| 单词 | provincial |
| 例句 | The secretariat was a subcommittee of the branch executive, which reported to the provincial secretary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They made their way up and down Unter den Linden, where the sidewalks were jammed with foreign visitors and provincial Germans, more than a million of whom had poured into the city in recent days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The term American, like the term democrat, began as an epithet, the former referring to an inferior, provincial creature, the latter to one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He had been vice-president at the time when the real president, McKinley, had been shot in a provincial city. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, her father would seem crass, with his unnecessary big words, and her mother provincial and small. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Everyone who lived here said those things: provincial, self-satisfied, boring. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z NM: No African can be a member of the provincial council, of the municipal councils. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the strangeness of it, to me a Terran, and the strangeness of seeing the flash of my friend’s spirit in this grim, fierce, provincial boy, made me dumb for a while. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The Little City was what we called the demons’ Sacramento, the provincial capital up to the north. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z What would be left might be a perfecdy charming provincial city, but would it still be Paris? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Native San Franciscans, possessive of the city, had to cope with an influx, not of awed respectful tourists but of raucous unsophisticated provincials. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His corps of generals and provincial governors was filled with ambitious men with access to manpower and vast amounts of cash. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I liked the provincial pace of the local train. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The provincial judge, seeing that he could get himself in a fix and might wind up on national television excoriated by the leftist press, promptly went on a fishing trip. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was one of Herat’s best-connected men, friend of the mayor and the provincial governor. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In an age of Atomic Power and a clearly coming Hyperatomic Drive, she remained quietly provincial. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Washington, for his part, obliged his Virginia critics by urging his stepgrandson to attend Harvard in order to escape the provincial versions of learning currently ascendant in the Old Dominion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They were confident that these provincials, these yokels now gaping at their equipment, gauging the manner of fighting men they were, would be so impressed they would never stand up and fight them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Some provincial leaders resisted it because they believed it undermined their power. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z NM: Yes, that is what I am talking about, I am talking about Parliament and other government bodies of the country, the provincial councils, the municipal councils. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I know I complained to Phil that Batavia is too provincial, but I think sometimes I take the positives—the people—for granted. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Lincoln was a clever, gangly, pugnacious, provincial lawyer. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He says he hates the Life Drawing class, he will not go on with it forever, cooped up in this provincial deadwater teaching the rudiments to morons. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z While perhaps a more provincial cause, it had all the advantages of a more concerted and tightly focused political agenda in which each man played a clearly defined role. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A provincial schoolteacher of humble origins, unknown to all but a few mathematicians, Kepler was diffident about Tycho’s offer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Within twenty-four hours the small provincial society world knew that an authentic count had arrived in their midst. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew how well the provincials were arming, preparing to welcome him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But young men didn't--at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't--drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z They looked the same, but the dignity she remembered was gone, and left instead something small, a provincial eagerness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Then he went into the jewelry store to buy a pearl necklace--or perhaps only a pair of cuff buttons--rid of my provincial squeamishness forever. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Though he thought the city was fascinating, the society, in his opinion, was somewhat provincial. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometime they’d strike out and seize the military supplies they knew the provincials were collecting. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z An elderly veteran of the provincial forces in the late war recounted the peremptory cruelties and unmerited debaucheries of his officers in the King’s Army, sparing no cruel details of the lash and noose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After a while, instead of the spectacular Mustafa, a lady appeared who had the unhappy, tidy air of a provincial aunt, dressed in a blue uniform with a starched white collar. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Johannes Kepler was born in Germany in 1571 and sent as a boy to the Protestant seminary school in the provincial town of Maulbronn to be educated for the clergy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When Yen, the teacher, was grading the provincial exams one year, a thing with hair as ugly as yours plopped itself on his desk. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They want to show that art of the 1930s wasn’t all dour and provincial — that artists had more choices than WPA murals, American Scene painting and Social Realism. Art Review: ?American Vanguards? at the Neuberger Museum 2012-02-02T23:48:47Z Its mobility stems from the obsession of 17-year-old Alex with a provincial actor, Rose, who abandons him to live with his uncle, George, who is himself involved with an Italian sculptor, Giulietta. Aspects of Love 2010-07-16T20:29:00Z Blistering Bands and Bingo Along with innumerable other starry-eyed provincials, the Miser moved to New York more or less because of “downtown.” Weekend Miser: Ding Dong Lounge and Le Bingo! at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-06T20:10:16Z Then, for nearly a century, there was anarchic confusion as provincial leaders battled for dominance. An Ancient Egyptian Show That’s Low on Bling but High on Beauty 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Her grown-up career began at the New Opera Theater in Moscow, as Tatyana, the impulsive provincial of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” who grows up to become a wiser but sadder princess in St. Petersburg high society. Want to Be a Star? Take Your Lumps 2010-12-26T02:24:10Z The consultations heard from provincial, territorial and Indigenous governments and community organizations about the value and role of healthy school food. School-approved Cheetos? Why we must protect school food from corporate interests 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Some puzzles – like that of how this nondescript provincial came to be the greatest and most elusively polymorphous of writers – are best left unsolved. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z It's provincial, gray, pensive, good-hearted and may actually be a perfect work of fiction. Colm Toibin's new novel may not be a beauty, but greatness abounds 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Yet he retains the open, delighted mien of a provincial schoolboy newly arrived in the wicked big city. The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z A hybrid affair The first Hay festival took place 23 years ago, starting out as a relatively modest provincial literary festival. Confessions of a Hay virgin 2010-06-01T06:59:00Z He began gigging immediately — a list of his British shows in the exhibition has scores of entries, from pubs to provincial working men's clubs to the vast Isle of Wight rock festival. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z In the age of modernity, the old neoclassical Euston Station and its grand arch were torn down and replaced with something resembling a provincial air terminal. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z In Edna I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. Though her purple hair shows no silver, Dame Edna prepares to retire 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z He drew crowds and received enthusiastic local press but remained what Chekhov once said was the most intolerable kind of person: a provincial celebrity. Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin, Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll by Marc Dolan – review 2012-11-28T08:00:01Z All you have to do here is look at the art of someone like Nuha al-Radi, a ceramist who lived through the war making assemblages from debris, to see how provincial Baudrillard’s analysis was. These Artists Refuse to Forget the Wars in Iraq 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The test of any Henry IV must be the transition from the knockabout comedy and provincial English violence of Part 1 to the sweet, haunting melancholy of Part 2. Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z But it seems isolated, provincial, stuck in its own groove, cut off from the larger currents of ballet today. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z That event, which gathers 70 eagle hunters on horseback in a Mongolian provincial capital, Olgii, near the Kazakh border, provides the film with a sports-movie structure. Review: In ‘The Eagle Huntress,’ a Girl From Kazakhstan Soars 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Their battle ended up in the courts eight years ago when a judge granted an exemption to pubs in the western city of Limerick to allow drinking during a match between two provincial rugby rivals. Ireland ends nearly century-old ban on alcohol sales on Good Friday 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The "provincial city" he writes about is Drohobycz, where he spent most of his life. A brief survey of the short story part 30: Bruno Schulz 2010-12-03T10:09:00Z Why did Malevich leave Moscow for a provincial town whose population was less than 100,000? Flying Goats and Black Squares, Charging Into the Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But a guy stepping out in women’s duds is no breeze in provincial Silverton. ‘Stu for Silverton’ sings about small-town tolerance 2013-07-24T01:37:24Z L.A. is enviably rich in creative personnel, but no community can be self-sufficient without becoming provincial. L.A.'s theater community resumes discussion of wages and fiscal health 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z This was the first big break for a composer who had gone from being a provincial organist in Finland in her youth to a cosmopolitan avant-garde composer with extraordinary new notions about sound and harmony. A brilliant start to Esa-Pekka Salonen's L.A. Phil residency 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Phil on the map, the great German conductor considered an orchestra sharing a home with a church provincial and intrusive, and he immediately began agitating for a dedicated hall for the orchestra. How the Music Center broke new ground for major arts institutions 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z His mother, Neeva — a tiny, intense woman who fancied herself something of an intellectual — looked down on her neighbors in Great Falls and urged her children not to adopt its provincial, “market-town mentality.” Books of The Times: ‘Canada,’ a Novel by Richard Ford 2012-05-21T21:59:38Z Americans, including millions of former G.I.s, were suddenly more mobile, less provincial and less interested in escapist fiction than they were in understanding the world around them. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Escalante was born in 1979 in Barcelona, where his father, a Mexican painter from a provincial northern city, and his American mother were working. The Heli director on why his film was too brutal – and honest – for Cannes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z This remote provincial city could even play a part in healing a terror-weary world. On Java, a Creative Explosion in an Ancient City 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Its debut was scrapped by the Punjab provincial government’s information office, following objections from the Tehreek-e-Labbaik party and its followers. Pakistan delays decision on movie that offended Islamists 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Its subject, in part, is the semantics of prejudice, the way foreign words echo and mutate in provincial ears. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z How about the plastic chairs, reminiscent of some provincial village hall? Architectural appeal remains as Italy's deconsecrated churches rise again 2013-01-01T12:33:38Z Kirkham carried his own petition to the provincial capital of San Antonio de Béxar for the return of three enslaved people who had escaped from his plantation the year before. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s time to drop the posture of what the art critic Jason Farago termed “the well-traveled provincial” and cast a fresh eye on designs that originate in, say, San Diego or Cleveland. How New York Is New York Fashion? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z That extraordinary ability to cut through the unctuous uniformity of a béchamel or a pork pâté or pie made chard a particularly valuable green in provincial French cooking. This Gratin Lets Swiss Chard Do the Talking 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z "But this is not enough," Putin added, providing the international audience with insight in the government's plans to build theatre in provincial cities across Russia. Russians hope Mariinsky II will revive Saint Petersburg as cultural capital 2013-05-02T18:04:03Z Is it because they invent new units of measurement – "half a yard" – or model provincial disco clothes, or talk drivel about "role models"? Tony Hall, take a long knife to the parasites the BBC calls managers 2013-04-02T05:59:01Z Her friend and classmate Karen Xie, a college graduate from a provincial Chinese city, works a dizzying string of seemingly downwardly mobile jobs — print-shop employee, manicurist, maid — in pursuit of financial security. Hustling in Flushing: A Chinese Immigrant Couple Struggles to Decode Life in Queens 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The people van Gogh rendered on canvas — the provincial French functionaries, doctors, barmaids and farmers immortalized on museum walls — are brought to uncanny life, with the voices of professional actors, some of them well known. Review: ‘Loving Vincent’ Paints van Gogh in His Own Images 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Mekas and his circle saw the Germans as liberating them from the Soviets; and he characterized the newspapers as provincial, not Nazi. Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Newly landed at a quiet provincial newspaper, he strikes a match by holding it against the cylinder of a typewriter and pressing the carriage return. Kirk Douglas, a Hundred Years Old 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z I suppose I do find English fiction provincial. