| 单词 | rarefy |
| 例句 | When I first arrived in Mqhekezweni I was regarded by some of my peers as a yokel who was hopelessly unequipped to exist in the rarefied atmosphere of the Great Place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The dating service asked Mr. Gallup to fill out a questionnaire. rarefied. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary also knew that a native of a place so flat it was practically underwater would need a leg up before hiking for days in the rarefied altitude of the Wyoming mountains. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For the first semester, I was one of three Black students in the school, and in that rarefied atmosphere I came to love my people more. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was always sunshine, always a tiny sticking in the throat from the rarefied air. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Galaxies would become ever more distant from one another, and the star stuff that drives all the energetic reactions in the universe would become more rarefied. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Even Amaranta, lying in a wicker basket, observed with curiosity the absorbing work of her father and her brother in the small room where the air was rarefied by mercury vapors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z McCoy feared that the rarefied air in the Enterprise was enervating the crew. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At a modest high school in the Tidewater city of Portsmouth, not far from John Casteen’s boyhood home, a guidance-office wall filled with college pennants does not include one from rarefied Virginia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In such rarefied air, illusions seemed to provide little immunity. My terrifying Kilimanjaro climb: How I expanded my limits, but almost lost my mind 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z With his eye trained on rarefied art from early days, Mr. Rullier saw beauty in pieces that few bothered to look at. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z Some felt that because Broadway remains fairly rarefied when compared with pop cultural attractions, terrorists weren’t likely to target a Broadway show. Security concerns jangle Broadway, but not enough to keep audiences away 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The Trend Travel trophy hunters are increasingly turning to hands-on, micro-targeted tour companies with a portfolio of rarefied thrills. | Tom Marchant 2011-09-16T20:00:06Z Lewis’s silver hair is combed flat against his scalp, and he wears collarless shirts and soft jackets in rarefied neutral tones like ecru, pewter and mother-of-walrus. ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Review: Extinction Rebellion 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z But I suspect most of us stay for the quirks of the world-building — the exposé of a niche or rarefied culture. Can Women Have It All? Not in Silicon Valley 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z There’s a special kind of fantasy movie that has a rarefied cinematic value: the kind that doesn’t require any special effects but depends solely on the power of the word. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The marriages portrayed in this “Woman” may be ill-fated, but so, alas, is the wedding of Ms. Mitchell’s rarefied, cerebral sensibility and Heywood’s Jacobean earthiness. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Familiar, but Far From Haunting 2011-07-20T16:30:02Z The characters on Scandal, existing within the rarefied world of D.C. politics and crisis management, lived outsized enough lives to truly allow anything to happen, minus consequences or reason. Viewers Deserve More Shows Like The Family 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z While other actresses rightly cry foul over the indignities of Hollywood chucking them like last week’s leftovers, Mirren resides in a rarefied realm along with Meryl Streep, while exuding considerably more heat. Nothing like a dame: The splendor of Helen Mirren 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Normally I frown on theater as a rarefied form of stargazing. 5 Must-See Shows if You’re in New York This Month 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Coming off Debussy’s rarefied settings of poetry by Verlaine, Ms. Fleming finished altogether more down to earth, with a set of jazz-and-blues-tinged songs by the Chicago singer and composer Patricia Barber. Review: Renée Fleming, a Voice With Wardrobe Changes 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Certainly there’s something refreshing about the way this body-popping takes “Outlier” far outside the rarefied atmosphere of the ballet studio. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Premiere of ?Outlier? 2010-05-16T21:54:00Z The combination of their star image, in which their rarefied beauty plays an important role, coupled with their seminal performances from decades earlier, means their later work is not always given equal weight. Rethinking celebrity and aging with "The Last Movie Stars" and Joni Mitchell at Newport Folk Fest 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z One of the puzzling features of the intense identification of readers with Connell and Marianne is that they inhabit a pretty rarefied cultural niche, with its own intellectual and political snobberies. 'The stakes were really high': the stars of Normal People on bringing Sally Rooney's novel to TV 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z At its worst, it curates rarefied products and experiences – from eye pillows to expensive anti-burnout retreats – for those with the means and the time, further isolating them from society. "Doing nothing" is all the rage — is it a form of resistance or just an indulgence for the lucky few 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z “The African Desperate” stakes out new terrain in the rarefied niche of movies featuring art schools. ‘The African Desperate’ Expands the Movies’ Narrow View of the Art World 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z He turned his attention to pushing other media, namely paintings and drawings, the rarefied forms to which he had asked photography to aspire. Art Review: Alfred Stieglitz at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-10-13T22:23:17Z The attack shocked not only those who knew the Gilberts but also many more who live in their rarefied and intertwined world of hedge funds, private clubs and opulent homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons. The Price of Privilege 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z But many are in less rarefied for-profit settings — at shopping centers, for example. A New Kind of ‘Hamilton’ Show, This Time on Lake Michigan 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Does she think Strauss made that same journey from idealised love and rarefied thinking about art and music to a grounding in the real world? Ariadne ducks the bombs at the Glyndebourne festival 2013-05-15T18:00:02Z The next stop, Shepherd's Bush, is less rarefied. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z Yet “The Fits,” which played to acclaim at the Venice and Sundance film festivals, couldn’t be further from the rarefied world of ballet. ‘The Fits’: It’s All in the Footwork for a Girl Who Boxes, Then Dances 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z He became the dean of the rarefied market for Chinese art in New York and was an accomplished artist in his own right. Charges of Looting as Heirs Dispute C. C. Wang Collection 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z But what about the media outside those rarefied circles? Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom prepares to debut amid stinging criticism 2012-06-23T20:19:03Z It’s all the new Kushner that there is to play, thanks to the irresistible film projects developed in rarefied air. Tony Kushner’s civil war You describe the "exotic, expensive and rarefied mentality around cooking and food." "Great British Bake Off" veteran Ruby Tandoh: "I see the show and I feel a pressure from it" 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Increasingly, Christo’s popularity became a strike against him in some rarefied quarters. Christo’s Billowy Visions, Fleeting but Unforgettable 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z More than seven centuries later, true Murano glass remains rarefied, at least in name. Inspired by Murano, Glassware Goes Wild 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Her husband, on the other hand, grew up in rarefied social circles. ‘To the New Owners,’ About a Summer Place (Too) Well Loved 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z At the rarefied end of the spectrum, we have Indian Accent bringing the cuisine into line with the intricate techniques and plating that can land restaurants on the itineraries of list-clutching gastrotourists. A Full-Throated Defense of Traditional Indian Cooking 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Middleton, in contrast, has already proven an eminently down-to-earth figure for a less rarefied age. Kate’s middle is in royal pain 2012-12-04T20:59:00Z Recording in solitude in his Richmond bedroom in London, he's amassed something of a cult following in a rarefied indie niche. Keaton Henson: fame, stage fright and the discomfort of strangers 2012-10-03T13:46:03Z The prose was a calculated affront to the rarefied theorizing that surrounded minimalism and dominated the slick art journals. Edit DeAk, a Champion of Outsider Artists, Dies at 68 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Now, some say, the trend, which trickled down from the runways of Chanel, Giles Deacon and their rarefied ilk to fashion hot spots around the country, seems poised to go mainstream. Young Trendsetters Streak Their Hair With Gray 2010-04-01T18:37:00Z At a Dom Pérignon party, a pileup of gallery kingpins, billionaire scions and wannabes mobbed multiple checkpoints in hopes of entering the rarefied slosh. Beware New York Fashion Week Party Crashers, ID Apps Put Names to Faces 2014-02-05T22:10:03Z The balanced, rarefied sound of this recording, captured in St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, is another reminder of the rewards that can come from meeting older music on its own terms. CD reviews: Neglected Finn merits a closer listen 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The performance, and three more over the weekend, were meant to be a grand experiment in democracy, a way for ballet to break free from its rarefied, elitist image. Beer. Nachos. Arena. Ballet? 2011-06-19T21:57:50Z Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite similarly use their gifts as social observers to gently satirize the two other rarefied worlds their heroes traverse. Review: ‘War of the Encyclopaedists,’ by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z In so doing, Asperger accidentally gave the impression that autism was a rarefied condition among young geniuses, not the common syndrome he knew it to be. ‘NeuroTribes,’ by Steve Silberman 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The rarefied atmosphere of her presentations seemed to infuse the collections themselves, which lingered long after the lunch dishes were cleared. On The Runway: L’Wren Scott: A Legacy of Elegance 2014-03-21T21:01:46Z The next big question — whether the artist likes it or not — is whether Banksy will eventually make the final transition to those rarefied museums. Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z These are among the rarefied obsessions of the collectors I have interviewed in eight years as the Antiques columnist for The New York Times. Magnificent Obsessions: Pursuits of a Lifetime 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Sheeran may have figured out how to infiltrate the most rarefied spaces in pop, but what he found there perhaps wasn’t worth chasing after all. Review: Ed Sheeran’s Secret Weapon on ‘Divide’? Being Unabashedly Uncool 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Even outside the extraterrestrial environs of “Doctor Who,” Tennant has always registered as a slightly alien presence, rather like a more rarefied Johnny Depp. 3 celebrities portray Shakespeare’s uncommon men 2014-02-03T06:51:22Z And despite their populist appeal, both are events powered solely by the art market’s rarefied sliver of wealthy collectors. Pérez Art Museum Miami Recalls Pink Islands 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “Among the rarefied group of the extreme rich, social status depends on net worth,” Dr. Wolff wrote in an email. Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z His entry into the world of letters is also an unlikely window—not quite a full entry—into the rarefied pleasures of high culture. Reviving the Memory of a Black Pioneer 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z A star like Mr. Tyler or Ms. Lopez has nothing to lose when offering a contestant, entrée into their rarefied space. Arts & Leisure Preview: Steven Tyler Escapes From Idolatry 2011-02-09T16:50:05Z Yet for Adrian Joffe — who is an exceptional retail curator, bringing a vivid, powerful and ever-changing mix to Dover Street Market in London — things are changing in the rarefied world of French fashion. Chloe and Rykiel Secondary Lines Are Coming Into Their Own 2012-02-28T17:49:32Z Daniel Boulud’s flagship, Daniel, has climbed back into the rarefied circle of restaurants with a 29 for food; it received that score back in 2012 but then dropped to 28. Zagat Guide for 2016 Is Released 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The musician's not just famous: He's a Beatle, at a level of famous that's almost hard to comprehend, it's in such rarefied air. Everyone loves Paul McCartney: The secrets of one Beatle’s eternal appeal 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The imagined audience for the book is so rarefied that Ivanka confidently calls paying bills and buying groceries “not enormously impactful” to one’s daily productivity. Ivanka Trump Wrote a Painfully Oblivious Book for Basically No One 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The eldest of four children, she was born into a rarefied 1940s, upper-middle-class world of debutantes and weekend horseback rides. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It wasn't until the 20th century that the book and its author were rediscovered and lifted to the rarefied place in the English literature pantheon they hold today. 