| 单词 | rickety |
| 例句 | She could’ve been any number of glamorous places—it was Friday night—but she had chosen to come to my authentically rickety house instead. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In another, older box he came upon another photo, sepia-toned and in a rickety frame, and paused. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But instead of lying on a bed suited for a king, I'd have preferred to be at home on my rickety pallet with bedding from the discount aisle at Target. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Then, from below, I heard the rickety sound of wheels against the pavement. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The boards were rickety, but they were better than oozing down into the mud. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The two beds, two old rickety chairs, one table, the bureau missing a drawer—nothing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z She pulled a rickety chair over to the bed and sat down. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z The original Watson and Crick model of DNA, with its hammered metal plates and rickety rods twisting precariously around a steel laboratory stand, is housed behind a glass case. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Joel climbed onto the tractor, threw it into gear, and slowly towed the rickety henhouse fifty yards or so. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The men sat on rickety folding chairs in the yard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was a rickety cart driven by a woodcutter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it possible for a train to be any more rickety? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We returned to Macún in a rickety truck, our furniture and cooking utensils tied to the sides, our clothes and bedding bundled into cushions. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z As rickety and feeble as I felt, it was obvious that everyone else except Stuart Hutchison was faring even worse. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Past the gate, the Yards was a labyrinth of brick walls the color of spoiled meat, smoke-guttering flues, and rickety wooden ramps crammed within two square kilometers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Cooke was sitting on a rickety stool, munching an apple and reading the Chicago Daily Tribune. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I wait in the shadows near my mother's house, close enough so I can actually peek through the gaps of our backyard's rickety fence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The house stood above us, rickety, a faint light at the windows. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We make our way down, too slow, too slow, the scent taking us close to the road and toward the bridge, a high rickety one with rails. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Lyra barged open the door, dragged her rickety chair to the window, flung wide the casement, and scrambled out. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In one of them, a man stood behind a rickety counter. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Dawn was slow in coming, and even when it did, the sun shining bright through the blinds, the rickety radiator couldn’t keep us warm, so the Colonel and I sat wordlessly on the couch. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z We came to a rickety wooden bridge—just thick plywood laid over a concrete foundation—over Culver Creek, the winding rivulet that doubled back over and over again through the outskirts of campus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Velia jumped on the rickety wagon and looked around for a way to navigate the newfound vehicle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The three ran in silence until they crossed the rickety little bridge over the ravine river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I feel a swell of homesickness as I hear the sound of the worn, rickety wood of that front step, creaking underneath us as we laugh and get close for the picture. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Clary’s desk was a rickety table, littered with scraps of paper, all of them covered with notes in her neat, round handwriting. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Helen would — glad, she supposed, to have in the family at least this one rickety seat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no way they could force her up the rickety stairs. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Calling upon the Fruit of Islam, as the military wing of the Nation was known, she stood by while the young men pulled out the wooden commode from the rickety shack. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A Warm Morning Ben Franklin stove occupied the centermost floor space; a few rows of rickety wooden benches were aligned on either side of the stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw carved stone pavilions, manses of woven grass as large as castles, rickety wooden towers, stepped pyramids faced with marble, log halls open to the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then her eyes turned to a rickety wooden table that stood against the stone wall of the cellar. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The three girls moved to a mound of palm fronds, carefully removing them to reveal a rickety wooden trebuchet made of bamboo and counterweighted with coconuts. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Before they made it off the dance floor, the room filled with a thundering beat that threatened to blow the rickety old sound system to pieces. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I couldn’t even imagine how the rickety insulin bucket might be faring. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Duke scooped up all the puppies, tucked three under each arm, and stood on his hind legs to ride the rickety raft like a surfboard on the crest of a thirty-foot wave. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The rickety partitions shook, their bolts rattled, and he invaded my personal space. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The car climbs higher and higher, groaning up the rickety wooden tracks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The building was ringed by a rickety porch—sagging rockers, peeling paint. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z By the time we’ve cleared the rickety buildings of the town and get into the outskirts of the settlement I know that this trip is going to be brutal. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z A few of the men led underfed donkeys that towed rickety carts loaded with supplies. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was more rickety than the Ferris wheel. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Sierra walked through a rickety gate and into the churchyard. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It was drafty, rickety, perched on thin stilts over the river, with showers that pumped foul-smelling water directly from the Hudson over the boys’ heads. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A rack of rickety weapons stood in the center of the room. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I flatten the sheet against the table and read the rickety letters. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z How was that more courageous than escaping your country in a rickety boat with small children and risking being eaten by sharks or getting caught and sent to prison? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Hold-Your-Nose Billy pushed aside a low branch, revealing a rickety timbered hut with a moldy thatched roof. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The train ride is a sleepy six-hour epic, every hour their rickety car shunted onto a siding to let trains full of soldiers, headed for the front, hurry past. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Hadley and I sat on a rickety old bench in the dog run, watching Delilah zoom through the leaves with three other dogs. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Dad helps me stack my science fair stuff onto a rickety rolling cart. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The coachman, looking just as old and rickety, held the reins of his two-horse team and cracked his whip in the air again. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Once they positioned themselves across from each other, Genie glanced at the yard in front of him, the rickety birdcages all cracked and mangled and peeking from just behind the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When the banks disappeared and small shops in between rickety houses came into view, Ruth pulled the cord. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I give the trellis a shake —it's rickety, but not un-climbable. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Every night he hiked up the hill to a place called Shack Town, where he had found a cheap room in a long, rickety shedlike building designed to house single men. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Where the stone steps ended, a rickety set of stairs made from two-by-fours— more like a ladder than a staircase—took you up to the front porch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was an age-blacked, dungeonlike building with its own rickety little graveyard in the back, set on a rolling country lane. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Strands of tiny Violet orbs swayed overhead, strung between the rickety buildings. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Just a stone driveway that leads to a side entrance, where a rickety door always gives me trouble. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “Come on. Give a lift. You’d better hold this ladder. It seems rickety.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z We go up a flight of rickety wooden stairs to the second floor; when I stumble, Nino Carlitos puts his hand at my back to make sure I don’t fall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Possible translation: That rickety shutter on the living room window that always smacked against the house whenever the wind blew was gone. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Under the critical eye of Redtooth a band of rodents was gnawing off a length of planking from a rickety lych-gate fence at the rear of the church. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Fannie found miners’ families in rickety houses with no running water. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z By some small miracle, the rickety old engine purred to life. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I felt my legs getting unsolid and rickety all over again. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The only light came from the engineer’s cabin, through the slats in the front of the rickety car. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At the semester break every spring when Oppenheimer decamped for Caltech, the entourage followed him south in a caravan of rickety vehicles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Padre Leo rides everywhere on a rickety blue bicycle. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Brandon flipped on the light, and they headed up the rickety stairs. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Instead of going straight home, I took a detour to the beach and sat on the rickety staircase to watch the tide go out. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I scrambled for them and, clinging to the rickety railing, half-ran, half-fell down them, with the soldier hard upon my heels. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z A rickety train pulled up, so full that some people held on to the outside of the coaches, clutching at metal bars. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dividing the cavern was a new fifteen-meter-wide chasm, spanned only by two rickety stretches of bone flooring. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He dropped these on the rickety table and scurried from their presence, slamming the book-covered door behind him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He winced, thinking of what had become of the building, a rickety thing to begin with. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A young girl pulls the least rickety chair under a fan and wipes it clean with a cloth. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then he glanced back at his own small, rickety desk and stiff, uncomfortable chair. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z According to Meeks, all kinds of people set up shop in the Central Port, using a network of catwalks and rickety wooden planks to connect their barges and narrow boats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z But who wouldn’t feel a little wobbly in a rickety tree house so high above the ground? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z On the rickety, old-fashioned stained- glass door, with its motifs of exotic birds, there was a bronze knocker in the shape of a woman’s hand pressing on a ball. