| 单词 | slyly |
| 例句 | I saw my sister look at me slyly and tap the space between her eyebrows slowly four times. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “I’m from Saturn,” said another, eyes glinting slyly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “They say the crop is not too plentiful this year,” Mercy put in slyly. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She smiled slyly as the blood covered her bottom row of teeth. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Then slyly, the fife music slid into a playful tune, poking, plucking at their brittle senses. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z In the bright light of the moon, the monkeys glanced slyly at them and stole over to the rice. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Mariam was not looking at him, but she could hear something slyly playful in these questions, like a needling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z "He killed a man with a pitchfork," Dad would say, nodding slyly toward some hulking farmer in bib overalls. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z She looks at me, a little slyly, as if testing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She looked up at me sideways, slyly, and I saw that it would be better if we could both pretend I’d eaten my breakfast after all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He slyly pocketed a chunk of beef to give to Spider later. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Smiling slyly at Ranofer, the old man lowered himself to the ground and took a packet from his sash. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z As the interne put the machine under his friend’s bed he saw Antonapoulos slyly cut his eyes across the ward to be certain that each person realized that the machine was his. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t you have a master for your castle in the air?” asked Laurie slyly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She raised one eyebrow and looked at me slyly. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And then he looked directly at me—slyly—meaning that she was worried that I might tell the agency that she started smoking again. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They grinned the way people who share a secret do, slyly, like they’d sat in that dim shoe shop all day not making shoes at all but devising secret plots. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The host, a Frenchwoman, glanced at her American husband, a slyly pleased smile on her face; the most unforgettable dinner parties happened when guests said unexpected, and potentially offensive, things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She kept looking up at Mrs. Marl, but her fingers were slyly holding out a note. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The boys walked on slowly, looking slyly at the big boy who had made the remark about the girls, and wondering whether he would lead off into a dirty talk session. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Feeling queasy, bakchoi?” said Bunny slyly after the waiter took our drink orders. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When it looks as though someone might approach him, Apa slyly moves away to another corner of the room, pretends to become interested in his crumpled program. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I sigh and widen my eyes a bit, seeing Nessa slyly studying me. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He smiled up at his stepsister and winked slyly at Roy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean,” Shultz slyly said, “you saw no reason for the court on its own motion to grant a change of venue?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “No coffins, no piled skulls in the corners; I don’t even think we have cobwebs . . . what a disappointment this must be for you,” he continued slyly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Well, that won’t matter if they turn out to cure seasickness or something, will it?” said Ron, grinning slyly at her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “You want to know about girls? This is the one,” he said slyly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The old Chinese man didn’t turn his head, but he looked slyly at the boy out of the corner of his eye. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The three F’s,’ my mother called them, smiling slyly. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You scared of getting beat at checkers?” he asked slyly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My phone buzzes: Ben, slyly texting from my doorway. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He struggled to his feet: the terrier released his hold and walked away, his back turned arrogantly but his eyes slewed slyly in his flat head so that he looked almost reptilian. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah,” Luna says slyly, “but I thought you were here to pay a family friend a visit?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His mom pretends to be annoyed but slyly asks for intel later. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But then he stopped and looked at her slyly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Let’s just say,” he was eyeing the Captain slyly. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Antonapoulos would go into a restaurant, and while they sat at the table he slyly put lumps of sugar, or a peppershaker, or pieces of silverware in his pocket. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Well,” Tommie said a little slyly, “I try to keep him satisfied with other things.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “They looked rather at home in those tales, in fact. But if the children did not care for the actors’ tableaux,” she added slyly, “perhaps they will show us one of their own.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She looks slyly around for signs of an enemy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Miss Granger was just talking about you —” said Peeves slyly in Myrtle’s ear. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z They did not slide slyly to the side as if he would pretend it wasn’t there at all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “It’s nothing to be ashamed of, Naomi,” Muff said slyly. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After a time his breathing steadied and he watched his brain go to work slyly, quietly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She sidles up to the forgotten coffeemaker, grinning slyly at them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Sean was always the biggest perpetrator of said strategy, especially on days when he had a quiz in another class and wanted to slyly check his index cards while she prattled on. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “Friends who don’t even write to Harry Potter?” said Dobby slyly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Then she stood, panting, staring at her wrecked hands until the sun set and the stars winked slyly in the purpling sky. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Jules turned the mug in her hands, slyly pointing to the wall behind the bar. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Diane glanced slyly up at me and asked, “Are you all right, sweetie?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Several other ads also slyly connect products to the show’s themes, and their chipper promo codes, sometimes repeated thrice, are “DEATH.” “Dr. Death” and the Perils of Making Medical Malpractice a Thriller 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Gregg’s interest in contradiction and her remarkable gift for lyric tension emerge as early as “The Beckett Kit” and “Goethe’s Death Mask,” which both slyly interrogate the relationship of artistic composition to violence and suffering. Linda Gregg in The New Yorker 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z In her book, Kingsolver slyly weaves the history of her home into Demon’s harrowing tale. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z As he slyly acknowledged, “Any great ending is a new beginning on some level.” Will ‘Star Wars’ Stick the Landing? J.J. Abrams Will Try 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z He slyly implies that his political enemies shake at the notion that he might, once again, run for mayor. Ex-mayor offers insider's account of city politics 2011-04-05T13:52:08Z A couple of the “Covert Catalyst” pieces are slyly political. Brace for fun in Source Festival’s new plays 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The oddly perky musical setting lets Gore mine the character’s hurt while slyly mocking it; she is both the victim and the amused commentator. Remembering Lesley Gore, a '60s Queen of Teen Angst 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z It is the most popular subject in Japanese art, viewed above pagodas, through fishing nets, between the rungs of ladders, as a snowcapped giant or a tiny circumflex slyly appearing among the cherry blossom. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z "I may be. Or I may not be," she says slyly. At Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' biennial, Martine Syms makes her moment 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Still, for a doomsday play, “Ruins” is remarkably pleasurable: well paced, well spoken and very deft in planting slyly placed clues as to what the future will be. Review: In ‘The Ruins of Civilization,’ a Bleak Future, Brightly Told 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z But the playwright, an expert at theatrical disorientation, slyly grapples with privilege, hypocrisy and liberal guilt. The best theater of 2015 highlights transformation and enduring power from L.A. to Broadway 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z “Why Does the Universe Exist?” could have used more moments that slyly build to something like awe. Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z Josh, seizing grown-up responsibility for the first time in his life, slyly inserts himself into the fray. | 'Harvest': The Family That Stays Together Frays Together 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z But like all Fischli/Weiss works, it functions slyly on several levels, and it prefigured much of the work to come later, often based on a kind of sprung dialectic. Fischli and Weiss: Anarchy at the Guggenheim 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Having slyly acclimatized the audience to a naturalistic comedy about the frailty of memory, Albee gleefully reshuffles the cards. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Morello’s solo on the early “Take Five” unfolds in a growing series of drum rolls, flicks of the wrist that slyly alternate their frequency and then seem to pull Morello’s arms across the whole kit. ‘Take Five’ Is Impeccable. ‘Time Outtakes’ Shows How Dave Brubeck Made It. 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z “Camelot,” directed by Gary Griffin, more friskily forages in ancient history, taking a slyly humorous attitude toward its legendary subject matter. Critic?s Notebook: ?Jesus Christ Superstar? and ?Camelot? at Stratford 2011-08-29T21:59:36Z The plotting is ingenious and the performers are at their best, both using and subverting their well-established personas, just as Miller slyly turns her film from another indie rom-com into something sharper. ‘Raw,’ ‘Monogamy’ and Other Streaming Gems 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z To bring that point home — and the curtain down — Mr. Harris slyly takes advantage of an emblematic coincidence. Books of The Times: Mark Harris’s ‘Five Came Back’ Covers Auteurs in Combat 2014-03-02T23:09:53Z In the words of one character, Tom Tykwer's slyly entertaining new comedy-drama offers "a farewell to a deterministic understanding of biology." Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z Ms. Bennani frequently uses animation in her work, which often focuses on women and young people in Morocco, and deploys the whimsy of animation to slyly address serious sociopolitical subjects. The ‘2 Lizards’ of Instagram Are Coronavirus Art Stars 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Mouth-filling flavors of green apples and Asian pear lead to a soft, clean and slyly sweet finish that leaves you ready for more. This $12 chardonnay can take the edge off a ‘rough day’ 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Don Giovanni can’t change his life, of course—and the composer and librettist bring him to justice in a furious, slyly ironic conclusion that’s one of the greatest tag endings in the history of theatre. