva Dance ? review 2011-03-10T17:39:47Z The photography, though no doubt dangerous and time-consuming to achieve, is not overtly dazzling, but a salmon hunt and an early avalanche prologue are impressive. Movie Review: Disney’s ‘Bears,’ Set in Alaska 2014-04-17T23:20:07Z This production begins with an interpolated prologue of recorded voices, which appear to be engaged in one of those recriminatory parent-child arguments you hear in Lifetime movies and ads for family service agencies. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 2012-08-10T04:58:42Z As is often the case in Trump’s Washington, the past is prologue. Experts agree: Trump has made Washington hostile to experts 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The book, published by Jewish Lights Publishing in the United States, starts with a prologue by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, 86, who survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps. Holocaust survivors' descendants help keep memory alive in new book 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z But his narrative departs a bit from the norm, starting with a prologue that shows what happened to Cinderella’s mother. The stylish imagination behind Christopher Wheeldon’s “Cinderella” 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z "It's possible the prologue was spoken by Shakespeare himself," McGann said. New playhouse planned for Shakespeare theater site 2010-07-16T14:41:00Z It’s not clear why Steavenson thought this prologue necessary, since Part 1 of the book, set in Baghdad in 2003 as the American invasion approaches, is a great deal more intriguing. A War Correspondent Comes Home, Bringing War With Her 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The prologue remarks, for example: “A family of five unmarried daughters is sure of attracting the sympathetic concern of all their neighbors, particularly where other diversions are few.” Books of The Times: ?Death Comes to Pemberley? by P. D. James - Review 2011-12-26T22:48:22Z In three chapters, framed by a prologue and an epilogue, Oliver must negotiate his own relationship with Jordana and an apparent crisis in his parents’ marriage. | 'Submarine': Coming of Age, and Then to Terms 2011-06-02T21:46:17Z The scenes served as a prologue to a satire in which Harris enmeshed the couples as rueful, role-playing participants in a mock clinical experiment he called “Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy.” Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z A puerile prologue imagines prehistoric man and woman discovering the parts of their bodies that resemble spheres and hemispheres. Review: In ‘Balls,’ Billie Jean and Bobby Come Out Swinging 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z As first seen, occupied by straight-backed, chanting girls at their desks in a fleeting, imagistic prologue, this would appear to be a contemporary schoolroom of a dreary institutional nature. Review: In Arthur Miller’s ‘Crucible,’ First They Came for the Witches 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z You mention in the prologue that once you retired from recording in 2010, you figured your career was over. Phil Collins, pop star and self-deprecating dad, on his new memoir 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s a startling passage in the prologue of “Strangers to Ourselves,” but like so many of the stories in this intimate and revelatory book, the truth of it is real but incomplete. In ‘Strangers to Ourselves,’ a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z A quick, funny prologue that briefly refers to “Carrie” shows that there were dark deeds in the Kappa house 20 years before. Review: ‘Scream Queens’ Spoofs Horror Spoofs 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z My film, “The Wedding Singer’s Daughter,” it’s almost a prologue to “The Perfect Candidate.” Haifaa Al-Mansour Rocks Out to Punk and Cooks With TikTok 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z If you look at the final shot of the opening prologue, which lasts 85 seconds, and was danced completely by Natalie, she exits the scene on pointe. Darren Aronofsky and Mila Kunis deny Black Swan cover-up claims 2011-03-29T09:57:49Z During the curiously pensive music that opens the prologue, Mr. Levine drew a mellow, glowing string sound and conveyed the strange blend of restraint and uncertainty in this music. Music Review: This Time, a Baritone as a Verdi Baritone 2011-01-21T23:47:28Z Spies is divided into 11 numbered sections and the first and last of these are like a prologue and an epilogue. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-05-25T21:54:02Z “Want” plays with the idea of desire, beginning with a prologue in which two dancers are transformed by donning elegant shoes, preening before an invisible mirror. Seattle Dance Project bids a bittersweet goodbye 2014-05-03T22:47:15Z Aside from a brief prologue, the first thing the character Sarah says in “Children of a Lesser God” is — well, I can’t tell you. Review: Sound, or Silence? A Passionate Debate in ‘Children of a Lesser God’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z In an audacious prologue Adrian introduces a fascinating character, plucky young Tomo Woodhull, so plucky and so young, indeed, that the unsuspecting reader expects him to become the protagonist of the book. Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian – review 2013-01-31T08:01:01Z Like an installment of a deathless Marvel franchise, for all its spectacle “Peril” ends with a dismaying sense of prologue. Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The prologue has many of the clues as to the meaning of the memories that follow. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-05-25T21:54:02Z And if, in doing so, they want to emulate the exuberant and imaginative “youth of Beauvais” identified in the prologue as the work’s creators, who can blame them? Music Review: ‘Play of Daniel’ at Trinity Church’s Twelfth Night Festival 2013-12-30T22:20:57Z For good measure, though, Hitchcock also recorded a six-minute prologue, touring the movie’s locations like a squeamish estate agent. Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! and the art of Hollywood secrecy 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s not me in the prologue — Ms. Maslin had it wrong. Thank you for killing my novel 2012-07-05T22:12:00Z Her “Romeo and Juliet,” performed without an intermission, begins with the cast clawing feverishly at a stage wall, onto which are projected crucial lines from the prologue. Review: In London, a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Feels Startlingly New 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The movie will be based on material novelist Stephen King used as a prologue to "The Shining." Mark Romanek in talks to direct 'The Shining' prequel 'Overlook Hotel' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z As for the relevance of his Civil War drama to post-Ferguson, Mo., America, Lopez says it's another case of the past as prologue. Between states: Ideas in the Civil War-set play 'The Whipping Man' 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z So this book’s prologue is its most slippery section. Books of The Times: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message 2011-03-06T22:55:16Z “If you were born around 1960 or afterwards, you spent your adult life in the vertigo of that unwinding,” writes Packer in his prologue. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z Yet Juliet, as Shakespeare wrote her, comes with some baggage, including the fact that by the sixth line of the prologue she’s dead. Review: On Broadway, ‘& Juliet’ (& Britney & Katy & Pink) 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The music, as we learned in the prologue, is from a mixtape given to Quill as a child by his cancer-stricken mother shortly before her death. Review: ‘Guardians’ is irreverent but not enough 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Being the mother of the bride is merely the prologue to the story I really want to hear. A Wedding Day Saga Ends With Words From the Heart 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z As the title indicates, Dyson concentrates on the prologue of Chaucer's work in which the pilgrims are characterised and sometimes satirised, rather than any of the tales they later tell. The Canterbury Pilgrims – review 2012-07-27T15:09:14Z As a prologue to a formal dance piece, a thunderous drum solo is a risky choice. Review: ‘Prize’ Puts Dance and Drumming in the Spotlight 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The problems begin in an added prologue, set in 1862 outside the Oxford deanery of the real-life inspirations for Carroll’s work. ‘Alice’s Adventures’ in Ballet, Love Story Added 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z “I like to think that my job is mainly to find the story in the material,” he writes in the prologue. The Pandemic Gets the Michael Lewis Treatment, Heroic Technocrats and All 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The bulk of this bio-show, which opened on Wednesday at New World Stages, consists of a flashback that unfurls infinitely more conventionally than the prologue. ‘Rock & Roll Man’ Review: The Life and Times of a Hype Man 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z But – in the prologue, are you the person who is hit on the head? Thank you for killing my novel 2012-07-05T22:12:00Z And while the remainder of “Part II” never quite rises to the vigor and excitement of its prologue, its action-movie commitments leave little room for the characters to mourn their losses. ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Review: Pump Up the Volume 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z A primal mood steers these early scenes, and the looseness of the storytelling makes for a lovely and cogent prologue. ‘Sniper: The White Raven’ Review: Rage and Resilience 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The variations — not based on a single theme, in typical fashion — roam through the riffs of the prologue, altering and combining them. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Opens Season at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z In the film's prologue, a doctor tells him, "I don't love your EKG" – a wonderfully smarmy preface to everyone's worst nightmare – and he flees the office rather than hear the details. Michael Douglas: The last great antihero 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z Whitman then begins the prologue, singing in phrases that shift between stentorian declamations and plaintive passages. Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z OperaUpClose's current production plumps squarely for the hysterical governess interpretation, with the unfortunate woman revealed in a prologue as a patient in a mental hospital. The Turn of the Screw - in links 2011-08-08T14:46:00Z In her prologue Warner wrote of the realities of growing up as a convent-educated Catholic in the 1950s. Kathryn Hughes: rereading Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner 2013-03-23T07:00:15Z Still, that optimistic prologue stirs resistance in me, partly because the potential for human error compounds the accountability problem, especially when we try to predict the future for our fetuses. Motherlode: Will Fetal Science Lead to Lawsuits? 2011-07-29T22:01:03Z In the surprising prologue to this book, Ms. Povich tells of three young women who “grew up in the era of Girl Power” and started working at Newsweek in the last decade. Books Of Style: Women Still Fighting for Workplace Equality: Books of Style 2012-09-15T01:01:12Z Her intent becomes clear: to imagine an archive, or dream a structure, in which her story can live, surrounded by literary trappings—epigraphs, prologue—that lend it legitimacy. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z In her prologue, Burton cites Sarah Manguso’s diffident directive: “You might as well start by confessing your deepest shame. Anything else would just be exposition.” She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z This discomfort turned out to be a poetically appropriate prologue to what followed: a sung narration of New York history rendered as a myth that considers urban violence and spiritual transcendence. Paul Simon?s ?Capeman? in Central Park 2010-08-17T22:01:00Z Petticoat Pirates: The Mermaids of Starfish Reef: Number 1 in seriesby Erica-Jane Waters I really enjoyed the prologue because it made me curious about the characters. Petticoat Pirates: The Mermaids of Starfish Reef by Erica-Jane Waters - review 2013-05-02T08:00:00Z He’s clearly visible in the opening scene on the playground, just after the prologue. The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z But this natural disaster, made chillingly real in Deraniyagala’s spare prose, is just a prologue to the real story — the author’s life in its aftermath. ‘Wave:’ weathering the storm of grief 2013-04-03T22:34:50Z “From boyhood, he compulsively hoarded every document of his life,” Mr. Hagan writes in the book’s prologue, “because he believed he would one day be important.” Jann Wenner and His Biographer Have a Falling Out 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z In the show’s second season, episode prologues that tell characters’ back stories function as short films of their own, with distinct tones and time frames. Why the ‘Euphoria’ Teens Listen to Sinead O’Connor, Tupac and Selena 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Despite an unnecessary prologue that had me bracing for an irritating read, this proved to be a delightful book, with richly developed characters rooted in family dynamics and period flavor. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z “Had to find my rope/To pull me up/Because I needed some kind of hope/To fill me up,” raps the narrator in the prologue. All beat, no heart 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z His tales and prologues are full of self-deprecating humor, placing him in scenarios where he plays the outsider comically humbled and embarrassed by his ignorance. Review: ‘Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo’ Offers Stand-Up Comedy Without the Standing 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z It has a prologue and three acts — but, before the Prologue is over, two rival divinities, the vengeful Carabosse and the beneficent Lilac Fairy, have told us what’s going to happen. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Particularly at this moment, when the case of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager killed by an armed neighborhood watch volunteer, has become a heated cause, the 1960s look a lot like prologue. The Tv Watch: ?Mad Men? Opens its Fifth Season on AMC 2012-03-22T21:40:54Z After a witty prologue that includes the quip “Critics only go to the theater to see what goes wrong,” an aspiring dramatist invites two critics to see a rehearsal for a tragedy, “The Spanish Armada.” Signature names librettist John Weidman as Sondheim Award winner 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Christopher Marlowe even presented him as "Machevil", whose ghost speaks the prologue to The Jew of Malta. The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World that He Made by Philip Bobbitt – review 2013-07-11T14:59:00Z Lesser’s prologue is almost too tasty, an intellectual fanfare. The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z In Smith’s prologue, a young woman googles a favorite scene from that movie that shows Astaire performing a tribute called “Bojangles of Harlem.” Review | While offensive TV shows get pulled, problematic books are still inspiring debate and conversation 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z In the prologue to “Righteous,” Isaiah discovers that the accident was no accident: Marcus was deliberately targeted. In ‘Righteous,’ a Stand-Up Sleuth Investigates His Brother’s Murder 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The biography begins with a prologue that takes us to Sept. 1, 1843. Unrequited love fuels the 'Fiery Heart' biography of Charlotte Brontë 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z It starts up with a rhyming prologue by a Shakespearean fool-troll and builds up to an incredibly dense, incredibly disjointed third act, packed with a barrage of fast-and-furious pop references. Review: A Satire of Social Media That Aims at Too Many Targets 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Spears reads only the introduction and prologue, then lets Williams take it from there. Michelle Williams does a viral Justin Timberlake impression as she narrates Britney Spears’ memoir 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Are we, as Russell once suggested, writing the “prologue” or the “epilogue” of our collective autobiography? We're all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Faux demonstrates his incisive grasp of the story with the very first words of his prologue: “‘I’m not going to lie,’ Sam Bankman-Fried told me,” he writes. Column: In Michael Lewis, Sam Bankman-Fried found his last and most willing victim 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z If the past is prologue, no one should get their hopes up. Dysfunction reigns in amendments to Seattle drug use law | Editorial 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z "It contained the general's own plan to attack Iran, deploying massive numbers of troops, something he urged President Trump to do more than once during his presidency," the book's prologue said. Experts: Leak shows Meadows “tried to cover up for Trump” — now he’s being thrown “under the bus" 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z “Artistic license” has indeed been taken, as the prologue’s disclaimer notes, but most of Aronofsky’s