7 people who hated Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Viewers who don’t share the radical-nostalgist sensibility of Mr. Finn, who teaches at Emerson College in Boston, may find the humor both too rarefied and too obvious. | 'The Juche Idea': Jim Finn Ponders North Korea and Cinema 2010-05-26T23:10:00Z And is the rarefied world of art ready for a reality TV make-over? Rarefied art world gets reality TV competition 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z The pairing would upend the rarefied world of art and antiques, giving eBay’s 145 million customers instant bidding access to a vast array of what Sotheby’s sells, from fine wines to watercolors by Cézanne. A Warhol With Your Moose Head? Sotheby’s Teams With EBay 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z This rarefied comedy stands out on a laugh-hungry show that has long had a populist voice, leaning toward topical jokes, and broadly accessible references. Meet Julio Torres, the New ‘S.N.L.’ Star No One Sees 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z For ardent cinephiles, however, the attraction is none of the above but the rarefied atmosphere of the festival's competition, which this year has 18 films, including Godard's, competing for the Palme d'Or. Opposites attract as the curtain rises on film festival 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Here’s hoping that Asia Society will step up its commitment to this rarefied and treasurable art form. Music Review: Shanghai Troupe Presents Ancient Opera at Asia Society 2012-05-22T22:06:04Z Here's a select list of what "Mozart" gets right and wrong about the rarefied world of symphony orchestras. 'Mozart in the Jungle': What it gets right and wrong about classical music 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z But across this lucrative and rarefied realm, galleries, auction houses, fairs, collectors, institutions and artists themselves are increasingly committing to more sustainable business practices to help combat global warming. Mindful of Its Impact on the Planet, the Art World Aims for Sustainability 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Instead, this language produced a comforting distance, a rarefied space in which to work, functioning a little like a sheet of stained glass beyond which the action unfolded. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Simultaneously, we cultivated the rarefied grace of extreme parenting. Motherlode Blog: Becoming the Parent With the Child in the Wheelchair 2013-08-16T15:43:50Z It is about an almost impossibly rarefied world, and yet with austere charm, and a very likable central figure, the film helps us to understand something of this world. Film review: Pianomania 2010-08-19T22:49:00Z The labels and catalog explain how girls and their mentors incorporated rarefied stitches with names like encroaching satin and Algerian eye into shoes, purses, bedspreads and fire screens. Antiques: Revising Our Ideas of Colonial Sewing 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z Although his appearance is brief, it’s interesting to see him navigate the rarefied air of rich, privileged and dangerous white men who aren’t used to being held accountable for their misdeeds. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 9: Blinding Privilege 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Finlay is a young dancer finding his way in the most rarefied of art forms. A Career Rising, in Leaps and Bounds 2011-06-02T17:37:57Z It was a world away from the rarefied Manhattan showrooms. Owners of Project 8 Work During Fashion Week 2012-02-15T22:16:08Z In “Grass,” Hong deploys his taut and rarefied style to dramatize the passion of observation itself. “Grass,” Reviewed: Hong Sang-soo Listens in on Painful Confessions at a Coffee Shop 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The greatest hits are here, but so are movies that are unlikely to be included in more rarefied canons. The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z But in recent months, the era of Nirvana, Starbucks and heroin chic has been exploited with a rarefied twist. Grunge Endures as Tribute to a Creative Golden Age 2013-05-01T22:37:42Z One of the pleasures of “Black Swan” is its lack of reverence toward the rarefied world of ballet, which to outsiders can look as lively as a crypt. | 'Black Swan': On Point, on Top, in Pain 2010-12-02T20:22:00Z It is another labor action, though a more rarefied one, in Chicago, where 26,000 teachers recently walked off the job. Chicago Symphony Strikes Just Weeks Before Carnegie Concert 2012-09-24T21:56:21Z They hope their gamble – a labor of love in a rarefied industry – will pay off. How to make caviar sustainable 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The Telluride atmosphere is both rarefied and democratic, and the festival’s sensibility, from the start, has combined high-mindedness with showmanship. Critic’s Notebook: At Telluride Festival, a Redford Solo and Other Previews 2013-09-02T21:37:32Z It was rarefied and full of gusto, a kind of high-modernist onslaught. Music Review: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bunky Green and Common Ground 2010-04-21T22:42:00Z Power’s own precocious intelligence allowed entrance into rarefied circles of publishing and academia. After a Long and Painful Absence, Writing Her Way Home Again 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Like the Stein book, a mock memoir that mixes fiction and nonfiction and was written by Stein from Toklas’s point of view, “Nicolae Ceausescu” is something of a rarefied ventriloquist act. | 'The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu': ?Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu,? by Andrei Ujica - Review 2011-09-08T23:07:41Z The little people who had to buy their own furniture were suddenly confronted with rarefied concepts in design; I interviewed a booming Terence Conran at the time. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z In addition, until now, Ms. Ade, 39, has been largely known only inside rarefied cinephile circles and it has been seven years since her last feature, “Everyone Else.” The Director of ‘Toni Erdmann’ Savors Her Moment at Cannes 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z We imagine our societal failings as rarefied abstracts, because they allow us to deny responsibility. Beyond the wedgies: How we oversimplify schoolyard bullying 2014-05-03T21:30:00Z Amazing how that once felt like the ultimate White House low point, yet now resembles a rarefied olde worlde anecdote you might read about Calvin Coolidge. The Mooch makes the move into his natural habitat – late-night television 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Ultimately, I found Georgiana’s rarefied status to be the show’s biggest representational challenge: As I reveled in her splendor, I also found myself forgetting the enslaved labor that created it. ‘Bridgerton’ Takes On Race. But Its Core Is Escapism. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z It’s safe to say the protagonist of Deepwater Horizon lacks this rarefied air. Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z If he frets about anything on this album, it’s the increasingly rarefied air he breathes, and the particular stresses that come with occupying those spaces as a black man. Arts & Leisure: Two Titans Share The Seat of Power 2011-08-09T19:00:08Z There is something thrilling, and a little embarrassing, about this rarefied air. Can ‘Illuminati Tinder’ Save Us All? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s avant-rock that bleeds into the more rarefied edges of progressive electronic music. Album review: thenewno2, 'thefearofmissingout' 2012-07-30T16:36:00Z Will it explore environmental issues outside the rarefied confines of the art world? Review | In Richmond, a dramatic new structure is unlike any other in town 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Other companies cater to jet-setters more interested in the rarefied heights of a country’s cuisine than in the nitty-gritty of its inhabitants’ lives. Can Food Tours Stray From the Beaten Path Without Ruining the Experience? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The show explores issues of race, class and wealth — with family dynamics that should resonate well beyond the story’s rarefied setting. What’s on TV Friday: ‘#blackAF’ and ‘Selah and the Spades’ 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s acutely written and beautifully acted, but the kind of talky, rarefied miniature that could easily have gone nowhere beyond the film festival circuit. sex, lies, and videotape at 30: how Steven Soderbergh changed independent cinema 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z You might say the mood of the Milan fall collections, which began on Wednesday, is rarefied and rationale rather than conservative or classic. On the Runway Blog: With a Bustle, Milan Turns Somber 2012-02-23T16:03:50Z Pick up this novel if you’re after a bookish thriller with stunning backdrops — Cambridge’s rarefied campus, Aegean seascapes — scattered with clues in Ancient Greek. Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z And while he may be for rarefied tastes, his sensibility couldn’t be more inclusive and sunny. 5 New Comedy Specials to Remind You of the Old Normal 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z While “Tár” unfolds in a rarefied cultural space, where aesthetic perfection seems less an ideal than a daily expectation, it also plants itself in a tawdry and contentious zone of contemporary discourse. ‘Tár’ Review: A Maestro Faces the Music 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Now 84, he has cut a singular figure on Manhattan’s social scene for decades, cultivating his place within the city’s most rarefied socio-economic stratum, while often serving as one of that milieu’s most stringent critics. Tom Wolfe’s Papers Pop Up at the New York Public Library 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z She has bought so deeply into the royal mythology that she seems to believe she now exists in a rarefied world beyond personality and thus beyond race. Review: Royalty as Horror Show in ‘Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!’ 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z As with “Welfare,” there is whiplash in watching impoverished characters in such rarefied company. At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Moving forward, Mr. Porter’s choices may be a shade more rarefied — and restrained. Billy Porter’s Stylist Flips Fashion on Its Head 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The highlight was the baroque austerity of the third movement, “Passacaille,” profoundly peaceful because of a gentle tempo and rarefied texture. Review | Can three musical stars shine in constellation? Bell, Isserlis and Denk in concert. 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z It’s a very different, more rarefied, more isolated peer group. Lorde Learns She Can’t Party Away Her Melancholy on ‘Melodrama’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Most dance-makers have had lengthy training and exposure to the art form, particularly in the rarefied world of ballet. Kim Brandstrup Brings ‘Jeux’ and Follows a Different Path to City Ballet 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z In this context — a quarter of a century after Gersh’s reign, inside the rarefied walls of the Met — it’s an unexpected, almost jarring digression. Steve Miller cracked the code of 1970s radio. But he’s still raging against the music industry. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z As you walk, you find bottles written by other players from around the world and read their messages, too — it’s a random, rarefied form of communication you can’t often find on social media. The Slow-Game App Is the New Smoke Break 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Each developed, in different disciplines — she in sculpture, he in design — rarefied forms of linear abstraction that converged in the medium of drawing, which is what this show is mostly composed of. Gego and Gerd Leufert: ‘A Dialogue’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z You can’t fault Ali’s strategy for going supporting, nor the rarefied space he would occupy if he won: The only other black actor who has collected two competitive Oscars is Denzel Washington. They’re Leading Actors, Except When It Comes to the Oscars 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Within the rarefied world of professional opera, he was known not only for his personal charm but also for his service to the art form. Perspective | Plácido Domingo’s reputation as a performer enabled the opera world to ignore his predatory behavior 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Beauty, in his work, is inclusive, and purity is a matter of compositional elegance rather than rarefied subject matter. Toshio Shibata's glorious photos find mystery where man meets land 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z It was a choice in keeping with his rarefied approach to the character. David Tennant, a Former Doctor Who, Dons a Monarch’s Crown 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Cummings’s production makes this descent into rarefied savagery an up-close and personal experience for theatergoers. Theater Review | 'The Boys in the Band': Broken Hearts, Bleeding Psyches 2010-02-23T23:10:00Z It is hard to imagine many casual park visitors being captivated by the conceptual systems that gave rise to such rarefied abstractions. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z In a series of chapters centered on different individuals who are part of this rarefied class, Giridharadas exposes the rationalizations of the 0.001 percent who actually believe they are making the world a better place. Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Johnson’s concern was aesthetic, not social; or if it was social, it was on behalf of a more rarefied section of society. Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The novel also contains some razor-edge glimpses of literary life in Manhattan, and the rarefied latitudes inhabited by old Upper East Side money. Books of The Times: In ‘& Sons,’ David Gilbert Looks at Uneasy Family Dynamics 2013-07-28T18:50:19Z He has the audacity to work in fashion’s rarefied air, where a pair of trousers can cost $1,000. Meet Yang Li, a designer putting China on fashion’s biggest stage Kelsey may not be in that rarefied company just yet, but he has many of the necessary ingredients. Hawaiian Baritone Making His Mark in Verdi 2013-11-25T16:28:51Z It’s the last bit of evidence that when the original Freeport here opened back in 1888, it wasn’t for rarefied assets at all. Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art 2012-07-21T18:52:48Z It has to provide beautiful, witty, rarefied fun of a distinct kind. Lorin Stein, the Paris Review?s New Party Boy 2011-02-25T19:58:16Z Most Latin students read from the same rarefied canon without much contact with how the language was used in everyday life. Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting) 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Millsaps said Birkins were a “cultural symbol of rarefied wealth and status,” ripe for artists to explore as metaphors of consumerism. Hermès Wins MetaBirkins Lawsuit, With Jurors Deciding NFTs Aren’t Art 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z She's part of a rarefied set whose muscles, Helprin tartly tells us, "evolved mainly for approaching a maitre d', lifting a poodle, or carrying glistening packages." 