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I marched down her rickety steps, a bead of sweat already trickling its way down my back. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Of the twins, sitting at our rickety table on Elizabeth Street waiting patiently for their apple mash. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It took her a while to find the Hidden Market, but once she arrived on that grimy canalway, she had spied two men—one massive, one short—hawking orbs on a rickety table. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Finally, I sit up and throw my covers off, then head for the rickety stairs that lead to the kitchen. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z By the time I reached the rickety stairs leading to the first floor, my skin was clammy and my legs were shaky. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z A recovering alcoholic drives her around in his rickety truck. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He brought out the flashlight and focused the round spot on a rickety stairway leading upward into a still blacker darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They sat around a rickety card table and ate, with many helpings of ketchup and mustard. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I strode up my two rickety steps with as much pride as I could summon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Pulling this rickety, wooden wagon on its two wheels behind him, it seemed to him that everyone looked at him for a fool. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The buildings were placed so closely together, it was easy to leap from rooftop to rooftop or race across rickety planks stretched over alleyways. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z On tiptoe, leaning against the rickety lower shelves to keep from toppling, she could barely reach the book. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Not some rickety wooden contraption you'd see in some museum, but the weird, outrageous vehicle of a god, built of sleek, otherworldly metal and shimmering with starlight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z At school his back ached from sitting in a stiff chair, and the desks were so rickety it was a challenge to write neatly. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He watched his mother walk forward on trembling legs and sit down upon the rickety stool. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I recognized the place as soon as I saw the group of children in stiff new overalls who played near a rickety fence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I hurry after Helene, spotting a flash of blonde heading through Grandfather’s vast gardens and toward a rickety shed at the back of the house. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And on our porch, up the rickety front steps Gran had made Doc fix a few months ago, was a policeman. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The machine roars to life, creaking like a rickety carriage on a cobblestone street. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It was a hut or shed, small and rickety as if a child had built it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Because famine and epidemic disease had been rare in the Dawnland, its inhabitants had none of the pox scars or rickety limbs common on the other side of the Atlantic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I will not risk fleeing with my children on a rickety boat. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Through the small window, I watch the ocean roll, the rickety Oasis breaking up as it smashes against the rocks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I’ll fight you all I” Dobbs screamed back at them, and stood up on a rickety wooden chair, waving the gun wildly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I sat in the rickety chair and put up a shot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z That day, as the rickety cage elevator surfaced, a group of soot-covered faces emerged, only to be replaced by a waiting group of men ready to go below. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A tree stump that used to be there is now gone, and so is the rickety gate. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I could end up an empty, emotionless husk sitting alone in my authentically rickety house night after night until the leaking roof eventually caves in on me and finally releases me to sweet, merciful death?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Two rickety chairs went with the rickety table, one on each side. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When we arrived, on December 31, it was eighty-five degrees, and the Santa Ana winds whipped against the rickety walls of our motel room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The furnishings were sparse: a narrow bed, a rickety nightstand, and a secondhand trunk for clothes and books. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Jake wrapped his legs around the rickety porch rail and just sat there staring off into space as though he had no interest in them at all. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Home is a rickety old dock and an outhouse with a half-moon cut in the door, and the bright orange flowers my mom called “outhouse lilies.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z We sat side by side on a rickety bench that quivered under our weight, under the bright, buzzing glare of the spotlights. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Grandpop began, but before he could get into it, the squeak, squeak from Samantha’s house turned into her barking, and the rickety sounds of a nearly broken-down car came up the hill. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Thomas groaned inwardly as he stepped inside and saw the one piece of furniture—an ugly, rickety chair with one leg obviously shorter than the rest, probably on purpose. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z As they moved toward school, the houses became bolder, sprouting second stories that stood uneasily in their rickety wooden frames. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z They constructed rickety shelves from packing crates, and hung their gear from tent poles or stored it in empty cans. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Our store was a rickety, odd, huge wooden structure that looked like it was held together with toothpicks and glue. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to stop and walk a few times, traversing rickety wooden bridges stretching across ponds. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was a small table, a couple of rickety chairs, and a queen-sized mattress on the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A rickety metal staircase was bolted to the side of the stack, but it shook and knocked against the scaffolding, so I couldn’t use it without announcing my presence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He climbed across the rickety board to the second pair of dogs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There were stairs at the back, narrow and rickety, and occasionally missing a tread, and down we went into the basement. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z When the CD ended, Fang exited the spa, hit me with a killer look, dove for cover under the red velvet and snapped off the rickety lamp between the beds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z At the end of a light-starved corridor I tested my weight on a rickety staircase, my boots leaving fresh tracks in layers of dust. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z As the others filed up the steps, I ducked beneath the rickety metal stairwell. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z By this time the cabbage and bacon were done, and the old man pushed two rickety couches up to the table and bade his guests recline and eat. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I click on a GoPro video she sent me two years ago, her balancing on top of a high, rickety bridge. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Waiting for them to cross a yawning crevasse bridged by two rickety ladders spliced end to end, I was shocked to see them go across together, almost in lockstep—a needlessly dangerous act. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They were not using the rickety old shack on the Highland side of the river this year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They ran behind the counter and through a second doorway, which led to a rickety wooden staircase that they climbed as fast as they could. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But she made her way down a few steps of the rickety ladder. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We walked toward the sound of a diesel pump until we came to a rickety corrugated-iron shed, kind of a lean-to that was open on one side. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z R.C. was waiting for me on his rickety front porch, and the first thing he noticed was the canvas lunch bag I had slung over my shoulder. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes the top of one house has a rickety bridge to the balcony of another. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z After he set up both of them, the thin fellow laid the book on the desk, opened it to a blank page, and perched on the rickety stool. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The older woman perches on a rickety stepstool to reach a string of garlic. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “We. We’re going to fix up this rickety heap. You and me.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The door to the building with Fuchsia’s apartment is only partway closed, and I push through it and head up the rickety stairs. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z In the kitchen the cupboards were empty, the two mismatched chairs pushed neatly under the rickety table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She invited Dumbledore to sit on a rickety chair and seated herself behind a cluttered desk, eyeing him nervously. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The lavatories were in a rickety wooden outhouse at the back of the hotel and each cubicle contained nothing more than a round hole cut in a piece of wood. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished, and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase, I quickly lowered the wick. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The stage was completely empty except for Justin, who was sitting on an old rickety chair tuning his fiddle. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z My rickety height and foal’s legs gave me the posture of a fashion model. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Reverend towered over the rickety altar, his fiery crew cut bristling like a woodpecker’s cockade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A rickety bridge made of split logs and woven vines dangled across a steep, rocky ravine. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And it had been installed on a rickety tower of cement blocks, easily four feet off the ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Nabila ushered me farther down the narrow hallway and stopped at a rickety door. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I will attempt to eat at the table, or read the newspaper there, but it’s so small and rickety that any wrong movement endangers the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat down together at the same rickety table. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Mazen kicks a rickety chair in my direction, the invitation to sit obvious. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Inside the average- size tent, children sat up front on the yellowed grass, and grown-ups crammed together on the few long rickety benches. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry and Ron edged out of the kitchen, and they, Hermione, and Ginny set off along the narrow hallway and up the rickety staircase that zigzagged through the house to the upper stories. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Under his rickety bed lay a pile of Hugo’s drawings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Lifting the aluminum urn out of the trunk, Amit leads me down the bank to the rickety wooden platform. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Cots, trunks, and rickety shelving occupied the space. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They talked about whose daughter had run off with whose son, who’d had babies, who had died, the price of groceries, the hot weather, the rickety buses between San Juan and Santurce. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z After a while my head stopped spinning, but I still felt lightheaded and rickety. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was on the very edge of the city, and was ringed by a few rickety trees that had managed to withstand the onslaught of the desert. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z RiRi ran off to show Minerva, who sat in the cart like a queen on a rickety throne. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I watched him and his brother go up the rickety steps of their front porch and disappear inside the house, letting the screen door slam with a bang behind them. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He rose to shake hands, then waved them to sit on two rickety wooden chairs, speaking to Liyana in a careful, formal voice. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He had two mismatched turntables plus a rickety old reel-to-reel tape player and shelves packed with records he’d collected over many years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The kitchen was in a rundown apartment in a clapboard house near the river, the kind with three stories and a rickety outside back staircase. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Jockey also presided at the finish, in his rickety maple armchair, the one he used to watch the stars most nights. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I wondered how the bottles had survived the rickety trek across the city. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z And Minli looked down a muddy path that led to a shabby, rickety hut that looked as if the first strong wind would blow it away. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the land, they inherited their father’s tailor, who arrived once a month in his rickety carriage with his samples of linen and cotton. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Plagued by a rickety premise, generic sets and invaders who recall Doctor Who’s Cybermen, “Alien Outpost” jabs its finger at the Iraq War with repetitive obviousness. ‘Alien Outpost,’ Directed by Jabbar Raisani 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The trees that come alive and tie down victims in the original “Evil Dead” are replaced by rusty and aggressive wires from a rickety elevator. ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Review: Mommy Issues 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Beware of flimsy plant supports and rickety little wheelbarrows. Perspective | A growing economy: Balancing the books of your backyard investment 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z One rickety jazz guy, who'd rolled his oxygen tank past the sound board and sat on a portable stool, expressed awestruck delight at the turnout. Kamasi Washington and band prove 'The Epic' hype, thrill a sold-out Regent 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Somehow that tune felt wan and dutiful, and so did the one that followed, a rickety two-step called “You and Me.” Music Review: Away From His Desk, Up on the Bandstand 2011-04-01T22:58:20Z Its details are wonderful: Spoiled ladies in the nail salon, yappy little dogs, rickety trams, wet markets, and workaholic shopkeepers who eat bowls of rice while crouched over their cashiers. Heady Days for Hong Kong Women 2010-03-30T12:18:00Z Both floors, though, will use the new retrieval system, which is replacing a rickety conveyor belt installed in the 1980s. Beneath New York Public Library, Shelving Its Past for High-Tech Research Stacks 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The awe began at the beginning of the trail, which affords dramatic views, rickety bridges and visits with horses, alpacas and sheep. In Peru, a Still-Hidden Alternative to Machu Picchu 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The building had a rickety balcony and needed huge structural alterations; it was bound to cost more than they thought. How we made: Ben Kelly and Peter Hook on the Haçienda club 2012-07-02T18:32:01Z With some trepidation, I took them to a nearby brunch spot with rickety tables outside, set close together. Who Said ‘Game of Thrones’ Wasn’t for Kids? 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z More sky than land, its stark horizon is broken, barely, by a single rickety structure. ‘French Pastels: Treasures From the Vault’ Review: Delicate and Delightful 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Say it’s because I was climbing that rickety ladder between unconscious and conscious. My compulsion to please: Polyamory, hunger and the neediness of denying what you want 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z We got shunted on to a rickety bus at 2 a.m. and trundled to Basel, arriving exhausted at 07:50 a.m. Ten airport horror stories that will make you never want to fly again 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z “The site was on the bluffs, and down these rickety stairs. The sculpture itself was heavy, but the real problem was laying the cement foundation,” he describes. For years, Gerard Tsutakawa’s sculptures have shaped Seattle’s landscape. Here’s how — and what else is coming 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z And the highlight of the tour: “Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for the eighth wonder of the world,” he says, building toward the climax, as his rickety steamboat passes behind a makeshift waterfall. No Lion, the Skipper Is the Real King of the Jungle Cruise 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z This probably explains their attraction to “The Knight of the Burning Pestle,” however antiquated and rickety. ‘The Knight of the Burning Pestle’ Review: Wielding His Trusty Kitchen Tools 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Riis loved the interstices—the alleys with no names, the rickety wooden structures hidden behind large buildings, and all the people with no fixed abode. An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z He spoke no English, but I was able to communicate with my rudimentary Indonesian language skills, and we hopped on his rickety boat. Island-hopping off the tourist track in Indonesia 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the kids are happy to run around the property or to explore the barn, which is pretty rickety, with Jordan, who joins in with them, pretending they are raccoons. House Tour: Millbrook, N.Y. 2011-04-28T21:00:23Z The tour, in a rickety RV, was challenging, Hanke says, not just because of vehicular breakdowns but because the members all need alone time, which was scarce. The Asperger's comedy troupe: 'We want people to like us because we’re funny' 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z So it feels kind of rickety to me now.” 2010-02-12T23:14:00Z Yet if the machinations of the plot are a tad rickety, its geologic premise is inarguably stable. ‘The Burning Sea’ Review: Smoke on the Water 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z While he hasn’t made a plan for his next piece, Mr. Silovsky said, he is sure it will include Stanley, as ramshackle and rickety as ever. Joseph Silovsky Revisits Sacco and Vanzetti 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Unlike the rickety treehouses of yore, many of these new ones have been upgraded. Hanging with friends outdoors? Nothing beats a treehouse 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Instead he rode up on a rickety little bike he had borrowed. Their First Adventures Began on a Slow Bus 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z It made a rickety opening, the first stretch of tedium in a not quite 90-minute evening that never did alchemize — partly, perhaps, because Daisey underestimated his audience. ‘Scott and Andy and All the Boys’ Review: Ripped From the Headlines 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z That edifice is at once intellectually rigid and formally rickety. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Even as Handler stacks elision upon lacuna to paper over his plot holes and sudden narrative swerves, the whole house of cards grows more absurd, irrelevant, cloying and rickety. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z SAM is plopped onto site after site and breaks down thanks to a combination of buggy software, spotty Wi-Fi, robot arm arthritis, rickety scaffolding and bad weather. A Team of Engineers Invented a Brick-Laying Robot. This Is Their Story. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The broken wicker chair with cushions, the rickety desk with its old wounds from the ravages of his penknife, the unmatched chairs.” Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z We took turns climbing up the rickety ladder to the platform. Soaring past my midlife crisis 2014-02-08T00:00:00Z The runners crossed a rickety concrete bridge and, as the strong tropical rays began to beat down through the forest canopy, began a long climb up Mount Gede. Running in the Wild 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z “Do you know where Malbec is?” asks this Josh, Josh Blake, rolling his eyes, and then his suitcase, over a wide dirt path flanked by rickety cabins that have been renamed for the weekend. Jewish Summer Camp With Campfires, Crafts and No Lights Out 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z “Circuital” was recorded here in the band’s hometown, mainly in a rickety church gymnasium, direct to analog tape. On Top, Unafraid to Step Back 2011-05-26T23:16:38Z Desperate people paddle off from the Malecon on rickety watercraft in a clear reference to Cuban raft crises. Brainnnssss! Zombies storm Havana cinema festival 2011-12-09T18:31:04Z Rowe takes a bite and almost leaps from the rickety picnic table with excitement: "That is on my list of the best. To do that in the UK would be an absolute game-changer." Snack to the future: foraging in Texas for the next big food sensation 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z A rickety cab opened its hood, revealing a keyboard. Review: Lady Gaga proved she's a spectacle with soul on her Tacoma stop 2010-08-22T18:28:00Z Perched upstairs in the rickety balcony, we drank whiskey and Cokes out of Dixie cups while revelers of all ages shook it to a rollicking beat punctuated by chanting from the Big Chief. Cultured Traveler : Experiencing New Orleans With Fresh Eyes and Ears 2014-03-06T17:00:58Z It does not display its collection in a pristine environment on stark walls but in a rickety wooden structure with a leaky roof and no heat. Where Some See Trash, She Sees Treasure 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z But Broodthaers’s idea of belgitude seems the more important one to me: something meaningful and beautiful but also rickety and improvised, and not such a thing as would prevent our sympathy with all people. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z A few inebriated patrons hoot and cackle, but most visitors amuse themselves by stacking cardboard beer coasters into rickety tabletop towers. Boîte: Die Koelner Bierhalle in Park Slope 2012-08-22T17:34:21Z After leasing the ride, the Alberts restored its rickety wood-and-steel frame and reopened it to the public. Jerome Albert, Who Helped Bring Space Age to Coney Island, Dies at 74 2012-03-17T04:31:48Z Wang’s goal surely is to achieve some kind of synthesis, however rickety. Review | In the galleries: Posters as a medium for serious but jubilant communication 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z If the first section is the most fully realized, the second is the most thematically rickety. Up Close and Personal: New Essays From Leslie Jamison 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Judging from the first episode, the investigation is to be a rickety one, with lots of conjecture and not a lot of hard evidence. Review: Did the ‘American Ripper’ Go Abroad? 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z All born blind, they say,slack-jawed and simple, web-footed, rickety as sticks. Extract: The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson 2011-01-24T11:02:21Z The action unfolded in front of Katerina’s rickety wooden house, with the sloped floors and exterior staircase collapsed into a platform for the final scene. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The remnants of a rickety wooden roller coaster wrap around a small, antique proscenium. Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z We occupy them — although the more you read, the less clear it is how to define these roving, rickety, skin-slathered bone towers of electric impulses, chemical cocktails and micro-organismic colonies as “we.” Review | After explaining the universe, Bill Bryson turns his attention to the body 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Dragging a rickety ladder down the alley, I teetered above traffic and queues of patrons, often raucous ‘Rocky Horror’ devotees, quelling adrenaline to change the marquee. Seattle’s Neptune Theatre turns 100. Here are some of your memories of times spent there 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Let’s pilot this rickety vessel through a stormy week, into the calmer air above. Mad Men Watch: It’s Not Butter, It’s Heartbreak 2013-05-13T13:30:44Z For a frozen alternative, look for the rickety yellow shack on Peach Street. On the Eastern Shore, Virginia’s Cape Charles is in the midst of a small-town renaissance 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The handrail on the stairs was a few centimetres more rickety, thanks to Psycho Derek's heavy grasping. One Tree Hill and me: the true cost of renting your home to a hit TV show 2012-07-27T22:00:46Z The next stop was the Dak Ga Waterfall, where Mr. Bowyer crossed a rickety wooden bridge and filmed a Rusty Compass video of his feat with a palm-size camera. Blogging Is All About the Experiences 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The best action scene takes place on a rickety foot-bridge with the purported hero dangling over a ravine, his life literally in the hand of the purported villain. Raavan: Scandal over a Bollywood King Kong 2010-06-24T04:35:00Z He decides he will create a field guide called “Bats of the Republic” to impress his prospective father-in-law and help keep the rickety Museum of Flying aloft. ‘Bats of the Republic’ review: Two intertwined and echoing stories 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z I can picture the grassy lot with its rickety chain-link fence in North Charleston where Walter Scott died. Charleston and the Southern Gothic: Steeped in a heritage of hate, South Carolina must finally reckon with its past 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z When the scrim lifts, we see a coastal shantytown with multilevel, rickety wood platforms and a low dock with lapping water at the shoreline. Review: A Precious Harvest in ‘The Pearl Fishers’ at the Met 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z There was a scaffold clamped on to the side of the deck, a rickety structure of pipes and planks. T Magazine: Bright Idea 2012-11-29T22:30:55Z Welles even contrives a suitably noir-gimmick ending, atop a very rickety ladder, where Kindler is stabbed to death by the moving figure of a Teutonic-looking medieval swordsman on his beloved clock. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Stranger 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But to add some real excitement to our lives, to give ourselves a rejuvenating jolt of danger, we should make sure we're regularly climbing out on some rickety cultural limbs. Oprah goes classic: A good idea? 2011-01-08T06:00:00Z He moves with difficulty, and only with the help of a rickety wooden crutch. Shipbreaking: World’s most dangerous job? 2013-03-21T16:37:00Z I was a speeding train, one rickety rail away from jumping the tracks. Motherlode Blog: ‘Mommies Don’t Drink’ (Anymore) 2013-04-17T13:00:37Z “They have rickety furniture. They give the money to their people.” How two old-school Washington insiders became the cool kids of Trumpism 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In lieu of cushy cabanas and dainty umbrellas are rickety wooden tables and slabs of wood serving as ersatz beach chairs. The Caribbean ?roundup: In the Caribbean, Away From the Crowds 2011-11-11T19:50:00Z It’s an ancient, some may say rickety, art form and it can bend to be extremely inclusive. Silly Season: How British Pantomime Looks From Across the Pond 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Yascha Mounk’s book about growing up Jewish in Germany, “Stranger in My Own Country,” is rickety, not fully assembled, more the frame of a book than the sanded and stained product. Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z The conflict alternately fuels and impedes their voyage in a rickety car across Mongolia’s steppes and dunes as they look for the Dalai Lama’s heir. Twin Brothers on a Quest to Find the Next Dalai Lama 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z We climb another 100 yards or so, hang a left and plunk ourselves down on a bench marked with a rickety “End of Trail” sign. Hike, eat well and stay in luxury at Big Sur 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The creaks, the view, the dinky mezzanine, suggest a bohemian stateroom in a slightly rickety ocean liner. Sally Potter: 'I dreamed about the nuclear threat most nights' 2012-10-04T19:30:02Z The game has you explore a tight-knit solar system via a rickety Apollo Lander, which lands on planets with a slick kiss or a dusty thud, depending on your skill as a pilot. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Now there I was, except I was steering an American-made Ford, not a rickety wagon prone to absconding wheels, and death by dysentery wasn’t a significant concern. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z As the chilly winter air seeped through rickety windowpanes, she gave a rare interview about her work. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z It first follows migrants through lawless lands as they are robbed, attacked and faced with natural dangers, and undertake the perilous journey on rickety boats, where more die en route. Cannes 2015: For 'Mediterranea' director, boat people as film drama 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z In “I’d Love You to Want Me,” a wife wonders whether her aging husband “remembered their escape from Vung Tau on a rickety fishing trawler.” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees’ couldn’t come at a better time 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z A musty, full-size cabin, its rickety walls and floor half-rotted and its rooms scattered with evocative artifacts. Galleries: One view of how people of color are portrayed in pre-modern art 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Then the dancers collapse, melting into one another before falling apart, like loose parts of a rickety ship that has come undone in a tempest. Contra-Tiempo's 'Agua Furiosa' stirs up a maelstrom of issues 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Wang showed up in the United States speaking no English and with a rickety violin. Roman Totenberg’s stolen Stradivarius was once lost forever. Now, it plays again. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Within this rickety enclosure a community mourned, worshiped and celebrated, rearranging several benches to suggest church pews or a dance hall. | Richmond Ballet: At the Joyce, Richmond Ballet?s Harems and Villagers 2010-04-10T00:45:00Z Picture, as a backdrop, one of those primitively drawn 19th-century mourning paintings with rickety white gravestones and age-worn monuments standing under the faded green canopy of a couple of delicately sketched trees. Review: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Shows a President Haunted by Grief 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z I was inside the rickety 314-year-old Museum of Cocoa and Chocolate, just in time for the next demonstration, presided over by a bushy-browed man in a fluorescent-lighted kitchen with a vat of chocolate before him. Brussels: The Chocolate Trail 2011-12-23T17:57:07Z He sat down in the rickety chair and started writing furiously; it looked as if he was copying my passport. Modern Love: What the Rabbi Said 2010-12-18T05:20:05Z It was the rickety jingle of an ice cream truck parked next to the Urban Meadow community garden in Brooklyn, which adjoins a playground and serves as the festival site. Music Review: Red Hook Jazz Festival, at Urban Meadow in Brooklyn 2012-06-12T21:50:51Z We bargained with local fishermen to take us there, and climbed into their rickety dugout canoe, literally a floating mango tree trunk with its insides scooped out. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z I couldn’t feel a solid foundation upon which to build my rickety personas. A Novelist’s Stint Impersonating the Ultra-Rich in China 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z It is her own translation of a French devotional poem, rendered in somewhat rickety calligraphy. ‘Marks of Genius,’ Works From the Bodleian, at the Morgan 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Generals came, and admirals and rickety survivors of the First World War. Review: ‘Martial Bliss,’ a Loving Memoir About a Bookstore for Military Buffs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Even the boat, a rickety craft assembled by the street artist Swoon, is a marvel. ‘The Dreary Coast,’ on the Banks of the Gowanus Canal 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z In the morning, we walked up by an old railway track to the rickety wooden settlement of Naginimara. India's final frontier 2010-12-11T00:06:21Z We went to the basement, I turned the sun gun on, and the police found the woman under some rickety old furniture. Frederick Wiseman on Censorship, Small-Town America, and Why He Dislikes the Word “Documentary” 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z He kicked the band into a rickety version his 1958 hit "Carol" before abruptly shifting to the lyrics of his 1956 hit "Roll Over Beethoven." Chuck Berry rocks again following health scare 2011-01-20T14:04:00Z "This is always here," Costa says as he chews on his cigar, waving at the rickety wooden structure, housing dozens of birds and big enough to walk in comfortably. Tyson ready for Animal Planet debut in new series 2011-03-04T14:09:09Z Dominating the laboratory and overwhelming the visual scheme is a grand and rickety mainframe: an artificial intelligence that has developed emotions. The Design of “Maniac” Offers an Uncanny Imitation of Life 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z That counts anyone living paycheck to paycheck and doing their best to stay level on the rickety balance beam that is our economy, which is most people. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Recently, Gunn and I split a carton of takeout blintzes on the rickety hardwood boardwalk that runs along Brighton Beach, where Brooklyn meets the Coney Island Channel and, beyond that, the Atlantic Ocean. Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Riding an old, rickety bicycle to update the company’s guide, she found herself being followed and taunted by a man on a motorbike. Women Alert to Travel’s Darker Side 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z A 1936 play created by the Living Newspaper Unit of the W.P.A.’s Federal Theater Project, it has been given a devoted if rickety revival by the Metropolitan Playhouse. Review: Metropolitan Playhouse Tackles Labor History in ‘Injunction Granted’ 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Both are part of a larger group of 50 to 60 Argentines who drove rickety buses and vans into Copacabana over the past weekend. World Cup fans camp by the beach to dodge Rio hotel prices 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z But the family drama remains, as it seemed to me at the Public, rickety and unconvincing. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “America, with its rickety social system, is conformist but unstable,” Richardson concludes. Review | Scholars have dismissed debutante balls, but ‘The Season’ digs in to the strange, fascinating history 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Undeterred, he heads off to the Sani Pass, a steep mountain road covered in ice, and the Tugela Falls, which can be reached only by climbing up rickety iron ladders. TV highlights 16/01/2013 2013-01-15T20:00:01Z The groove started off so rickety and slow, but it was going somewhere sheltering and mysterious, and you could come, too. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z His grandparents, who had bought a rickety wood-frame house here during the Depression, were themselves too poor to leave once all the other Japanese families moved away. Raised in South Central, Joe Ide Expands the Territory of L.A. Noir 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Blitzen Trapper This Portland, Ore., indie band has always had use for throwback rock rusticity, along with its various trappings: harmonicas, banjos, rickety pianos, Dylanesque vocals. Playlist: A Confection of Pop, and Newport Chops 2011-08-20T19:45:06Z We were in Siena a week before the first Palio of the summer, and the clay had just been laid, and rickety bleachers erected all around the racetrack. Pasta Dreams and Flying Machines: Our Tuscan Adventure 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Meanwhile Mr. Waits’s voice — barking and hollering, gruffly crooning or floating in a rickety yet steadfast falsetto — is usually a one-take performance. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z Meanwhile, Alaina Moore's sweetly monotone, self-harmonising ooh-oohs and Patrick Riley's subdued surf jangle build not so much a wall of sound as a rickety piece of corrugated iron by the bike sheds. New band of the day ? No 815: Tennis 2010-06-30T16:07:00Z We followed trails that switchbacked down a moonscape of loose slate and scree, and at one point lowered ourselves along a fixed, rickety metal ladder that abutted a sheer granite cliff face. | Switzerland: Hiking the Alps of Goethe and James Bond 2013-05-01T18:06:17Z And he summarizes the themes of this collection: “Euthanasia and gerontology figure in the ’80s short story as distinctively as live-in lovers, Little League, shopping malls, television, and rickety extended families of stepparents and stepsiblings.” Revisiting American Short Stories Selected by John Updike 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Our “cruise” around the fjords turned out to be six hours on a rickety tourist boat with no on-board refreshments. Unhappy Valentines: romantic holiday disasters 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z In this way, “Don’t Cry for Me” rides the rickety line between tragedy and melodrama. Unhappy Families Abound in These New Books About Fathers and Sons 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z A rickety Victorian house by the sea catches fire, killing its inhabitants. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z There’s a marked lack of equipment – the wards consist of rows of rickety single beds and little else – and the lighting is poor. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z It would not be Bourne without a bit of rooftop parkour across rickety tin buildings somewhere in the developing world, and this Bourne stays loyal to this particular legacy. The Bourne Legacy – review 2012-08-09T14:30:01Z There isn’t a good, comprehensive answer on this – no one collects global statistics, and it’s also not fair to compare a rickety coaster in a travelling fair to a state-of-the-art fixed coaster. Why fishing is more dangerous than riding a rollercoaster 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Each spring, my husband and I visit and pass a precious week offline — drinking homemade wine, building bonfires and riding rickety bicycles through farmland. My European Ritual 2014-04-18T19:59:27Z Like Meurent, she leaps giddily across the transom, across the centuries, with her matching black neck ribbon and cat, a home-wrecker dismantling the grand but increasingly rickety edifice of high French art. Manet?s Reflections of Paris at a Cultural Peak 2011-05-16T13:33:21Z Bills began piling higher on our makeshift dining-room table, a rickety card table from Ikea. When Love Isn’t as Simple as Standing by Your Man 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, those rickety beachfront shacks that once dotted the coastline are all but gone, replaced by multimillion-dollar homes. Would Annette recognize today's Calif beach scene? 2013-04-10T10:46:03Z As they frantically tried to escape toward Florida, their rickety vessel was rammed and sunk by the Cuban Coast Guard, killing more than half the passengers. America Is Obsessed With Cuba. But What Do We Know About Its Citizens? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z And yes, the rickety plot at least makes enough thriller-movie sense for you to try to piece it together as it goes along. | 'Point Blank': It?s Paris, and Everyone Is Rotten but the Man Chased by the Police 2011-07-28T22:30:10Z The speaker is the prim Christian missionary Miss Rose Sayer, played by Katharine Hepburn, having breathlessly piloted a rickety old boat through some rapids. The African Queen ? review 2011-03-03T22:00:01Z There are other risks associated with exploring these homes, though, like rickety floor boards and encountering hostile critters. The Abandoned Houses of Instagram 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z He accessed the hidden green the only way possible: by walking through the ground floor of his residence, into his backyard, and opening the gate of a rickety iron fence. What Do Anna Wintour and Bob Dylan Have in Common? This Secret Garden 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z After an already rickety launch, “Solo: A Star Wars Story” took a nose-dive at the box office in its second week in theaters, earning just $29.3 million domestically. ‘Solo’ Is Running on Fumes at the Box Office 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Yet he outfits this rickety and cold-hearted contraption with distracting feints of illustrative flashbacks and false starts and flamboyant dashes of greeting-card wisdom to simulate the liveliness of which the characters are deprived. “Life Itself” Is Excruciating, Ill-Conceived, and Mainly About Death 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The goal had been to rehabilitate the original clapboarded structure but it was too far gone, with blackberry bushes and asbestos embedded in the rickety, lead-painted walls. Mini Mart City Park, a converted gas station in Georgetown, opens as cultural center after 15 years 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Despite its monumental stature, however, the Seven Countries Study, which was the basis for a cascade of subsequent papers by its original authors, was a rickety construction. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z It’s possible to purchase bleacher seats for the Palio, but they are expensive — as much as several hundred dollars — and look a bit rickety. The Palio di Siena: A Survivor’s Tale 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The rumble would be held in a salt shed by the river, and the number “Cool” would be filmed on the rickety piers where pieces of wood had fallen away. When Production Design Plays a Supporting Role 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Participants were stripped of cellphones and passports before embarking on a 25-day odyssey of rickety boat rides, nighttime immigration raids and, in one case, a patrol through Baghdad in a U.S. military armored personnel carrier. In Australia, Reality TV Tackles Immigration 2011-06-21T17:18:17Z It was summer, and I was living in my grandparents’ rickety beach house in Cape Cod. Her obsession with weight 2013-04-15T01:00:00Z He turned it from instructional fare to personality-led travelogue – whipping up meals on the street, over open fires, or on the rickety decks of listing boats. The 10 best TV food shows 2013-02-23T16:00:00Z When she opened the door to one bedroom, still furnished as the original owners had left it, I saw a huge bottle of Gallo wine on the rickety desk. Mushroom Paintings, Reading Speeds and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Still, some parks invest in new woodies, where the suspense doesn’t come from wondering whether the rickety rails will survive the ride. Taking the Plunge on California’s Coasters 2013-08-01T20:30:31Z He expresses reservations about some highly regarded films, faulting “The 39 Steps,” which many regard as the director’s first great film, for the “wooden, unamusing acting” of Robert Donat and for the script’s “rickety plotting.” The blur between acting, fakery 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Claim one of the rickety plastic tables in a thicket of palm trees and settle in. 36 Hours in Tulum, Mexico 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z It would be “hell on earth,” she proclaims, behind a backdrop of film clips of brown and black people rioting and rickety boats of North African refugees. Alt-right women and the "white baby challenge" 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z In another clip: A lone shack is bulldozed, collapsing like a child's rickety art project. Culture Clash adds more bite in 'Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Cast members shared a rickety wooden house on Ocean Terrace, which turned out to be right next to the Boardwalk. ?Jersey Shore,? Reality Versus Reality TV 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z Tuesday on the East Coast, as fog gave way to rain, Warren entered a rickety elementary school gymnasium in Cambridge, her regular polling location for years. From a cheerful Texas stadium to an anxious Boston party, here’s what the 2020 starting line felt like. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z I backed out of dinner plans if I remembered the restaurant had particularly narrow aisles or rickety chairs. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The cabanas are open-fronted, rickety, at the mercy of the elements. Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus 2013-06-02T20:00:00Z It’s a rickety platform to stand on when your company consistently puts out work that hopes to raise awareness, increase representation or move the culture. Dave Chappelle Isn’t Canceled. He Just Likes to Talk About It. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z And while her vocal melodies follow friendly pop contours, the guitars sound detuned and percussive, rickety and bedraggled. Review | New name. New sound. But the Chicks still sound like the truth. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Street scenes were played with the audience perched in trepidation on stained mattresses and rickety old armchairs. RIP Lanford Wilson: the man who saved me as a playwright 2011-03-31T10:44:51Z I rode up and down and up again, switching between the paved tram lane and the rickety boards. In Wildwood, my final summertime fling They were renting snorkels, fins and masks from a rickety wooden desk for the equivalent of $2. This Indonesian Island Is a Respite From Bali. At Least for Now. 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Its lineup is full of tales constructed of narration by the people involved — victims, witnesses, police officers — and rickety re-enactments. Television Review: In ‘Surviving Evil,’ Victims Relive Terrifying Encounters 2013-08-27T20:19:01Z A rickety, balsa wood bus trundled on, then fell apart like a cheap circus prop. Why we need Iron Maiden for the Olympics 2010-03-25T14:58:00Z Sometimes a rickety fishing vessel on the Louisiana bayou is nothing more that it seems. The forging of a Black Captain America by battling supremacy in "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Every Saturday, you’ll find Mr. Johnson at the town’s weekly farmers’ market selling organic coffee beans, dairy products and chocolate from a cooler and a rickety card table. Next Stop: A Trip Along Costa Rica?s Caribbean Coast 2010-04-03T03:51:00Z Plastic chairs and rickety tables make up this landmark where Evelyn and Julian Lagon cook up some of the best food on the island. Touring St. Lucia with its Top Chef 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Before I expanded into the box room next door, it was the smallest room in the house, with slanted walls, rickety bookshelves, broken chairs and the kind of lighting you'd get in a morgue. Francesca Simon: Where I write 2013-03-07T17:00:00Z He’s too rickety to move much and lives in another hole down the far the side of the “heap” to escape the sun. Scena Theater’s staging of Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’ is pleasant but needs more flavor But what separates “Looper” from, say, “Timecop” or other rickety time-travel contraptions is that it explores exactly this kind of question to its full emotional consequences. The Inspiration Issue: Rian Johnson Builds a Better Time Machine 2012-09-26T16:08:34Z This rickety hostel sits by a lake, nicknamed “Big Girl,” that’s so rotten it’s turned black. Review | The post-apocalyptic world of Joy Williams’s ‘Harrow’ reads like a cautionary tale 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z But his best work, as proved by a surprising exhibition at Japan Society, reveals the self as a rickety thing, and national identity as even more fragile. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z She and Allain had also felt themselves outgrowing their “beautiful, darling space” at 207 Starr Street, with its steep stairs and rickety chandeliers. Bushwick Starr Gets New $2.2 Million Home 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The result is an extraordinarily panoramic and yet granular view of the criminal justice system in New York City, emphasized by the juxtaposition of broad, skyline shots with rickety, undercover camerawork. 'We didn't ask permission': behind an explosive NYPD documentary 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z It’s a bit glossy — everyone in this fantasy is good-looking in that bland, Disney way, even the characters with pointy ears — and the special effects are sometimes rickety. Review: ‘The Shannara Chronicles,’ an Elfin Adventure, Debuts on MTV 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z And once the racial stress of the neighborhood asserts itself into their group of friends, that bond seems rickety, too. ‘Babylon’ Review: A Clear View of Black Londoners When Few Films Saw Them 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Do your diligence before you hop on a packed bus or rickety tram just because it offers a so-called authentic experience. 5 Ways to Stay Safe on Bus Trips Abroad 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Like most other young associates interviewed for this article, she asked that her name not be used for fear of jeopardizing her climb up the already rickety ladder of a law career. 2010-01-16T22:34:00Z Current users note that it is functionally sort of rickety — a mixture of old interfaces and new ones, clearly run by a relatively small team. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z The first sees Remo and Jan staying in a rickety rooftop dig, meeting a brilliant poet and motorcyclist named José Arco and exploring the city’s suspicious surge in poetry magazines. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z It was a recent Tuesday — bright, glinting — and Ms. Bening, 60, was sitting, shadowed, at a rickety table in the back of a subterranean NoHo cafe, eating a plate of scrambled eggs. How Annette Bening Puts It All Onstage. But Keeps Something for Herself. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Rising crime and rickety schools, hospitals and roads are daily reminders of shortfalls. As protests simmer, Brazil's national anthem soars at World Cup 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z The author remembers riding in an automobile with Mr. Mandela and being scolded for laughing at a poor man’s rickety car. Books of The Times: ?Sometimes There Is a Void? ? By Zakes Mda ? Review 2012-01-05T21:44:22Z The rickety elevator opened into this cluttered loft with hanging papier-mâché legumes and what sounded like 200 screeching children. Motherlode Blog: Choosing a Preschool: Order Amid Chaos, or Structure Above All? 2014-03-11T16:25:15Z Comedy is indeed a temporally fragile commodity, and even on the most stylish and savvy of evenings, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” is rickety and tiresome. Review | ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ as a sitcom? Call it ‘The Bardy Bunch.’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Their developing relationship propels this novel toward its conclusion, but can’t, in the end, make up for its tired, rickety and all too generic plot. Review: ‘Career of Evil,’ J.K. Rowling’s Grisly Crime Novel 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z In the late afternoon, rickety old trucks move along, their flatbeds packed with scores of young female garment workers who, standing up, have squeezed themselves on for the trip home. In Cambodia, a Shooting Range Open to Tourists 2012-11-28T00:08:31Z We know much less about Wilson — and what we know suggests his career was rickety, his personal life unedifying, his writing awful and his plan insane. An Englishman’s Ill-Fated Quest to Climb the World’s Highest Mountain 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z He has the sinewy, exoskeletal comportment of a person who spends most of his time pacing beneath a rickety train trestle: a junkie gait. Where Punk Rock Begins 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In the black of night in northeastern Syria, two men drive their rickety jeep deep into Al Hol, a refugee camp for families of fighters for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. ‘Sabaya’ Review: Light Breaking Through Darkness 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Could the social order stand on such a rickety foundation? The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Visitors stomp their way up a five-story former dormitory for missionaries, a building so dark, dusty and rickety that some people clutch the splintery railing, lest they tumble down the stairs. Scene/ Seen in ... Shanghai: Shanghai Biennales Whet the Appetite for Art 2010-12-10T18:13:00Z It opens up pertinent topics: the American embargo, the rickety Cuban economy, the sense of a nation frozen in time. Sure, It’s Castro and Cigars, but Cuba Is Coral and Crocodiles, Too 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Also nearby are several doors, grown rickety from serial slamming. Review: Michael Frayn’s ‘Noises Off’ Returns to Broadway 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z If she goes into town to run errands for Yvonne, she isn’t given the car — she has to be on her rickety bicycle with Yvonne’s packages in a little-girl handlebar basket. ‘The Affair’ Season 2 Episode 5: Never Read the Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z When Edna mysteriously reappears with no explanation, the family confront an unknowing, ominous presence that threatens to possess their rickety house and those inside it. Relic: Australian director Natalie Erika James on dementia, horror and her Sundance hit 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z There are few restaurants to speak of, no souvenir shops, no traffic and just one or two rickety bars where you can watch the sky go orange and pink while sipping a cold Chang beer. ‘Old Thailand’ Found on Sleepy Islands 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The chairs are a bit rickety, but you don't spend a lot of time sitting, and a few were a bit better. Piles of churros and carnitas costra de queso: What a travel writer eats in Mexico City 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z With its painted brick, wooden support columns and rickety chandeliers, it’s dingy, elegant and strangely welcoming. Bushwick Starr, a Humble Space With Bold Works 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z But the rise of pummeling dance music as a mainstream aesthetic leaves Mr. Bieber, whose voice is sweet but not rickety, in an awkward position. Pop: Justin Bieber’s Album ‘Believe’ Comes Out Tuesday 2012-06-14T12:00:00Z It's too late – they're already heading across state lines into Mississippi, towards a rickety chapel. Great Balls of Fire! Jerry Lee Lewis biopic strikes wrong note on scandal 2012-08-23T11:49:00Z Stojka would paint the cattle car in which she was deported: a rickety thing, its rear window barred, charging into a sky burning white, pink and orange. The Survivor of Auschwitz Who Painted a Forgotten Genocide 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z And he has reconstructed parts of its rickety porch in the gallery, after having traveled alongside the pieces in a truck for the 500-mile journey from Eden. How a French Artist Turned a Stay in North Carolina Into Conceptual Art 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z On a couple of occasions, walkers venture over rickety wooden bridges. On Long Island, skip the beach and take a hike Sidestepping the traffic of somber, formally inventive new plays about Black life, “Chicken & Biscuits” eagerly boards that rickety old bus. Review: In ‘Chicken & Biscuits,’ a Sweet but Dated Comedic Recipe 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z In one of the properties a scooter stood at the foot of a rickety open stairway. The great London property squeeze 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The percussion is lush and, in spots, digitally rickety, ranging from far away camera snaps to gently scraping snares. Friday Favorites: USF, Sax G Whiz, ????? 2010-08-27T17:09:00Z What could be gained by arresting rickety old camp guards, decades later? The Nazi hunters who wouldn’t give up: “Many war criminals… simply went back and resumed their lives” 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The title describes the climax, a weird vaudeville show presented on a rickety outdoor stage for an audience of everyone Binew has encountered over the previous 12 hours. 'The Living Wake': high-minded, with lowbrow pleasures 2010-06-03T22:32:00Z It sounds really rickety, as though the band are playing at the limit of their abilities, but the vocal and melody are so endearing they more than make up for any instrumental shortcomings. New band of the day ? No 1,058: Razika 2011-07-08T15:22:50Z My moral compass was as rickety as the piles of trash in which I stood. I clean out hoarder houses. Some jobs are even harder than the rest 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Surrounding and barely supporting these compelling performances is a rickety narrative structure with subplots that never quite transcend perfunctory conflict. Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche Star in ‘Words and Pictures’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The old forms just feel really rickety right now, and not able to contain the stakes. Q&A: Adam McKay on the lessons of the 2000 recount 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Skillpa rides the same rickety 10-speed to work every day that he presumably took to school when he was a kid. Straight to DVD: "Tenderness" and "Peacock" 2010-04-17T17:17:00Z Soon after being deposited at the lake shore, I found myself balancing above the water on a narrow plank, halfway between a concrete jetty and the roof of a rickety wooden boat called the Mozorola. | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z The exhibition also explores the lives of 18th-century slaves who slept in Brooklyn farmhouse attics, accessible by rickety ladders. George Washington Really Slept Here. So Did His Slave. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands rendered their verdict on the new order, Hastings notes, by risking their lives to flee, often in rickety boats. The Disaster That Was the Vietnam War 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Some of his later plays — the plots are extremely rickety and chaotic. Their Latest Risk: Household Objects Playing Shakespeare 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z And me, standing there, rotating my stock, uncrating another rickety crate of peppers or beets, scraping off the caked, crushed ice. My dad: 35 and dead 2013-02-23T23:00:00Z And so, yes, you and your husband definitely should address your mother-in-law issues before you load a First Christmas Together’s worth of expectations on that rickety sleigh. Carolyn Hax: Married couple’s first Christmas fraught with in-law stress 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z In many ways “Cracks” is lurid and rickety. | 'Cracks': At Desolate Girls? School, Diving Teacher Rules Roost 2011-03-17T22:29:06Z It showed a ragged moon in a ragged sky above a ragged pine by a rickety bandstand with a few stones in a barren foreground and an abandoned pram. Jeffrey Smart 2013-06-27T14:02:39Z Instead, they kept and selectively exposed pieces of its brick shell, and its rickety carpentry. Beautiful south 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z When I arrived, a few locals were sitting at rickety tables licking their red-stained fingers, completely focused on eating. Choice Tables: The Flavor of Bali, at Roadside Stands 2009-12-16T20:56:00Z The image of an impoverished worker in torn flip-flops, perilously perched on a rickety ladder, speaks volumes about class divisions in a country that threatens to become a narco-state dominated by a wealthy criminal elite. Movie Review: ‘El Velador’ (‘The Night Watchman’), Mexico’s Drug War Cemetery 2012-06-13T21:43:01Z These are among the hazards as the members of Kongzi’s family travel the rivers, earning a little money and investing in a rickety boat to carry them to the next settlement. Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z We stumbled along what we thought was the trail and finally arrived at a group of rickety lean-to’s in which hikers could pitch their tents. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z But the framework that the show’s creators, Chad Hodge and Blake Crouch, build off that incident is rickety. Review: With ‘Good Behavior,’ Lady Mary Takes a Lowlife Turn 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z One of my first meals in Istanbul was at a tiny kebab restaurant on a rather rickety balcony overlooking the Bosphorus. Why being a vegetarian traveller is often so hard to swallow 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Feeling a bit like James Bond, I unharnessed and we casually continued our trek on Pulau Sapi, bushwhacking our way down to a rickety pier where we boarded our boat again. Island Hopping Off the Coast of Borneo 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Frankly, the whole game is symphonic: the rattle of a copper token as it tumbles down a rickety chute. The Forgotten Greatness of Air Hockey 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z In Chapter 3 of “What We Did,” Kent’s heroine, Bridget Webster, stows a heavy log on a rickety storage room shelf of the dress shop she owns. Review | In this moody thriller, an abused woman finds an unusual way to exact revenge 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Reservations-making without commitment is the apotheosis of digital glibness; it’s a vote of confidence built on rickety scaffolding. The Aspirational R.S.V.P.: Saying Yes When You Mean No 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Somehow framed as a fable of both communal cohesion and openness to strangers, “Shucked” has very little actual plot, and what there is, much of it borrowed from “The Music Man,” is rickety. Review: In ‘Shucked,’ a Glut of Gleeful Puns and ‘Cornography’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Real change happens in those places where the concrete is cracked and the air conditioning rickety. At Proenza Schouler show, all rules about leather in spring melt away Not so much Chekhov’s gun as Chekhov’s laundry chute, Chekhov’s rickety treehouse or Chekhov’s remotely operated patio door. The real star of Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winner Parasite? The house 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z I traveled with this piece from Atlanta in a ferry down the Intracoastal Waterway and then in a rickety golf cart to the island’s public beach. 