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z “They came from provincial and traditionally nonpolitical groups in the population, jolted from apathy into near-hysteria by the shock of economic collapse.” What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The rise reflected a hefty new provincial credit that gives foreign moviemakers a 25 percent tax break on a range of production costs, up from 25 percent on only eligible labor costs previously. Ontario film, TV production soar but risks remain 2010-03-04T22:58:00Z "Los Angeles back then had a provincial view of what theater might be," Davidson says. Dorothy Buffum Chandler was the driving force behind the Music Center 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z “Fountain” was rejected, but Alfred Stieglitz photographed it for this short-lived Dada magazine, which mixed nonsense verse with editorials that asked, “Where Art is concerned is New York satisfied to be like a provincial town?” The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z This year, the restaurant is channeling provincial pride with its Sugar Shack rendition. In Montreal, a Week for Poutine 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z When it comes to literature, Americans really are provincials. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z It ended up at £289,500 — setting a world auction record for banal Spanish provincial furniture. Auctions: When Catalog Descriptions Dictate Value 2011-06-24T12:00:06Z An ancient crossroads town, it was in her time the provincial capital and home to a few French officials. Footsteps: In Laos, the Lady and the Jars 2012-07-13T16:23:26Z When British Columbia’s normally unflappable provincial health officer, Bonnie Henry, briefly broke down during a March 7 briefing, the outpouring of reaction made her a trending topic on Twitter. Ballads and fan clubs: Canada's medical health officers become unlikely celebs 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Just 30 survived, said Lombardi, who was formerly provincial of the Jesuit religious order in Italy with jurisdiction over Albania at the time. In Albania, pope to celebrate religious revival and tolerance 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It tells its story — in many ways, a familiar one of a restless girl’s small rebellion against her lonely provincial life — in the twilight zone between shadow and substance. ‘Lula del Ray,’ a Spectral Parade of Fantastical Images 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z In 2012, the mighty Louvre too will open a provincial outpost in Lens in northern France. French revolution 2010-05-11T12:38:00Z After a short, highly successful provincial tour, the play was critically slaughtered when it opened at the Lyric Hammersmith in London in May 1958. Richard Pearson obituary 2011-08-02T19:32:58Z In "Chinglish," the provincial Chinese control their provincial American suppliant, who comes, inevitably, from Cleveland, with the pleasure that comes from reversing the flow of an aged river. Four stars for Goodman's 'Chinglish' 2011-06-27T20:36:00Z The 2011 festival, “Sibelius and His World,” took a composer often perceived as a provincial reactionary and sought to present him as cosmopolitan and cutting-edge. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z The United States was a relatively provincial country in the 1930s, and the films coming out of Hollywood reflected this lack of sophistication, even though it was the glamorous center of the movie production world. German emigres' effect on U.S. cinema saluted 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Simultaneous arrests across the provincial capital of Guangzhou netted members of one of the most notorious gangs in South China, police say. China’s real-life Walter White 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The link between the three is the satire on the lives of boozy slackers, on dreary, unchanging small provincial towns and low-budget horror movies. The World's End – review 2013-07-20T23:05:25Z To feel personally insulted when reading old books struck me as provincial, against the spirit of literature. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z A good rule of thumb is to order mushrooms or anything red, which indicates a healthy portion of pickled peppers, the provincial specialty. Heads Up: Provincial Eating in Beijing 2011-06-24T18:55:00Z His creative vision expanded from the provincial to the universal. Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Given all that, it seems provincial to continue to limit Beer Madness as a Mid-Atlantic competition. Beer Madness: Which brew will be named the nation’s best? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z When a wealthy provincial brewer dies apparently intestate, his siblings gather in the hope of dividing the spoils. The Thunderbolt 2010-09-06T21:00:00Z The singer Irma Thomas has long been known as the Soul Queen of New Orleans, a title that feels both richly deserved and far too provincial. Irma Thomas, a Soul Queen Far Beyond New Orleans 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z More than half of its funding comes from the various levels of government: city, provincial and federal, with Ontario carrying the lion's share. What does Toronto have that we don't? 2011-07-01T17:07:00Z Like most provincial writers of his generation, he moved to Rio, then the country's capital, and made a living as a civil servant in the ministry of education. What now for Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazil's national poet? 2012-11-13T12:45:27Z The dazzling cinematography brings home the harsh reality of everyday life in a dull, postwar provincial town at least as starkly as the same era’s kitchen-sink British films. A little rain must fall: the tragic secret of a musical movie masterpiece 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s a seething, manic place, with a powerful but provincial population. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z She was the Dorothy Parker of provincial England. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Modern Canadian culinary culture celebrates seasonality, native ingredients and provincial pride. Where Has This Treat Been All Your Life? Canada 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Some wear red, stay warm in gloves adorned with the maple leaf, or carry a provincial flag. A Broadway Musical Brings Out Canadian Soft Power 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z My favorite vignette of Colette’s proudly provincial identity is a passage from “My Mother’s House,’’ in which the adolescent writer pleads to be allowed to attend the wedding of their housemaid. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z With her ancient Mayan roots and historical wisdom, she makes the devil who wears Prada look provincial and passé. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Rebecca Mead’s literary memoir “My Life in Middlemarch,” examines the classic novel about a provincial English city in the early 1800s, as if gazing into a two-way mirror. ‘My Life in Middlemarch’: looking through a novel’s lens 2014-02-12T20:11:16Z Theo Tait - The Guardian The Casual Vacancy is a solid, traditional and determinedly unadventurous English novel... a study of provincial life. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z When the book opens, Seek is a promising young architecture student on the run from a provincial Southern upbringing that left her feeling unwanted, constantly reminded that her conception had been an accident. Amy Seek's 'Confessions of a Birth Mother' explores meanings of motherhood 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z He had no academic training in architecture and remained stubbornly provincial even as the nation generated the “American Century.” Frank Lloyd Wright: Separating the Life From the Work 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z They were provincial settlers who became international migrants. 'Liberty's Exiles': the American colonialists who opposed the Revolutionary War 2011-04-27T21:54:03Z She did, and today, in yet another Austenian irony, it’s the Prince Regent who gains by association with Austen’s chronicles of provincial life, rather than the reverse. Jane Austen’s First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Widespread anti-Semitism persists, he said, and there is fear, especially in remote, provincial areas — shtetl country that the descendants of Polish Jews will come back and claim their stolen property. From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z I pictured a goon named Boris, a cell in a provincial jail, the sheriff ’s wife serving me foie gras and Beaujolais. Secrets of the “Exile” sessions: Drugs, sex and madness as the Rolling Stones took over France 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z If you avert your gaze from an ugly new shopping center, you can imagine a scene from a novel about provincial prerevolutionary Russia. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z In the old town, and the typical small French provincial city surrounding it, restaurants were abundant, though somewhat limited in variety. In France’s Dordogne region, a land of castles and caves calls for deep exploration 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Except for his provincial avoidance of simple and perfectly understandable phrases, Mr. Dreiser writes very well. Review: ‘Sister Carrie,’ by Theodore Dreiser 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Her first novel, The Matchmaker of Périgord, was the story of a French provincial barber forced to try a new career. Pass notes No 2,841: Julia Stuart 2010-09-06T19:00:00Z You could spend hours in this stellar repository of natural and human history, with its singular collection of British Columbia First Nations archaeological materials, as well as provincial archives. 36 Hours in Victoria, British Columbia 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z I was this scruffy provincial with wild hair and jeans who had been raised in the wilds of British Columbia, not glamorous at all. Kim Cattrall: absolutely fabulous 2010-09-28T20:30:00Z Starring Michael Kitchen as Christopher Foyle, a detective as honorable as he is shrewd, the series has morphed over the years from a provincial home-front cop show to a le Carré-like Cold War thriller. A Winter Bounty for Serious TV Fans 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Directed by Carl Forsman, “Alphabetical Order” pits the ramshackle eccentricity of a provincial clippings librarian against the determined efficiency of her new assistant. The Week Ahead: Sept. 26 ? Oct. 2 2010-09-24T16:00:00Z There is Mole, the benign, quiet provincial peering at life through thick spectacles. The Wind in the Willows ? review 2010-12-08T22:01:00Z Under Cuba’s single-party system, the president is elected by the National Assembly, which is made up of candidates drawn from existing provincial assemblies or nominated by members of organizations allied to the Communist Party. Artist Asks Cubans to Imagine They Are Running for President 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z In Anbar in January, 10 people were killed when gunmen wearing explosive belts stormed a police building in provincial capital Ramadi. Gunmen kill 27 in raids on west Iraq checkpoints 2012-03-05T11:41:03Z In some fantastical sequel, did they despair of escaping their provincial lassitude by traditional means, and join the circus in the hopes of finally making it to Moscow? Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z I first read and loved the Flicka books when I was a girl of around Ken’s age, living in provincial England and going through a horsey phase. “My Friend Flicka”: A Book About Horses That Is a Book About First Love 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “It says here the county is known for more than 35 wineries, a big artists’ community, lots of nice restaurants, festivals, and Sandbanks provincial park, which has one of the most spectacular beaches in Canada.” Cool in Canada: Prince Edward County – Ontario's great escape 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Vincent van Gogh was from a small town in provincial Holland while his paintings didn't fully mature until he was working in southern Europe near the Mediterranean coast. LACMA's 'Expressionism in Germany and France' an edifying mix 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z The performance was reminiscent of an Internet smash hit several years ago, when the central Cebu provincial prison warden organized hundreds of inmates to dance to Michael Jackson's songs. Philippine prison orchestra in 1st public concert 2010-06-15T14:16:00Z And there was nothing provincial about the list: the writers come from the US, England, Australia, France, Germany, Canada. Not-so essential reading 2010-10-22T08:43:00Z But as Mrs. Marcos’s life story began to be told, starting with her provincial childhood, the D.J. did occasionally suggest steps: “Raise the roof, raise the roof, shimmy down now.” Admit One: ‘Here Lies Love’ and the Era of Audience Participation 2013-07-11T21:22:46Z A provincial doctor wants his daughter to attend university in England, and is willing to compromise his ideals to ensure that she can. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z This has become one of rock music’s defining conditions: it now seems anachronistic and provincial, safely and comfortably mainstream even at its most unruly. Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Her mother played the saxophone in an all-female big band while her father was an oboist and saxophonist performing regularly in pit orchestras in London and provincial theatres. Brenda Averty obituary 2013-01-03T18:26:51Z Sit outside by the river or in the charmingly rustic dining room for sophisticated provincial French cuisine. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Now, the tunnels are features of a rail trail through Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park — and since B.C. provincial parks don’t charge fees, it, like all the hikes around here, is free. B.C.’s scenic Fraser Canyon has hikes, tunnels, tram — and a great river 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Without these influences, our own theatre is in danger of becoming provincial and parochial. Access denied: how Fortress Britain is blocking cultural exchange 2010-09-06T11:24:00Z At the age of 9, the younger Mr. Shen was sent to the Hunan Arts School in the provincial capital for training in singing, dancing and acrobatics for the opera. Shen Wei Revives ‘Map,’ a Work from 2005 2014-04-11T21:47:13Z However, somewhere in Ibiza last month, a provincial bank teller probably experienced a spiritual E-stoked epiphany to this kind of faux-orgasmic nonsense, and who are we to rain on her parade? This week's new singles 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Most writers live in London, most film-makers, and people who live outside tend to be regarded by the metrocentrics, and indeed by themselves, as provincial – which is very different from America, for example. Tim Pears's 'small acts of resistance' 2010-03-18T14:00:00Z Fortunately, costars such as the reliable Gary Oldman, as a provincial official who is one of Leo's few allies, are more discreet and more effective. 'Child 44' a passable thriller set in 1953 USSR 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The star began acting in small provincial theaters and caught the eye of aspiring filmmaker Godard in Paris in 1958, who asked him to appear in a short film. French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Once again, First Nations leaders are battling the provincial and federal governments over stewardship of their lands. British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest is under siege 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Focusing on Brecht’s personal struggles, Parker locates the source of his driving ambition in his youth in provincial Augsburg, Germany. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht Mr. Petrenko was born in Omsk in Siberia and immigrated at the age of 18 with his family to Austria, where his father, a violinist, got a post with a provincial orchestra. Berlin Philharmonic Selects Kirill Petrenko to Succeed Simon Rattle 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The Crown claims some of the most well-known and treasured national, state and provincial parks and forest and tribal reserves. In words and pictures, the story of the wild Rockies is revealed 2014-04-30T04:00:00Z When a plucky provincial duckling of a young lady wins a contest, she must travel with her parents to the buzzing metropolis of Bucharest to claim her prize. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z Advertisement “Masaan,” which opened in India on July 24, portrays provincial life in India through the divided lives of its youthful protagonists. ‘Masaan’ and Other Indian Films Steer Away From Bollywood Escapism 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Horace, the most refined of Roman poets, was the son of a freed provincial slave. Alan Bennett’s Latest Nonfiction 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Brussels is still provincial, a bit scruffy, and we don't care. Emilie Dequenne: 'Making a film like Our Children is something you have to survive' – interview 2013-04-27T23:01:05Z A satire about graft in an ill-managed provincial town, the play follows a panicked mayor and his cronies as they mistake an aristocratic traveler for the incognito official assigned to investigate their district. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The research was done in collaboration with Indonesia’s National Research Center for Archaeology, and scientists from culture heritage department of Makassar, the provincial capital. Indonesian cave art is earliest known record of 'story telling', researchers say 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z He was the introverted son of a wealthy Mexican-American family, more interested in programming his Apple II than the provincial pursuits of football, rodeo and tequila. T Magazine: Bright Idea 2012-11-29T22:30:55Z So there’s the question: Am I going to be parochial or provincial? Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Chen, 40, was imprisoned for seven years by provincial officials until a dramatic escape in April from house arrest in his rural village. Blind Chinese activist seeking book deal 2012-06-07T15:32:08Z When she began her enterprise in 1977, Marian Goodman challenged the somewhat provincial tastes of an American market dominated by Abstract Expressionism and nationalism. Marian Goodman Appoints Five Partners 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The area, he added, “is where I developed my personal style as a cook. I’m a 43 year-old heterosexual college-educated male but I cook like an older provincial woman.” Personal Journeys: In Lecce, Making Magic With Humble Ingredients 2014-04-17T17:19:59Z We were told to return the next day; David suggested we drive to nearby Puyo, the provincial capital, and meet some Achuar leaders. Amazon Awakening 2010-10-15T18:24:00Z Opening with a jazz-rock song and lyrical, static imagery of attractive Western figures in watercolor, it features narration telling of Jean and Jeanne, young French provincial marrieds “smiled upon by God.” Review: ‘Belladonna of Sadness,’ a Bewitching Masterpiece 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z It all sounds more like provincial am-dram than a flagship production, so I wonder how she feels about the seven-figure sums paid to the corporation's star presenters. Victoria Wood: 'I feel at the BBC I'm not trusted, not valued, not needed' 2010-09-27T06:59:00Z Directed by Julie Lopes-Curval, this appealing French movie dusts off an old story — a provincial girl, her bourgeois suitor, a divided world — with intelligence, sensitive performances and a characteristically French feel for class relations. Film Society of Lincoln Center Lauds Cannon Films 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Then she told me about other pristine provincial parks along the way, and about scenic Route 3 across the Canadian side of the North Cascades. Route 3, Canada’s version of Washington’s North Cascades loop, makes for a scenic drive with pretty hikes and wineries all around 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s like looking down / From long French windows at a provincial town, / The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad / In the evening sun. The Rich in Fiction 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z At the other end of the time scale, an ancient Roman fresco found in a house in Pompeii portrays the mountain whose AD79 eruption was to bury this provincial city. Explosive art: my top five volcano paintings 2010-04-21T14:02:00Z Their battle ended up in the courts eight years ago when a judge granted an exemption to pubs in the western city of Limerick to allow drinking during a match between two provincial rugby rivals. Ireland ends nearly century-old ban on alcohol sales on Good Friday 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Flaubert possibly would not have written Madame Bovary had an Egyptian journey not refreshed his eye for the narrow minds of provincial France. Poem of the week: Descent by Frances Williams 2010-06-14T11:26:00Z ‘Middlemarch’ is both a boulder and a lodestar, a hulking, lengthy exploration of life’s little delights and its disappointments — nominally as experienced by provincial burghers, but really, by us all. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The children needed enlightenment, so we took them to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, with its thought-provoking displays that climb toward a glass spire overlooking the provincial capital. Driving along the Trans-Canada Highway isn’t a road trip. It’s a family culinary tour. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z At the end of a long-walled garden in a red provincial town", the poet lies under "blackening branches where the mulberry leaves hung down . Ten of the best: walled gardens 2011-01-29T00:06:17Z Canada is filled with national parks and provincial parks along the way or just off the highway. Driving along the Trans-Canada Highway isn’t a road trip. It’s a family culinary tour. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z “We’re a little provincial, and he can only help change that.” After Turbulent Flight, ‘Finding Neverland’ Alights on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z But unlike Sargent, whose cosmopolitan family lived mostly in Europe, Shannon grew up in provincial towns in New York and Ontario. James Jebusa Shannon’s Portraits Rescued From Obscurity 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z "Old age is provincial, somebody said, so it was good for me," he told me in 2009. Raul Ruiz and the ghosts on the battlefield 2012-08-20T17:37:40Z In the 1980s, as Quebec politics increasingly shaped the provincial economy, my parents applied for Permanent Resident status in the U.S., in an effort to keep their options open. My new US citizenship: It's complicated 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Margaret Drabble, who wrote Bennett's biography, believes upper middle class snobbery at a lower class provincial writer was part of it. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Its origins are traditionally traced to Amatrice, a sleepy provincial town in the Sabine Hills northeast of Rome. When in Rome, Learn to Cook Italian 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Because of his popularity as Jesuit provincial, particularly among younger Jesuits, Father Bergoglio was seen as a threat by some. 'The Great Reformer': Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z This Sibelius symphony was once pilloried by the critic Virgil Thomson as being “vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial beyond all description.” Review: An Orchestra of Teenagers, but No Apologies Necessary 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z A little too quiet, to overtly innocent, too pious, and provincial. "Servant" is M. Night Shyamalan's slow stroll through the horror of first world problems 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The woes of a provincial family amid portents of sweeping political change are a familiar subject to fans of Richard Nelson’s Apple and Gabriel family plays. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Gossett considers this a butchered edition, seemingly intended for a “provincial opera house that couldn’t perform the music Rossini wrote,” as he explained in an essay for Das Bärenreiter-Magazin. Whose Version of Rossini? Scholar Disagrees With the Met 2011-04-08T19:41:26Z "Dance of the Steel Bars" was shot in the Cebu provincial prison, the same place where up to 1,500 inmates dressed in orange uniforms danced to global fame in 2007. Philippines' dancing inmates inspire prison film 2013-04-03T12:16:04Z It is a great baggy monster of a love letter to its author's provincial origins, ranging all the way from ice age Cheshire to the invention of the eccles cake. The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z Charles Bukowski was called many things: "poet laureate of L.A. lowlife," "the enfant terrible of the Meat School poets," "the prophet of the underemployed" and "a flamboyant provincial." Celebrating Charles Bukowski, 'poet laureate of L.A. lowlife' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Dr. Ford and Bernard seem to buy that she’s still loving her provincial life. Here Are 11 Key Revelations From Last Night's 'Westworld' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Palace is broadcast on Hunan Television, a provincial network that is known for is popular programs, some of which compete strongly with China’s main state-run broadcaster, China Central Television. ArtsBeat: Making TV Safer: Chinese Censors Crack Down on Time Travel 2011-04-12T16:38:26Z But to the Times, the Post was a provincial, local paper – barely a rival at all. Steven Spielberg: ‘The urgency to make The Post was because of this administration’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Murnane is not provincial; he is steeped in personal geography, so absorbed with his own inner life as to be totally indifferent to the idea of travel. Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Many of the tracks on his Dylanesque debut recall his provincial upbringing, such as Two Fingers which includes the lyrics: "I drink to remember, I smoke to forget." Mercury Prize 2013: The nominees 2013-09-11T17:04:21Z A literary prospector, he unearths curious and eccentric novels, delves into the careers of half-forgotten authors, and spends holidays making serendipitous discoveries in out-of-the-way provincial bookshops. Review | These two books will lead you down a rabbit hole to unexpected literary delights 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z She and colleagues found the scores after checking the archives of several Matanzas institutions, including the provincial library, the concert band and the local museum. Cuba’s danzón genre: ‘150 years later, it’s still alive.’ 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Would it be foolish to move to Toronto and risk falling through a gap in provincial health care coverage? I Was Done Dating. Then I Joined a Hookup App. 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Zand -- a chainsmoking former television presenter with a mustache, a lot of furious enemies and two fractious boys -- cuts a harried figure as he steers his charges from one anonymous provincial hotel to another. Bond baddie brings burlesque film to Cannes 2010-05-13T13:53:00Z He is a beguiler of local youth and an arrogant nemesis of provincial mucky-mucks. This season, Broadway flouts its grit (and some glitz) 2011-06-03T18:24:03Z Born in Parral, Chile, in 1904, Neruda transcended his modest origins and provincial upbringing to achieve success and significance far beyond the dreams of most writers . Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The tables, turned in the centuries since, make us forget how provincial our affairs might seem, to others and us. “Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z But unlike those glamorous globe-trotters, Ackroyd is a provincial and proud of it, with a hermetic lifestyle that supports his writing regimen. | Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z This minimal world is a stage for him, and he struts about on it like a scaly provincial trouper, acting out dramatic scenarios and scenes from Shakespeare to dispel the boredom of benign captivity. | 'Rango': There?s a New Sheriff in Town, and He?s a Rootin?-Tootin? Reptile 2011-03-03T23:01:04Z While the vaults of the great London collections are stuffed with unseen, surplus art, the provinces must bear their mediocre walls with provincial shame, and charge people to look at them. As they bow to London's arts mafiosi, the Tories still handcuff the provinces 2010-10-21T19:02:00Z The four generations of guests at Balogun’s 80th were all as tied to London as to Lagos, but the younger generations have almost no links to the provincial and traditional Nigeria of Balogun’s generation. T Magazine: In Lagos, the 1% Takes Stock 2014-04-25T17:00:01Z Driving around one afternoon, an Iraqi friend points out a poster hanging from a lamp-post for the provincial council elections in April. Baghdad, Iraq: 10 years after Saddam 2013-03-17T00:05:30Z Born in 1936 in the provincial city of Arequipa, he began working as a crime reporter for the Lima newspaper La Crónica at the age of 15. Nobel prize for literature goes to Mario Vargas Llosa 2010-10-07T11:50:00Z The show captivates the townsfolk, transporting them from their dreary provincial lives. Review | Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘Tyll’ — a future Netflix series — follows a German jester navigating war-torn chaos 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z But most of these scenes of Canadian national and provincial parks depict a human presence. In the galleries: Chinese ink paintings, enhanced with water and words 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z You and your sweetheart will feel like you’re dining in a stately palace thanks to the polished resin flooring, French provincial dining tables and chairs, and hand-painted frescoes and mosaics on the walls. 10 romantic restaurants to bookmark for future travel 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s a sleepy provincial spot, with few if any big-name chain shops, where many restaurants close early in the evening. Lockdown escapes: where I’ll visit when this is over 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Its citizens take a fierce — yes, even provincial pride — in its reputation as the cosmopolitan standard-bearer for culture. New York is one of the world’s great cities for the arts — but the damage from the pandemic is proving to be catastrophic 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z “You won’t find the cities beautiful, like in Europe,” warned our son, Sam, nine months into a year of teaching English in a provincial Korean city. In South Korea, a search for beauty, one day at a time 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The Philadelphia Orchestra beat the Philharmonic to the punch, descending on Beijing and provincial cities last spring with a menu of master classes, lessons, concerts, and visits to parks, schools and hospitals. New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Become Partners 2012-11-14T03:00:00Z The main impression left by the Friday-evening performance was that of a lively but old-fashioned provincial troupe. Dance Review | National Ballet of Cuba: ?Swan Lake? From the National Ballet of Cuba 2010-04-04T22:19:00Z In the past decade, though, the bloom came off Texas’s yellow rose, as J. R.’s cartoon of provincial arrogance seemed to shove its way into the real world. Riff: When ‘Dallas’ Was the Capital of America 2012-06-02T04:00:06Z Across the country, in the heart of historic Cáceres, a provincial capital in the southwestern region of Extremadura, construction is moving along for the Sept. Journeys: In Spain, Chefs Extend Empires to Hotels 2010-03-12T17:01:00Z In the Verdi biography, for instance, she conjured her subject’s life from her years of sifting through records in libraries, church registries, provincial town halls and family archives. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Biographer of Verdi and Puccini, Dies at 86 2013-01-27T03:13:09Z When the female workers of a provincial factory are laid off, they wonder what to do with their pooled compensation money. Louise-Michel ? review 2011-03-31T21:30:00Z And then there's the life, which is both epic and bizarre, as if he were a creature of myth or fable rather than of a provincial German city. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z They will plug-in and charge at the Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre dock, and pull from BC Hydro, the provincial energy utility’s hydroelectric power grid, itself a renewable source of energy. Is a 63-Year-Old Seaplane With an Electric Engine the Future of Air Travel? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Stifled by the restrictions of her life in a small, provincial village, she longs for adventure and companionship. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z She was a sailor’s daughter, raised on a farm, clever but flighty in her youth, a pretty, provincial flirt who married a wealthy merchant. Secrets of a power marriage: The Disraelis were the Clintons of their time 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The argument implies its converse, that provincial culture is a lower form of life, even if the same Britons with the same tastes and enthusiasms partake of it. As they bow to London's arts mafiosi, the Tories still handcuff the provinces 2010-10-21T19:02:00Z International travel is also particularly good at helping young people develop less provincial world views than many of their peers, especially if you get away from the prepackaged resorts. Letters: Letters to the Travel Editor 2012-05-20T06:48:08Z Between phone calls home to wife Mary and manager Ken, who're struggling with the lid on a jar of olives, Shuttleworth proffers a plucky amateur's musical elegies to these disappearing cornerstones of provincial English life. John Shuttleworth ? review 2010-12-03T23:00:00Z The hero of “Malafrena” must leave his provincial farm only to find it again. Ursula Le Guin Has Earned a Rare Honor. Just Don’t Call Her a Sci-Fi Writer. 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z In response, the Virginia legislature voted to call its provincial forces back from the Forbes march. An excerpt from William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake” excerpt 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z We first meet Marie as a pretty, preening, egotistical teenager who believes she will evade the anonymous torpor of provincial life and become the center of all France’s attention. Review | Amélie Nothomb is a must-read author in France. ‘Strike Your Heart’ shows why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Even the battle sequences have a kind of static, shrunken quality, like dioramas in a provincial museum. DVDs: Italian Passion, Hollywood Hooey 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z The provincial spirit is reflected in the grub. Bo?te: Saint Vitus, a Neighborhood Gothic-Themed Bar Where Everybody Knows Your Name. Bo?te 2011-08-31T22:17:37Z In the past, Mr. Gaudet added, people would look only to the national and provincial government for help. A Remote Canadian Lake and Its People: Protecting a Last Refuge 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z “I wish to report,” Mr. de Rochemont added, “that the provincial French, for instance, think that we Americans are somewhat off our rocker.” Recalling the First Cannes Film Festival, as a Cold War Brewed in 1946 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Fabris received immediate medical attention at the theater in provincial San Juan, but died at a hospital Sunday. Argentine opera singer dies after stroke on stage 2013-09-03T23:12:10Z Women will be in charge of this northeastern city of 530,000 people for the night, when four mayors and the provincial governor will temporarily hand over power to female government officials, he added. Colombian women to party away as men face curfew night 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z But then, the donors were Québécois taxpayers, since the provincial government provided much of the financing. Daniel J. Wakin Looks at Music in 2011 2011-12-23T19:09:53Z Hot sauce consumption was no longer provincial and became portable. How did hot sauce get in so many African Americans’ bags, anyway? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z I was drunk on a combination of Bud Light and provincial sports loyalty, that intoxicating accident of birthplace. I took my dead father to a Red Sox game 2013-03-09T15:00:00Z These forces, formed by provincial clan leaders, were basically private protection societies, miniature armies, adept at equestrian skirmishes. Art Review: ‘Samurai!’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-05-02T21:35:50Z In Lubumbashi, the Congolese and provincial government were invisible, offering neither support nor censure. On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z With New York architect H. Page Cross, the Mellons created a domain that was a successful synthesis of Virginia colonial and French provincial. Opening the door to a place of plants and privilege 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Violence followed him: an hour after Mr. Zakariya ate chicken curry at a restaurant in the provincial seat of Narathiwat, a mechanic was killed by assassins a few blocks away. A Poet's Return Home to Thailand's Violent South 2010-10-20T16:28:00Z Provincial museum is a terrible phrase because there is nothing provincial about the Ulster Museum. Ulster Museum takes top arts prize 2010-06-30T18:35:00Z There was also an awkward man from a provincial Ukrainian town, who knelt down before one Sleeping Beauty and wept because she didn't wake up from his kiss. Sleeping Beauty recreated in Kiev museum 2012-09-07T18:04:19Z “Five Hours” is a soliloquy by a widow who recalls her life as she watches over the coffin of her husband, in the process revealing a provincial snobbishness and a bitterness about fascist society. Miguel Delibes, Prolific Spanish Writer, Dies at 89 2010-03-18T05:38:00Z He flushed with pleasure when he, a provincial Englander from a middle-class background, was mistaken for a toff. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z There may be memories of a local teenage gang clad in ex-army parkas, or perhaps a recollection of provincial discos always setting aside 15 minutes for a run of songs by the Jam. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-03-14T10:00:01Z The notion of shrinking the capital and reviving provincial cities dates back to 1987. Architecture: Plan Calls for Rebuilding Haiti Away From Port-au-Prince 2010-03-30T22:02:00Z After the collapse of Communism, Mr. Voznesensky the rebel became Mr. Voznesensky the writer for the Russian version of Playboy and the organizer of provincial poetry festivals. Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Celebrated Russian Poet, Dies 2010-06-01T20:19:00Z Ghirri, who died in 1992, had an exquisite sense of light and composition and his studies of everyday scenes in provincial Italy are miniature masterpieces. Art: Venice Biennale Thrives Despite Tough Economic Times 2011-06-06T12:30:05Z Three replicas of those reliefs are juxtaposed with limestone carvings by an unknown sculptor, made for a far-off church in a small provincial town. 'Sculpture in the Age of Donatello' shows artist's competitive spirit 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z My favorite permanent exhibit, “Expanding City,” details the story of London between 1670 and 1850, when the British capital went from provincial to patrician. The British Museum is full of plunder. The Museum of London reflects the city’s soul. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The sequence follows our traditional sense of Sibelius: a crackly recording, the snowy woods of his native Finland, a reclusive composer in a provincial land. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z The dynamics of the internecine struggle—the squabbles, betrayals, and ad-hoc alliances—are primal in a way that would translate to any ancient clan or provincial enterprise. “Succession”: An Irresistible Family Power Struggle, Told Through Soap and Satire 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Stone, an Australian director and dramatist, has transplanted Lorca’s poetic folk tale of a provincial Spanish woman’s yearning to have a child into the London of today. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z After six years in Udine, a quiet Italian provincial town near the frontier with Slovenia, the artist, his wife, Ivana, and their two children moved to Venice. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Returning to Where the Dream Began 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z Run by the Yunnan provincial government, Yunteng Shifu reproduces the region’s subtropical fecundity with overflowing plastic green vines and neon cloth flowers. Heads Up: Provincial Eating in Beijing 2011-06-24T18:55:00Z But in its hometown, Peshawar, a Pakistani provincial capital near the Afghanistan border, Khumariyaan’s music holds a symbolic charge. Khumariyaan Performed at Asia Society on Sunday 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Beijing provides a quirky, time-lapsed way to explore authentic provincial cuisines. Heads Up: Provincial Eating in Beijing 2011-06-24T18:55:00Z Only if I can get over the publicity photos that make four perfectly attractive women resemble provincial drag queens dressed in old Quality Street wrappers. The David Laws story is nothing to do with gayness. It's about money 2010-05-29T23:06:00Z I don’t consider myself hip enough to be gay, and I don’t desire a provincial, suburban life, either. Modern Love: Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes 2011-05-19T21:19:57Z When Sophie makes a desperate wish to escape her provincial surroundings, she and Agatha are transported to a school for storybook heroes and villains. ‘The School for Good and Evil’ Review: Ever Afters and Never Afters 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Here she wears a succession of silly outfits and a poofy hairdo meant to suggest the spoiled provincial bourgeoisie, and pulls it off with dignity. "Potiche": Deneuve and Depardieu, together again 2011-03-25T19:45:00Z Here are a few clues, Dear: We are on the stage of a provincial theater somewhere in England. Review: Michael Frayn’s ‘Noises Off’ Returns to Broadway 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Heinrich replies, “That is how empires end, a mad old bat being treated obsequiously in a provincial hotel.” Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The provincial “Breaking Pointe,” now in its second season through Sept. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Bunheads Is Gone; ‘Breaking Pointe’ Endures 2013-09-01T22:29:35Z And they’re scrutinizing her connections to her time: to the Civil War, to Victorian literature, to the provincial class system she was born into. My Hero, Emily Dickinson, Outlaw of Amherst 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z But she gives Carmen the provincial girl’s naïve hunger for — and fear of — a bigger, more glamorous life. Review: Bad Girl Makes Good in a Glorious ‘Carmen Jones’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z On his way to a provincial outpost, a young army officer gives his extra coat to a penniless, shivering stranger. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z It had the flavor of a provincial affair then, a sprawling version of the current , only with fewer black-clad patrons and more smiles. Critic?s Notebook: Spotlight Glows Brightly in Toronto 2010-09-17T22:57:00Z As Jesuit provincial, he was also charged with the care of Jesuit priests and brothers throughout Argentina. 'The Great Reformer': Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, over time this litany of specifics has been distilled into a blurry folk memory which has been manifested in willing provincial ignorance combined with the violent racism of the decades before the 1970s. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Kuke grew up in the capital, Tirana, a city of drizzle and fascist-inspired architecture that drew in communists, gangsters and provincial men with outsized ambitions. Visual effects artist's Hollywood path began in Albania, with detour in Kosovo 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Be yourself, girls, especially if you "want much more than this provincial life." Bewitching 'Beauty and the Beast' now in 3-D 2012-01-12T21:16:08Z The consignment of Vietnamese civilian war wounded to provincial hospitals that were little better than charnel houses has been a national scandal for the United States. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In springtime we would hire a car and driver in Lyon and visit the great provincial restaurants. Gore Vidal remembered by Jason Epstein 2012-12-22T22:44:01Z Speaking with a soft Austrian provincial accent, Schwarzenegger said the museum was now home to mementoes including the first bodybuilding weights he hoisted as a teenager and the desk from his governor's office in Sacramento. Total Recall: Schwarzenegger opens Austria museum 2011-10-07T13:03:46Z The others are contemporary works that take place many years and many miles away from Ibsen’s provincial Norway of the late 19th century. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Ghosts,’ ‘Blurred Lines’ and ‘The Pass’ in London 2014-02-04T18:25:15Z By comparison, the gay relationship tale Next Fall – Red's only serious competition – must have seemed provincial and trite. The Tonys' battle for Broadway 2010-06-14T21:00:00Z Little by little, Byrne gives us the contents of Austen's mind, which prove to be more varied than the popular image of her narrow provincial horizons suggests. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z Add to all this Taylor’s deeply rooted understandings of the rarefied worlds of both provincial grad school life and biochemistry in particular, which should inspire envy in every writer striving for specificity. Jeremy O. Harris: Brandon Taylor ‘Subjugates Us With the Deft Hand of a Dom’ 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Nick's romance, as a provincial boy, with a city in which he is living for the first time, clearly reflected the author's own first experiences of London, where he arrived in 1981. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-08-12T21:55:14Z In the new global art world, even we New Yorkers are provincials. Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The Quebec provincial police conducted a pair of brutal raids on the small community over two days in June 1981, citing overfishing by the local population. 'I'm indigenizing zombies': behind gory First Nation horror Blood Quantum 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z As Onegin, his demeanour is icily supercilious, and the high line and sharp edge of his dancing seem to cut through the provincial frippery of the Larin household. Onegin – review 2013-01-27T00:06:11Z He apprenticed in the British theater, toured in provincial theaters and made his film debut as an extra in the 1938 film “Pygmalion.” TV Series 'The Avengers' Star Patrick Macnee Dies at 93 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He resents that they have been made “agents of a provincial form of fascism that was corroding and eating away at itself with the slow acid of its own sad, parochial stupidity.” Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z Her Anna is, instead, a provincial girl, with a homey Midwestern accent and a naturally open spirit, who has learned to live on the defensive. Theater Review: David Auburn Stages ‘Anna Christie’ in the Berkshires 2013-08-26T21:24:04Z The scene that opens the film — Belle walking through her rural village and pining for something “more than this provincial life” — included 150 extras, 28 wagons and hundreds of live animals. ‘Beauty and the Beast’: Disney’s $300 Million Gamble 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z “There is no doubt that being a minority in a North American English environment, the Québécois are very proud of the cultural aspect,” said Monique Jérôme-Forget, a former provincial finance minister. For Montreal Symphony, Shoebox Is a Grand Home 2011-04-18T23:52:43Z As one of the first archeologists trained after the Cultural Revolution, she had enviable contacts: many of her former classmates were working in China’s provincial museums and cultural bureaus. The China Institute?s Curator Has Connections 2010-03-20T04:40:00Z “I want no trouble. I only want to be provincial,” Mina writes at one point in a journal, willing herself to believe that “the past is the past is the past.” In This Corner, an Armenian Pro Wrestler. In That Corner, Genocidal History. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Still, even without understanding all of the historical allusions, it’s possible to grasp Eliot’s implication that the provincial society she is portraying is, for the most part, reflexively conservative. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Look, which went out of business in 1971, was more provincial, focusing most of its attention on American pursuits and problems, and hiring photographers who were highly professional but rarely inspired. Stanley Kubrick: Before He Wrote Scripts, He Took Photos 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z At the same time Vicky, who is multiracial, is aggressively bullied by her provincial peers. ‘The Five Devils’ Review: The Scent of the Past 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z First, there's her own oft-repeated biography, the archetypal tale of rags to riches, of the provincial grocer's daughter who became the first woman to be the queen's first minister. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z Nor is it about the challenges of auditioning for parts or the high jinks surrounding a botched provincial production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Far From the Shore, a Happy Couple Takes a Turn for the Worse 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z As an insular society, Britain's public face is often provincial, though its history is uniquely global. Sorry! The English and Their Manners by Henry Hitchings – review 2013-01-27T08:00:01Z So one thought that strikes me, particularly with a novel, this reinforces my suspicion that all novels are provincial and all the great novels are very rooted in a particular time and place. I am an English writer, not a British one, Ian McEwan tells Alex Salmond 2012-08-22T21:40:25Z You could also write to your provincial or territorial legislative representative to advocate for the inclusion of these issues in the curriculum. How schools and families can take climate action by learning about food systems 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z But when Ms. Goodman began, American galleries and museums, still basking in Abstract Expressionism’s ascendancy, were stubbornly provincial and resolutely nationalist. Marian Goodman, Art’s Quiet Matriarch, Hopes the Market Cools 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z “It’s the provincial library of a communist country!” Can one man’s Cuban road trip fix 56 years of cultural disconnect? 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Spencer Chandra Herbert is among members of the British Columbia provincial legislature who are pushing legislation to guarantee equal rights in the area of gender identity. Sex change bars Canadian wannabe beauty queen 2012-03-30T08:46:06Z After all, Washington is in many ways a provincial small town, where everyone knows everyone else’s business and the truly interesting parts are off-limits to cameras. Reality TV? Not Really, the Capital Says 2011-01-21T22:24:29Z His most successful concerns a collapsing marriage in a provincial chip shop. Luke Wright ? review 2011-08-26T15:49:14Z He studied biochemistry at Córdoba University and then went to work in the laboratory of a provincial leprosarium, in the years when Guevara was studying medicine in Buenos Aires. Alberto Granado obituary 2011-03-07T19:25:12Z She wanted a more exciting life than her “poor, provincial town” could offer — a desire Snow White or Cinderella never expressed. For the Most Complex Heroines in Animation, Look to Japan 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “The officials of that department must be present and watch the offerings being delivered safely,” Emperor Yongzheng ordered in 1727, when two incense burners were shipped to a provincial shrine. Antiques: Prized Chinese Crafts, Delicate and Detailed 2011-01-27T21:37:59Z Just a few years later a provincial governor, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, instructed a French agronomist to bring grapevine cuttings from France. Argentina?s Napa Valley 2010-11-19T19:24:00Z A swath of England's provincial culture hangs in the balance. As they bow to London's arts mafiosi, the Tories still handcuff the provinces 2010-10-21T19:02:00Z And that seems to be encouraged more in those kind of traditionally provincial places than in the U.S., where you're raised to think you're the greatest. Q&A: Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara on comedy, Canada, 'Creek' 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z He was, he says, "a provincial kid who went to the local college". The American dream 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z At the center of the volume is, of course, Dior, a pink-cheeked marzipan bourgeois born into a well-to-do provincial family who, after having failed as an art dealer, found a foothold in fashion. Once Upon a Time 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The Québec provincial government acts as both investor and shareholder. Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It’s complicated 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z How could Shakespeare, the half-educated son of an unlettered provincial glove maker, have written all those masterpieces? Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z Every winter in the early 1980s, a sturdy bus departed Kolkata, India, for a concert tour of provincial towns. Dayanita Singh’s Hands-On Photography 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The protests began peacefully late Wednesday in dozens of Spanish provincial capitals and other towns in the northeastern Catalonia region, home to the rapper Pablo Hasél. Spain: Dozens arrested in fresh riots over rapper’s jailing 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z For “Royal Taste: The Art of Princely Courts in 15th-Century China,” opening in October, Ringling will borrow provincial Chinese artifacts that rarely travel. Personalized Bottles, Ceramic Royals and Chinese Artifacts 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z On their eventual honeymoon, he’ll introduce her to European and in particular Parisian society, thereby widening the horizons of Undine’s social ambition: New York comes to feel provincial and dull next to Paris. How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Salter is still best known for his short 1967 novel “A Sport and a Pastime,” about an intense love affair in provincial France. James Salter in The Times and Elsewhere 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z “Northerners, provincials that they are, regard the South as one large Mississippi,” the historian V.O. Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z But now, in a bit of real-life archival drama, a pair of scholars are announcing a surprising discovery: a previously unknown early handwritten parchment of the Declaration, buried in a provincial archive in Britain. A New Parchment Declaration of Independence Surfaces. Head-Scratching Ensues. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z When my father was a provincial governor in Vietnam during the early 1960s, official state dinners were part of Mom’s first-lady duties. When we fled Saigon, my mother brought a recipe notebook. It inspires my career every day. 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The tide only turned in France after World War II, when Picasso, by then a box-office draw, began donating works to French provincial museums outside the academic sphere. Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z It is a genteel, verdant corner of provincial England — let’s call it Austenland. Edwardian travelers of ‘Room with a View’ come to 5th Avenue stage 2014-04-10T00:10:47Z In the provincial dance halls and gambling parlors where Bin holds court in the first chapter of “Ash Is Purest White,” he and Qiao carry themselves with glamour and authority. ‘Ash Is Purest White’ Review: Love Smolders and Crime Pays in a Changing China 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Both the absurdity of the provincial social climbers and the mad ideological fervor of the cadre of secret revolutionaries who infect them with their obsessions came through only tepidly. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z In 1963 she directed her own film, “The Lizards,” a study of provincial life in the vein of Fellini’s “I Vitelloni.” Lina Wertmüller, Italian Director of Provocative Films, Dies at 93 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Baratte is also a provincial and a naïf; probably a virgin, to judge from his awkwardness with women; and a bit of a fool. Books of The Times: ‘Pure,’ a New Novel by Andrew Miller 2012-07-03T21:48:27Z But why are these officials so interested in the details of an extramarital fling between a provincial tractor salesman and a small-town pharmacist? “The Blue Room”: French star Mathieu Amalric in a crafty remix of “Gone Girl” 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Written off as provincial by critics in Tokyo, the group initially sparked skepticism in him, too: “I thought, ‘That is not art. At 85, Takesada Matsutani Is Still Preoccupied With the New, and With Glue 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Because he is following his "perverse love for the periphery, for the provincial" in countries that do not "pine for the rest of the world". On the Road to Babadag by Andrzej Stasiuk ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:08Z Larkin, a gloomy bachelor with a wretched romantic life, a proud provincial decidedly not clean of prejudice, was a great love poet. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z In the next few months, several airlines will join JetBlue, offering services to a handful of Cuban provincial cities and, eventually, to Havana. How to Go to Cuba Now 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Duplessis presided over an apparently impregnable majority, rallied against sinful Montreal—Cardinal Léger sought to ban bingo—and used the provincial police thuggishly, turning it into a personal force. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z But in fact it’s heartbreak among the principals more than the provincials that Mr. Hatcher provides, along with generous doses of arch quipping in the Coward mold. Theater Review: ‘Ten Chimneys,’ About Lunts, at Theater at St. Clement’s 2012-10-04T20:42:51Z Barely a week earlier, the Balmain designer, Olivier Rousteing, who was raised in provincial Bordeaux, added his voice and talents to the artistic fray with a show filtering Jackson’s style through a wacky Gallic lens. Staying in the (Fashion) Moment 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Canadians are feeling the effects of these stresses: In 2021, nearly 16% of provincial households experienced some degree of food insecurity. Basic income could help create a more just and sustainable food system 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z But her political involvement has also aided more provincial concerns. For Anna Wintour, Power Is Always in Vogue 2012-06-15T22:24:08Z We conducted an interview-based study with residents of many different locations, including a middle-to-upper class, liberal neighborhood in the provincial capital, Winnipeg. How taxing sugary drinks reinforces weight stigma 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z And if they don't, Britain's provincial cultural programmes are under an increasingly serious threat. Arts funding in the regions: audiences and artists squeezed on every side 2013-07-02T11:48:18Z When Miller visited, Iraklion was a small, provincial town and the ruins of the Minoan palace of Knossos were in the surrounding countryside. In Crete, Henry Miller Found His Muse Amid the Ruins 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z He played “an aspiring young provincial playwright fond of leaping onto couches and giggling loonily,” as Frank Rich put it in The New York Times, adding that he “alternately hits and overshoots his broad mark.” Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Broadway – Nathan Lane! 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Images of virtual spaces and conceptual rooms floated through my 11-year-old head, rewiring a provincial imagination. Musicians and their obsessions 2010-12-09T21:46:00Z In summary, such stories may sound like familiar tales of mid- and later-life crises, or like old-fashioned fables about privileged Europeans who have washed up in provincial or colonial outposts. Books of The Times: No Safe Harbor for Travelers in ‘The Other Language’ 2014-03-30T21:47:39Z Brought up in a provincial nonconformist household by her Methodist father, life at school, Oxford University, parliament, and in government was a serious matter to be lived conscientiously. The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher – review 2013-03-15T19:40:01Z The estimate, $20 million to $30 million, for this parody of prizes given away at provincial fairs half a century ago, did not appear to bear any connection to reality. Auctions: Moods as Well as Gavels Swing as Contemporary Sales Continue 2011-05-11T11:00:07Z He spent time with Afghan provincial officials, finding some honest, some not, and quite a few somewhere in the middle. 'The Dogs Are Eating Them Now' an unflinching account of Afghanistan 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Known for its eye-catching architecture, Astana, once a small provincial center, became the capital of the oil-rich Central Asian nation 20 years ago, prompting a construction boom. Gales damage peace pyramid in Kazakh capital 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z N. throbs with unemployment and alienation, as do many provincial towns and villages in the former Yugoslavia — not to mention nonurban, noncosmopolitan places all over the world, whether formerly socialist or not. When the Town’s Future Is an Obsolete Factory 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens died before finishing the novel of the title, leaving all sorts of questions hovering in the soupy air of the provincial English town where the story is primarily set. Theater Review: ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Revived by Roundabout Theater 2012-11-14T03:30:07Z The provincial governor's office initially said that police were searching for at least one suspect. Rampage in Belgium kills 4, wounds dozens 2011-12-13T19:23:00Z Mr. González de León also designed prominent buildings in many provincial cities in Mexico. Teodoro González de León, Evocative Mexican Architect, Dies at 90 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Which isn’t to say that Mr. Mishra embraces the narrative of the young provincial who moves to the center of the literary world by sheer force of talent, at least not geographically. Pankaj Mishra’s New Book, ‘Ruins of Empire’ 2012-08-27T22:17:42Z The Department of Transportation has yet to confirm other provincial routes or routes to Havana. How to Go to Cuba Now 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z She plays Mi-ja, a pensioner in a provincial town who signs up for a poetry class and struggles to find inspiration in everyday beauty. Film: A Fine Balance: The Quiet Life of a Star Actress 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z Some thought “Thanksgiving” a bit cartoonish and provincial, but it was hugely popular with ordinary folks mired in the Depression, reminding them of a simpler time. Folksy pictures smile at a simpler time 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He tweeted that the subtitles were “paternalistic, offensive and deeply provincial” after seeing a subtitled “Roma” in a Barcelona cinema. Mamá to Madre? ‘Roma’ Subtitles in Spain Anger Alfonso Cuarón 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z And American art, including Pollock’s, changed from illustrating provincial sagas to dramatizing universal myths. ‘Thomas Hart Benton,’ by Justin Wolff 2012-06-29T22:17:16Z "I was ready for a vacation from cool people," she said, though she believes "Olive Kitteridge," despite its provincial setting and cast of characters decked out in layers of L.L. Frances McDormand embraces abrasive 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Arcade Fire were making their debut performance in the provincial capital, playing for tens of thousands as part of the city's Summer festival. Arcade Fire pledge $1m to Haiti charity 2010-07-14T10:16:00Z One particular play, The Piggy Bank, sounds wonderful: about seven members of the provincial bourgeoisie who break into their secret funds for what turns out to be a disastrous trip to Paris. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z Desperate to escape the dullness of provincial life, a young married woman in 19th century France pursues a series of indiscreet affairs. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Though the show has since been staged across the country, those provincial Americans known as New Yorkers have been unable to see it in a fully-staged version in their own backyard. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z After failing his doctoral exams and suffering rejection from a publisher, Johann is sent by his father to serve as a court clerk in Wetzlar, a provincial town. | 'Young Goethe in Love': ?Young Goethe in Love? - Review 2011-11-03T23:48:59Z He grew up in Padua, a small provincial town where his father was a truck driver. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z In shrunken toggle coats and short, pouffy skirts, the models had a sort of retro ingénue quality and looked like adolescent Catherine Deneuves playing provincial girls freshly arriving in bustling Paris. Move over Galliano, Lady Gaga makes debut 2011-03-03T16:17:00Z A type of fairytale, stretching from the arrival of a new boy at the provincial school - Meaulnes of the title - whose impact captivates the schoolmaster's son, who is our narrator. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z Hoping for some kind of employment, he appeals to Henry of Navarre, the provincial leader of the Huguenot faction in France. Review | Flashing blades, secret passages, mistaken identities: ‘A Gentleman of France’ is a classic adventure tale 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z His début review for the Herald Tribune dismisses Sibelius’s Second Symphony as “vulgar, self-indulgent, and provincial beyond all description.” Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Several London theaters currently have Chekhov productions, including "Three Sisters," a heart-wrenching tale set in a drab provincial town depicting the sisters' longing and desperation following the death of their father. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z Von Braun - Dig A HoleVox Von Braun are the undisputed chroniclers of the seedier aspects of Dutch provincial life. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z Harmless enough, the kind of provincial fare that wouldn't get much attention amid better fringe flotsam were it not for Titmuss's involvement. En Route; Fair Trade; Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford; Up 'N' Under; Odyssey; Poland 3 Iran 2; Beautiful Burnout 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z As Edna likes to say, "This is our world premiere after provincial tryouts in London." Though her purple hair shows no silver, Dame Edna prepares to retire 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Another four, clearly traumatized, were taken to the Chengdu Panda Base, located near the provincial capital of Chengdu and the so-called panda capital of the world. Bearing Up Nicely: Wolong Pandas 2010-08-19T14:20:00Z They’re joined by a nameless crew of less-celebrated people, like the young man bristling against provincial surroundings in “River Towns” and the pugilist in “Broken Bones” who wears his crooked nose like a trophy. Mark Knopfler: “This getting older stuff ain’t for wimps” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z The production was, however, very stressful and it exposed some of the tensions that can surface in provincial theatre. Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z It became the first provincial gallery to devote a whole department to this particular school, after he donated his collection to the museum in 1909. France's Rouen revisits its impressionist past 2010-07-20T13:00:00Z Snare’s quest to prove this conviction would consume his whole life, leading him from provincial prosperity in Reading to ruin and isolation in a cold-water tenement on Broadway. With brush and eye 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z And I found Cristian in the airport at Jayapura, Papua’s provincial capital, en route to Wamena and glommed on, happy to cancel a last-minute hotel reservation I had made for four times as much. In Papua, Indonesia, a Visit to the Welcoming Dani People 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z When I first came to live in Italy, I was in Rome crossing Via Veneto one summer afternoon when two strolling Italian men, possibly tourists from a provincial town, turned to look at me. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z For more than two weeks, a five-person jury heard testimony from engineers, provincial officials and workers who were present when the stage was being built. Radiohead Calls for Safety Measures as Inquest Into Stage Death Concludes 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Back in the 60s and 70s, to a young, unworldly provincial boy, a trip to the centre of town used to be a thing of wonder. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z As the second gallery gives way to the third the show suddenly shifts gears, turning to the diffusion of Mughal naturalism throughout provincial courts, both Hindu and Muslim. Art Review: Putting Names to the Greats of Indian Art 2011-09-29T22:39:43Z But a sleazily alluring Soho was established as its emblematic metropolitan enclave, and on occasion excursions took audiences to provincial outposts, most famously the south coast in Brighton Rock and Tyneside with Get Carter. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z In her more provincial Nottingham hometown, she had always been confident, but London made her feel naïve and lonely. The Raincoats’ Gina Birch Goes Solo (and Still Makes the Floor Rattle) 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z It is his suspicion, said McEwan, that "all novels are provincial, and all the great novels are very rooted in a particular time and place". There'll always be an England for Ian McEwan 2012-08-26T05:00:01Z The story begins when Marc, during a visit to Valence, the provincial town where the sisters live, misses his train back to Paris and by chance meets Sylvie in a bar. Review: ‘3 Hearts,’ With Three Stars, by Benoît Jacquot 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z She plays Grace, a woman apparently on the run from criminals, who is taken in by the uptight provincial folk of Dogville, Colorado, and becomes the focus of their obsessively repressed moralism and desire. Nicole Kidman’s top 10 films - ranked! 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z In the course of the 19th century, American still life painting transformed from a literal and provincial medium into a locus of visual metaphor and artistic experimentation. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z He says his contribution to Israel is to help build a world-class institution and to urge the society to look toward the universal rather than the provincial. James S. Snyder?s Facelift of the Israel Museum 2010-07-20T21:45:00Z Yet considering Lind’s adventurous rejection of such a cornerstone of mainstream American thinking and life, her search for solutions is surprisingly provincial. Against the White Picket Fence 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Chow plays a shyster lawyer, Sung, who wins cases by firing off nonsensical arguments at an equally fast pace, bewildering the provincial judges who try to keep up with him. Stephen Chow: The King of Comedy, Film Retrospective at BAM 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Next to Begin and Sadat, Carter's political career was sedate and provincial. Lawrence Wright's new book vividly recalls 1978 Camp David summit 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Pick up a brick and chuck it off a provincial bridge into a dried-out river and imagine what your body would sound like slamming against those … oh God, now we're quoting Björk lyrics. The top 10 gay movie cliches 2013-03-25T19:40:00Z VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Alcohol will now be on the menu at theaters in British Columbia after the provincial government reversed its long-standing ban on booze in cinemas. British Columbia theaters can now serve booze 2012-04-12T22:16:14Z But if shows like this are the only way, given the provincial nature of the New York art world, that we get to learn about what’s happening across the globe, so be it. ‘Here and Elsewhere,’ Contemporary Work From the Middle East 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It appears, at first glance, like a memento from a family reunion that one might come across at a provincial Salvation Army store. Finding Authenticity in a T-Shirt 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z If you’ve spent time in academia, the art world, New York or other provincial outposts of the life of the mind in the past several decades, these are familiar names. Review | Roni Horn: Cool, collected and completely hermetic 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z American cultural omnivorousness, which is pronounced in the realms of cuisine and music, remains hostage to a decidedly provincial rider: For something of foreign provenance to gain traction, it must undergo Americanization. Review | In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Catholic priests and nuns were ubiquitous public servants, tending to the French population, largely subsidized by provincial taxes and dominating Quebec’s French universities, hospitals, and social agencies, as well as the public schools. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Seattle, a city synonymous with alternative rock, has long sustained a provincial jazz culture, without much fuss or a signature sound. Alt-Rock Hub, Purring With Jazz 2010-08-26T19:16:00Z But the drab office environment and sepia tone suggest somewhere in deepest provincial west Germany. My fair fräulein: an Eliza Doolittle for the 21st century 2012-08-14T19:00:04Z Here it is: “How these unlikely provincial revolutionaries discovered the talents they did remains an enduring puzzle of our history, easier to ponder than finally to explain, yet one ever worth exploring.” Books of The Times: Jack Rakove?s ?Revolutionaries,? Founding Fathers 2010-05-30T21:07:00Z Mr. Saleh decides to travel to his hometown, Raqqa, in northern Syria, the only provincial capital ruled by insurgents, and where foreign Islamist extremists are asserting control. In ‘Our Terrible Country,’ Mohammad Ali Atassi Explores the Syrian Revolt 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z And as is often true with Mr. McDonagh, most of whose plays are set in provincial Ireland, it takes a village to tell a story. Theater Review: Daniel Radcliffe Stars in Revival of ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ 2014-04-21T02:00:12Z The family went from a large Latin American capital to a provincial European city — “the streets looked like an Escher painting” — and, for a year, his mother was the sole breadwinner. Andrés Neuman’s New Novel Is ‘Talking to Ourselves’ 2014-04-16T20:50:36Z But in his mid-30s, he turned away from both academia and the world to take up the pastoral duties of a provincial Anglican clergyman. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury Every few weeks, Ismail takes the fresh honey to Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital, more than 50km away, where it’s sold to shops and consumed mainly by local customers. Busy bees turn Afghan schoolgirl into an entrepreneur 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z It was about creating a bright open space and infusing it with the provincial, French touches that capture what bouillabaisse as a dish is all about.” London’s Bouillabaisse Restaurant Designed as a High-End Seafood Shack 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s not provincial art, it’s very forward thinking and alive art. Keeping It Small at Chocolate Factory in Queens 2010-05-28T15:14:00Z The "Bang Bang Bang" editor also was fired, the Jiangsu provincial government said. China bans rowdy game show for 'wanton' content 2012-11-30T17:16:05Z After heading the provincial government, he was elected mayor of Florence at age 34. Meet Matteo Renzi — the Justin Trudeau of Italy and the Obamas’ final state dinner honoree 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The hospitality of the plains doesn’t always translate to these provincial towns, but there again, tucked beneath an austere tenement block, was a C.B.T. office. Explorer: Deep Into the Dream World of Kyrgyzstan 2014-05-09T19:07:12Z In 2013, provincial officials brought charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act against Live Nation Canada, the concert organizer, and Live Nation Ontario Concerts GP. Radiohead Calls for Safety Measures as Inquest Into Stage Death Concludes 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Is it too cynical to dismiss so provincial a “Carmen” as nothing more than box office bait? L.A. Opera opens its new season with 'Carmen,' again 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Racist, provincial ideas earn his angry unmasking as he sings, shouts and shakes a fist at corruption and ignorance. The best new poetry books for March 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z An architectural and cultural subset of such apartment houses is the gargantuan, prewar Upper West Side palace, at once a city-state of casual opulence and a provincial village stuffed with eccentrics. A Drug-Fueled New York City Bacchanal and the Lives It Changed 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z All six centre on a tale of provincial domesticity and romantic courtship. In Jane Austen, fairy tales meet biting feminist critiques 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z But provincial ignorance remains with many white Southerners seeming to take a perverse sort of pride in their lack of knowledge about the wider world. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Loznitsa made most of his nonfiction films on the road in provincial Russia, collecting stories that were, he has said, "bursting to get out of me." 'My Joy' takes fascinating detours on a truck driver's bleak road trip 2012-01-19T20:43:04Z It's so tedious, and provincial, a village fete turned into television. The Great British Bake Off review – the great British nod off 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Set in the inner circle of a crooked provincial government, Wang's novel depicts politics, corruption, and intrigue in a dirty race for mayor. 2009-12-31T18:18:00Z During the opening weekend, the poinciana trees were in bright orange flower around the National Museum, the biennial’s main site, which sits next to the provincial Parliament house. On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In the summer, his family would leave Fontainebleau, a provincial town southeast of Paris where they had lived, for a month of swimming and saunas at Pappila, his grandparents’ residence in the south of Finland. Minutes Before a Lockdown, a Civil Ceremony in France 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The BBC staging of the Netherfield ball ... click here to view on mobile In life, Austen loved balls, which were the most exciting events in provincial life. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z Within its small provincial society he assumed a kind of aristocratic status. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z He has remained, to some extent, the provincial outsider. Steve Coogan: older, wiser, but as for his alter ego… 2013-07-27T23:05:40Z "Their music," Jones points out, "offered a presentation of provincial female life crafted with sympathy and solidarity, and an insistence on their social and sexual agency." Clampdown: Pop-cultural Wars on Class and Gender by Rhian E Jones – review 2013-05-16T06:00:08Z The next day began with a hike around Kentucky-Alleyne provincial park a few miles away, where the bright turquoise waters were like jewels embedded in the Earth. British Columbia road trip: the art of getting lost 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z BC’s provincial campsites are currently closed to non-residents, and though I live just an hour from the trailhead, I’m on the wrong side of a border in Alberta. A mountain of happy memories in British Columbia 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Most of his victims were drama students at a provincial university where he taught. South Korean actor Jo Min-ki found dead after sexual assault accusations 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Lissner bemoaned the fact that La Scala's level of state support - from the national, regional, provincial and city administrations combined - is among the lowest in Europe for a public theater. La Scala projects tough finances in 2012 2012-01-24T15:30:10Z And thus his self-expression manifests itself in hideous overpriced T-shirts for provincial emos, with slogans such as "King Of The World", "Aim High" and "Everything Is OK". This week's new singles 2011-02-12T00:05:35Z He had, as a child, effortlessly transformed himself from German-speaking, provincial Hungarian to cosmopolitan Parisian. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z He then went into provincial repertory, first as assistant to Nick Barter, artistic director at Lincoln Theatre Royal. Malcolm Griffiths obituary 2010-12-02T18:18:00Z There’s even a replica of the desk of a Chinese provincial official, backed by a film extolling President Xi Jinping’s youth in the Shaanxi countryside. Rem Koolhaas Gives Beleaguered City Folk a Trip to the Countryside 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Yet the island's streets felt almost lazy, like those of a provincial capital, and were dotted with fruit and bakery stands. Frugal Traveler Blog: Saving Rubles in St. Petersburg 2012-09-04T21:23:01Z And in his provincial hometown of Hanover, there was a network of modern-minded collectors and gallerists who kept him busy with commissions. Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z Like Mr. Farquharson, she joined Tate from a prominent but provincial institution, in her case, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Tate Britain Names New Director 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z In the south-west corner of Saskatchewan, the park is a four-hour drive from provincial capital Regina, or seven hours from Calgary to the town of Val Marie at the park’s western entrance. 10 of Canada's best lesser-known national parks 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z On one of these excursions, we stumbled on the provincial city of Sarlat. In France’s Dordogne region, a land of castles and caves calls for deep exploration 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z A proud Hoosier born into a wealthy family in 1869, Tarkington was a shrewd but sympathetic observer of provincial American mores and politics. Booth Tarkington's Midwest captured in Taproot show 2011-12-15T21:00:12Z From outside, these shows are seen as provincial; at home, they’re viewed as events for foreigners. An Art Critic In Africa: Salif Diabagat? and Other Artists Struggle in Africa 2012-04-15T04:10:00Z And this autumn he will move the provincial offices from Kiziltepe, a town at Mardin’s base, to a restored former government building. Next Stop: Modern Art Puts Mardin, Turkey, in a New Context 2010-08-20T17:51:00Z In Beauty and the Beast, “Belle” tells of a poor provincial town with smelly fish and stale baguettes. Disney Makes Its Maiden Voyage to the South Pacific 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z He was credited with transforming the Boijmans from a sleepy provincial institution into an internationally respected one. In a Netherlands Museum Director, the Nazis Found an Ally 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z His vision matured at a time when provincial governments and college campuses, flush with new cash, commissioned museums and additional buildings, like libraries, that intrigued Mr. Wang. Architecture: Wang Shu of China Advocates Sustainable Architecture 2012-08-09T15:29:52Z I’m fully aware that such provincial friendliness is frowned upon by polite society. I like my eggs served with a side of pet names, hon 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Later he added: “Their habits are very provincial.” Desigual Turns to Jean-Paul Goude for a Makeover 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The stakes eventually heighten, but for the most part, Basil Joseph’s movie feels less like a superhero actioner and more like a charming provincial comedy. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Highlights include wine tasting in the Okanagan Valley and the chance to spot bears, moose and wolves in Wells Gray provincial park. British Columbia road trip: the art of getting lost 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s a world city, and at the same time it’s provincial.” Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z He has a remarkable feeling for gloomy, isolated locations: abandoned cemeteries, bricked-up apartment blocks, crumbling châteaux situated in provincial obscurity. Video: Five Cult Horror Films by Jean Rollin, Remastered for DVD 2012-01-29T04:38:09Z King Albert II and Queen Paola arrived in Liege to meet the mayor, provincial governor and workers with the Red Cross and emergency services following the attack, the Belgian royal palace told CNN. Rampage in Belgium kills 4, wounds dozens 2011-12-13T19:23:00Z The Accidental by Ali Smith Alhambra is named after a provincial film palace. Ten of the best visits to the cinema 2010-05-14T23:32:00Z The book’s arc is clear: Under Daley’s hand, Chicago goes from being “America’s meeting place” to turning in on itself, becoming increasingly isolated and provincial amid an exodus of influential artists. ‘The Third Coast’: Chicago’s chapters in the book of American culture 2013-04-25T20:47:58Z Several years ago, the central Cebu provincial prison warden organized hundreds of inmates to dance to Michael Jackson's songs. Filipino flight safety demo is YouTube hit 2010-10-05T15:16:00Z In many ways it is like so many of the UK's provincial , with its Victorian paintings, stuffed animals and meteorites. Ulster Museum takes top arts prize 2010-06-30T18:35:00Z Just 48 minutes later, we glided, quietly and smoothly into Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong, and China’s third-largest city, home to 14 million people. China's new high-speed train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The author called it “paternalistic, offensive and profoundly provincial”, and questioned the need to change perfectly obvious second-person plurals for a peninsular Spanish audience. Alfonso Cuarón condemns Spanish subtitles on Roma 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z By all appearances Ted is the textbook example of the ugly American as the British might envision him, right down to his walrus mustache and provincial accent exhumed from the Dust Bowl era. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Ruiz found Scotland provincial, and that was what he liked about it. Raul Ruiz and the ghosts on the battlefield 2012-08-20T17:37:40Z This collection of four novellas portrays a quiet, almost provincial world of the upper middle-class before New York became a world capital. Edmund White's top 10 New York books 2011-01-12T12:24:11Z He was obsessed with grand plans that ended in failure, with the comic tragedy of provincial ambition. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z By demonstrating that Oller was at once avidly cosmopolitan and proudly provincial, and valuable for being both, the show pushes global art history forward another step. Francisco Oller Exhibition Explores Impressionism and the Caribbean 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z I still remember the shock – after all, in the provincial Britain of the 1990s, goat’s cheese still seemed pretty exotic. No kidding: goat is the (ethical) new lamb 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Eighty miles down the M4, the subject matter is rather more down to earth: roundabouts, car factories and the challenge of working-class family life in a provincial town following the death of heavy industry. Take your seats for Swindon: the Opera 2012-07-06T18:17:28Z The provincial person is always looking over his shoulder to see if anybody thinks he’s provincial. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Unlike Frost, with his shock of windblown hair and openly bardic manner, Larkin — balding, heavily bespectacled, nattily dressed in checked sport coats and bow ties — looked precisely like a bachelor-librarian at a provincial university. Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love,’ by James Booth In my letters to friends, I described it as provincial and small. After the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting, a Russian-Jewish Immigrant Remembers Squirrel Hill 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Ann Arbor has a good reputation in most circles, but Five-Year depicts it as dismal and provincial enough to cause a normal, stable fellow like Tom to lose his mind and his mojo. The Five-Year Engagement Feels That Long 2012-04-26T10:45:58Z Essentially, we had a provincial upbringing in the middle of a huge city,” Paul said. The Weitz Brothers Help Each Other Through Hollywood Hits and Misses 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z But the choice of this oil-rich provincial capital was unusual, and an illustration of how a musical-theater boom on Broadway is rippling across the stage world. An Unexpected New Stop on the Road to Broadway: Edmonton 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z New York magazine described him as “a provincial money man who didn’t make the scene, but made a fortune off it.” Peter Gatien, the ’90s ‘Club King,’ Wants His Final Say 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s clear where Mantel’s sympathies lie: Royals are mythic, archaic, “both gods and beasts,” but it’s their assassins — the stiff-backed, lawyerly, provincial fanatics — whom she loves. Hilary Mantel Takes On Royals and Rebels in a Book of Essays 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z “Rightly or wrongly, I’m caught by the drama of the displaced provincial, the impoverished youth finding himself in the house of wealth,” Mr. Kumar continues. Books of The Times: ?Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb? 2010-08-05T22:00:00Z And he directed me to Patrick Kavanagh, who made a distinction between the parochial and the provincial. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z The show, about stranded airline passengers cared for after 9/11 by a provincial Canadian town, will resume performances Sept. 21. Cue the lights: Broadway is back Sept. 14 with ‘Hamilton,’ ‘The Lion King’ and more 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z It also traces the contradictions of an elite who are both worldly and provincial, and a calcified hierarchy determined by race, class and pedigree. New & Noteworthy, From Carrie Fisher to the Case for Impeachment 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Scholars and sellers of antiques produced in the South have spent decades battling provincial stereotypes. Antiques: New Antiques Websites Join Crowded Field 2014-02-13T20:33:28Z In Germany, even provincial opera companies have the wherewithal to put together full and challenging seasons. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z There are scenes of communal accord and others of provincial brutality. ‘Scarlet’ Review: A Father and Daughter Endure 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The story concerns arranged marriages in a provincial region, but its lead characters, a handsome knucklehead and an independent-minded woman, are sufficiently stock to register as “universal.” Wade Into the Deep Bollywood Pool With Amazon’s Heera 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Calatrava, who also designed the Milwaukee Art Museum, will appear before the Castellon provincial court on Sept. 2, the Valencia High Court said in a statement. Architect Calatrava charged as suspect in Spanish construction case 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z To identify recent, conventional fictions as the only ones deserving the term "novel" is myopic, provincial, and historically uninformed. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z “Le Corbeau” is about a plague of poison-pen letters in a provincial town that has the effect of making the community seem even narrower and more oppressive: it closes in on itself. Henri-Georges Clouzot Retrospective at MoMA 2011-12-04T04:03:02Z Set in a drab provincial city in France that, by the movie’s end, resembles a vast public loo, “The Wounded Man” signals its vanguard ambitions at the onset. ‘The Wounded Man’: Dark Night, Lost Soul 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The country’s provincial governments were also ordered to create jobs for hijras. Pakistan transgender leader calls for end to culture of 'gurus' 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z As a leftist teenager, Cercas had identified the prime minister, a "cocky provincial" and "Francoist on the make", with his father José, a veterinary surgeon from a "rich family come down in the world". Javier Cercas: A life in books 2011-04-04T07:00:01Z “The best thing about Beijing is its many provincial bureau restaurants,” said Ms. Wang, 55, a retired doctor. Heads Up: Provincial Eating in Beijing 2011-06-24T18:55:00Z This tale of a provincial lass who walks out on a repressed home life, leaving parents sobbing in her wake, is simply no match for those stately, swirling strings. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “Imagine Bologna from the eyes of someone who came from a really provincial situation as in the south of Italy where you find nothing interesting,” he said. The 52 Places Traveler: Two Versions of the Slow Life in Central and Southern Italy 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But Trollope, a provincial postmaster as well as an eminent novelist, didn’t occupy an eighteenth-century mansion on an exclusive stretch of the embankment of the Thames; George Eliot, his literary peer and friend, did. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “There were different scenes here that he couldn’t find in provincial Germany, where he grew up,” said Rein Wolfs, the Stedelijk’s director. Ulay, on His Own Terms 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The setting is a provincial Mediterranean town at the beginning of the 20th century where diverse communities – Turkish, Greek and Armenian – co-exist as they have for centuries. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z In fact, China has only one female provincial governor and one female provincial party secretary. Better Than Elizabeth Taylor? Meet Liu Xiaoqing 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Ninety minutes from Berlin is the provincial city of Cottbus, whose forbidding, 19th century-built penitentiary served as a prison for both the Nazis and the East Germans. Stasi victims still in trauma as Germany cheers 25 years since wall fell 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z In 1953, Hollywood comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embarked on a farewell tour of the British music hall circuit, dragging their luggage from one provincial hotel to the next. Steve Coogan: ‘Maybe I've just got flabby and middle-aged' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Beginning to paint in the early 20th century, just as the center of life was shifting from the provincial to the metropolitan, and from the agricultural to the industrial, Hopper captures the loneliness of progress. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z That’s not the case when Morrow files dispatches on his usual beat: Ontario’s provincial legislature. Despite the beatdown, reporters love the Trump beat 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But the school's trustees were hankering for something different--for most of the last decade Dartmouth suffered through a provincial civil war as alumni factions sparred embarrassingly over their role in the school's future. First Respo 2011-11-16T23:00:00Z But these are just stops en route to the region’s star attractions: Ischigualasto provincial park and the contiguous Talampaya national park, just over the border in La Rioja province. Wining and dinosauring in San Juan, Argentina 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Wilde would later reconfigure the Americans’ provincial attacks against him and commodify them into concentrated doses of dizzy drama, Mendelssohn argues. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z On Dec. 7, in her Nobel Prize lecture, Ernaux spoke about her roots in provincial France, her love of books and desire to write, a yearning that was thwarted by her position as a woman. ‘The Super 8 Years’ Review: Annie Ernaux’s Celluloid Souvenirs 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z She was one of very few women sculptors in the small provincial town, and the work was physically grueling. | A Love Eternal 2014-04-09T13:00:01Z Trump is not interested in constructing a superstate like Oceania or even a provincial dictatorship like Airstrip One, both of which Orwell described so convincingly in his novel. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Georgy Girl was part of the trend in which British cinema shifted the focus from provincial life and back to the metropolis, celebrating new freedoms and social possibilities. Silvio Narizzano obituary 2011-07-28T16:46:16Z Mr. Darcy is also a doctor, a snooty neurosurgeon from San Francisco wondering why he has pitched up in a place as provincial as Cincinnati. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z “It went from an internationally recognized leader in fashion and became more provincial and product focused,” said Mr. Imran, of The Business of Fashion. At Gucci, a Messy Exit for One Designer Opens an Unlikely Door for Another 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The painting was discovered by the dealer Philip Mould at a provincial sale outside New York last year. Portrait mistaken for 18th-century lady is early painting of transvestite 2012-06-06T14:16:21Z "Literature shouldn't be secluded, provincial or regional," the Peruvian author said in New York after Thursday's announcement in Sweden. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z Four of the students who traveled to Norway hail from small provincial towns outside Pyongyang, she said. A look at NKorea accordionists behind A-ha moment 2012-03-22T05:51:08Z He grew up in a provincial town, and upon moving to Nairobi, first studied real estate. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The Britain-set show, in which the statuesque performer Lola saves a provincial shoe factory by inspiring a line of toweringly outré footwear, is now running Off Broadway. Review: A Faithful ‘Kinky Boots,’ With All Its Pizazz and Pitfalls 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z All come from backgrounds that could be called conservative, or else provincial. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Is it because southern newspaper bosses think that we Northerners are provincial oiks with scant regard for culture, news and comment? Northern Soul: my antidote to Fleet Street's abandonment of the North 2013-07-05T11:11:00Z Valerie June comes to her musical style not out of provincial isolation, but as a considered choice. Music Review: Valerie June at the Highline Ballroom 2013-12-31T19:30:43Z Even more curious is that Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated nationally, but can be legislated at the provincial and territorial levels. A brief history of Canadian Thanksgiving 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z The first result was Tonight's the Kind of Night, the tale of a teenager escaping his provincial life on a National Express coach. Noah and the Whale, and Bukowski 2011-02-11T09:52:36Z In the process, they contributed to the birth of the lush orchestral Nashville Sound, refining the rough-hewed provincial music for which the city was known into something that appealed to a wider audience. Anita Kerr, an Architect of the Nashville Sound, Dies at 94 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z What are the challenges in maintaining a world-class orchestra in a small provincial city? There Are Three Versions of Bruckner’s Fourth. Why Choose? 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z University of Montreal and community colleges were infused with provincial funds, and their graduates took social-service jobs in a new, fiercely secular Quebec bureaucracy. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z A painting that spent more than a century in the storerooms of a provincial Italian museum will be attributed Wednesday to one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. How a $30 Million Renaissance Masterpiece Was Found 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z With 2,726 miles of shoreline stretching across three states and one Canadian province, Lake Superior borders five national parks in the United States, one in Canada, and roughly two dozen state and provincial parks. Lake Superior is Cold, Sparsely Settled and Known for Bad Weather. Perfect for Cruising, Some Say. 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “To love this book,” Susan Sontag once wrote, “is to become a little less provincial about literature, about literature’s possibilities.” A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The provincial New England that Erica inhabits is not unlike the dead-end environs of an Annie Baker play. Review: In ‘Inanimate,’ a Forbidden Love Dares to Speak Its Name 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z How many times did we have to do a moonlight from our digs, our pockets empty, clambering out of back windows in the middle of rainy nights in provincial towns? Jack Birkett obituary 2010-05-28T15:44:00Z In terms of restaurants, there is the homey yet stylish Redoubt Bar & Eatery, but this is a fundamentally provincial place. New Zealand’s Hobbit Trail 2012-10-05T16:25:35Z Bellow observed that the Soviet leader’s comic style seemed to have been adapted from the “provincial autocrats, creeps, misers, officials, gluttons, gamblers and drunkards” in Gogol’s “Dead Souls.” Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Given the originality of her oblique style, near-documentary fascination with large families and taste for depicting provincial inertia, Ms. Martel both excites and confounds viewers. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Duck over to Vancouver Island and Victoria, the sublime, amenity-rich provincial capital. 2010-02-03T21:30:00Z But the cast –which notably includes Sophie Thompson as a provincial squire’s wife with worldly affectations – plies comic exaggeration with synchronized precision. Critic?s Notebook: London Theater Journal: It's About Time 2012-02-02T15:38:37Z In that production, both setting and choreography are faithful to the pre-revolutionary Russia in which the poem is set, a narrative landscape of bored provincial families, glittering Petersburg society, radical students and romantic duels. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-08-10T23:05:36Z “Rather than exporting the wine, the wineries are great at welcoming visitors in,” said Laura Kittmer, the spokeswoman for the British Columbia Wine Institute, a provincial association of wineries. Attention, Budget-Watchers: 4 Canadian Alternatives to U.S. Hot Spots 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Not bad for a story about a provincial slacker. Theater Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z He later said "This became something of a leitmotif in my visual thinking, not only when I was making pen and ink drawings for provincial newspapers, but also when I began using a camera." Unsung hero of photography Thurston Hopkins turns 100 2013-04-12T14:56:00Z Then something happens that both upends Shin-ae’s fragile sense of control and turns the film from a quiet comedy of provincial life into a tour of parental hell. | 'Secret Sunshine': Fierce Tests of Endurance and the Resilience of the Spirit 2010-12-21T23:18:57Z They reflect the ebb and flow across the Greco-Roman world of the real and the ideal, the sophisticated and the provincial. A Sumptuous Surrealist Moment in Manhattan 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z His mother became an opera conductor, and in 1991 she moved, with her son, to the provincial town of Laupheim, to conduct a nearby orchestra. Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z Throughout her life, Colette’s allegiances would remain firmly on the side of the provincial. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z In her harrowing, boldly imagined novel, O’Brien both explores Irish provincial life and offers an unsettling fabulist vision. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z In “Bar Boy,” the show’s second great green painting, he’s a newbie, stepping into a bar alone, like the erstwhile provincial Frédéric Moreau, of Flaubert’s famous novel “Sentimental Education.” Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The hotel, in what used to be Garzón’s general store, resembles a quaint, provincial country home. The 5 best food destinations in the Americas: In a new book, the travel pros at Fathom get you fed 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Milly gets lost in Rome's chaotic streets as she searches for a hairdresser to give her a less provincial look before meeting her husband's new co-workers. The real star of Woody Allen's new movie is Rome 2012-06-27T15:07:02Z Mr. Oliva, a prominent Cuban painter from Pinar del Río, was ostracized by provincial officials after he criticized harassment of dissidents four years ago. In Cuba, Artistic Freedom Remains an Open Question 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Adopted by a kindly elderly couple in a staid provincial town, he steals, lies, and ultimately commits a wanton act of violence. The Misunderstood Maurice Pialat 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z It was just a little provincial park, after all, only five hundred acres. The Dread and Bewilderment of Walking in Circles 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Or maybe it was Benton who shunned them, abandoning the East Coast for Kansas City, Mo. — he called New York “a highly provincial place” — and adopting a strident anti-intellectualism. Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural at the Met 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Indeed, this month's Pakistani elections witnessed a record 448 women running for seats in the national and provincial assemblies. Mohsin Hamid: 'Islam is not a monolith' 2013-05-19T19:00:07Z When I was in high school, I was on my provincial crew team, and at my coach’s urging, I began binge eating tuna and doing weights to get bigger. My skinny arm complex 2012-12-16T01:00:00Z But lists like these seem small-minded to me, provincial, like visiting a foreign country and only eating at McDonald’s. Everything the Internet taught me about being 39 is a lie 2014-01-11T22:00:00Z By late afternoon, however, an official provincial delegation had arrived at the scene. Shooting raises questions about war's course 2012-03-12T05:00:00Z The Assassin” takes place in ninth-century China, and concerns the consequences of a provincial rebellion against imperial authority. Review: ‘The Assassin’ Finds Delight in a Deadly Vocation 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “I thought she might be this little old provincial lady, and instead she was really tall, and she was incredibly cosmopolitan and articulate. She talked a great deal about photography.” Salman Rushdie to be first speaker in lecture series honoring Eudora Welty 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It is famous because the sister of Frederick the Great and Wagner, but it is very calm and in a good way provincial. Trade Secrets From the Wagner Festival Whisperer 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z A tedium, verging on desolation, infuses this particular corner of provincial life. | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z But it was Brighouse's role as a champion of provincial theatre that made him popular around Manchester. Harold Brighouse's The Game: Pampered stars, bankrupt clubs ? a tale of football in the 1920s 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z She has had these kinds of complaints, but they’ve seemed laughably provincial to her. Bow down to "the Tinder Queen": Dating apps aren't just for hooking up 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z But Two of Us, Sukowa’s new film, about two octogenarian women in a provincial French town, is set in the present day. 'When I travelled, I hid my passport': Fassbinder muse Barbara Sukowa on Hitler's legacy and hidden love 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Her ascendancy to the status of actual famous person made winning Miss America seem provincial in comparison. ‘Looking for Miss America’ Tells the History of the Legendary Pageant 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Doc Martin follows the antics of a curmudgeonly MD after he moves to a provincial town, abandoning his prestigious London surgical post for unknown reasons. 26 Streaming Shows You Should Get Addicted to This Winter 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z He was viewed as arrogant and ambitious — if blazingly talented — even in his 20s, when he rose through the provincial German opera houses of Düsseldorf and Nuremberg. One of the World’s Great Maestros Is Suddenly a Free Agent 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z "The morals of provincial life," Flaubert might mutter. The mysterious genesis of books 2011-03-24T11:42:57Z The house, once an important provincial hotel, sits in the heart of the dusty town center. Médoc, From Grand Cru to Country Cooking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The series “Feminine” draws on intimate conversations with provincial women. Listening to Ordinary Russians by Drawing Them One by One 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z When Simcoe meets the rangers in a Pennsylvania forest, he admits to having “no more desire to lead a provincial force than you have to serve under a royal officer.” 'Turn: Washington's Spies' recap: Abe resumes his covert work 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z And for visitors seeking old treasures that don’t come in liquid form, the semiannual Brocante des Quinconces antiques fair is one of France’s finest provincial antiques markets, next taking place in late April. Bordeaux's Must-Visit Shops, Restaurants, and Hotels 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z When Marc next visits the provincial town, Sylvie has moved to the United States and he instead runs into her sister, whom he ends up marrying. Gainsbourg reprises Deneuve daughter role in 'Three Hearts' 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Andrew Upton’s adaptation of an early Anton Chekhov play about provincial anomie winds down its Broadway run ahead of a March 19 close. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z And he voraciously sampled everything the city had to offer a frighteningly talented, ambitious, curious, sociable yet provincial young artist. Picasso Becoming Picasso 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z After his arrest in the seaside resort town of Pattaya, the provincial court granted him permission to leave the country to perform at a festival in Macedonia, after posting bail of about $9,000. Russian pianist back to Thai court on sex charge 2010-07-19T12:46:00Z I think of them as mountain music and down-home and provincial, and they were huge stars. | TV On the Radio: Los Angeles, Perhaps, but Brooklyn Is Forever 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z |
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