'In Sunlight and Shadow': Mismatched lovers in '40s Manhattan 2012-09-26T22:10:04Z If sneakers have cracked the rarefied world of couture, where can’t they go? Sneakers: Where Can’t They Go? 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Which brings us to the master class phenomenon, that rarefied world in which you study at the feet of the very best. Ringo Starr's MasterClass offers a student-focused approach to finding one's own drumming style 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Of course, none of those events occupies the same rarefied air as Savor. Why one of the nation’s premier beer festivals seems to have lost its luster 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Of course it’s serious, and art is serious, but I’m not going to rarefy it.” One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z In all seriousness, I understand why it’s so delicious to read about this particular rarefied strata. Review | 22 books about Manhattan jet-setters that will make you feel like one 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z “Life Itself” opens by citing his definition of cinema as “a machine that generates empathy,” and he was not interested in rarefied or exclusionary approaches to aesthetics. ‘Life Itself,’ Reminiscences of Roger Ebert 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z This is especially so when the more visual, rarefied examples of their efforts coalesce in the hothouse intimacy of an art fair. Art In Review: INTERNATIONAL FINE ART & ANTIQUE DEALERS SHOW 2012-10-18T21:48:04Z But, as Mr. Donadoni, the auction house specialist, said, potential buyers of something as old and rarefied — and as small — as a medieval manuscript are often stalled by one simple question. From the Monastery to the Auction Salesroom 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z But if you breathe the rarefied air of fame, it’s in your system. Our culture needed an adult. Gayle King rose to the challenge. 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z But the lark had legs, a meeting was arranged and soon Richard Avedon was leaving his rarefied Upper East Side universe for gypsum plants and oil fields. Richard Avedon’s Portraits of the American West Ride Again 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Segel doesn’t quite reach the rarefied realms of the mathematical aspect of Wallace’s temperament. David Foster Wallace Isn’t Just Like Us! 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “Mr. and Mrs. Loving” has two things, two centrally human things, that the rarefied symbolic protagonists of “Loving” don’t: sex and humor. Jeff Nichols’s “Loving”: An Airbrushed Portrait of the Interracial Couple Whose Struggle Changed History 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It was crossover programming at its most rarefied. What true crossover sounds like, East-meets-West edition 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The treatment is as austere and rarefied as the subject – don't expect any TV-style docudrama. This week's new films 2012-07-27T23:05:00Z But if his finessing gifts of physical description are those of a rarefied aesthete, the cumulative effect is foursquare and convincing. David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z The Scherzo was a little discombobulated, lacking the rarefied sound of the soft passages heard from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra earlier in the week. BSO continues centennial celebration with two new pieces 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z The artist indulged in a similar kind of trickery and transformation with his fashion project, while also making a point of welcoming non-fashion aficionados into this seemingly rarefied world. Ai Weiwei meets fashion — and throws paint all over it It was a week of delicious parties in rarefied settings. Putting on the Fits 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z But most of all, they stake out the rarefied demographic that can even afford to attend most nationally known, non-regional festivals at all: whomever can afford to be interested. Battle of the senses 2012-06-10T12:50:00Z The difference is that this tiny, rarefied world has its own particular set of norms and values—and the potential financial rewards quickly run to hundreds of millions of dollars. HBO’s “Silicon Valley” leans in: The bro-tastic startup culture confronts its woman problem in season 2 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Hogan’s video bunker was also life-changing for him, if not quite as rarefied. What Lies Beneath 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z During the pandemic, “Just for Us,” a thoughtful, punchline-dense comedy, skipped past downtown hit into the rarefied air of cultural phenomenon. A Comic With Many Questions About Jews and Whiteness 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z His brand of heady silliness was long suspected as being too quirky and rarefied for mainstream tastes. Critic’s Notebook: Gee, Conan, That Joke Seems Familiar 2012-11-09T23:47:19Z That is, until you are smacked by the tennis racket of reality, and remember they both have more money than God and occupy the same rarefied plane as the Clintons. Perspective | Is this feminism? What to make of the new shows from Hillary and Meghan. 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z As a result, they are helping to shape the next generation of a hobby, and a rarefied trade. Meet the New Old Book Collectors 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z The images were commodities of the humblest, most populist sort, not rarefied art-market fetishes. ‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ Review: The Cat’s Meow 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Using air drawn from the compressors in the engines, and regulated through valves in the fuselage, pressurization effectively squeezes this rarefied, high-altitude air back together, re-creating the dense, oxygen-rich conditions at sea level. Smoke in the cabin? Just open the window 2012-09-25T22:00:00Z The public in turn has had a lifetime to get to know Charles, starting from his rarefied childhood in the public eye. In the Footsteps of Charles III 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Last fall, a museum opened with a focus on another topic that rarefied institutions generally avoid: tattoos. In Transit Blog: Tattoos, Through Time: A New Museum for Amsterdam 2012-01-10T11:00:26Z After the night of broken glass — she doesn’t use the word “Kristallnacht,” because it sounds too beautiful and rarefied — Nazis came to the door of their first-floor apartment. Dr. Ruth made ‘orgasm’ a household word. But her real passion? Dollhouses. 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Taking the play in is like sipping a rarefied eau de vie, the kind that scalds as it cools. Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The tough-guy chatter and feelings in “Triple Frontier” are somewhat more rarefied than in the usual grunting action flick. ‘Triple Frontier’ Review: Men on a Mission? Possible! 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z For Dralyuk, who grew up in Odesa, giving Ukrainian writers visibility in mainstream publications, and not just in rarefied academic presses and journals, feels not only urgent but overdue. An urgent mission for literary translators: Bringing Ukrainian voices to the West 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In contrast to Shakespeare's red-blooded narrative, however, Peony Pavilion is told through a rarefied language of colours, symbols and visions. National Ballet of China ? review 2011-08-15T17:15:01Z Not many playwrights would have thought to turn this confluence of epochal sensibilities into a farce, but Stoppard has a gift for finding humor in the most rarefied scenarios. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z They should have no problem at all adjusting to a setting as rarefied as this one. Jazz Listings for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z “It was a living craft tradition, not a rarefied museum exhibition,” Mr. Aram said. Michael Aram on the Artisans of Delhi 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z But the thing is, the general public really doesn't share that peculiar combination of rarefied and populist taste, you might say. The "Drive" backlash: Too violent, too arty or both? 2011-09-23T14:01:00Z These are rarefied objects for the cognoscenti — like the Italian antique dealer who bought a book with its number corresponding to his wife’s date of birth. A Tender Tome of Travel History 2010-06-14T12:00:00Z I don't feel disconnected in that way, and also my work tends not to make me rarefied. David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life' 2012-11-09T17:00:01Z Q: Sure, but the industry is growing wildly, and a handful of breweries are fighting in the rarefied air at the top: you, Sierra Nevada, New Belgium and Sam Adams among them. Lagunitas drops lawsuit against Sierra Nevada after Twitter backlash 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z I also think New Yorkers have caught on that something interesting is happening at the high end of the sushi trade, as chefs push their craft into more and more rarefied territory. A Sushi Hideaway Where There’s Always Something New to Taste 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z His is a rarefied form of practice in which clients are not patrons, nor partners, but vehicles for him to realise his ideas. Peter Zumthor: RIBA awards gold medal to architecture's man of mystery 2013-02-05T15:00:56Z The promise of a peek into this rarefied kingdom is the reason thousands of young British people head to the Mediterranean each spring. Sun, sea and silver service: what’s it like crewing on a superyacht? 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z The film’s worldwide success may turn the Oscar-winning actress into a blockbuster heroine, a rarefied combination that “Us” is positioned to affirm. This Is Lupita Nyong’o. Hollywood, Please Keep Up. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z "There's something about the rarefied, careful, air-conditioned lives that we live that leaves us wanting more," says Kaplan. Running wild: Animal Planet unveils its new season 2013-04-03T14:12:04Z For fashion at its most rarefied, de la Renta was glorious common ground. Robin Givhan on Oscar de la Renta: With style, he wooed women of all stripes It affords a glimpse into a rarefied London social and literary milieu. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z Most wine drinkers, admittedly, will neither want nor need such rarefied glasses. The Best Wine Glass for Any Occasion: Our Critic Reviews 5 New Contenders 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z But then he delivers such a plain-spoken diagnosis of fame's shortcomings — of the way it can distract the famous from the makings of true fulfillment — that you find yourself coming around to his rarefied perspective. J. Cole's '2014 Forest Hills Drive' hits authentic notes 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Actual Nazi posters are also here, while large tempera paintings by Oskar Nerlinger from 1928-30 perpetuate the rarefied fantasy architecture of the 18th century yet hint at the conflicts of modern life. Hope and Dread Are Infused in ‘Berlin Metropolis’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z It is a wonderful film: smart, intelligent, humorous film-making for grownups, although perhaps it should be conceded that the lives involved are on a higher and more rarefied material level than the film quite admits. Marriage Story and The Irishman deserve awards love, but no Greta Gerwig is heart-sinking | Peter Bradshaw 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In the past fifteen years in this city, Neapolitan-style pizza has gone from rarefied regional specialty to adopted staple, practically inescapable. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z And I think focusing on the importance of one form or another—the standalone episode or the long-form series—is a bit of a rarefied critics’ concern. Serial Killers: Are HBO-Style Dramas Ruining the TV Episode? 2012-02-21T15:40:59Z The aesthetic at the Fountain is poetic, but the governing sensibility isn't at all rarefied. Fountain Theatre celebrates its first 25 years as a vital, intimate L.A. stage 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z And it goes beyond not only the rarefied realm of musical theater obsessives, but also partisan use. ‘Hamilton’ Makes a Curious Cameo in Trump Impeachment Trial 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z “She was an extraordinarily gifted artist who by the sheer force of her talent and will catapulted herself to the most rarefied heights of the international opera world,” her family said in a statement. Opera singer Maria Ewing, wife of Peter Hall, dead at 71 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z So, what do these very wealthy women and their rarefied problems do? Bring on the cosmos: You'll need one to enjoy 'Sex and the City 2' 2010-05-26T17:22:00Z “Smart Funny and Black,” the live black-pop-culture game show Seales dreamed up in her living room, has landed in the plush and rarefied halls of the Kennedy Center. Amanda Seales was always ‘Smart Funny and Black.’ Finally, everyone else sees it. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Containing both a clock and a pocket watch, the elaborate cabinet belongs to a rarefied group of timepieces invented by Abraham-Louis Breguet, the French court’s favored watchmaker. Finely Made Clocks Emerge as Connoisseur Favorites 2012-11-21T16:30:23Z Big and Wags embracing Peloton demonstrates how the bicycle is perceived to be intended for the privileged, the rarefied elite who meet with rather ridiculous fates brought on by their pricey equipment. The damning portrayals of Peloton on our TVs and what that says about us 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z What we said: An elegant, eccentric relationship comedy of ideas, highly rarefied and possessed of an almost inscrutable sophistication. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The new store features its most rarefied item yet, something called an “immaterial sculpture.” A Stylishly Secretive Store for Design-Obsessed Men in Los Angeles 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z “For us kids who grew up in ‘rarefied’ or ‘intellectual’ households, there was an authenticity we wanted nurtured. Alice Gerrard Didn’t Plan a Bluegrass Career. She Broke Its Glass Ceiling. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Few more compelling figures have emerged from the rarefied world of French fashion than Betty Catroux, who claims to have no interest in the subject. 