12 Artists On: Climate Change 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Still, as I climbed up a rickety ladder to enter the two-story detector, I felt a giddy sense of adventure. Colliders, Sundials and Wonder: When Science Is Your Destination 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z This single set, designed by Marsha Ginsberg, fizzes with playful menace, suggested most blatantly by a rickety fairground ride. Review: A Stranger, Sexier Version of ‘Peter Pan’? It’s Leonard Bernstein’s 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Crowds of 10,000 or more regularly packed the rickety arena to watch men and women circle a one-sixth-mile track for days at a time. For one wild era, walking was the nation’s No. 1 spectator sport 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z It forms a square: slightly rickety, not too wide, not too high. Frieze art fair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:54Z Most of the furniture is gone except for a rickety crib, some chairs and a wood-burning stove that dominates the kitchen. A Stroll Through Wyeth?s Giverny 2011-08-11T18:32:30Z We sit at a rickety table in front of Rita's simple set. Life after death 2010-03-28T21:00:00Z Three years later, he founded his bookshop in a rickety old building directly across the Seine River from Notre Dame cathedral. Founder of Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Co. dies 2011-12-14T18:58:08Z An assortment of secondary characters are given story lines too flimsy to register, and the special effects are equally rickety. Review: ‘U.S.S. Indianapolis,’ a War (Yawn) Catastrophe 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z It opens with Staples singing a soft, rickety version of “This Little Light of Mine,” delivered on what sounds like a scratchy, worn-out cassette tape. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The song is everything good about cumbia: bouncy, buoyant and a little rickety. Chicano Batman wins over crowds with unique, psychedelic sound 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z We paid our £2.50 each and strapped ourselves into two rickety swings next to each other. Family life 2013-01-12T08:15:01Z One problem I faced in getting it out into the world was, a publishing professional said, my rickety social media presence. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z "I found it, my north," he gushes, "smoking and babbling, battling and loving, scattered and glittering, lush and brisk … rickety and plush, conspiring and crackling." The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z The emotional kick delivered by the elaborate, rickety setup comes mainly from Johnson’s remarkable performance. The Good and the Bad in “Central Intelligence” 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Much of the action is confined to a single, rickety set representing the main corridor of the ward. DVDs: Samuel Fuller, Eccentric Stylist of Poverty Row 2011-01-23T02:30:16Z In the “Three Stooges,” Moe, Larry and Curly try to catch some sleep before crushing each other as rickety bed tiers pancake. Bunk Rooms Climb the Social Ladder 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Exhausted from his labors, he naps inside his rickety craft and, in a fantastical dream that recalls such books as “Where the Wild Things Are,” he sails it out to sea. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The set is dominated by the players’ pull-cart stage, a rickety contraption that represents Noah’s Ark, sometimes with help from a fauna-emblazoned banner. Review | Coronavirus looms over this play set during a plague. But ‘The Amateurs’ speaks to timeless concerns. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Nearby, suspended over the water overlooking the South China Sea, rickety open-fronted restaurants were perched on stilts. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z Before the cod succumbed to overfishing, the port town was teeming with rickety tables covered with flattened fish drying in the sun. In Quebec, a maritime region’s embarrassment of riches in history and cuisine 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Number of rickety voting booths on display, once used in Ohio. A timely Smithsonian exhibit for election season 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z By my mid-30s, I had drunkenly tumbled down rickety outdoor wooden steps and glamorous winding staircases. How did I get home last night? My bizarre, panicked life as a blackout drinker 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Their battle on a rickety tabletop surrounded by upturned chairs is the movie's high point. 'Ip Man 2': Sequel's martial-arts action beats the storytelling 2011-01-27T22:55:30Z Admit it: You have a hard time connecting to the fellow humans you see in rickety old black-and-white footage, with their ancient cars and long-out-of-fashion clothing and hairstyles. Review: ‘America in Color’ Refreshes 20th-Century History 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z But without that major, vital piece of the structure in place "The Little Things" is a rickety mystery that never completely comes together. Great acting can only take HBO Max's throwback noir "The Little Things" so far 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z He lives alone in a rickety Austin pile where the lights blow out and trains shake pictures from the wall. Al Pacino: ‘What’s the point of quitting?’ 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Theroux is happy to be in the comfortable front seat of his own car, as opposed to the crowded and rickety buses and trains he’s used in other parts of the world. Review: In ‘Deep South,’ Paul Theroux Takes an Eye-Opening Road Trip 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z There's Palma Violets, rickety and rackety, and – catnip for those who yearn for indie's golden age – signed to Rough Trade. Childhood: another great new UK guitar band to watch 2012-11-27T18:45:01Z Still, she presented Mr. Apatow with a complimentary Argosy T-shirt and led him toward the rickety elevator that would hoist him to the sixth floor, where the autographs are kept. Judd Apatow, an Autograph Geek, Hunts for Memorabilia 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z With its lyrics, the band also attempts — as the album title suggests — to recreate a late-hippie spirit that mixes hedonism, idealism and a conscience, a rickety balance. Greta Van Fleet Blasts Toward the Past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Many members of the ethnic Rohingya Muslims, a persecuted minority in Myanmar, have for years boarded rickety wooden boats to escape to Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia as well as Thailand. Almost 200 Rohingya arrive by boat in Indonesia's Aceh 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Namely, he wants to know, why did his parents take such risks to put their family on a rickety old fishing boat for an overnight voyage to Florida? Book Review: Edel Rodriguez shows Cuban history as warning for the U.S. in new graphic memoir ‘Worm’ 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Most of the Afghan nationals were brought to the centers in rickety busses, some of them handcuffed. Pakistan starts rounding up undocumented foreigners, mostly Afghans, ahead of deadline 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Through set dressing, we are transported to a rickety porch. Part spooky escape room, part live theater, the Ministry of Peculiarities is magic 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z "If we're really going to stop people crossing the Mediterranean on rickety boats and dying as they do so, we need to approach the situation far more comprehensively," she said. UN migration chief voices concern over Mediterranean deaths, pledges new solutions 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Forest Service is looking to hire a smokejumper, a person who parachutes out of a rickety airplane to wrangle wildfires that break out far from roads or rivers. $18 an hour to parachute into a forest fire? Firefighters hit pay cliff 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Minus the sizzle, it’s hard to ignore the rickety construction. ‘Dream Hou$e’ asks: Would you cash in by selling your childhood home? 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z “They may be uncomfortable to see these two legs of that rickety triangle cooperating so closely.” Putin confirms meeting as North Korea’s Kim reportedly heads to Russian Far East 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z With their fate uncertain, dozens of Rohingya are taking perilous high seas journeys via seas aboard rickety boats to escape to Indonesia and Malaysia, often paying huge sum to human traffickers. Rohingya: Gang violence stalks world's largest refugee camp 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z It thus falls to the swift, fluid movements of Jasper Wolf’s camera and the suspenseful thrum of Dascha Daunhauer’s score to bring this rickety war room procedural to life. Review: Helen Mirren shines (and smokes) in an otherwise lackluster 'Golda' 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z It is a part of the world where cable cars and rickety rope bridges are the fastest way to move from a village on one hillside to its nearest neighbour across ravines and valleys. Pakistan's prayers answered as cable car survivors given 'second life' 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z It is a part of the world where chair lifts and rickety rope bridges are the fastest way to move from a village on one hillside to its nearest neighbour across ravines and valleys. Pakistan's prayers answered as chair-lift survivors given 'second life' 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Climbing unsteadily down the rickety metal steps of his battered Coachmen Catalina, Munjar said he paid $600 a month to park the metal recreational vehicle on this gravel lot with no shade. Five years after the Camp fire, Paradise survivors see a hard future for Maui 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z People smugglers typically overload rickety dinghies, leaving them barely afloat and at risk of being lashed by the waves as they try to reach British shores. Afghans recount moment migrant boat sank on deadly Channel crossing 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Marriott's full review otherwise said the book "nails together shower thoughts, random prejudices and genuine insights into a decidedly rickety structure", and repeatedly used the word "bonkers" to describe Peterson's philosophy. Jordan Peterson: Critics complain over 'misleading' book cover quotes 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z It can be hard to understand, from the outside, what drives a person to risk their life on a rudder or a rickety boat across the Mediterranean. Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z More people are making the trip across the Atlantic in rickety wooden boats known as pirogues trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands. Takeaways from AP’s report on bodies from migrant boats buried on the beach in Senegal 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The route from West Africa to Spain is one of the world’s most dangerous, yet the number of migrants leaving from Senegal on rickety wooden boats has surged over the past year. As more migrants go missing at sea, many say bodies end up on Senegal’s beaches in unmarked graves 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Like the ride, the movie is a rickety, silly-sinister vehicle that occasionally stalls and loses momentum. Review: 'Boo!'-benheimer? Disney's 'Haunted Mansion' is just a so-so comedy of manors 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Gas flares from oil wells light up at all hours with a roaring thunder, their vibrations causing the walls of rickety houses to crack. Venezuela’s Oil Industry Is Broken. Now It’s Breaking the Environment. 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z In some ways, ship stowaways are safer than those who cross parts of the Sahara on foot or the Mediterranean on rickety wooden boats. Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z The group advises one and all to mull over the rickety U.S. economy over a nice cup of coffee. Republican presidential hopefuls to converge at Iowa’s sold-out Family Leadership Summit 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Sarah-Mae: The tour took us through three different underground areas with bare concrete walls and rickety wooden beams, giving us an immersive history lesson going beyond what you’d likely learn in textbooks. Are Seattle’s iconic tourist attractions worth a visit? We tried out 5 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Beneath the rickety vessel’s deck, she and over 30 family members crowded together in silence between crates of raw fish and ice as they made their way toward a camp in Thailand. The Vietnamese American Artists Searching for Identity 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The third act is a bit rushed and rickety — the big climactic moment is too wacky, the denouement all too easy. Review: Jennifer Lawrence and 'No Hard Feelings' deliver a just right summer sex comedy 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z However boat operators often overload their rickety vessels in a bid to earn more money. Kwara boat accident: 100 dead and more missing in Nigeria 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z The pitch-dark drama’s first season finds Michael doing things he never could have imagined in order to maintain the rickety framework of lies keeping his son alive. Bryan Cranston plumbs the depths in 'Your Honor,' then slowly begins the climb back 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Park has done well to hold a rickety position together, but now he falters under the pressure: 28. Big guns in chess bring the firepower at strong Cherry Blossom Classic 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Since you are, by several rickety suspension bridges, the bigger Indiana Jones fan/expert between us, I’m happy to play the novice to your sensei as we run down what we just saw. Tearful Harrison Ford surprised with honorary Palme d'Or at 'Indiana Jones' premiere 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Growing up in East Los Angeles, she would visit her grandparents’ turkey ranch in El Centro during the summers, riding a “rickety bike” around the land. Virginia Jaramillo's sprawling career takes her 'East of the Sun': 'No one expected me to survive as an artist' 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z A group of them sit on a rickety bench cradling their gloves watching the training session. Why Somalia's once-banned boxing thrives in the former warzone 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z The rickety wooden boat she was in capsized and Mohsena thought she and her unborn baby would drown - her husband saved them. Myanmar Rohingya: What future for the refugee baby lucky to survive? 