departures are inspired and thought-provoking. Hurricane Hilary: 13 movies, TV shows and more to hunker down with 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z I did a prologue — I cut her head off like in the first five pages. New novel imagines the story of ‘Medusa’s Sisters’ 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z "Judge Aileen Cannon, if past is prologue, may fall for it. But the argument is tone deaf, a real failure to read the room, or at least the Special Counsel's office." "Unprecedented": Experts stunned at Trump's secret docs filing — but worry Cannon "may fall for it" 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Sinclair — more than a bit smugly — in the prologue to “The Lesson.” Review: Literary scheming will only get you so far. So endeth 'The Lesson' 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z A disarmingly funny childhood prologue — there’s a racist slur, a choice expletive and some swift, brutal playground fisticuffs — establishes the characters and their inseparably complementary dynamic. Review: The exuberantly rude 'Joy Ride' gives its stars the raunch-pad they deserve 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Block: The only time it feels confronting to me is in the prologue, when the Witch takes her wand, points it toward the Baker’s private area, knocks it and then does this, like, touchdown dance. What it’s like to lead a national Broadway tour with your spouse 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z “My story is in the first 10 or 15 minutes of Rob’s extraordinary movie — a kind of prologue,” King told The Times in an email. Meet the Stephen King-endorsed maestro who's ready to shake up horror movies 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z You might, too, even if this playful prologue turns out to be its least typical scene. Review: Spanning continents and decades, 'Past Lives' is a love story for all time 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z In a positive prologue to those, Chinese factory activity posted a surprise swing to growth last month. Morning Bid: Plotting policy paths for Europe and the US 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z “If past is prologue, that means President Trump is going to have a hard time in those swing states, which means that he cannot win a general election,” Mr. Cassidy said. Senate Republican says ‘I don’t think Trump can win’ against Biden 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Chang: I found that World War III flashback prologue by turns fascinating, transporting and a little creepy. Tearful Harrison Ford surprised with honorary Palme d'Or at 'Indiana Jones' premiere 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z William Shakespeare in “The Tempest”: “What is past is prologue.” Opinion | Earth Day cleanup lessons 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z By the time Hae Sung gets in touch and tells Nora he’s coming to New York for a visit, you can see the pieces of that barroom prologue being moved into position. Review: Spanning continents and decades, 'Past Lives' is a love story for all time 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z “I describe it sort of like a chapter book. The pink and yellow notices were sort of the prologue, and now we’re in Chapter 1 and people are transitioning,” he said. 70% ineligible in start of New Hampshire Medicaid unwinding 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z If the past is prologue, what does the future look like? Fathers shot, daughters killed in bombings: Ghosts of the blood-soaked Troubles haunt Northern Ireland 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The number is meant as a prologue to love in bloom, but it’s a strangely isolated moment of exuberance. Review | ‘Camelot’ gets the Aaron Sorkin treatment, with no happily-ever-aftering 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z As William Shakespeare wrote in “The Tempest” — “What’s past is prologue.” Opinion | Not learning about history is its own discomfort 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z But if past is prologue, be prepared for a new court case with the significance of McCleary. McCleary 2.0? WA ripe for legal action in failing to fully fund special ed | Editorial 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z In the opening prologue, he recounts making a pilgrimage to Dublin to see Scottish rockers Travis when, really, he wanted to gorge himself on Spice Girls memorabilia. Reach for the Stars: The perils of being a 90s pop star 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z These days, she has about a week to turn in a script consisting of a two-part prologue, six acts, and about 4500 words of dialogue. 4,500 words of dialogue, 250 times a year: How 'The Young and the Restless' is made 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z It has been the hallmark of his governorship, which many believe is a prologue to a presidential bid. Perspective | Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis’s culture wars 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z In a prologue to the published version of the play, Hansberry’s former husband, producer Robert Nemiroff, noted in April 1965, “These were so far as I know, the last words she put to paper.” The play that ‘Raisin in the Sun’ overshadowed finally gets its due 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z After a brief prologue setting up the premise, several parties converge on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, where they encounter a drug-addled bear. Review | ‘Cocaine Bear’: Apex predator on drugs goes berserk 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z But I’m out to convince those of you still traumatized from when you had to recite the opening of the prologue — in Middle English! — in front of your classmates. Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Visitors enter through a dark tunnel and emerge in what Ms. Cline described as the “prologue room.” Disney Toasts a Century as Business and Political Challenges Mount 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Readers complained about interminable prologues, introductions, expositions, chapters, explanations, descriptions, paragraphs, sentences, conversations, sex scenes, fistfights and italicized passages. Perspective | What readers hate most in books — from dreams to italics 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z After that sensuous prologue, the story whisks us across the Atlantic, where Mike uneasily embraces a new London calling as Maxandra’s houseguest and trial employee. Review: ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance,’ a sweetly romantic sequel, doesn’t quite stick the landing 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z And it ignores a lesson that all of human history teaches us: The past is prologue. Opinion | It’s not American history without Black history 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Those connections come vibrantly alive in this script, which Smith claims “is, for the most part, a direct transposition of the Wife of Bath’s prologue and tale.” Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Kevin Costner opens his stirringly fine “Dances With Wolves” by pitching us without prologue or apology into the thick of character and action. How to watch every best picture winner from 1990 through 1999 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “It’s a prologue and the real race starts tomorrow.” Alberto Bettiol wins time-trial prologue at Tour Down Under 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z If past is prologue, the communities of color that have suffered the health effects from the truck emissions generated on New Jersey's heavy freight corridors for decades can anticipate little respite in the future. Building bridges to the future: Infrastructure, the climate crisis and the pandemic 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z In the few seconds that it took Ross Bryant to step forward on the Kennedy Center stage to recite the play’s prologue, his mind turned to a particularly Shakespearean form of sepsis — love. How to improvise a wildly entertaining new Shakespeare play every night 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z If past is prologue, Metzger’s move — which was first reported by Virginia Business — is likely to bring it both criticism and support. Restaurant refuses service to Christian group, citing staff ‘dignity’ 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z “If past is prologue, we’ve all got reason to be concerned.” Trump’s growing GOP challengers revive fears of 2016 repeat 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z If past is prologue, GOP leaders who criticize him now will embrace him anew in about a week. Opinion | At Trump’s angry announcement, the magic is gone 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z His powerful 12-page prologue grabs readers by their lapels and confronts them with an ugly America sharply at odds with rosy, patriotic versions. Review | How a forgotten American crisis led to democratic renewal 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The prologue is usually followed by three scenes setting up the main characters, then a group scene with a song. How to improvise a wildly entertaining new Shakespeare play every night 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z If past is prologue, each party may well continue to escalate its electoral denial to a level where election results simply won't matter at all. Election denial and the Big Lie: Sure, Trump made it worse — but both sides do it 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Some fear the past may be a prologue. Your Thursday Briefing: Iran’s Protests Intensify 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Past performance is not always prologue in election surveys; polling failures are seldom alike. The polls were way off in 2020. Have pollsters learned their lesson ahead of 2022 midterms? 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Each of four chapters, prologue and epilogue is devoted to a person with mental illness, including the author herself when she was young. Review | The stories we tell about mental illness — others’ and our own 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In her prologue, Haberman devotes 21 lines to the good fella, 30 lines to the bad guy, which is a far better ratio than what follows in the remaining 505 pages of her narrative. Review: Yes, we already know who Trump is. Here's why Maggie Haberman's book still matters 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z It needs to do more to ensure that the past, and the present, do not become prologue for episodic storm disasters. Opinion | A storm of red tape and incompetence battered Puerto Rico long before Fiona 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The Senate may be different, and past could be prologue. How Fierce Primaries, Abortion and Inflation Transformed the 2022 Map 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z If past is prologue, the Pentagon has its work cut out. Opinion | Plans to prevent civilian casualties leave crucial questions unanswered 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z If past is prologue, it’s important to ask whether they’re up to the task. Review: The road to California's energy disaster: A new history of PG&E paints a bleak picture 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z However, she believes the past is prologue and will have no bearing on this upcoming series. Doesn’t get much better in WNBA: Stewart vs. Wilson 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z This is a bit of a gamble that past is prologue — that the experience with billions of doses of the earlier vaccines shows they are safe and effective. Opinion | The new covid booster is a bit of a gamble — but one well worth taking 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z You can listen to the prologue now on Spotify, with new episodes launching weekly starting September 8th. Hideo Kojima’s new Spotify podcast launches in September 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z A few of those poachers come to a deservedly nasty end in the prologue, a tense nighttime set piece that establishes the human-versus-nature stakes and, no less important, a consistent, coherent visual scheme. Review: Idris Elba, meet lion. The new thriller 'Beast' doesn't beat around the bush 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z She also has a way of delivering good news and making it sound like a prologue to the apocalypse. Perspective | The winning defiance of Liz Cheney 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z But past may not be prologue in the streaming business, analysts warned. Analysis: Is Netflix envy over in Hollywood? Not quite 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Sadly, though, the backlash of the 1980s she chronicled would prove to be just a prologue. The Gilead Playbook: Right-wing extremists are making fiction come true 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z By investing in the education of Afghan refugees, we work to make that past prologue. Opinion | Ignoring Afghan women and girls is to do the Taliban’s work for them 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z After the Johns-Ligon prologue, we see two still lifes by Matisse. Review | All-star show at National Gallery of Art doubles down on identity 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Given the heavy prologue, one couldn’t help but look for deeper meaning in the lyrics. Review | Robert Earl Keen’s melancholy but raucous farewell at the Birchmere 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Finally, Hubble’s Frontier Fields campaign represented the cutting edge of deep-field imaging, and a prologue to the Webb’s first deep image. How Taking Pictures of ‘Nothing’ Changed Astronomy 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z We should all refuse to walk blindly, allowing the present to become prologue to greater catastrophe. Opinion | Let’s call monkeypox what it is: A pandemic 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In that case, past was prologue: Some British observers noticed then that the social media campaigning seemed definitively tilted in Depp’s favor even though he lost the case, and they were disturbed by the implications. Three old-school institutions helped make the internet firestorm around the Depp-Heard trial 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z “If past is prologue, that same strategy is likely to be central to efforts to subvert an election in the future.” How Trump’s 2020 Election Lies Have Gripped State Legislatures 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z “In the Archives building down Pennsylvania Avenue, there is a stone, a plaque which says, ‘What is past is prologue,’ ” he said. New exhibit showcases Winterthur’s role in White House restoration 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z In that opening prologue, the wife asks, “Life’s a dream, isn’t it?” Review | Gaspar Noé subverts his history with quiet, compassionate ‘Vortex’ 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The prologue ends with a startling theory — that Edison ordered Le Prince’s kidnapping and death. Review | An author investigates the disappearance of an early movie luminary 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z After a brief prologue in 1968, the film backtracks to the end of World War II, as Hans is being remanded into civilian custody from a work camp. Review | ‘Great Freedom’ paints a haunting portrait of an imprisoned gay man 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z In the prologue, Yente, a grandmother in the throes of death, is given an amulet with a scrap of paper inside: a prayer meant to temporarily keep her alive. Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk on ‘The Books of Jacob,’ her magnum opus, newly translated into English 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Case in point: The Emmy-winning stand-up comic opens with an epilogue, concludes with the prologue and drops in an intermission to encourage mid-reading decompression. Review | Hannah Gadsby gets the last laugh in ‘Ten Steps to Nanette’ 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z It’s more than a prologue or an establishing shot: It’s a careful introduction of colors, an intricate staging of uncertainties that must be executed, as it was on Thursday, with extreme sensitivity. Review | Tilson Thomas and the NSO breathe new life into the ‘Resurrection’ 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Yet the noble mission of making sure the past does not become prologue remains unfinished in Myanmar, where a murderous military continues to rain hell down upon those who oppose it. Opinion | Five years after the genocide against the Rohingya, horrors go on in Myanmar 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The past is prologue — but it does not have to be. Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z If past is prologue, he may channel Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “day of infamy” or something else from American history. Analysis | Ukraine’s Zelensky meets the moment as he prepares to speak to Congress 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z The prologue of the code set out the goals for this body of law. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Past isn’t prologue anymore,” Mr. Becker said, adding that just because a stream has not flooded beyond its banks does not mean that it will not happen one day. Creeks, Once Overlooked, Are Now Seen as Assets for Urban Renewal 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z |
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