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The show slyly poses sharp and timely questions of what culturally defines American identity and who, in the nationalistic age of Trump, has “the right” to be here. Review: John Leguizamo Turns Nutty Professor in ‘Latin History for Morons’ 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Hynd also provides ballroom elegance while slyly injecting other dance modes as well, such as a folk-rich corps sequence for Act II and a rollicking revelers' chorale and can-can for Act III at Maxim's. 'Merry Widow' by turns intoxicating and flat in romantic outing 2011-02-17T14:49:00Z While Pete manipulates Lane's respect in order to assert his dominance over Ken, Peggy is forced to get creative and use her sex appeal -- however slyly -- in order to assert her dominance over Stan. "Mad Men" recap: Cure for the common job 2010-08-30T12:59:00Z But, if you can tolerate these passé indulgences, there’s also something slyly compelling about this ethereal, pillow-talk-heavy drama. ‘Deception’ Review: Verbal Fetishism 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z “Idol” sold itself as a part of the music business — winners received record deals — but slyly prioritized its own interests. Singers Embrace the TV Road to Stardom 2011-05-22T01:30:15Z Just as success at élite levels is impossible without sacrifice, Abbott slyly hints, the sweetness, the impossible innocence, of femininity entails a dark seam. Dead Girls, Female Murderers, and Megan Abbott’s Novel “Give Me Your Hand” 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Whether people across Africa agree or whether, once again, Achebe may have slyly exposed a ruling elite is a question for history. Chinua Achebe funeral celebrates revered Nigerian author 2013-05-23T17:37:10Z You don't want to miss 1927's slyly subversive and utterly distinctive The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, which is at Leicester's Curve on Tuesday and Wednesday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-03-22T16:46:17Z As “Transit” unfolds, its period remains slyly, artfully indefinite. ‘Transit’ Review: An Existential Puzzler With Jackboots and Terror 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z What she has done is slyly subvert a ubiquitous paradigm. Review: In ‘Maggie’s Plan,’ Greta Gerwig Aspires to Motherhood on Her Terms 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z A bleak but slyly funny story that explores the trauma of Sri Lanka’s civil wars. Biting Satires Dominate Booker Prize Shortlist 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z She also slyly changes the way some of her characters are perceived as the story moves along, and she’s particularly good at slipping those changes past notice. Becky Masterman’s ‘Fear the Darkness,’ With Brigid Quinn 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Isolate just one sliver of the brilliance: the endless subtlety of her rubato, slyly shaping an innocuous part of the finale into a moment of deepest wonder. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z When she learns that the prospective groom is a "mujahid" — an Islamic militant fighter — she slyly demands a high dowry to intentionally foil the negotiations. Syrian child actor who rose to killed in city of Aleppo 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z In the film's final moments, though, she slyly reads a fashion magazine when her beau's asleep. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z For nearly three decades, his ambitious comedy has leaned on articulate and slyly constructed set pieces filled with flamboyant metaphors and ornate flourishes. Patton Oswalt: ‘I’ll Never Be at 100 Percent Again’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z His Lear, however, has been trounced by the critics, as his mother slyly remarks soon after he first visits her. Movie Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm,’ With Geoffrey Rush 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z Martín Buscaglia, from Uruguay, made himself a one-man band with a looping machine, playfully syncopated guitar and slyly literate lyrics; one mentioned Stephen Hawking. Critic’s Notebook: Calle 13 at the Latin Alternative Music Conference 2012-07-15T22:22:21Z It is also, slyly, a love story that takes a bittersweet turn halfway down the first page of acknowledgments. Review | Cooking can be therapeutic. For Ella Risbridger, it saved her life. 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z All along, it has been first and foremost a laboratory for Mr. Opsvik’s immersive compositions, which represent some of the most slyly fascinating music on the scene today. Music From a Distance? Eivind Opsvik Has Been Making It for Years 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Ayckbourn also slyly suggests that virtue brings rather more than its own reward, in that the tentative Tristram ends up enjoying a surprising amount of unsolicited sex. Taking Steps | Theatre review 2010-03-29T20:30:00Z But sung here with vitality and coyness by Mr. Murphee and Mr. Worth, it seemed a slyly seductive duo: “I bet you like to play rough./I like to work up a sweat.” Music Review: A Program of Personal Significance 2010-12-01T16:19:00Z For this slyly manipulative production knows exactly how, and how hard, to push the tenderest spots of most people’s emotional makeups. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z First it played nice by sampling the elder genre, making an intellectual argument for hip-hop’s place in soul’s legacy while also slyly removing its ancestor from the center to the fringe. Bryson Tiller and Other Singers Are Bringing Hip-Hop Into R&B 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z In this view, he’s also a serious artist who has preserved classic Hollywood traditions even as he has slyly toyed with them. Don’t Get What Makes Brian De Palma an Auteur? Try These Two Films 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Her flamboyance has a distancing effect, yet she slyly baits the audience. Critic?s Notebook: Female Comedians Are Confidently Breaking Taste Taboos 2011-11-15T21:38:24Z By placing her latest young heroine in the 1990s, Ferrante “slyly asks how decades of feminism have changed the world.” New in Paperback: ‘The Devil You Know’ and ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z His original compositions are songlike but often slyly episodic and always deft with groove. Playlist: A Confection of Pop, and Newport Chops 2011-08-20T19:45:06Z Amid the dancing in one song that led to the romancing in the other, Ms. Molaskey slyly inserted another Berlin fragment, “there may be trouble ahead,” signaling that nice might turn into deliciously nasty. Music Review: Saluting a Radio Man Who?s One of a Kind 2011-07-14T22:48:03Z But that shift is effective, and necessary, slyly replicating the experience of visiting Action Park itself: it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. ‘Class Action Park’ Review: Thanks for the Injuries 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Advertising is beginning a more slyly aggressive effort at manipulation and Don is positioned ambivalently at the vanguard. 'Mad Men' Watch: Scrappiness in the Sixties 2010-07-26T12:19:00Z Right in the middle of eight courses of succulent raw fish, the chef slyly inserted something that was not succulent raw fish but tasted like it. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Yes, my $450 dinner was worth every penny 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z A second viewing made me realize not just how slyly funny, but how artful, heartfelt and just it is. Perspective | How Hannah Gadsby’s evisceration of Picasso helped her change stand-up comedy 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Snoo Wilson, Surrealistic British Playwright, Dies at 64 Snoo Wilson, a British playwright and director whose surreal work slyly critiqued social injustices and conventions, died on Wednesday. Snoo Wilson, Surrealistic British Playwright, Dies at 64 2013-07-08T01:09:55Z At the same time, you slyly diminish his work and accomplishments. Perspective | Ask Amy: Parent’s contract might not be enforceable 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Hammond slyly underplays his part, making it seem at times as if he had conned himself. | 'Doctor Knock, or the Triumph of Medicine': Jules Romains?s 1923 Medical Spoof, Still Relevant 2010-05-11T22:39:00Z “Like its source material, ‘Baywatch’ is sleazy and wholesome, silly and earnest, dumb as a box of sand and slyly self-aware. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Baywatch’ and ‘Marlon’ 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Dry as in slyly humorous, and crumbly as in loosely structured and seemingly informal. New Cake disc is dry and crumbly ? the way fans like it 2011-01-10T21:37:07Z She also knits herself slyly into a world where movement dominates, with the wistful line, “I was quite the dancer back in my day.” An affair to remember: Martha Clarke’s dance-theater version of Colette’s ‘Chéri’ Giorgio de Chirico created a slyly subversive cover for the November 1935 issue that endowed a traditional fashion still life with a hint of Surrealist menace. Jennifer Lawrence’s New Vogue Cover: a John Currin Painting 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Spiegel’s slyly political play obliquely addresses the dwindling access to abortion in certain states, but that's not really the point of her disturbing and gripping drama, which is not for the faint of heart. Echo Theater's 'Dry Land' pulls no punches in tale of an unwanted pregnancy 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “New Work for Goldberg Variations,” a piece for six women and one man, employs a slyly deconstructed classical movement vocabulary to translate Bach’s intricate score into movement. Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Snail Mail was a standard rock four-piece for Tuesday night’s show, but Jordan’s singing, guitar playing and hair-tossing, slyly smiling presence was clearly the main attraction. Review | Snail Mail’s sold-out Black Cat show finds the buzz band still finding its footing 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z In Ruiz's hands, it all becomes a serene, painterly dream punctuated with slyly surreal touches. 'Mysteries of Lisbon': a 257-minute revelation 2011-09-29T20:02:05Z She wants more than the bold outfits Anne fashions to slyly assert feminine power. Review | ‘A Net for Small Fishes’ is dark, entertaining historical fiction 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z From this fixed position, he slyly derides other positions, especially the liberal outlook. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Braden’s direct engagement with the audience, as though we’re buffet flat patrons, slyly maneuvers us into feeling life under Jim Crow laws from the perspective of oppressed African Americans, without the need for political argument. 'Devil's Music' thrills with the bold, bawdy and brilliant life of Bessie Smith 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Fight Club seemed all fisticuffs and buff Brad Pitt, then slyly indicted the lifestyle of a generation. David Fincher on Gone Girl: ‘Bad things happen in this movie…’ 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z His approach on the guitar comprises a mix of atonal, slyly percussive dots and dashes; scattered speckles of notes; and occasional flashes of lyrical beauty, often augmented by electronic effects and extraneous noisemaking devices. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The time isn’t even displayed on the face but slyly on the side, as though it were a state secret. $39,000 for a wristwatch? Collectors don’t blink, and even go for seconds. 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Artist Dawn Whitmore uses firearm imagery culled from social media to slyly critique women’s relationships to guns. Spring Arts Preview: In the galleries 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z But Mr. Barry has slyly provided enough information for you to intuit the social, sexual and spiritual influences that have coalesced here to create this horrific moment. Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z A great deal of site-responsive theatre is let down by the script, but Leddy's writing, his best to date, is beautifully pointed within the slyly constructed narrative. David Leddy's Sub Rosa 2010-08-10T20:31:00Z In her reporting, Ms. Cameron observed an epidemic of green nail polish and other “Cabaret”-inspired behaviors in Beltway bars, and slyly reviewed a new party drug, methaqualone. The Queen of Change 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z By turns poignant, humorous and virtuosic, Ms. Chen’s performance offered a slyly subversive take on issues relating to femininity, technology and power. Phyllis Chen Performs With Toy Pianos and Music Boxes 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z In February, Dodie uploaded a song about the album’s first postponement, a slyly wistful waltz that rhymes “an unfortunately nasty fusion” with “vinyl distribution.” Dodie Can’t Resist Sharing. It’s Made Her Music Soar. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Like Madea, she is an exuberantly profane, slyly self-aware character, but the movie traps Mamaw, and Close, in a sticky web of piety and sincerity. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Review: I Remember Mamaw 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z “Roots” retains the company’s signature mix of art forms, with a silent-movie-like style that combines a kind of Gothic Expressionism, slyly subversive social commentary and anarchic humor. Onstage in Edinburgh, the Mood Is Grim 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The Tiger Lillies’ score slyly mocks depravity, inappropriate carnal drives and the “constant oscillation between upper and lower social classes.” In Transit: A Prague Musical Returns, Funny and Dark 2011-02-15T11:00:22Z But it's a distinctive piece, full of ideas about how to integrate theatre and circus, which slyly creeps up on you and seizes your heart. The Arrival – review 2013-03-22T18:31:58Z Only Woll's sassy, slyly independent character brings a suggestion of freshness to her role. 'Seven Days in Utopia': Preachy golf drama misses its shot 2011-09-01T19:17:03Z Their expressions, though subdued, aren’t blank, suggesting plans being hatched or emotions slyly stowed away, just beneath the surface. Review: A Dance Heginbotham Deserving of the Hype 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, which Shapero slyly quotes at one point, was a model. A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Bent on claiming Tom’s soul, Shadow offers to show him the ways of the world in London, and Mr. Burdette, singing with earthy power and flair, was slyly demonical. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z Then Letterman slyly delivered the coup de grace: “And the same with the Oval Office.” Biden’s presence at the Kennedy Center Honors signals to many a return to tradition and normalcy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z She was a great collaborator and a slyly funny woman. Elizabeth Taylor, Jim Harrison and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “Golem,” a visually dazzling, mind-pinching production from the British company 1927, slyly poses these questions, through a fable that feels both contemporary and ageless, combining live performance and music with sophisticated stop-motion and traditional animation. Review: ‘Golem,’ a Visually Dazzling Fable for the Digital Age 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z But if you look closely, her eyes are looking up, directly into the camera, and she is smiling not shyly, but slyly. Slavery is America’s pre-existing condition 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The second movement, innocently titled Waltz, emerged in this performance as a slyly luxurious, darkly manipulative dance. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Written in Jen’s clear, assured style and delivered from Grant’s slyly ironic perspective, “The Resisters” will captivate readers. Review | Gish Jen’s ‘The Resisters’ reminds us of the importance of standing up for what’s right 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The opening of Season 2 slyly raises that introspective theme, as the protagonist’s face is reflected in a mirror on a Cinnabon employee-motivation sign. Review: ‘Better Call Saul,’ Quirky and Absorbing in Season Opener 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z And then Mattison slyly insists that we acknowledge the moral complexity of our own era with its own equally urgent demands. Review | A novel that’s a lot like life: Jumbled and challenging and wonderfully real 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Which of course, slyly comments on the narcissistic echo chamber that contemporary social media has become. RedShirt – or what happens when Facebook meets Star Trek 2013-05-01T10:01:14Z Everyone in the group spent at least his adolescent years west of the Mississippi River — Louisiana, Texas, Colorado, California — and Miles’s slyly swinging compositions are built perfectly to find the natural simpatico between these musicians. Ron Miles Headlines the Village Vanguard, at Last, as the Club Reopens 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z For seven seasons, Matthew Weiner, the show’s creator, slyly played the past against the present, so it was fitting that he did so one last time. Shifting From ‘Mad Men’ to Strong Women in a Series Finale 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Koons collides the sublime and the ridiculous yet slyly asks a question that is hard to answer: what is beauty? Jeff Koons: art's king of pop reigns on at the Gagosian 2013-05-07T16:24:59Z Thinking of both Schumer and Whitefield-Madrano, I am of two minds about it, as befits a subject as slyly two-faced as beauty. The Hidden Benefits of Not Taking a Compliment 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The essential, slyly reflective nature of Lichtenstein’s art is made palpable. Art Review: Following the Dots Around the City 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z The people at my table dutifully ate it with the peppers, then slyly scooped it up with bread, and finally stole spoonfuls to eat on their own. Embracing Life, Love and Rich Fare at Dua Kafe 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The most recent are letters by the anarchist Emma Goldman, displayed, in a slyly pointed nod to the present, next to Goldman’s 1919 pamphlet against deportation. The Overlooked History of Women at Work 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Murray is a slyly innovative comedian and occasional great actor who has become a symbol of affectless cool. Is Bill Murray’s brilliance back? “Rock the Kasbah” could break him out of his brooding on-screen funk 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Whether children would curtail her career, officially or slyly. Perspective | Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The confrontation, if that’s what you want to call it, involved a blatant overspill of melismatic bravado, but its framing — fraternal, mock-heroic, slyly self-aware — highlighted something greater, an irrepressible spirit of play. Music Review: Take 6, at the Blue Note 2013-05-09T21:03:32Z This piece’s title, “Volume Management,” refers to computer storage systems while also slyly suggesting a new label for Minimalism, with its emphasis on boxy voids of space. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z Norah Jones is slyly understated, as both a singer and pianist, on “I Dream of Christmas.” 13 Albums That Revisit (and Redefine!) Holiday Classics 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z They chuckled slyly, suggesting some sort of speakeasy. Perspective | One last drink, maybe two? Inside one dive as Parisians say goodbye, for now, to their beloved bars and cafes 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z At first you may notice that the fabric is quilted, slyly evoking Chanel’s little quilted purses with the gold chains, then, that it’s perforated. Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z It is a tragedy told as a comedy, a work of inspired protest, a slyly crafted piece of persuasion and a tangible contribution to the change it seeks. Review: Can a Play Make the Constitution Great Again? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The idea of a pixelated whole, an image with many constituent parts, provides a useful metaphor for “Tropix,” her stylistically varied, intricately detailed, slyly coherent fourth album. Review: Layers in ‘Tropix,’ From Céu 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The title seems slyly ambiguous: the audience is supposed to wonder whether it belongs to Mr. Carell or to Mr. Rudd. Jay Roach?s ?Dinner for Schmucks? and All Its Meshugas 2010-05-03T21:51:00Z Then, at the concert that opened Jaap van Zweden’s tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic, came “Filament,” a slyly ominous drone of a fanfare. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z And Yeman Brown, who performed in “Jagged Little Pill,” has also danced with Reggie Wilson, a contemporary choreographer who has slyly referenced Fosse in his work for years. Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z After getting people dancing to "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," Simon slyly noted, "and I know just where that schoolyard is." Musician Paul Simon doesn't let on if he's the retiring type 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Releasing this music on a major label is a slyly contrarian victory for Old Crow, a chance for the group to gain a bigger platform while staying true to its priorities. Old Crow Medicine Show Looks to the Future While Picking at the Past 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z In the 1984 “Gremlins,” which counted Spielberg among its executive producers, the director Joe Dante slyly included a throwaway gag of an E.T. doll being dislodged from a department store shelf. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In one work in the Berlin show, she slyly mixes whole bugs into encaustic paint along with the red powder made from grinding them — inviting viewers to see her process. An Artist at Home on the Fault Lines 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z When the show is funny, and it can be, the humor is mild and slyly understated. ‘Welcome to Sweden’ and ‘Working the Engels’ on NBC 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Vibrant scenes that slyly mirror each online activity depicted in the first half of the book reinforce the point. A New Technology Age: When the Technology Is Books, and the Age Is 3 to 7 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Earthy and noble, funny and magical, slyly vengeful and moralistic, "The Magic Flute" was intended for audiences from all walks of life. 'The Magic Flute': feathers, fun and Masons 2011-04-29T21:46:38Z As Mark Antony orates over Caesar’s casket, Barry McEvoy slyly lathers them up, but even this famed sequence is a thin-skinned blitz. Review | Shakespeare’s ‘Caesar’ and Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’ miss big 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The finale was the highlight, full of urgency, sweep and slyly shifting moods. Review: Stately Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, a Brave Danish String Quartet 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Mr. King is an amazingly prolific writer, but he is probably best known for blending the supernatural and the slyly satirical, whether it’s in “Carrie” or “The Shining” or “Under The Dome.” ‘Big Driver,’ a Stephen King Story, Comes to Lifetime 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z It can be a very moving work as well as a slyly funny one. NextStop Theatre’s ‘Middletown’ ponders the potentially monumental 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Besides the invigorating performance of Ms. Blige, who punctuated her songs with high kicks, there were extended sets from the high-energy 112, the slyly tough Total and the dramatic crooner Carl Thomas. Review: Sean Combs Leads a Bad Boy Reunion, With a Surprising Amount of Soul 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Review: Single man seeks surrogate to bear his child, finds true friendship, in the slyly seductive film ‘Together Together’ The ‘Can men and women just be friends?’ trope dominates pop culture. ‘Together Together’ flips it on its head. 