19 Things About Betty Catroux 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z The show has also attracted some more rarefied V.I.P.s: political figures with firsthand knowledge of the pressures — and scandals — that come with running the country. ‘Hamilton’ Puts Politics Onstage and Politicians in Attendance 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarefied and the people who enter have been vetted. “OK, so what would convince you that racism is real?” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z But they don’t offer the crisp, rarefied listening experience that Ars Nova did. A Revolution in Jazz? An Avant-Garde Festival Makes History, but Not Community 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z At the same time, an emissary from the rarefied climes of American privilege that animated “Grasses of A Thousand Colors,” Wallace Shawn, appeared before us at the tiny Court Upstairs. 2009-12-30T05:50:00Z His way of singing was just too rarefied for widespread fame. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88 This is the rarefied kind of film theory that rarely stoops to discussing any particular film. Non-fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-20T07:00:02Z “Little known outside a rarefied ’70s jet set of rock ’n’ rollers, movie stars, socialites and European dilettantes,” Hagan would write, “his name was once a secret handshake.” Earl McGrath Was a Character. His Closet Was Filled With Rare Recordings. 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z And, if all goes as planned, it will solidify their perch in rarefied air, as musical-theater personages to be reckoned with. ‘Hamilton’ director Thomas Kail, at the height of his powers 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “Part of what Jeff is good at is creating a community and environment for this rarefied group.” The San Vicente Bungalows: Hollywood’s New Clubhouse 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Part of what makes Stillman such a witty satirist and an acute observer of his own rarefied slice of the social world is his faith in affiliation as a fundamental character trait. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Born in 1934 to an affluent Jewish family, Cohen descended from the hills of his rarefied Westmount neighborhood to play country music in Montreal’s gritty downtown cafes when he was only a teenager. Is Leonard Cohen the New Secular Saint of Montreal? 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z “The value of black is what the viewer will read into that black space,” said Cole, who, though a comic book artist, wasn’t against seeking more rarefied mentors. A Return to Slumberland and a Psychedelic Rediscovery 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The holiday, with its menu of classic and symbolic Persian dishes, is an excellent lens through which to explore the rarefied cuisine. Persian Cuisine, Fragrant and Rich With Symbolism 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z “When we view artists as living in this rarefied realm,” Roberts said, “we do a disservice to ourselves and to them.” Why Is a Day Job Seen as the Mark of an Artist’s Failure? 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Quite the opposite; it is a particularly rarefied form of attention, and can in itself seed even more coverage on the social web. Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review? 2012-05-22T11:05:28Z “Doing something that might save people’s actual lives, or something in some rarefied museum?” Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Like Beneatha, Hansberry was an intellectual in an era when women and African-Americans were denied full admission into that rarefied category. For Lorraine Hansberry, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Was Just the Start 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Is there a mother in the rarefied world of couture who would not dream of getting her daughter into the spun-sugar party dresses? Special Report: Fashion: Reflecting on the Future 2011-01-25T18:18:38Z It was a concert that leaves you aglow with a sense of well-being and gratitude: a jubilee of the most rarefied sort. 2010-01-08T04:07:00Z In this composer’s rarefied world, impulse overrules inhibition; cause and effect are for naïfs; one plus two equals an imaginary number. Why a fashionable young audience flocked to hear an obscure Greek composer's soundscape 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Predictable to the bone — and at times maddeningly redundant — “Victoria” too often feels like a period drama about the making of a period drama, rather than a deep, authentic breath of rarefied air. PBS’s ‘Victoria’ extravagantly portrays another young queen, but she’s a bit of a bore 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z I asked for their most representative lineup, expecting a rarefied twirl through Berlin’s exclusive blue-chip gallery scene. The $2,000-a-Day Berlin 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z His work is not dominated by rarefied pieces that sell for thousands of dollars — though he produces a high-end runway collection that displays his deft touch for detail and keen eye for figure-flattering construction. The flowing diplomacy of the first lady’s dress at the Japan State Dinner 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The beautiful and rarefied setting of both Oxford and Cambridge add an unhelpful patina to the stories of students like Joe Cooke and Chris Monk, who both featured in the programme. University politics offers more than eccentric skulduggery 2012-08-10T17:42:26Z Not every gumshoe gets to trample such rarefied terrain. Books Of the Times: ‘Vengeance,’ a New Novel by Benjamin Black 2012-08-13T21:47:45Z "We wanted to be able to show something of this very rarefied world," O'Neill said. London show fetes Italian fashion designer Valentino 2012-11-29T17:38:48Z But the category of museum-quality art and antiques is its own rarefied world, with a minuscule number of potential buyers functioning in a sociological bubble distinct from what might be called “normal folks.” The affordable-art paradox: Do reasonable prices make pieces of art less desirable? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Still, the NoMad restaurant is more about greatest hits, as opposed to the rarefied Eleven Madison Park. Check In: Hotel Review: NoMad Hotel in New York City 2013-08-07T16:24:53Z But the members of this rarefied tribe never flaunt their wealth; they don’t need to. Review | Christina McDowell’s satire ‘The Cave Dwellers’ belongs among the essential books about Washington 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Its long black pheasant feathers project forward around the face like a phalanx of drawn swords or a rarefied Venus’ flytrap. Art Review: Hats, by Stephen Jones, at Bard Graduate Center - Review 2011-09-22T22:03:10Z These operations, as rarefied and complex as they may have become, continue to perform the basic telic task of the second law. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z “He took a rarefied world and broke it down into terms that would seem familiar to any socially insecure high school student anywhere,” they wrote. William Hamilton, Popular Cartoonist at The New Yorker, Dies in Car Crash 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s not as if “Sunday in the Park With George,” a diptych portrait of the artist at work in the 19th and 20th centuries, is a rarefied novelty to which we’ve been allowed infrequent access. Review: Jake Gyllenhaal Shines in a Joyous ‘Sunday in the Park With George’ 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z And well he might, given his rarefied position: a sixtysomething rock legend who can mess around with his past and his audience's expectations, because he doesn't have to rely on either. Robert Plant 2010-09-03T21:01:00Z Who is going to sign on to the cause of organizing these major institutions around the nurturing and protection of a small, rarefied group of humanists who have been freed from performing any particular function? Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z By being tied to the higher ideal of peace, his performance resonates, even under these rarefied circumstances, with a history of principled abstinence and self-inflicted pain. Art Review: Crawling for Peace in a Not-Quite Salt Mine 2011-03-10T16:30:07Z Not enough minority women have been groomed for senior writing jobs, a function not only of the industry’s white male focus, but also of rarefied access, discrimination in promotions, and low entry-level pay. As TV Seeks Diverse Writing Ranks, Rising Demand Meets Short Supply 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Nobody is going to mistake Mission Chinese Food for a rarefied tasting room, though, not when you can get a pepperoni pizza. Restaurant Review: Mission Chinese Food on the Lower East Side 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Of course, we should be careful not to let the ambience of these experiences feel rarefied, as if audiences are entering sacred temples. What Shouldn’t Change About Classical Music 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z As you descend from the pass, the Douglas firs recede, replaced by Ponderosa pines, then juniper, then sage; the ground, once loamy, is cindery and dry; the air smells different, rarefied, sharper. When my daughter was diagnosed 2014-02-12T00:00:00Z Although these sculptures pay tribute to commercialism, they rarefy it to something austere — or at least as austere as anything with pulsing green lights can be. Review | In the galleries: More than just selfies, more than just photos 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z After two weeks, it reached rarefied territory in today’s music industry: more than one million equivalent album sales. Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ Is the Year’s Biggest Album. But Can You Find It in Stores? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z With billions at his disposal, he practices rarefied and enormously profitable business strategies incomprehensible even to his colleagues while cocooning himself in an enormous apartment and his sound- and bulletproof car. Review: Cronenberg blows a tire with 'Cosmopolis' 2012-08-14T14:57:10Z You said "It's a mindf**k" because on the one hand, you got the job placing you in a rarefied position that most others would never be. TV writer talks "Breaking Bad," writers strike and the toxicity of the "auteur genius showrunner" 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Underpinned by everything from the Bible to Darwin, the play is incredibly heady and probably too rarefied for cycle newcomers. Review | George Bernard Shaw’s science fiction ‘Methuselah’ reaches its final frontier 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Likewise, Villeneuve and Mendes will find their personal projects easier to greenlight now that they have proven their value to studios desperate to inject the rarefied alchemy of visionary film-making into safer franchise fare. Blade Runner 2049 to Bond 25: yes, Mr Villeneuve, we expect you to direct 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z This show takes all of the petulance and nastiness and passion of "Project Runway" or "Top Chef" and applies it to the rarefied realm of fine art. My new TV addiction: Bravo's "Work of Art" 2010-06-05T22:01:00Z For those unacquainted with this rarefied dining scene, here is a little history. A Clubby French Bistro Ruffles Uptown Social Feathers 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z I imagine that the British filmmaker Joanna Hogg has a passing acquaintance with some of those movies, even if her work is rarefied enough to constitute its own auteurist genre. ‘The Eternal Daughter’ Review: Two Glorious Sides of Tilda Swinton 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The answers remain the same, namely, less access to capital and exclusion from a rarefied network of connections that includes collectors, dealers, curators, critics and auction houses. Black Gallerists Press Forward Despite a Market That Holds Them Back 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z He taught us that the art world is too limiting, too rarefied, too moneyed, and that artists want to be out in the public sphere. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z It was a rarefied virtuosic swoon, not really a New York thing. Music Review: Ninth Annual Winter Jazzfest 2013-01-13T22:44:58Z Retail Row Bellhaus, with its uptown prices and rarefied brands, and Daryl K, selling frayed chambray dresses against an aged backdrop of plywood and planks, would seem unlikely bedfellows. 10 Hot Spots of Summer 2010-07-01T00:36:00Z Having arrived at a rarefied position in movies, Gosling intends to appreciate it, even if his version of a "leading man" is to question masculine stereotypes and avoid leading altogether. Gosling at ease in every role except movie star 2013-03-20T16:53:12Z Of all the brands, however, Hermès is arguably the most rarefied. Hermès doesn’t make it easy for you to buy its stuff. That’s why it sells so well. 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z His artistic instincts, business acumen and commensurate ego combined to commercially triumphant effect in the rarefied world of high fashion, where he was revered and feared in similar proportions by competitors and top-models. Karl Lagerfeld: fashion's prolific commander-in-chief 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Hersch is among the rarefied group of jazz musicians, mostly pianists, whose very identities are bound up with the Village Vanguard. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z That Miss Williams’s historic role is scarcely remembered today is rooted both in the rarefied world of opera-house politics and the ubiquitous racial anxiety of midcentury America. Camilla Williams, Opera Singer, Dies at 92 2012-02-02T22:51:38Z But the show of what seemed like rarefied vacation wear had some strange travel pieces. Fashion Review: At Givenchy, Sweet Tranquility 2012-10-01T18:52:38Z She was at her best in the rarefied environs of the plays of Edward Albee, a world poised between the upper-middle class and eternity. How Marian Seldes Took the Stage 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Venturing forward to the early 20th century, Clark now turns her attention to the rarefied world of a fictional British manor house called Ellinghurst. ‘We That Are Left’ review: Can the British manor house survive? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z And while the documentary hints at how this rarefied reputation was constructed and developed, it is far more focused on familiar faces and promotional adjectives. Review: ‘Always at the Carlyle’ Hints at Scandal, Chooses Discretion 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Obtaining this level of genetic information is no longer a highly rarefied procedure. Exhibition Review: ‘Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code,’ at the Smithsonian 2013-08-29T21:30:18Z At Boston University, he studied Milton, a gentlemanly pursuit presumably meant to prepare him for a rarefied post in the publishing world — one, he confided with disarming sincerity, “that I always wanted to be in.” Up Close: Town & Country Man Eases Into His New Home 2011-07-13T20:41:53Z This rarefied botanical pursuit is usually considered a British eccentricity, but Ms. Whittingham has turned up much proof that it reached American shores. Antiques: Fern History, Fry Glass and a Militiaman?s Sword 2012-03-15T21:37:47Z The house of Cassini has since fallen somewhat off the map, except in this rarefied realm, where it is also a marquee name at David’s Bridal, at least at the Houston branch. The Latest Bridal Dress Collections Showed Few New Wrinkles 2014-04-18T21:15:29Z The job of celebrity and society reporter, even one at the top of this rarefied field, seemed no longer enough for a family breadwinner. Death of a Red Carpet Reporter 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z You also travel in rarefied circles and have access to people who have a lot of power, whether in Washington or with wealthy, influential individuals around the country. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Americans who are hitting one obstacle after another: ‘That is why I persist’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z In a broadside at fellow musicians, he said that some were sidelining Bach into "a rarefied and effete ghetto" while others were turning "philosophical masterpieces" into "shallow showpieces". Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z No matter your role, you are performing essentially a mind meld in a really rarefied, intensified environment. Working in TV, Jen Silverman Wrote a Novel. About Theater. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z An interview with a photogenic young couple who gave up their rarefied royal life in Britain could have been merely a gossipy diversion. 2021’s notable moments on TV: Capitol riot, ‘Rust,’ Shatner 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Basics Instinct While the name Onassis brings to mind the rarefied world of scandalous shipping tycoons, a new men’s-wear line and store of the same name is out to change all that. Basics Instinct 2010-08-26T19:06:00Z The 35-year-old Bell wrote, directed and starred in her own independent movie "In a World..." in 2013, winning critical praise for her comic look into the rarefied world of voice over artists. A Minute With: Actress Lake Bell on going from indie to Disney 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z This was Wagner of a rarefied kind, rarefied above all because of its simplicity. Nelsons Turns Tanglewood Into Bayreuth-in-the-Berkshires 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Repairs require rarefied judgment calls at every step. Antiques: Shining New Light on a Modernist 2011-08-11T21:43:28Z Because the Oscars’ rarefied sensibility actually means something, and that aspirational golden sheen shouldn’t be watered down — indeed, it’s the whole reason people pay attention. The Oscars’ Popularity Crisis 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Like the "Housewives," "Girlfriends' Guide" exists in the roiling but still rarefied air of Earned Wealth. Review: 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce' marries Bravo to good TV 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z In this respect, “We Keep the Dead Close” is the latest entry in a rarefied genre: the Harvard murder. New Book Returns to an Irresistible Theme: the Harvard Murder 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z They also draw a more rarefied flock: international film directors. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Of her own creative process Schiaparelli wrote that she "went up into the rarefied skies of her most fantastic imagination and set off cascades of fireworks." 'Elsa Schiaparelli': Fashion designer too elusive for words 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Her world was rarefied and white, and one might assume she is missing full knowledge of what it means to be black, brown or poor. Diana Taylor doesn’t have a name for her relationship with Mike Bloomberg. She just wants him to win. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The goal is to push visitors’ experience beyond the rarefied gallery walls and encourage discourse on complex topics inside the museum and in the surrounding world. Art and Politics Meet in Boston, Sometimes All Night 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Some of its middle-class problems spill over into more universal ones; others remain haughtily, realistically, rarefied. The Souvenir: how Joanna Hogg humanises 'middle-class problems' 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Even in the rarefied world of upscale French cinema, built around a tradition of ethereal, untouchable screen goddesses, the woman known to the Parisian media as La Binoche is a special case. Juliette Binoche on her new Tuscan-seductress role 2011-03-12T22:01:00Z Whether democratically elected politicians who need your vote or pop stars who need you to open your wallet, most everyone at her rarefied level lives, to some degree, by consent of the governed. Netflix’s 'The Crown' Makes the Most of an Unknowable Queen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The only wistful suggestion at its comforting close is that such rarefied privilege for its characters might one day be gone. ‘Last Weekend’ Is an Elegiac Ode to Affluence 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z People perceive art as being possibly elitist and a rarefied world. Rarefied art world gets reality TV competition 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z It’s only the latest effort by the children’s show to bring more reality to the rarefied world of educational TV. How ‘Sesame Street’ Handles Tough Topics 2013-09-20T15:45:46Z Our guide allowed us to stay at the top, in the rarefied air, only long enough to snap a few pictures. A father-son duo hit their peak — at Mount Kilimanjaro 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z He's serious about this, which helps raise the music from the area of kitsch – which would make it trash – towards the more rarefied realm of camp. New band of the day ? No 971: Hunx and His Punx 2011-02-18T17:13:29Z Colson Whitehead has a blurb on the front cover of “Exhalation,” and Barack Obama has one on the back, so this is rarefied air. New & Noteworthy, From John Sayles to Julius Caesar 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Their first challenge was a monumental one: They’d entered some of the most rarefied halls in government as that government remains partially shut down. For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Less rarefied, however, than it used to be. How global warming has changed what it’s like to travel to the North Pole 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z If the 28-year-old superstar dropped dead today, he'd become one of a rarefied few: artists who died too young, at the peak of their powers. Mortality, fame hang heavy on Drake's 'If You're Reading This' 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Some of those songs felt more appropriate at the Blue Moon than they do in the rarefied air of an opera hall. Go to a dive bar, drink beer — listen to opera? 2 writers experience Opera on Tap at Blue Moon | Art Outings 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z The people are invariably beautiful, the settings sometimes rarefied and the stakes occasionally extraordinary, but never at the expense of Mr. Assayas’s allegiance to real, deeply lived and felt life. Review: In ‘Clouds of Sils Maria,’ a Celebration Turns Into a Memorial 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In a half-dozen books, he explained Japan’s rarefied building customs, emphasizing the nation’s intangible spirit. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z As Mayer writes, the Kochs are part of “a small, rarefied group of hugely wealthy, archconservative families that for decades poured money, often with little public disclosure, into influencing how Americans thought and voted.” Jane Mayer discusses her book 'Dark Money' and its ongoing relevance 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Doing something in a gallery seemed so rarefied and serious. Bernadette Corporation: 'Don't have sex with each other' 2013-03-24T21:00:01Z High-toned books and their creators have, of course, long breathed rarefied artistic air. Got a Best Seller? Chipotle May Come Calling. 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Hopheads, drug wars, bent doctors, the rarefied chemical underground of Beverly Hills, and so much more – one route into understanding the city would certainly be via its synapses. Leonardo DiCaprio and Prince Harry: alpha males with animal troubles 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z He was a showman, but by then he was also a rarefied bird. Perspective | Little Richard would have been the first to say his style was fabulous. He was right. 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Part of the enduring lure of the van Meegerens, undoubtedly, is the satisfaction of knowing that the most rarefied connoisseurs were duped by what now look to be ham-handed fakes. So Valuable, It Could Almost Be Real 2013-12-31T23:14:12Z Watching them together does feel like witnessing a rarefied coupling: With her windup impish curiosity and his reserved charm, they recall one of those adorable wildlife videos where, like, a coyote befriends a badger. Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker Spend the Night Together 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Absorbed in their rarefied intellectual world, Shay and Giustinia meddle in real affairs with callousness and end by causing pain. Andrea Lee on Cross-Cultural Encounters 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z And that creative eloquence isn’t a rarefied thing, to be treated with reverence; it’s cheerfully mixed in with every flavor of mundanity and vulgarity. Read Your Way Through Dublin 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z And as evidenced by some of the prestigious D.C. companies taking part, the tryout model is moving into even more rarefied corners of the industry. Perspective | With three new musicals this fall, D.C. is reasserting its status as a premier Broadway tryout town 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z By now Louise Penny, deservedly, has built up such a large community of adoring readers that her novels belong to that most rarefied of literary categories: They are review-proof. Review | Louise Penny’s new novel shows once again why she’s a crowd favorite 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Your ears are seamlessly taken into another realm, a place that's both ethereal in its sheer, rarefied beauty yet grounded in the real world of instruments and voices. A guide to Kaija Saariaho's music 2012-07-09T15:01:23Z In this episode, Mr. Nimoy brought to Spock’s metamorphosis not only warmth and compassion, but also a rarefied concept of alienation. Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Ingrao's decorative strategy in many ways mirrors Kara's approach to jewelry design, most notably her melding of rarefied materials with rawer, more humble ones. Inside The Glamorous New York City Penthouse Of Kara And Stephen Ross 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The movie is an unapologetically rarefied undertaking and at the same time a gracious and inviting film. Review: In Eugène Green’s ‘La Sapienza,’ a Search of Ideals of Civilization 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But outside a rarefied circle of close friends, they fly pretty much under the radar. How the Obamas managed to become invisible in Washington 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z She has inhabited a rarefied world of media and cultural elites but enjoys a kind of comfortable, unpretentious anonymity. How a fed-up group of ‘Good Girls’ beat the ‘Mad Men’-era sexists 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Inscribed firsts open up a rarefied and exceedingly expensive world. 2009-12-03T23:00:00Z We won’t talk about the rarefied world of citrus, mangoes and avocados because so few of us live in places where they grow, but, wherever you are, there’s a fruit-bearing tree for you. Perspective | If you’re trying to decide what food to grow yourself, here are 8 places to start 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z But the exalted, rarefied atmosphere is to some extent a carefully maintained illusion, an aspect of the show. Film: Movies, Mountains and High Hopes 2010-09-06T22:55:00Z He packages them in a way that allows both loyal customers and potential ones to glimpse the rarefied life into which those products seamlessly fit. Ralph Lauren, designer of the American Dream, honored by the Smithsonian Specialty museums closed by the dozen this year, in fields as rarefied as New Jersey farming and Arizona mining, and their collections were stored away or split up. Antiques: Intriguing Items From a Year of Auctions 2011-12-29T23:29:03Z It’s expansive enough to contain cinematic multitudes: westerns, musicals, melodramas and art films of the more rarefied type find a home here. Time Traveling at the Toronto Film Festival 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Punk, as associated with rock and roll, gradually gained currency, so that by 1974, the word could even be found in the rarefied pages of none other than The New Yorker. “Drunk, obnoxious, smart but not pretentious”: The long, low history of the word “punk” 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z It’s also one coming from someone with two Yale degrees, an Oxford doctorate and a tenured job-for-life inside one of the meritocracy’s most rarefied bastions. The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Organizers hope to draw a parallel between the populist, DIY punk aesthetic and the individualized vision of rarefied designers. ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ at the Met’s Costume Institute 2013-04-25T11:55:00Z It’s not as rarefied, but people thought it was in its own way as eccentric a dance form to put on screen. ‘Break Pointe,’ a CW Reality Show About Ballet West Dancers 2012-05-29T22:07:57Z He entered into what he describes as a “most rarefied world,” of sumptuous country houses and gilded repartee, feeling “like Alice in Wonderland.” The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z Rey may even get to join the rarefied ranks of female Jedi in Episode VIII, if we are to believe new reports linked to the French rendering of the movie’s title. A modern space opera: has Star Wars escaped the George Lucas worldview? 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z He was — like Jerome Robbins and Antony Tudor in the United States — a bringer of neurosis, psychological drama and real-life grit to the rarefied world of ballet. Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Not for them the rarefied logical paradoxes of the British or the arcane vocabulary of the French. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z Davis, playing with mostly the same group, rarefied its electric wildness to a sort of Beckettian blankness. Miles Davis’s Boldest Heights 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Asked why the two made such a good pair, Mr. Shannon, a native of Lexington, Ky., mused for a while, before hazarding a guess: “We’re both kind of smart rednecks, which is a rarefied breed.” Jeff Nichols Spins Another Southern Tale With ‘Mud’ 2013-04-19T18:47:43Z As for Tray, he is rejected from restaurant after restaurant due to his criminal record, until a chance encounter lands him a job in another rarefied culinary scene: that of pretentious designer coffee. Two new shows skewer trendy food culture — through the eyes of a black ex-con and a young white server 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z To di Bonaventura's point, a star must be in some rarefied atmosphere when a lead role in a big studio action movie is rewritten from male to female. Angelina Jolie jolts a man's world: action films 2010-07-15T06:12:00Z The finished film was emphatically not an awards season beast, playing noisily to the cheap seats rather than the rarefied front row. Is Tom Hardy's Venom the new Greatest Showman? 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z He’s less pretty, less rarefied and far more dynamic than poor Richard. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z He’s in rarefied air, and people will gladly pay a lot of money to see him perform. Live music is a luxury now: Outrageous ticket prices make it harder and harder to support the bands we love 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z That obsession with the furthest reaches of redness suggests the rarefied sensuality of Saunders' music. A guide to Rebecca Saunders' music 2012-11-05T15:47:54Z His 1975 “Köln Concert,” on ECM, is the best-selling solo-piano album of all time, and the cornerstone of a rarefied career. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z Reno makes films, but her real entree into those rarefied circles arrives thanks to her relationship with Sandro Valera, an older minimalist who specializes in metal boxes. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z Wherever she played, she drew a devoted, even rarefied, following. Dixie Evans, Who Brought ‘Monroe’ to Burlesque Houses, Dies at 86 2013-08-11T00:49:34Z We’re talking about the rarefied New York art world here — artists, pallid wannabes and the various collectors, critics, curators and connoisseurs who feast off their talent. Murder, Murder Everywhere: the Woods, the Hospital, the Market Square 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s enshrined in Muybridge’s mesmerizing “Panorama of San Francisco,” shot from the rarefied precipice now known as Nob Hill, where Stanford was putting up an enormous mansion. Art Review: Tracing Muybridge, Pioneer of Photography, at the Corcoran 2010-04-26T22:54:00Z In the rarefied environs of the Upper East Side, the bibliophilic Grolier Club qualifies as an alternative exhibition space. ‘The Calligraphy Revival’: Fine Handwriting, With a Flourish 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The reader is left to question how she and her brother — progeny of the same parents and subject to the same rarefied upbringing — diverged in their ability to overcome their illnesses. A Wealthy Family’s Battle With Drugs Laid Bare, but to What End? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Can The Lego Movie reach that rarefied atmosphere? The Lego Movie Gives Its Valentine’s Day Rivals the Kiss-Off 2014-02-17T22:03:16Z Still, as Posner posits, the government career of Adams fils is propelled as much by the privileges of his rarefied circumstances as by the ambition that drives the more compelling figures of his extraordinary time. Review | John Quincy Adams is the anti-Trump in the new play ‘JQA’ 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z He spends his days in solitude, building and installing custom amplifiers for a rarefied, dwindling group of hi-fi enthusiasts. Newly Released Books 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The question “Would you like iceberg ice in “your water glass tonight?” is the kind typically reserved for destinations of rarefied pomposity. T Magazine: Fly Zone 2011-03-21T14:00:14Z There is a tendency to think of the art world as a thing apart, a rarefied cosmos of intellectual games, gestures and ripostes that exists independently of the so-called real world. Review | Hans Haacke makes that banana on the wall look ridiculous 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z But “When 6 Is 9: Visions of a Parallel Universe” is made up of mostly paintings, their subjects rarefied or abstracted. Review | In the galleries: Renee Stout’s fiery visions draw inspiration from Jimi Hendrix 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Certainly, the first half of this 75-minute production — enacted by toddler-size Bunraku puppets manipulated by a visible team of performers — would seem to suggest a rarefied variation on such rowdy fare. Review: A Harrowing Puppet Show, ‘Demolishing Everything With Amazing Speed’ 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z I began to see Oprah as living in a rarefied air, just one billionaire talking to another in her interview with J.K. Oprah can still bring this gay man to tears 2011-01-26T21:30:00Z A passage in “Light Years” pointed at his desire to reach the pantheon of great writers while knowing his appeal was too rarefied: James Salter, novelist with exquisite prose style, dies at 90 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z “The Rest I Make Up” distills fifteen years of connection between the filmmaker and the playwright into a brisk, teeming, aesthetically rarefied and emotionally raw eighty-minute jaunt into the void. An Extraordinary Documentary Portrait of a Playwright Facing Alzheimer’s Disease 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Like other novelties of the post-hipster age, the source of the value is not just the finished work, but also the tedious and rarefied conditions of its production. Hipster Culture and Instagram Are Responsible for a Good Thing 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z It is fair to say that the National Gallery, home of rarefied Old Masters and temple to long-dead artists, has never had anything quite like it inside its hallowed galleries. National Gallery puts on a peep show with Mark Wallinger's nude Diana 2012-07-09T15:25:00Z Artists who embrace the medium know that what they produce is not “going to sit in the rarefied home of one particular owner or in a particular museum collection,” she said. Prints Make Themselves Seen (and Heard) Again 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z So this graceful collection, designed to be worn by a rarefied clientele, was not done just for promotion or brand building. Fashion Review: In Paris, Schiaparelli Returns to Couture 2014-01-20T14:47:27Z But what lifts Secrecy to a more rarefied level altogether is the visionary imagination that overlays the scrupulously worked structures those genres demand. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-20T07:59:01Z While we may not fully comprehend the rarefied world of first ladies, we all make choices about what to wear and how we want to look. A New Exhibit on First Ladies Plays Down Their Fashion Choices 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z It is rare to see women of color of such complexity and depth, but only because filmmakers have treated their stories as rarefied or ghettoized narratives, and not as part of the everyday experience. What About the Girls? 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z This combustible conflict of surface versus substance, if substance indeed remains, is conveyed through the rarefied art form from which Lypsinka takes her name. John Epperson Returns, in ‘Lypsinka! The Trilogy’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z But they also tend to be venerated — by media, by campaigns — as freethinkers, tough customers, keepers of a rarefied common sense that exists above the partisan tug-of-war. In a year of political anger, undecided voters inspire a special kind of scorn 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Traditionally, assisting for established makeup artists is the way to break into the rarefied echelons of the business. | Skin Deep: New York Fashion Week, Skin Deep: Yadim, an Emerging Backstage Makeup Artist 2011-09-07T18:17:44Z She has a rarefied feel for that kind of evocative detail — no stray seam escaping her scrutiny. Patti Smith?s Eye for Fashion 2010-03-19T20:41:00Z Teatime, usually from 2:30 to 6 p.m. daily, offers a chance to sample some of the most innovative pastry art in Paris, all while recharging in the rarefied air of these landmarks. In Paris, a pastry Renaissance is underway 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z In persuading them to talk about the role food has played in their lives, she aims to make even the most rarefied celebrities appear a bit more human. Getting Intimate With the Celebrity Regulars of River Cafe 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The results, which perhaps betray the inexperience of the ensemble too often, represent less a reversion to Walter’s prewar type than a rarefied era of their own; they exude luminosity. Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z My first instinct was to protest this reckless growth — until Phan mentioned the couple’s previous restaurant, the painfully underrated Green Papaya in Bethesda, a pioneer in pushing Vietnamese cuisine into more refined and rarefied air. Banh Ta Deli review: Where Vietnamese sandwiches pack in artistry and balance 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Is the gallery a rarefied place from which to appreciate a streetscape where shopping carts get stuck in the lake? Near downtown L.A., an oddly entrancing art installation, at once beautiful and troubling 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Like The West Wing, Smash is a high-gloss, high-minded attempt to bring viewers behind the scenes of a rarefied world, and it tries to engage that world on its own terms. Dead Tree Alert: Smash: Broadway?s West Wing, or Its Studio 60? 2012-02-02T15:31:12Z An intimate and unusual behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a ballet, it may sound rarefied but has enough moments of truth and beauty to engage general audiences. 'Ballet 422' shows the creative process on a tight deadline 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Charlesworth is probably best known for large, exquisite photographic works in which rarefied images — ancient masks, figures lifted from Renaissance paintings, disembodied Hollywood-starlet gowns — are isolated against fields of lush monochrome color. Sarah Charlesworth, Artist of Deconstructed Photographs, Dies at 66 2013-07-01T00:20:45Z But in this, I feel I am in rarefied company: a phrase I once came across in Henry James has always stuck with me. A Ship Sinks, and a Boy Is Enthralled 2013-08-21T16:31:12Z Those who would imagine that the rarefied realms of classical music or opera are removed somehow from the rancor of racism would be, as Norman put it, “mistaken. Sadly mistaken.” That sound you’re hearing is classical music’s long overdue reckoning with racism 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Obviously, he lives a very rarefied life, but in this film he plays a kind of Everyman in terms of this issue. The new “Inconvenient Truth”: Leonardo DiCaprio’s new documentary wants to challenge climate change skeptics 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Ostensibly, Ritter links the trad-folk and country of Dylan and Van Morrison with the rarefied lilts and quivers of Bright Eyes and Sufjan Stevens, but his wider references can border on pastiche. Josh Ritter – review 2013-07-24T17:40:43Z Now the building is a showcase for a far more rarefied art installation, offering select visitors a tantalizing glimpse inside for just two weeks. A Look Inside Vito Schnabel’s Bowery Bank Show 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Her Celine was still a rarefied luxury brand, but her style permeated the culture beyond her direct consumers. What Is Lost in Hedi Slimane’s Celine 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Tooth & Nail has been well received by the critics, and just entered the UK albums chart at No 13, a placing that puts it in the same rarefied orbit as his most successful albums. Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism 2013-03-26T17:00:32Z Two and a half years into their restaurant’s existence, the place is still on shaky financial ground, and the chef’s insistence on the finest, most rarefied ingredients does not help. ‘Seared’ Review: For a Pompous Chef, Comeuppance on the Menu 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Perry is also keen to debunk the rarefied world of contemporary art, doing so with sleight-of-hand casual charm that folds art history and knowledge into aphorisms and insights. Grayson Perry Prepares His American Introduction 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The eldest of four children, she was born into a rarefied 1940s, upper-middle-class world of debutantes and weekend horseback rides. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The Famous Spiegel Garden in George Square is an old hand at creating a rarefied, festival-within-a-festival atmosphere: its centrepiece is an 80-year-old spiegeltent which has come to the city for the past 13 years. Edinburgh festival fringe woos the money set with upmarket move 2010-08-06T18:08:00Z The books are not sold on Amazon or at bookstores, but rather meticulously crafted as bespoke tomes for clients seeking to learn more about the rarefied worlds they inhabit. The Boswell of Beverly Hills: A Historian of Homes 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Then stuff that's sort of more rarefied, that becomes just an acceptable pleasure. "Big Summer" author Jennifer Weiner: We all deserve pleasure amidst our quarantine soap opera 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z It's arguable whether he has succeeded in communicating too many subtexts of his rarefied philosophical agenda, but it's certainly been hugely entertaining. John Maus – review 2012-08-15T17:06:15Z “It is a tangible reminder of another era – and the rarefied life into which Wharton was born,” Ms. Juvelis said. Edith Wharton's Silver Baby Rattle Up for Sale 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Though there were always some skeptics, most Europeans believed that distant lands would be populated by these monsters, and stories of monsters traveled far beyond the rarefied libraries of elite readers. Columbus believed he would find “blemmyes” and “sciapods” — not people — in the New W... 