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z In his living room, rickety tables hoist the ornate art he’s built from dollar-store crafting supplies. California created the nation's only pension for aging boxers. But it's failing to deliver 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Defenders try to build a rickety bridge to a constitutional provision that protects their debate statements from legal repercussions. Legislative report card: A mix of achievements, progress and failures | Editorial 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z All gingerly stepped from rickety boats into the sturdy craft of the Tunisian Maritime National Guard — and away from their dreams of life in Europe. Tunisia rounds up migrants at sea in unprecedented numbers 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z But the leg up offered by being in the White House can be rickety - three of the last seven presidents have lost reelection, most recently Trump in 2020. Biden launches 2024 bid, betting record will top age worries 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z But the leg up offered by being in the White House can be rickety — three of the last seven presidents have lost reelection, most recently Trump in 2020. Biden to launch ’24 bid, betting record will top age worries 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z KEY WEST, Fla. — Nearly 1,400 migrants from Cuba and Haiti took to the sea in rickety vessels and landed in the Florida Keys in January, overwhelming the local police. A Cruise Ship for Florida’s Migrant Crisis Had Nowhere to Dock 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z So it’s a rickety assumption to consider the Lakers a sure thing, even with their improved supporting cast. Perspective | It’s time to pass the torch in the NBA, if anyone is willing to take it 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Many other Cubans attempted the perilous journey to Florida in rickety boats and rafts. US and Cuba to hold fresh round of migration talks this week 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Next to the hotel are a few shops selling dust-coated cans of energy drinks, an outhouse with a rickety wooden door, and a shed of kindling that village children collect each morning. In a Deadly Mountain Pass, a Tiny Hotel Is a Lifeline 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Many Rohingya have for years attempted in rickety wooden boats to reach neighbouring Thailand and Bangladesh, and Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia, especially between November and April when the seas are calm. More than 180 Rohingya Muslims arrive by boat in Indonesia's Aceh 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z More than that, their defense made Purdue look flustered, then unsure, then rickety, then lost. Purdue upset by Fairleigh Dickinson, joins Virginia in top-seeded sadness 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z In the Cutro case, an aircraft with the European border agency, Frontex, sighted the rickety migrant boat, called Summer Love, 40 miles from the Italian coast, sailing without any “signs of distress.” On Italy’s Coast, Empathy Mixes With Frustration After Migrant Tragedy 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z In this rickety sweatbox club, several micro-generations of musicians divined an experimental fusion of hip-hop, electronic, jazz, R&B and psychedelia. After the death of the Airliner, who are the next heirs to L.A.'s underground throne left behind by Low End Theory? 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z More than 1.5 million people left, most of them ethnic Chinese, on often rickety boats across the South China Sea. Why Vietnam doesn't want to claim Ke Huy Quan 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “Such a rickety boat has sailed a long way. This shows that we need to strengthen the European patrolling and search-and-rescue system.” Migrant Deaths Shine Light on Europe’s Harder Line and Broken Promises 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z I met Jade Oliver in a rabbit warren of rickety old rooms above a shop in Ross-on Wye, picking flowers from a rainbow of colours. Selling online helps people keep up with rising prices 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z For years many Rohingya have attempted in rickety wooden boats to reach neighbouring states such as Thailand and Bangladesh, and to Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia, especially between November and April when the seas are calm. Boat carrying 50 Rohingya lands in Indonesia's Aceh 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The sweet spot in the title of Amy Poeppel’s fourth novel refers to a grungy Greenwich Village bar, a beloved neighborhood fixture with battered wood floors, rickety tables and a pungent smell of beer. Review | Yes, life is messy. ‘The Sweet Spot’ finds joy in the chaos. 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Now the earthquake has wiped out internet and electricity, and destroyed already rickety shelters. Why is it so hard to help Syria’s earthquake victims? 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Large numbers live in tent camps or rickety settlements, often built among olive groves or on hard, barren earth. A dire situation in northwest Syria: Devastating quake amid civil war 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z "We sit here for around two or three hours, sometimes just for an hour," said Dziuba as the wind rattled the rickety structure. On the one hill with mobile signal, Ukrainian kids build makeshift classroom 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Thousands of Haitians in recent months have fled for the neighboring Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and the United States, many undertaking perilous journeys on overcrowded, rickety boats. Senators’ departure leaves Haiti without an elected government 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z The company installed rickety, unfinished “boxes” surrounding floor seating. Review: In a funky Baroque opera house, Pacific Opera Project puts an immersive spin on Vivaldi 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z As the situation worsens, Haitians increasingly flee by plane or aboard rickety boats, desperately risking their lives to reach some safety and economic security. Political vacuum in Haiti deepens as senators’ terms expire 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Yet for all its popularity as perhaps the last gasp of a uniting, monocultural force in the United States, football also exists on a rickety foundation. Op-Ed: Thank heaven Damar Hamlin survived. We're not so sure about the NFL 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z When his rickety boat went down, his body disappeared into the sea. As young Gazans die at sea, anger rises over leaders’ travel 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Officials said at least 65 migrants have died since August trying to make the dangerous trek in often rickety boats. US removes Cuban migrants from remote Florida islands 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z On weekdays in Manila, Al Enriquez, 86, pushes a rickety wooden cart with a rainbow umbrella perched on the dilapidated wood. The ‘Golden Gays’ Return to the Stage in the Philippines 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z They travel 90 miles to the Florida coast, often arriving in rickety, precariously constructed boats packed with migrants. US reopening visa and consular services at embassy in Cuba 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Southwest Airlines’ pilot and flight attendant unions warned for years that the company’s rickety computer systems left the airline vulnerable. Southwest didn’t heed calls to upgrade tech before meltdown, unions say 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z "We were afloat in the sea for 40 days," he said, adding that food supplies grew thin after 10 days and the rickety boat soon sprang a leak. Rohingya recount stories of hunger and desperation in escape to Indonesia 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Kiersey had an absolute blast being her playful self on our rickety, rustic table while donning some of the most impeccable Thom Browne pieces. The best Entertainment & Arts photos of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Each year many Rohingya, members of a Muslim minority, risk their lives boarding rickety vessels to escape violence in Myanmar and squalor in Bangladesh refugee camps. At least a 100 Rohingya stranded in boat off India's coast, many dead, activists say 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Then there is his embrace of the rickety yellow school buses which drive the players around campus before the games as a testament to the program’s hardscrabble beginnings. Plaschke: Clay Helton, in his happy place at Georgia Southern, is still rooting for USC 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Some migrants attempt to reach Florida via dangerous journeys on rickety vessels that sometimes end in tragedy, though most fly to Central America or Mexico and cross by land. Cuban Coast Guard rescues would-be migrants adrift off of Havana 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Hundreds of homemade, rickety boats have left this year from the shores of Baracoa, a fishing village west of Havana where Mr. García, 34, lives — so many that locals call the town “Terminal Three.” ‘Cuba Is Depopulating’: Largest Exodus Yet Threatens Country’s Future 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Each year many Rohingya, members of a persecuted Muslim minority, risk their lives boarding rickety vessels to escape oppression and violence in Myanmar and squalor in Bangladesh refugee camps. More than 150 Rohingya stranded on leaking boat off Thai coast, NGO says 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z It reveals the rickety foundations of today’s identity politics. Opinion | How racial preferences feed grasping grievance groups and grow ever more absurd 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The issue of who should take responsibility for those reaching the wealthy European Union on rickety boats to escape poverty or war has long plagued relations within the bloc. EU ministers discuss migration after France-Italy spat 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z For more than a decade, ultralow interest rates generated a tide of cheap money lifting many boats, both rickety and sound. Opinion | Why the ax is swinging in Silicon Valley 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z In 1994, street protests led to an exodus of about 35,000 people, who washed up on Florida shores on inner tubes and rickety vessels. ‘Cuba Is Depopulating’: Largest Exodus Yet Threatens Country’s Future 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z During tougher times, such as in Sunday’s shorthanded loss, Durant looks like a superstar stripped of his sidekick and Brooklyn appears too rickety to take seriously. Analysis | The Nets can’t delay their Kyrie Irving decision forever 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z And by parallels, we mean superb offenses with veteran quarterbacks and rickety defenses that, by Georges!, can surrender 49 points at any moment. Pac-12 power rankings: No changes at top amid premature report of SDSU invitation 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z As the economy has lagged and public finances run into crisis amid political upheaval, many Tunisians have taken to often rickety boats to join the illegal migration route to Europe. Protests paralyse Tunisian town after migrant deaths 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Far from the hustle and bustle of Panama City Beach 30 miles west, there was no downtown to speak of: The central public gathering spot was a long rickety 1960s-era wooden pier. A tiny Florida beach town is rebuilding after a hurricane. Is it becoming a preserve of the rich? 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z |
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