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z The surfaces are glossy and reassuring; the inner workings are slyly playful. Burna Boy Faces Success and Second Thoughts on ‘Love, Damini’ 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z He worshiped strong leaders; he indulged in a virulent anti-Semitism; and only slyly, belatedly, offhandedly did he take responsibility for mistaken actions and for detestable opinions that he expressed in writing. What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The soldiers are from that reddest of red states, Texas; among its other aims, Mr. Pelsue’s play, crisply directed by Lee Sunday Evans, slyly satirizes the country’s increasing polarization. Humana Festival, Turning 40, Looks at Mortality, Dystopia and Change 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Baldwin's slyly purring Jack Donaghy on "30 Rock" is a source of constant joy for me; I find myself smoothly murmuring "Well played" far too frequently. "Rock of Ages," and other movie-musical news 2011-03-07T20:22:06Z Written in 1911 as a piano piece and orchestrated by Ravel the following year, this is a set of seven slyly beguiling waltzes with an epilogue that recalls bits from the earlier ones. New York Philharmonic Responds to Attacks in Paris 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z “I saved the best for the last,” Mr. Pierre said slyly. The Man Who Dressed Melania Trump for the Ball 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The film unfolds as a succession of tense, slyly comic dialogues. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z But Ferry slyly includes reflective surfaces in many of the pictures in “Hats Off,” his show at Gallery Neptune & Brown. Review | In the galleries: A tip of the hat to a revered Washington milliner 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z They range in tone from delirious to grim, and exhibit various attitudes toward the marvelous intrusions into the mundane which they recount: embarrassed and regretful, slyly ambiguous, reluctantly accepting, prosaic. 'Three Messages': Mexican stories of the fantastic 2012-02-01T19:23:08Z And every track either slyly comments on or subtly develops the narrative, and frequently does both at once. Three Kingdoms: the shape of British theatre to come? 2012-05-16T13:35:29Z The positioning of the actors — with Power slyly grinning and looking away from the prospect of a happy home life — is the kind of touch that suggests Goulding knew what he was doing. The 1947 ‘Nightmare Alley’: A Dark View of Class as Destiny 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z In prehistoric times, Mr. Milner said slyly, “The first occupation was artist, and the second was art critic.” Antiques: Knives of William Scagel, Storied Blacksmith, for Sale 2012-03-01T23:48:40Z Ryan slyly leaves a line like "everything contains some silence" unadorned. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella This moment could be read as a Hitchcockian cameo or as a slyly suggestive joke about what turns boys into men. ‘Jersey Boys,’ Eastwood’s Take on Showbiz Myth 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Wormald has been burgled of both cash and cards, in his home, by Nacho, after Nacho slyly ascertains Wormald’s name and address. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Premiere: No Seriously, Call Saul 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z “I grew up watching foreign language films and learning so much from them and being inspired,” Cuaron said, noting slyly that they included “Citizen Kane” and “Jaws” and “The Godfather.” Top Oscar moments: Buoyant Spike Lee, daffy Olivia Colman 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But he also slyly and entertainingly emphasized the abiding necessity of deception in securing a crown, winning a battle, avoiding arrest, borrowing money, writing history and, come to think of it, putting on a play. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z Michelle Wolf’s range is anchored by a distinctive persona: a goofy but slyly forceful mischief maker determined to get you to see her view of the world, one way or the other. 4 Comedy Specials to Watch: Seasoned Stand-Ups Making Debuts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z But just as the best circus is slyly political, so at times is this production. Romeo and Juliet 2012-05-22T14:09:28Z Mr. Foster’s slyly commanding Stanley — a performance that makes the specter of Marlon Brando, who created the part, temporarily retreat into the dusk — is obviously the younger, stronger and more confident of the two. Review: A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Lively, swift, vibrantly colorful and for the most part wonderfully acted, the film is slyly aware of the daytime talk show as a vehicle for women’s concerns. | 'Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story': A TV Host Seeks Fluff, but Real Life Intrudes 2011-08-11T22:45:54Z The slyly imperious, high-kicking soloist of “Rubies”: has this role ever been more impressive? Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z “They wouldn’t dance or caper. They would look at each other rather slyly and you would feel a sort of menace just behind the ordinariness of them.” Rita Tushingham on life after A Taste of Honey: 'It was a shock when the 60s ended' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The painting slyly comments on how we edit what we have in view. Creatures with a purpose: the heightened 'naturalism' of Skagit Valley painter Robert McCauley 2010-12-30T20:48:04Z For Madonna’s first album, in 1983, she framed the young singer’s face with her name, the O’s slyly rendered in red. Carin Goldberg, Who Transformed Book and Album Cover Design, Dies at 69 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Characters never act plainly, instead circling slyly around each other. Crime fiction: the return of Jo Nesb?'s Harry Hole, Bill James times two and new books by Seattle-area authors 2011-05-04T20:19:04Z The film slyly comments on its own subversion and refusal to conform to stereotypes, in favor of becoming something more honest and true to life. The teen cult classic you’ve been waiting for: Catch “The Edge of Seventeen” in theaters while you still can 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z At times, he slyly hints at judgment at the band’s various inanities and unsavory behavior. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Watch as he slyly sidles up to tables, sizing up customers, then shakes hands, slaps backs and, if he likes the cut of your jib, boasts about his former boxing career. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Perugia, Italy 2011-09-22T20:18:20Z An account of mother and son traveling anxiously into Manhattan together is slyly brilliant, an instance of mutual misinterpretation that is translated accurately only years after the fact. Review: ‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair,’ a Play About Unmoored Lives 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z But he may have slyly been parodying the pope's theatrical restrictions. Bach Collegium San Diego gives Handel's 'La Resurrezione' life 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Delighted with the artifices of filmmaking, Mr. Greaves is also after the truth — about human interactions, about cinematic image-making, and also, slyly and unmistakably, about race. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “One theory about Mona,” she offered slyly, “is that she is Leonardo in drag.” Up Close: Andrea Mary Marshall, Photographer and Shape-Shifter Pursuing the Unsavory 2013-01-02T21:18:56Z Mr. Danson’s slyly off-kilter phrasing — the odd gap he inserts before “renewed” — evokes, ever so slightly, Christopher Walken’s idiosyncratic, asymmetrical phrasing and also suggests, ever so slightly, that everything is not exactly as it seems. ‘The One I Love,’ With Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Kipling himself had slyly fanned the worst rumors of German atrocities in Belgium. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z But each in its own way slyly reflects the nightmare within the American dream. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The best parts of this show, staged by Adam Brace with the rhythm of a tight pop song, are the slyly underplayed moments of cultural criticism. ‘One Woman Show’ Review: Unlikable for Laughs 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z In conversation, Remy is slyly funny and soberly thoughtful — she pulled out a volume of the philosopher Jean Baudrillard so she could quote him at length. Pop Is Obsessed With What’s Next. So U.S. Girls Revisited Her Past. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z An installation of hay-bale stairs, wrapped like a secret in scuffed canvas and rope, looks slyly Surrealistic. Commanding work on an unconventional canvas by a tribe of two 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Episodes from the narrator’s earlier life, slyly and quietly layered in, prove significant — sometimes shockingly. Review | ‘The Scapegoat’ is a bizarre, arresting mystery you won’t be able to put down 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z “The Promise” is told by a slyly humorous narrator who flits among characters, revealing the inner thoughts of people and even animals. Booker winner Damon Galgut laments South Africa’s gloom 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The show charts the gallery’s history in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and its namesake collector’s wild but slyly judicious tendencies, with nearly 100 items filling three rooms. Shin Gallery Charms and Surprises With a Motley Collection 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z But these poems, however conventionally ordered — divided into chronological sections, organized alphabetically by author, for the most part — slyly annotate one another. A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Note the presumption that Strachey slyly assigns to the schoolmaster. Review | The biography that changed biography forever 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z One reflection leads to another, and another, until a story line slyly emerges. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The Wheelers’ logo nods slyly at the perception of danger. They can’t see, but blind hockey players can pass, shoot and score 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z In these and other scenes, Castro demonstrates his much bruited charisma, playing to Mr. Alpert’s camera in a slyly ingratiating way. Review: ‘Cuba and the Cameraman’ Lavishes Love on a Country … and Castro 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z It's a fantastic show about dancing with the devil, which slyly examines the choices facing women. This week's new theatre 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z Even under the threat of expulsion — like most of his fellow students, Pharus is there on a scholarship — Pharus insists on behaving “as a Drew man should,” as he slyly puts it. Theater Review: In Tarell McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ Spirituals Are Solace 2013-07-03T02:00:02Z The LA Times slyly suggests this is all east-coast jealousy of the fact that California bagged Dudamel before any of the big orchestras on the eastern seaboard got their act together. Has Gustavo Dudamel fallen from his pedestal? 2010-06-02T15:20:00Z The American publication of his novel “The Stranger” was celebrated on the roof of the Hotel Astor, and Vogue published a portrait by Cecil Beaton, showing Camus smiling slyly from noirish shadows. Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z When I mention the nickname that Kara Swisher, a New York Times tech columnist, has bestowed on him, King of Mars, he slyly gives himself a promotion: “Sure, I mean, emperor, come on.” Elon Musk, Blasting Off in Domestic Bliss 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Xie’s lines have an unmooring effect: She slyly dissects images and concepts, rearranging the landmarks of the mind. Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z The movie scrupulously incorporates the major themes present in most traditional biopics — family, love, struggle, art — while slyly tweaking them. A Filmmaker’s Journey to the Center of Celine Dion 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “And she may have an ulterior motive,” Poots added slyly, giving the kind of textured line reading in our conversation that makes her performance stand out in the show. Imogen Poots Keeps Everyone Guessing in ‘Outer Range’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The man was watching me slyly as I struggled with the coffee machine and the whereabouts of the milk. Review | This Edward Hopper exhibition on hotels is worth an extended stay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z I’m not really complaining, and even if I were — as Hodge slyly reminds us in his assessment of Cormac McCarthy’s work — “book reviews leave little trace in the strata of literary history.” An Unconventional History of Texas, From a Writer With the State in His Veins 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z His self-titled first solo album, released last year, offered a last blast of sunshine before the descent of winter: a joyful and impressive collision of exuberantly struck electric guitar and slyly artful songwriting. This week's new live music 2012-06-08T23:05:19Z Ali Jackson’s drumming was a slyly knowing period piece; the finesse of his snare-drum rolls, accelerating then tapering down to a few poised taps, was one of the band’s delights. Music Review: Pairing Their Sounds and Sharing the Blues 2011-04-10T21:52:38Z Burke has an ear for the ridiculously rich and slyly intelligent language of urban black America. ‘Team Seven’ is an authentic, affecting story of a young black man’s struggle to survive Mr. Richter smiled slyly and replied, “Being ignored would certainly be a lot worse.” Gerhard Richter Is Celebrated With German Art Shows 2012-02-19T18:09:51Z “Charade,” the finale, is a spirited dialogue between trombone and orchestra that turns slyly combative. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Their movements onscreen differed from what the dancers were doing onstage: a slyly exaggerated reminder that every live performance is unique. Review: Reveling in Live Dance at Japan Society 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z “There’s no number of negative reviews I can give to Nav that can end his career,” Fantano said, referencing his takedowns of the slyly popular rapper. The Only Music Critic Who Matters (if You’re Under 25) 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Ruth Ware’s latest pays homage to Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw” while slyly updating it. The best thrillers and mysteries of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z And throughout there is humor that is slipped in slyly rather than announced with a pratfall or scream. | 'With Glee': John Gregor?s Homage to the Musical at Kirk Theater 2010-07-15T22:47:00Z "That rebel leader in Benghazi, don't you think his English is a little too ... sublime?" he says, slyly. Seun Kuti: The sun always shines 2011-04-07T20:49:00Z Edinburgh gets a chance to see 1927's slyly subversive staged graphic novel, The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, which is at the Traverse on Tuesday as part of Manipulate. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-01-28T16:50:48Z Paul Smith opened his spring men’s show with bright orange sweaters slyly tucked under navy jackets. On the Runway: The Paul Smith Show 2011-06-28T16:19:51Z The line between real and reel is always fuzzy in “The Tribute Artist,” Charles Busch’s delightful and slyly insightful new comedy, which opened on Sunday night at 59E59 Theaters in a Primary Stages production. Theater Review: Charles Busch’s ‘The Tribute Artist’ Is at 59E59 Theaters 2014-02-10T03:00:01Z Just two examples: Moxie considers yummy guacamole “an avocado that fulfilled its destiny,” and an illustration slyly references Edvard Munch’s expressionist painting “The Scream.” Talking to kids about the Constitution and other best books for young readers 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z It is spoken shyly, slyly, confrontationally and beatifically by a fearless cast, directed and choreographed with gloriously rough magic by Lee Sunday Evans. Review: ‘Dance Nation,’ the Power and the Terror of Girls at 13 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Soon, Sirena, a slyly manipulative installation artist, is inviting her to share a studio. Claire Messud’s ‘The Woman Upstairs’: reawakening, infatuation, betrayal 2013-05-08T21:18:30Z Some jackets were slightly curvy, while others were trim and slyly suggested Watanabe deconstruction. Fashion Review: Comme Des Gar?ons, Rei Kawakubo, Lanvin, Gaultier, C?line and Junya Watanabe on the Paris Runways 2012-03-05T00:03:47Z At first glance it’s a dopey non sequitur skit, but it’s also a slyly backhanded tribute to an actor who can commit to just about anything. Summer Movies: Mark Wahlberg Joins Will Ferrell in ?The Other Guys? 2010-05-01T03:47:00Z Mr. Borden, an acclaimed Canadian stage actor and playwright, turns in a slyly entertaining performance. Review: In ‘Gerontophilia,’ a Youth Is Attracted to Old Men 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z “I’m not representing a community. I’m representing a history and a whole country,” he says, smiling slyly. Taylor Mac brings 24 decades of delirium and music to Los Angeles 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The melodies are slyly angular, leaping around far more than typical pop tunes, so the vocals are slotted into the counterpoint. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-28T23:26:01Z Everyone is looking at the camera except him and me, because Nicky is attending to his rivet and I’m looking at Nicky, slyly, face to the camera but eyes sliding meanly to the right. After 40 years I finally tracked down my dead brother 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Painted in a legible realist style, the images are slyly tailored to the Met’s anniversary. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Any doubt about the coded nature of his delight in "Bunburying" is dispelled when his butler slyly informs him that cucumbers are not to be found on the market "even for ready money". The Importance of Being Earnest 2010-06-11T20:29:00Z “I was always dealing with unpleasant behavior from men who, if they were not actual gropers or wannabe bed partners, took delight in slyly bombarding me with sexual innuendo.” Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Thurgood rapidly takes the lead while slyly poking and strategically prodding Sam to rise to the occasion. Review: In ‘Marshall,’ a Legal Pioneer Gives History a Shove 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Then he adds slyly, “Now the fun part begins.” Short film “Sundays” goes viral, sparks Hollywood’s hottest bidding war: The age of the tiny movie with big ambitions is here 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z During the sprightly, slyly decorous Allegro movement, they were able to nudge offbeat accents and sudden fortissimo chords without any sense of pushing. Review: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Opens Its New Concert Hall 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Tom Cairns’s alert, savvy production, which opened in October, slyly formed a playing space both domestic and theatrical, making it clear that this is a piece that is messing with opera without quite parodying it. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Lubitsch films, McBride declares, became known for “embodying an ever-fresh, delightful, tantalizing, slyly witty blend of style and substance” known as the “Lubitsch touch,” and he was a pro at getting around the censors. Review | A forgotten filmmaker who influenced Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder gets his due 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Earlier in the story, when characters slyly acknowledged that they were actors in a play, the excuse for it seemed to be humor — a good enough excuse in my book. ‘Woman’s Party’ Review: At War With Inequality, and Each Other 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The cruelty of his jabs plants early doubt about whether you should even be smiling, all while Mr. Perry slyly pumps the laughs. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Kawakubo slyly turns the museum exhibition into business as usual. Renegades and Radical Bodies in 3 New York Exhibitions 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The Artful Dodger slyly receives a little bag of white powder in the street. Updated ‘Oliver!’ goes a bridge too far 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But "Violent Year" is also slyly autobiographical, offering a glimpse of a self-assured man who, nonetheless, was highly uncertain about his own path. Director J.C. Chandor follows the money in 'A Most Violent Year' 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The plant-based dishes are explained by guides who seem intent on your welfare in a dining room whose mission statement is slyly revealed in the design. Review | Fancy Radish dazzles diners with no need for meat 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Mouth-filling and brimming with green apples and Asian pear, each sip ends in a soft, clean and slyly sweet finish that leaves you ready for more. The top 12 wine bargains of 2020 include an outstanding boxed malbec for the equivalent of $5 a bottle 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z He is one of the most slyly affecting lyricists in hip-hop, and one who sometimes raps about the heavy weight of morality in an amoral world. Hip-Hop’s Year of Dangerous Living Put the Accused on the Charts 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Indeed, the novel is so mannered, so arch, that even intimate moments are barbed with slyly traded quips. Review | ‘French Exit’ gives a witty look at a rarefied world 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z I consider Baker to be the most psychologically acute, slyly inventive American playwright working today and have been lamenting that L.A. audiences have been deprived of the chance to know her work better. She's stepping down from A.C.T., but Carey Perloff continues the fight for women's stories 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z She smiled slyly, shrugged and said, “They don’t.” An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Behind it is a wood-grained ammunition box, which slyly corresponds to Zapata’s body. Diego Rivera's Cubist masterpiece arrives at LACMA 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z He looked at me slyly and said, “How about the Olive Garden?” When Love Seems Too Easy to Trust 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Here Sottsass, as in his other Memphis pieces, achieves a new friction between form and function, while slyly merging painting, sculpture and furniture with the spirit of architecture. A Polymathic Italian Designer, With Muses and Friends 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z When I asked her what she was wearing, she answered slyly with a smile, in character, "Pirate." | Because the Night ... 2012-11-13T18:00:56Z It’s an oil painting of the actress as a clown, smiling slyly. Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Beethoven’s Seventh, slyly quoted at one point, was a model for Shapero’s piece, which opens with an elusive Adagio, all flickering chords and sustained sonorities, that shifts into a bustling, densely contrapuntal Allegro. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z In the words of our reviewer, Alida Becker, this novel is a “captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean” to the real women who worked thanklessly on the first Oxford English Dictionary. New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z “I’m not supposed to tell you,” he said, grinning slyly, but he added: “I will be playing.” The Carpetbagger: No Musical Cutoff for Acceptance Speeches? It's Possible 2012-02-25T19:26:08Z But after she rebuffs Thomas’ attempts to dismiss her, Vanda slyly begins to reveal her great, commanding talent. Review: Polanski and ‘Venus in Fur’ are a match 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Prouvost is slyly poetic, and much more sophisticated than she at first appears. Turner prize 2013 shortlist: Tino Sehgal dances to the fore 2013-04-25T12:52:06Z So, as Ms. Tharp asked, as time goes by — slyly referring to the title of her 1973 dance — what does survive? dance: Tharp Is Back Where the Air Is Rarefied 2010-03-05T21:17:00Z The album’s trajectory — from its explosive beginning to a spare 19-minute closing soundscape — may slyly suggest a pessimistic view of humanity’s near future. The Sumptuous, Sour Music of Cory Smythe 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z “Columbus” can be slyly mysterious from a structural standpoint, both with respect to the plot’s elisions and several cuts that demand that viewers fill in the blanks. Review: Modernism’s Promise and an Auspicious Feature Debut in ‘Columbus’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z As the Old Man slyly reveals his identity without giving his name, Rory’s eyes widen with alarm. Movie Review: ‘The Words,’ With Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid and Bradley Cooper 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z For someone once considered such a threat to the moral welfare of Britain that tabloid newspapers demanded the government intervene to prevent him from performing here, he is a remarkably engaging, slyly charming figure. Glastonbury 2010: the sounds of success 2010-06-27T19:30:00Z Grinning slyly, Stewart said Sanchez "really nailed what it was like growing up in central Jersey in the early '70s, the fortunate son of a single mother in the education field." Jon Stewart lampoons fired CNN host Rick Sanchez 2010-10-05T06:46:00Z In particular, the performance by Jack Benny in Lubitsch's "To Be or Not to Be," in which a troupe of actors dares to slyly ridicule the Nazis, impressed Fiennes. Ralph Fiennes on nostalgia, heart in Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Haley is facing the dissolution of her parents’ marriage along with the dissolution of civilization, and at its best “How to Survive Everything” slyly demonstrates how these horrors parallel each other. A Survival Guide for the End of the World 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Not least in the way that it slyly suggests that the tragedy of Gregor Samsa will become the tragedy of millions in Europe who will be viewed as vermin to be exterminated. Metamorphosis – review 2013-01-23T15:01:00Z The riffs he dictated to his editor were terse and funny, with judgment slyly imparted through insinuation and association. In ‘The Earth Dies Streaming,’ Film Criticism That Transcends Raves and Pans 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Despite its intimidating title, “Epigenesis, Ontogenesis, Phylogenesis, Parthenogenesis,” Part IV, was my favorite, a beguiling though still slyly unnerving piece, run through almost continually by a steady unison thematic line on the electronically enhanced piano. Review: ‘David Rosenboom: Propositional Music,’ an Avatar of Experimentalism 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Indeed, crafting has long been used for political ends, slyly subverting the expectation that “women’s work” stay inside the home, and using existing women’s networks, like sewing circles, to foment political action. ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z He said he soon grew to appreciate that the retro setting slyly and silently informed the story, rather than serving as a subject of commentary. Film: Growing Older Isn?t the Same as Growing Up 2011-02-20T02:01:26Z Dressed in sweats and smiling slyly, Mr. Wuorinen spoke with the assurance of a man who made up his mind about the ills of the world long ago. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z This slyly fabulist story inhabits the point of view of a sickly goat taken in by a poor Indian family. New in Paperback: ‘The War Before the War’ and ‘Evening in Paradise’ 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Contrariwise, I believe Mr. Nabokov is slyly exploiting the American emphasis on the attraction of youth and the importance devoted to the “teen-ager” in order to promote an unconscious identification with Humbert’s agonies. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Dahl's text is slyly gory: five children win the chance to tour the factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: David Greig on making a musical to rival Matilda 2013-06-18T07:00:00Z There was majesty, as well as subdued tension, in the slow opening of the first movement, which segued slyly into the Vivace main section, played with crisp execution and full-bodied sonorities. Music Review: Manfred Honeck Leads New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher 2013-01-05T00:58:01Z Ms. Skinner is slyly making us think about the ways such fantasies, marketed for commercial consumption, make us look at the world. ‘The Village Bike’ Stars Greta Gerwig as a Woman Obsessed 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Created by Timothy Haskell, a director, writer and publicist whose work has long displayed a gleefully trashy pop sensibility, “Nightmare: Superstitions” in NoHo is as meticulously designed as it is slyly cast. Go Down That Hall. You Know You Want To. 2010-10-21T14:56:00Z There could be more slyly perverse fare where that came from. 'I Am Number Four': Smart, funny actioner tracks teenage alien runaways 2011-02-16T19:10:04Z The final two movements were slyly playful, especially the finale, a wild-eyed rustic dance. Review: Danish String Quartet Plays at the Rose Studio 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z And I hope the word “weird” doesn’t scare you off: Mr. Eno’s voice may be the most singular of his generation, but it’s humane, literate and slyly hilarious. Theater Review: ‘Realistic Joneses’ Stars Toni Collette and Michael C. Hall 2014-04-07T02:00:12Z Speaking of Lucian’s “True History” and similarly titled works, he slyly notes that “here, the word ‘true’ designates the fictional nature of the text.” ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z To mark the occasion, he compiled this series of horror and suspense films, which slyly address issues of race, class, gender and family life. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z With his well-battered acoustic lead guitar and a voice that slyly dodges the beat, Mr. Nelson has a huge repertory that’s categorized as country but goes well beyond it. Where to Catch Music and Comedy on New Year’s Eve 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Pesci plays Russell with a subtle menace conveyed through a blank look or a slyly covetous gaze. The Restrained Genius of a Joe Pesci Performance 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Egan slyly turns one “Goon Squad” recurring character into one of those stars. Books of The Times: Jennifer Egan?s ?Visit From the Goon Squad? 2010-06-21T00:10:00Z The ensuing twist seemingly arises from nowhere, blurring the line between intent and spontaneity for a wellspring of kinetic, jagged violence that slyly invites the possibility of more stories to come. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr Banks is slyly ridiculed by his wife. Mary Poppins: not sugary, but sharp and subversive – on the page and the screen 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Even from the beginning, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote songs that slyly added unexpected chord changes and hints of ambivalence in the lyrics, sparking a listener’s reflexes and then evading them. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z In his review for The New York Times, Ben Brantley called “The Band’s Visit” a “beautiful” and “slyly seductive show” with “one of the season’s most exquisitely wrought scores.” ‘The Band’s Visit’ to Open on Broadway 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z So, when you think about it, does “Hangmen,” which slyly addresses the folly of leaps to judgment that end in death. For ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Escaped Alone,’ Connecting Threads in London 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z “When she came around looking for ackee,” Washington writes, slyly, “his was the freshest on the shelf.” ‘Lot’ Offers a Fictional Look at a Vibrant, Polyglot American City 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Abortions were slyly mentioned: “ladies cured at one interview with or without medicine $5.” Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z Still, he attributes the great taste to a marinade he slyly describes as "special seasonings?and stuff." Where to Eat at the South's Best Fried Chicken Restaurants 2010-05-03T19:05:00Z He mentioned that Beyoncé would be performing in Philadelphia the following week, and slyly asked if she would go with him if he had tickets. Assisted by StubHub and Beyoncé 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Her stylistic techniques — playful, polyglot, punning, postmodern and slyly self-referential — are more typically associated with writers of the French Nouveau Roman school. Christine Brooke-Rose, Experimental Writer, Dies at 89 2012-04-10T05:10:22Z Mr. Harnick’s lyrics could be broadly funny, slyly satirical, lushly romantic or poignantly moving. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The house morcilla blood sausage was slyly seasoned with cumin, chile and nuts, understated notes that call to mind a Mexican mole. Choice Tables: In Portland, Ore., Dining Gets Fine Without Losing Flair 2013-07-23T17:52:17Z Are they anachronisms or elements of the surreal or slyly placed hooks that tether the narrative to another period, perhaps our own? A Grisly Fable of Ottoman Albania 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z As an actor, Mr. Demy is quiet and controlled, a watchful and slyly magnetic presence. Movie Review: ‘Americano,’ by Mathieu Demy, at Sunshine Cinema 2012-06-14T21:28:25Z With Mike Mainieri’s vibraphone scampering around her voice, Jones places her phrases slyly behind the beat, pausing to land each note just in time. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z When Oliver fires off one of his cutting quips at Howard, he either takes it or responds in kind, albeit more slyly. Like a good neighbor, Howard Morris is there for us on "Only Murders in the Building" 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The shop was the first retail space by the British architect David Adjaye, who also designed the Lindemann residence, a wondrous stack of dark boxes slyly hidden behind a 19th-century facade. New York Fashion Week: New York Fashion Week; For Proenza Schouler, a Big Leap 2012-09-08T01:10:01Z The mom’s out-of-it piety is slyly brought into relief when she tells Luke to say his nighttime prayers and he asks God to deliver more painkillers before Friday’s big game. 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: Private Meets Public 2010-07-24T03:00:00Z Amused and horrified by her shrieks, he writes a slyly ambiguous review titled “The Orphan’s Voice,” which describes Marguerite’s sound as revealing “the human truth.” Review: ‘Marguerite,’ a Screeching Diva Clinging to Her Operatic Dream 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Though he often begins with photographs, Gomez’s painted street slyly begins and ends with more specific references to the painter’s art. Ramiro Gomez 'On Melrose' at Charlie James Gallery 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z In part, it was a decision of necessity: Our family of five can no longer slyly slip into a standard hotel room. On Mexico’s coast, skip the resort and rent a house for an immersive vacation experience 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Fiction is their occupation — a premise that allows this playwright, whose micro art finds drama in the interstices of stories, to slyly comment on a culture that fetishizes epic escape. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z As staged by the inventive British director James Macdonald, this three-character, two-performer drama about an American war widow in the early 21st century slyly transformed the terra firma of a conventional, well-made play into quicksand. Review: Doubling Up on Toxic Manhood in ‘Dying City’ 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z “But she rather slyly introduces a very personal content.” Art and Words Are Inseparable in the Sackner Collection 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The impression of his reality hijacking ours, as he continues to speak, is slyly underscored, visually and aurally. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z The audience roared and cheered at the text messages and Colbert replied slyly: "I don’t know, but hopefully Robert Mueller will tell us soon." Watch Stephen Colbert’s hilarious re-enactment of FBI agent Peter Strzok’s insane House hearing 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The whimsical setup might suggest we’re heading into a modern descendant of “The Odd Couple,” but there’s a more slyly subversive agenda in play as Robyn’s emerging secrets lure Sharon into breaking bad. 