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z One in the early `60s poked fun at the incongruities of introducing football into the rarefied intellectual air of the University of Chicago. Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past 2011-11-05T14:53:08Z Well-bred, pared-down shapes persist, filtering into the most rarefied collections, as well as a number of forward looking, accessibly priced lines. In Fashion, Are Trends Passé? 2012-08-22T23:58:16Z Native Hawaiians are entering a rarefied pop culture circle, inclusion in a movie that will reach viewers around the world. A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Haute couture is a rarefied craft, specific to France, where a consortium governs how the term is used and defined. Perspective | For Melania Trump, fashion diplomacy was defined by a hat 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The thing about the reggae scene is that it's never been a rarefied art form. Reggae landmark Wild Hare to close 2011-04-18T14:13:00Z Though the collection will be sold by appointment only at the Temple St. Clair studio in Manhattan, it will reach a broader audience than such rarefied items usually do. Jewelry Designer Temple St. Clair Carr's Collaboration with Artist Nancy Lorenz 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z So I considered it a stroke of luck when Mother Nature provided a rarefied dramatic backdrop just as we neared the Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, some 25 miles south of Cairo. A Refreshing Look at Egypt’s Ancient Pyramids 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z 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 When art was not a rarefied product, it was homemade and near to hand. The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now? 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z It is likely that no matter the medium, Murphy will continue to operate in a rarefied galaxy of her own invention while remaining down to earth. Róisín Murphy, a Disco Queen Ruling Her Own Galaxy 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z “It’s not about the money,’’ Mr. Lauren said, when asked to put a price tag on his collection of rarefied toys. Ralph Lauren Is Still Behind the Wheel 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Her inspirations were whimsical, even rarefied at times. Once Staid, Nail Polish Becomes Fashion Accessory 2012-04-04T21:07:26Z But it is only at the rarefied levels. Rent hikes and evictions — is this the last stand for artists in the Arts District? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z I am very proud to work with the rarefied few who can still find hilarity in a world that is both metaphorically and increasingly also literally on fire. Not-to-Be-Missed Shouts of 2018 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z “Here we are at this rarefied gala, we need to keep these things in mind,” Nef said earlier of the social justice theme of the evening. LACMA's Art + Film Gala honors Mark Bradford and George Lucas 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Sure hope we can enjoy her presence and voice for a long time...if she has the support to avoid getting 'burned' in the stardom's rarefied air. How Camila Cabello Lost Some Friends and Found Her Voice 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Just before it went on show, I met its choreographer and director, and heard about the company's fascinating history; Judith Mackrell praised its "rarefied language of colours, symbols and visions". Edinburgh festival: week two roundup 2011-08-22T15:29:22Z His appeal transcended race, gender and class, putting him in a rarefied group that includes Michael Jordan, Serena Williams and LeBron James. Calling Deion Sanders a sellout ignores the growing role of clout-chasing in college sports 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Today, serious chefs are tinkering with the science of getting high, taking it into more rarefied culinary territory. Artisanal marijuana crab cakes: Is this the future of getting high? 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In the rarefied world of film enthusiasts, collections are bought, sold, donated, divvied up, passed on. Comedy’s Sweet Weapon: The Cream Pie 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Like any rarefied commodity, these slices of Americana have suddenly gained value, and golden-haired girl hunters suddenly have cachet. Nothing like “Duck Dynasty”: My life as a female hunter 2014-01-31T00:00:00Z Into this rarefied world dropped Charles de Gaulle, a tall, awkward man of 49, recently promoted to the rank of general. The Legacy De Gaulle Left in London 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Nancy Mee and Dennis Evans have astonishing command over the materials they use — glass, ceramics, metals, encaustics — and they parlay it into a rarefied world. 5 must-see Seattle art shows in October 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Academy members, it turns out, are much more like the rest of us than their rarefied position within the film colony might suggest. Perspective | ‘Green Book’ may not have deserved best picture, but did it deserve all the hate? 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z As existences in rarefied worlds go, this one plays as well-lived. ‘In the Company of Rose’ Review: A Singular Woman and a Life Well Lived 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Far from the rarefied heights of Marienbad, Enemy is closer to hundreds of student movies made back then in the newly flourishing film schools. REVIEW: In Enemy, Jake Gyllenhaal Sees Double 2014-03-13T17:07:23Z “Silicon Valley” marries the two with the particular brand of do-gooding, disrupting, one-percenter technobabble that has profound effects on our lives from an insular system in a rarefied community with bizarre, meaningless rules. Ayn Rand goes to “Silicon Valley”: The farcical libertarian world of Mike Judge, where corporations are the new soul-crushing villains 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z As it happens, several selections this year are preoccupied with those questions, not with respect to cinema, but in the more rarefied worlds of classical music and visual art. The New York Film Festival: Movies for Art’s Sake 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z New companies are flourishing, encroaching on market share and gaining national distribution as shoppers reach for products that tout themselves as novel, local, rarefied or containing better ingredients. Small Food Businesses Tap Into Changing Appetites 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z While streamlined swimsuits and sturdy two-pieces are designed for athletes competing in such rarefied Olympic sports as beach volleyball, fashion plays on the more romantic notes of ocean and shoreline. The Life Aquatic Catches the Olympian Mood 2012-07-30T11:37:03Z Has this twirled conveniently into the rarefied realms of a mental health issue, and out of the vulgar dimension of criminal offence? Harvey Weinstein’s rehab – just your basic $2,000-a-night sex offender programme 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Still, the presence of fewer than 30 people in the salesroom underlined that design remains a more rarefied collecting field than modern and contemporary art. Think That Queen Anne Chair Is Valuable? You Better Take a Seat 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z It's also an evocative time capsule — that is, until the film loses momentum and it becomes clear that key questions about Schinasi's rarefied existence will go unanswered. 'Altina' a straightforward tribute to Altina Schinasi 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z In observing Scorsese at work, Mekas, the hands-on diarist, reveals, with admiration and wonder, the most rarefied realm of industrial cinematic inspiration. Review: Jonas Mekas’s Illuminating Documentary of Martin Scorsese on the Set of “The Departed” 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The Village Vanguard is unlike most of the rest of New York life: a rarefied basement that’s been here since before most of us were born and will be here after we die. Village Vanguard Celebrates Its 80th, Adding Poetry and Comedy to Jazz 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z In the 40 years since, she has become internationally renowned for vivid portraits of her intimates — as well as European aristocrats and celebrities — all framed within their own rarefied milieus. Tina Barney: The Photographer’s Origin Story 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z There is also about him a kind of amused detachment from the rarefied world he inhabits — which serves him well as a courtier, whether to S. I. Newhouse, Mr. Balazs or Mr. Coppola. James Truman, A Crown Prince in a New Kingdom 2013-08-16T21:00:35Z He grew up in the rarefied atmosphere of Quincy, Mass., where the Adams family were as close to aristocrats as the Republic allowed. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z But lately, for a rarefied group of the agency’s nearly three dozen cartographers, the need for revisions has intensified. The People Who Draw Rocks 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z A small grove of mulberry trees, the leaves of which make up the silk worm’s rarefied diet, is all that’s left of the thousands of mulberry trees that once thrived in the region. Le Dauphiné, a French Region With a History Both Ancient and Personal 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z It’s no secret that for all but a rarefied few musicians, record sales alone can no longer pay the bills. 7 Things to Do on Labor Day Weekend 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The heat, dust and crumbling facades of Mofe and Rosa’s world contrast with the rarefied air and glossy surfaces of the venues where Rosa’s boyfriend takes her on dates. ‘Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)’ Review: Always Hustling 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z With a title role that arcs from pretty innocence to a rarefied spirituality, few ballets offer such a demanding showcase for a dancer's style, acting and musicality. Royal Ballet: Giselle ? review 2011-01-13T21:31:01Z Having already conquered the rarefied real estate markets of New York, Los Angeles and Miami, the network will now turn its lens on the high-end properties and outrageous realtors of the Bay Area. Bravo expands 'Million Dollar Listing' franchise to San Francisco 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z It was also his enduring gift to a rarefied customer. Perspective | Karl Lagerfeld didn’t have a signature design — but he invented a new kind of designer 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z If you fly in the rarefied air of literary awards, you may have caught Smith Henderson’s name a few years ago when he won a Pushcart Prize and a PEN Emerging Writers Award. ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ by Smith Henderson Schiaparelli was wickedly funny and lived a rarefied existence. Fact-laden Schiaparelli biography gives little shape to the woman or her designs Each work offers multiple meanings, intersects with the others and connects to concerns far beyond the rarefied realm of art. Review | America picked artist Martin Puryear’s work for the Venice Biennale — and he’s everything America is not 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z I don't feel I live in a rarefied world in any way. David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life' 2012-11-09T17:00:01Z Now, of course, both are operating in rarefied air, as the compactness of the Gehry-Shriver-Sandberg-Zuckerberg phone tree makes clear. A low-key Facebook building? In Gehry's hands, Zuckerberg has it both ways 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Across selections from Chausson, Debussy, Poulenc, Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss and Alban Berg, Piau conjured a rarefied emotional world, suffused with wistful longing and serene melancholy, and leavened by a sense of wry detachment. French soprano’s serene concert at UDC is the stuff of dreams 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z As a boy coming of age in the most rarefied quarters of the achievement class, he grew up in a family that viewed the celebration of birthdays and holidays as an inefficiency easily forgone. Sam Bankman-Fried Was a Grown Up Criminal, Not an Impulsive Man-Child 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Army deployment to a rarefied place in baseball. Photo reminds Bruce Bochy how Panama Canal Zone prepared him for managing. But is that him? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Cziczo, professor and head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in Purdue's College of Science, is an expert in atmospheric science who has spent decades studying this rarefied region. Signatures of the Space Age: Spacecraft metals left in the wake of humanity's path to the stars 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z From his rarefied position, Conway watched Leo become what he called a “den mother” to the justices. We don’t talk about Leonard: The man behind the right’s Supreme Court supermajority 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Max Verstappen entered the rarefied realm of triple Formula 1 world champions with a hard-fought second place in the sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix on Saturday. 'Verstappen as close as it gets to unbeatable' 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z By the lofty standards of this rarefied competition it appears damaging. Dented but undaunted... Celtic duo seek ruthless edge 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z In the rarefied air above 60,000ft such aircraft can dodge the weather, but they also get very little lift from their wings, leaving them vulnerable to any buffeting or gusts. The slow and delicate aircraft taking on spy missions 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z But the gradient is steepening, the air is increasingly rarefied. Chris Mason: The week UK politics changed gear 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z “Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class. Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth.” Real-life 'Succession' as Lachlan Murdoch solidifies perch atop Fox and News Corp. 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z “Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class,” said the statement. Commentary: Outrage fueled the ascension of Murdoch's TV empire — a boon for entertainment but not news 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z It is a painful reminder that medicine does not occupy a rarefied space apart from society and history. How to Address ‘Medical Gaslighting’ 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z As the first Colombian artist to attain worldwide recognition, Botero, who died last week at the age of 91, is among a rarefied group of 20th century artists whose imagery is immediately recognizable. Appreciation: Often spurned by the contemporary art world, Fernando Botero made meaningful art 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The owner of a high-end restaurant, he won Kremlin catering ventures that earned him the nickname of “Putin’s chef,” but he was mostly known only in the rarefied circles of the elite. Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin challenged the Kremlin in a brief mutiny 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Sea level is also slang for .500, and the Angels can only hope they can ascend to something akin to mile high rarefied air in the standings even without Trout. Angels distressingly stuck at .500 with one game remaining before All-Star break 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z LIV soon became the Trump family’s ticket back into the rarefied world of global tournaments, with events last year at Bedminster and Trump National Doral, the family’s golf resort near Miami. Through Ties to Saudis, Golf Deal Promises Benefits to Trump 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z But The Gallows Pole is a long way from the rarefied world of aristocrats in frilly blouses and bonnets, and retains the working-class realism of Meadows' other work. The Gallows Pole: Shane Meadows does period drama - with an office worker and mechanic 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Back then, therapy was still perceived in some circles as a rarefied recourse for the irredeemably neurotic. Does Therapy Really Work? Let’s Unpack That. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Each spring, the rarefied world of breeding purebreds — a beloved if idiosyncratic American subculture — is telecast to viewers around the world for three days spanning more than 16 hours. In dog show world, details obvious and subtle rule the day 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Forget the notion that the Seahawks might use the rarefied air of a No. 5 overall pick to storehouse a quarterback for the future. Once again, Seahawks go unexpected route on Day One of NFL draft 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Paisley, 50, occupies a rarefied spot after 20-plus years in country music. How Brad Paisley became the most outspoken country star to support Ukraine 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z That became rarefied air, as the Bruins went on to set the NHL record for most wins in a season with 63. Why Kraken are well-suited to open NHL playoffs on the road 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z This was rarefied air for a 31-year-old newsman, but it didn’t suit him, and in 1964 he quit journalism and returned to Arkansas to become a novelist. Review | Charles Portis, model outsider, gets the canon treatment 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z We live here because we evolved out of and along with the resources that were available, and it’s not clear how much sense human life makes outside of the rarefied place that produced it. Is it a good idea to set our sites on Mars? | John M. Crisp 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z This banality of celebrity, with its distinctive architecture — lackluster real life, set against rarefied online latticework — is what makes someone like Posobiec, at least in this current moment, inescapable. "Hyenas are communists": Right-wing story hour, part 1 — the banality of celebrity 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Her vision of young artists at work manages to be at once gently satirical, genuinely admiring and blessedly quotidian; there’s a sense of artmaking as both a rarefied activity and work in the truest sense. Review: Kelly Reichardt's first comedy is a wincingly funny portrait of an artist at work 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Defying the dismal predictions by the more fossil-minded members, the clubs did not implode as more Jews and people of color and, finally, women began to join their rarefied real estate. Patt Morrison: The naked truth about L.A.'s swanky private clubs 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z “They’re quite rarefied and intimate glimpses, because the conversations that you have with yourself tend to be the most candid, the most honest,” Ive said. Steve Jobs has a new ‘memoir,’ more than 11 years after his death 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Stein belonged to a rarefied group of music executives who gained fame on their own accord. Seymour Stein, record executive who signed Madonna, Ramones and Talking Heads, dies at 80 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z “In a scene of unsurpassed splendor, the snow nestles up to the sky in the rarefied air of the Rockies,” he once said, welcoming viewers to the 1990 national championship game. Jim Nantz, calling his last Final Four, gets nostalgic. Can you believe it? 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Conditioned to be seen and not heard, dancers are sometimes reluctant to speak about the often brutal physical and psychological training it takes to make it in such a rarefied world. Balanchine died 40 years ago. The ballet world still hasn’t moved on. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Not even a year into his second five-year term, Macron has failed to shake off his image among voters as an aloof CEO of a rarefied elite deaf to the common people's concerns. Analysis: French pension standoff causing cracks in Macron's camp, insiders say 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Against the Owls and their rarefied teamwork, the elder Davis saw his son trying to cobble “the hardest-scoring points he ever had to get in his life.” The words of an opposing coach inspired Florida Atlantic’s Sweet 16 run 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z And they ascended to No. 4 in the national rankings, rarefied air for a program that had been ranked only once before at No. 18 in 1984-85. Cal State Dominguez Hills women's basketball celebrates historic run to Elite Eight 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z His own life gave him a grounding in the rarefied worlds he chronicled — as well as the forces that have molded Britain’s modern identity. Philip Ziegler, biographer of Britain’s powerful and pivotal, dies at 93 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z In its earnest embrace of sportsmanship, “The Exhibit” wants to renegotiate a parasocial relationship to reality TV and inject some much-needed levity into the rarefied and often forbidding province of High Art. Review: Art becomes blood sport in formulaic reality competition 'The Exhibit' 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z “We are in rarefied air,” Jim Reid, head of global fundamental credit strategy at Deutsche Bank, wrote in an investor note this morning. A Recession Warning Spooks the Market 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Twenty bidders, spurred on by the desire to own what the auctioneers described as "a rarefied piece of history", had helped set a world record for an item of match-worn memorabilia. How do sports memorabilia buyers know they are getting the real deal? 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Maybe he will be challenged by Brook, who is breathing rarefied air with some of the very greatest to have ever picked up a bat. Master Root & apprentice Brook show England future 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Although that remains true at smaller entities and in a few rarefied spaces, in larger companies, there are a fleet of designers working on a multitude of divisions. Perspective | Louis Vuitton, Pharrell Williams and the loss of fashion magic 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z And certainly some objects occupied a rarefied place, such as the Hermès bicycle that was never taken out on a country road or city street. Perspective | André Leon Talley’s estate auction reveals how he lived and survived 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Here’s an enchanting myth: In Northern California lies a new Olympus, a metaphorical summit whose rarefied air sustains flip-flopped geniuses as they change the world with their brilliant, unconventional ideas. Review | A new history unveils the exploitative origins of the tech giants 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z But behind his boyish grin, he knows rarefied individual acclaim comes with it. Perspective | The Patrick Mahomes era is only beginning. The end could be astonishing. 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Biden made calls for unity and tried to emphasize conciliation over conflict, easier to do in this rarefied setting, seemingly impossible to sustain in such divided times. Biden speech takeaways: More conciliation than conflict 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z But last year, a name that does not command the same global recognition joined this rarefied list. This Mogul Lost $36 Billion in Days. Who Is He, and What Happened? 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z His nod for “The Fabelmans” puts him in rarefied company, but is not a record — that goes to William Wyler with 12. A nod at 90, a 42-year gap and more Oscar nomination numbers 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Sales for “Spare” have placed the Duke of Sussex in some rarefied company. Prince Harry’s memoir opens at a record-setting sales pace 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Caviar — something we might imagine belonging to the crystal-and-silver-laden dinner tables of oligarchs, or the cocktail parties of 1-percenters — is suddenly popping up far from those rarefied spaces. Caviar on Doritos? TikTok loves it. Chefs, not so much. 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Most intend to continue 12 miles along a switchbacking road, trading neon-green moss for a rarefied world of ice and snow at Paradise. Paradise lost? Angst mounts over Mount Rainier National Park weekday closure 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z And it went beyond the attendance of nonprofit leaders, whose workers often go without recognition or pay, in a “rarefied space with others being celebrated,” she said. White House gun violence program with philanthropies ends 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z This is without question rarefied air for the Washington Commanders. Perspective | The Commanders have entered the national picture. Now, to stay there. 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But her performance allows us to see how a toxic personality can sometimes be, for a limited time and under rarefied circumstances, life-enhancing. Review: The engrossing 'Little Theatre' spills the tea on L.A.'s 99-seat theater scene 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Although Hager is a well-known public figure because of her political family, she does serve up tales about her rarefied upbringing. On NBC's 'Today,' Jenna Bush Hager is becoming book publishing's best friend 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z A lot of rarefied air for one room, but Kelly recalls being more aware of the vibe cast by the famous journalist than the soccer icon. There was something Bourdain-like about the big, soccer life Grant Wahl led 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z But even in the rarefied air of triathlon, the privileges of Ironman XC can be a sore subject. How the 1% Runs an Ironman 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z “AphroChic” isn’t a book of interior design trends; it’s a peek into homes that are both normal and rarefied. Review | Admiring the beauty — and beautiful politics — of the Black family home 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z But these workers —critical cogs in Southern California’s rarefied lifestyles and its extraordinary real estate market—make it all happen. In L.A., hidden armies of workers keep mega-mansions on the market 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But, as of Friday evening, there’s a good chance that pinch-hit at-bat last month was his final one as a Dodger, an unfathomable conclusion to a tenure that reached rarefied heights just three years ago. Dodgers don't tender offer to Cody Bellinger, making him a free agent 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Thanks to weather conditions, scientists warn that catching the rarefied show in western North America could require moxie and luck. Trying to see the Leonid meteor shower from WA? Here’s what to know 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The vibrant mix of green and white in the fluffy, marbled patterning on the underside of their wings has made the butterflies a recognizable but rarefied encounter for island residents. Will this rare butterfly found only on San Juan Island go extinct? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z In this group of political contributors, the utility DTE has a rarefied perch. Black voters strike back against election denialism — and its corporate funders 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Now, within a certain rarefied slice of American political life, she is a star. How Molly Jong-Fast Tweeted Her Way to Liberal Media Stardom 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Every set of sprays has nearly eight years to fly away at high speed, moving well over 600 million kilometers before another set emerges, creating a rippling pattern of dusty arms and rarefied gaps. Dazzling New JWST Image Shows Dusty Stellar Spirals 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Coming from Buffalo, Sullivan didn’t exactly blend right into the Times’ rarefied culture. Review | Journalists are failing our fragile democracy, a media insider says 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z And the venue brought a rarefied air to an already-intense matchup with playoff implications, as both teams entered undefeated in the Eastern League. Garfield rallies to defeat Roosevelt in star-studded East L.A. Classic at Coliseum 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z That world, in Lydia’s case, is classical music, a rarefied universe of transcendence and transaction that comes to hushed, high-stakes life in the hands of writer-director Todd Field. Review | ‘Tár’: A seductive deep dive into a woman’s unraveling psyche 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z County could be the sagging stock market has hammered luxury sales in the more rarefied realms of the region, as people saw the money they planned to use for their down payments disappear. Rising mortgage rates are sending home prices lower 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z That’s not to say a leader should live on such a rarefied intellectual plane as to be inaccessible to common folk. Herschel Walker has shown us who he is and then some 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z |
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