'The Roommate': When an 'Odd Couple' story shifts toward 'Breaking Bad' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z In another twist, the actors pretend to be giving a makeup tutorial, a nod to a way that some TikTok users try to slyly impart educational information in a format that’s palatable to users. A Different Kind of Museum in Hong Kong 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Irresistibly tuneful, they also slyly illuminate the play’s investigations into love, cruelty and, above all, the mutable nature of self. Review: In a Blissful Musical ‘Twelfth Night’ in Central Park, Song Is Empathy 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Like its source material, “Baywatch” is sleazy and wholesome, silly and earnest, dumb as a box of sand and slyly self-aware. Review: ‘Baywatch,’ a Romp Full of Surf, Sand and Lots of Skin 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The title of “Semplice” — simple — proves to be more trickery, with the violin flitting up and down in quick and complex passages interspersed with slyly innocent resting periods. Music Review: Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillen in Recital 2013-05-11T02:06:28Z Neither is much else in this ever-shifting play, directed with exquisite precision by Lee Sunday Evans, and slyly designed every step of the way. Review: It’s the Audience That’s Captured by ‘Caught’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z But its dark colors are alluring, its middle molten and free, and it pours out with joyful, infectious confidence in a performance that’s slyly funny and deeply affecting. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Some of the same DNA is on display in “The Birthday Boys,” whose gently absurdist parodies often turn in on themselves, with jokes that cross several sketches and slyly comment on others. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z She added — perhaps slyly, given his success — “He’s been getting just enough encouragement to keep him going.” Are There Glass Snakes in Dale Chihuly’s Fragile Eden? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z But if Farrenc’s success, greater than any of her female contemporaries except Emilie Mayer, had critics admitting she stymied their stereotypes, those stereotypes were then slyly reimposed. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s novel, playful and slyly ironic and requires total confidence. Designers reveal their most challenging paint colors and how to master them 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z In “Damsels in Distress,” from 2011—only his fourth feature—he turned explicitly to the enduring power of gender roles and slyly suggested the class component to the politics of sexual revolution. “Metropolitan” and the Enduring Plight of the U.H.B. 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Over the next few years, Nguyen wrote “The Sympathizer,” using the form of an espionage novel to slyly deconstruct the ways the Vietnam War has been depicted in film and fiction. He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z But the detective neo-noir is overtly complex, slyly political and psychedelically crooked. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z But in this season, “Broad City” slyly nestles callbacks to its greatest gags, even fleeting ones, in each episode — an ode to the classic clips-driven series retrospectives classically employed by producers before the last hurrah. "Broad City": Breaking out, not breaking up 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The episode stands out, though, as a meeting of equals, a situation Mr. Letterman slyly alludes to. Watch List: Seinfeld Talks Comedy in ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ 2013-06-12T20:58:16Z Their chatter about smaller concerns — debts, gossip, hair, mail — slyly leads us to think we are in for a modestly entertaining and mostly cheerful parable of racial accommodation that soon embraces love. Review: ‘Wedding Band,’ a Searing Look at Miscegenation Nation 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z And Ben Mendelsohn makes for a slyly sinister villain as Director Krennic. ‘Rogue One’ Takeaways: Vader, Droids and a Stunning Planet 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Jesse Green described it as “a tragedy told as a comedy, a work of inspired protest, a slyly crafted piece of persuasion and a tangible contribution to the change it seeks.” 6 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Ever since “The Sopranos” ended on a slyly ambiguous note that kept viewers deconstructing it for weeks, shows with artistic ambition cannot come to a mere close. The Tv Watch: High Bar Has Been Set for the Finale of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2013-08-12T02:00:11Z For all its surface charms, this is an audacious, almost slyly radical work. Review: A Nostalgia Trip at the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z First, Elisabeth Moss deftly put her own spin on posing for E!’s ridiculous, nail-flaunting “mani cam” at the Golden Globes, slyly showing off her manicure on one finger in particular. Red carpet coverage doesn’t have to be sexist 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Since the beginning of her career, Ariana Grande has been an excellent singer, precise and slyly emotional. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Five decades on from its first release, Billy Wilder's freewheeling comedy remains a cherished classic; warm, witty and slyly subversive. Tony Curtis: a life in clips 2010-09-30T11:57:00Z Are miracle and faith being slyly travestied, or is this just another example of the going secular self-help usage? Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Packer is not the slyly malevolent dead weight that Anna Manahan was on Broadway. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z And she slyly taunted her young, racially mixed audience the other night, saying, “People want to tell Asian people how they feel about race because they’re too scared to tell black people.” For Margaret Cho, Nothing Is Too Private for a Punch Line 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Matthew Goode has always exuded a whiff of danger: the slyly wicked smile. Matthew Goode Knows How to Charm. Just Ask Lady Mary and Princess Margaret. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z For this anniversary, it presents “Kontakthof,” a 1978 work that slyly examines the peculiar ways men and women relate to each other. Dance Listings for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The Southern California setting and the shaggy-dog private-eye plot may remind you of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice,” though “The Nice Guys” lacks that movie’s wistful, slyly political sense of history. Review: ‘The Nice Guys’ Pairs Gosling and Crowe as Slapstick Detectives 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z On his solo records, he sings, produces, plays all kinds of instruments, earnestly ironizes, makes slyly brilliant videos to accompany the music. The Playlist: Lost (and Found) John Coltrane, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z He slyly manages to show, if not actual emotions, the desire to please humans who count on emotional reflections to understand themselves and their confounding place in this world. Playing with memory in 'Marjorie Prime' 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z As her eyes darted back and forth, slyly, the crowd howled. The Comedy Master Who Hasn’t Gotten Her Due: Elayne Boosler 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z The show is a brisk, often slyly touching standup performance that explores everything from donut overconsumption to unrequited love, and reminds you the ways in which both can wreak such havoc on the heart. Comedian Jeff Garlin isn't afraid of political correctness 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Here the sentimentality of Longfellow’s familiar words is countered by the slyly playful melody and undulant wrong-note accompaniment. Music Review: Marilyn Horne Celebrates Young Singers at Zankel Hall 2012-01-21T00:03:22Z Mr. Bowie answered, slyly, “You’d be surprised the places I’m able to go.” David Bowie: Invisible New Yorker 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z To that end, Reynolds and Kendi have created a book that slyly draws attention to the page itself. Can You Dismantle White Supremacy With Words? 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z That previous entry, very slyly, disappeared into the ether after I wrote it first thing this morning, reappearing at 4-ish just to taunt me. Who are you, "Tamara Drewe"? 2010-08-25T01:16:00Z While the larger show slyly examines the way toxic masculinity manifests in the people you'd least expect, Roy embraces his version of manliness without sacrificing his relationships with women. "Ted Lasso" has a message for everyone: Get you a man like Roy Kent 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z “Don’t Make a Movie About Me” rejects the Hollywood machine but then slyly gives advice on a film treatment. Johnny Cash, the Poet in Black 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Songy does slyly upend stereotypes by being on a quest for enlightenment. When a Comic Book Hillbilly and Milton Collide 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Wild applause erupted as Alexy Goldstein walked onstage, rolled up his sleeves, whipped a bottle of Somaderm out of his pocket, and started slathering gel all over his inner forearms, grinning slyly. A 'miracle' healing gel, a cult-like following, and a fiercely protected empire 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Like “Our Time,” “Another Hundred People” slyly revels in sexual ambiguity and in dissolving gender stereotypes, with both performers singing numbers associated with the opposite sex. Review: ‘Another Hundred People’ Digs Into Stephen Sondheim’s Catalog 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Their comedy slyly vacillates between articulating this animus and then skewering it. Hating Hillary Clinton: Female Comics Skewer the Sexism of the Likability Trap 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Cher asked, smiling slyly as she emerged from a knot of corridors in her sprawling hotel suite in Midtown Manhattan at about 9 p.m. on a sultry August night. Cher Has Never Been a Huge Cher Fan. But She Loves Being Cher. 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Listen to how the music unfolds: passages that slyly verge on atonality are linked like gossamer chains to hinge moments of pure tonal euphony, each expressing a clear dramatic point. The Elegant Musical Vessels of Dominick Argento 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Slowly, slyly, under our very noses, the festival is winding down. Cannes 2012 diary: day nine 2012-05-24T11:33:27Z Scenes like these thrive on Bobby’s brash, intoxicating self-confidence, but “Naming Rights” slyly undermines that impression in ways that he cannot see. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 2: Part of the Firmament 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Borrowing a full-length silhouette of his body from a gallery announcement for his 1975 show of photograms, “Angels,” she slyly transformed his outlines into a frame or container for her cut-up photographs. Jay DeFeo and Bruce Conner Were BFF’s (Bohemian Friends Forever) 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Walker emerged in the mid-1990s with incendiary works set adamantly and slyly in the past that were frequently criticized as politically incorrect for caricaturing slavery in the antebellum South. Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy with New Ways of Drawing 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z However, the comic passages slyly ease you into an interwoven polemic about the hidden cost of those electronic minimarvels — the human cost not displayed on the price tag. Review: One-man show describes falling in and out of love with Steve Jobs' Apple gadgetry 2011-04-28T00:40:34Z The few moments of slyly witty visual reveals — including the camera’s panning back to find the police hoisting Mr. Lamar’s car — only make the tragic ensuing moments land as heavier betrayals. Video of the Year Nominees for the V.M.A.’s Offer a Bundle of Contradictions 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z “It’s my first time,” Twanna Hines slyly told the audience at the opening night of her one-woman show, “I F----- Your Country.” Twanna Hines makes Fringe Festival debut with her raunchy one-woman show I tried curling the end slyly into a question or dropping it in a deadpan. ’90s Sitcoms Shaped Me as an Immigrant Child. What if They Hadn’t? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z For while we have seen many comics skewer themselves in ways that slyly let themselves off the hook, Mr. Michael goes further than most to make himself unlikable and his arguments ring hollow. This May Be the Most Polarizing Comedy Special of the Year 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z At the keyboard, Bavouzet exuded a relaxed, confident musicianship and offered a reading full of telling inflections and slyly subversive touches. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Where the trilogy often felt like a decorative soap, this is a more slyly political piece. Blue Dragon - review 2011-02-19T00:26:01Z The slyly subversive nature of speculative fiction is something Atwood is well aware of, citing the ingenuity of science fiction authors during the McCarthy era. Margaret Atwood has a few wry comments about being a PEN Center USA lifetime achievement honoree 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Dialogue from the first act is slyly echoed in the second, in different contexts, making neat points about the changes in racial and social attitudes over 50 years. Low Comedy, High Concept 2012-04-24T10:50:07Z Baroque in scale, and slyly using a synthesiser as continuo, it interweaves unaccompanied solos with formal movements of great melodic beauty. LPO/Alsop 2010-04-20T21:30:00Z Cumberbatch also slyly reveals his shame in a scene where he happens upon his men frolicking naked in a river, before riding away to be alone. Benedict Cumberbatch is intimidating in Jane Campion's exquisite and potent "Power of the Dog" 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z From the dreamy, disorienting opening of “Autumn,” we are in the strange territory that will be familiar to readers of Ali Smith, whose books play slyly with notions of time, character and plot. Review | Ali Smith begins a new quartet of novels with ‘Autumn’ 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The song's reference to a "bag on the track" slyly suggests the bounty they are about to get. Super sounds of "Reservoir Dogs": How this heist film changed indie soundtracks forever 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Unlike last year, however, when he slyly mocked actors as a class by calling them "the most important people on the planet," he turned very personal. Gervais stands his ground over Globes performance 2011-01-19T13:46:04Z This daisy-chain construction was slyly effective, smoothing over the boundaries between successive stories and the wildly diverse worlds they depicted, making one feel as real as the next. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z When Bill Clinton ran for President in 1992, I was always nearby, whispering calumnies into the ears of his detractors, slyly making deals and undermining confidences while charging an excessive interest rate. BREAKING: “The truth can now be told — I am Sidney Blumenthal!”: The Greatest Living American Writer 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Olbermann then noted slyly that he was already talking about a politician 48 seconds into his new, supposedly politics-free show. The TV Watch: Keith Olbermann’s Show Has Its Debut on ESPN2 2013-08-27T21:44:31Z As a platform addressing the sexism women faced in the late ‘50s, slyly displaying how much hasn’t changed for women, “Mrs. Maisel” still hasn’t missed a beat. “Midge has picked a man’s world”: “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” creators talk season 2’s st... 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z It was lead singer/guitarist Ezra Koenig’s brainy but slyly emotive lyrics that got a lot of the attention. Rostam's long-awaited debut solo album "Half-Light" is out today 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z She draped herself across the table, stomach down, posterior up, and looked slyly over one shoulder. Tiffany Haddish: ‘My Career Is a Delicious Roasted Chicken’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z That’s because of the smog that suffuses every corner of these songs, which scan as sloppy riffs on romantic new wave like the Cure and New Order, but are actually slyly articulate. Playlist: New Batch of Debuts, With ?80s Forebears 2011-02-06T02:08:19Z Each is labeled according to time and place — they were all supposedly observed in London — slyly satirizing the Enlightenment fantasy of encyclopedic omniscience. Art Review: Armory Show, Modern and Contemporary, at Piers 92 and 94 2012-03-08T23:15:02Z Thus, the movie slyly turns the racial tables. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z A Sibling Odyssey, in Space For most of its deliriously odd 75 minutes “Space//Space,” a mythic and slyly theatrical production by the experimental company Banana Bag & Bodice, seems like some kind of cosmic joke. Theater Review: ‘Space//Space’ by Banana Bag & Bodice at Collapsable Hole 2012-06-17T22:09:07Z But in her new global tour, which comes to Madison Square Garden next month, she has slyly found an arena stand-up language to match her evolving reputation. Review: As Amy Schumer Evolves, So Does Her Arena Show 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z But the Old Farmer’s Almanac may now slyly urge us to do better. Review | Outhouses are gone, but ‘The Old Farmer’s Almanac’ is still here. Why? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z “And my name’s Kjetil,” he said, and smiled slyly down at the desk. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z But the film itself slyly subverts rom-com tropes, playing with the magical lightness of romance while delving into the pain of lingering heartbreak. Meg Ryan on the essentials of good rom-coms — and her long-awaited return to them 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z But rather than Henry Mancini’s jazzily smooth saxophones, Schoenberg’s cat doesn’t slyly pad. Review: P-22 is remembered with fanfare at the Hollywood Bowl, in one of his favorite neighborhoods 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z They knew it had the potential to be riotously funny, slyly insightful and boundary pushing for queer teen representation. Behind ‘Bottoms,’ the wild, queer and bloody high school sex comedy coming to theaters 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The thesis also slyly shifts blame for criminal behavior from the aggressor to third parties. Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Had Greta Gerwig and David Lynch collaborated on “Independence Day,” the result might have been a lot like “Landscape With Invisible Hand,” a slyly subversive sci-fi satire that packs a sensory kick. Review: When aliens land, humanity quickly folds in sci-fi satire 'Landscape With Invisible Hand' 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z “I’m trying to get moving for you,” he said slyly. Here’s the skinny on Russell Wilson: He looks svelte and sounds ready to improve for Denver Broncos 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Kirkus Reviews called it “clever, sharp, and slyly funny … a delightfully different caper novel with a ‘Gone Girl’ — style plot twist.” A volume of short stories, a snappy heist and more new paperbacks 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Some of it is slyly funny, if thin, like the occasional invocations of New Age pyramid power. Review: Keith Haring's art might not be for everybody, but he is 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Smiling slyly, they invite the audience to give in to the fantasy. Review: Musical 'Six,' about Henry VIII's wives, is unapologetically revisionist. That's why it's successful 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Albania's ode to family unity, Duje, got the seal of approval, as did Austria's Who The Hell Is Edgar - a slyly subversive anthem about the music industry's mistreatment of songwriters. Eurovision semi-final: Australia break this year's rock 'curse' 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Screenplays could also be slyly generated in the style of known writers. Could AI pen ‘Casablanca’? Screenwriters take aim at ChatGPT 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The slender volume also includes its author’s slyly self-deprecatory epitaph: “Here lies D.G. A poet? Who can say?/ He didn’t even have an MFA.” Review | Vacation’s all I ever wanted. But books were all the escape I needed. 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Longtime Giants nemesis Max Muncy acknowledged it after hitting two home runs in Monday’s opener, grinning slyly at the mention of his “go get it out of the ocean” comment to Madison Bumgarner in 2019. Dodgers-Giants rivalry: Has friendly familiarity replaced icy hostility? 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z At far left is an avocado bearing a product-code sticker that, slyly, can be seen only in the image reflected on the tray. Review | In the galleries: The power of still life, the drama of demons 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “The Ten Percent Thief” slyly suggests that what we call “meritocracy” might just be conformity and status games. Review | Four new provocative science fiction visions of the future 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z I say “allegedly” because the amendment — if passed by voters as a ballot measure in November — would slyly open the door to much more. Opinion | In post-Roe America, weird changes might be coming to abortion law 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z You have to keep some of your real self in reserve,” he says slyly. The post-jailhouse confessions of Watts rapper 03 Greedo: 'I don't believe in anything but art' 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Even when they did, the tone was questionable: In one episode, Simon Cowell slyly expressed concerns about the singer's "theatricality". Adam Lambert: 'I didn't think I'd have a shot' 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z In 2020 he scored his first No. 1 as an artist with “One Beer,” a slyly touching account of a couple’s quick trip from shared Bud Lights to a shared baby. How country hitmaker Hardy became Nashville's nü-metal king 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z As slyly as the world found out Blake Lively was pregnant with her and Ryan Reynolds’ fourth child, it found out just as slyly Sunday that the baby had arrived. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have indeed 'been busy' — welcoming a fourth baby 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z That year, when a reporter asked him to describe his career, Verlaine said slyly, “Struggling not to have a professional career.” Tom Verlaine, singer and guitarist for seminal art-punk band Television, dies at 73 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z He’s slyly teased the reporters who’ve been camping outside his office door in the Longworth House Office Building by promising them “a surprise” this week. George Santos dodges insults, jokes and snub to say ‘I love it’ 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The mission’s launch director, Mark Soltys, came on the voice network and addressed the astronauts, slyly referencing an internet meme tied to the movie “Mean Girls.” 31 Hours Inside SpaceX Mission Control 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Both use their female superstars, Blanchett and Yeoh, to comment slyly on how women deal with blinkered assumptions and expectations of their success in the modern world. Did the L.A. Film Critics go overboard with their 'Tár' love? Inside this year's vote 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z And “One Fine Morning,” with its gently staccato rhythms and slyly unpredictable structure, is in no hurry to clue us in, either. Review: To miss Léa Seydoux in ‘One Fine Morning’ is to miss one of the year’s best performances 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z A viewer gets slyly connected to the art, where “reading” its visual language becomes dynamic participation in the genre scene of daily life being represented. Review: A vital MOCA retrospective centers L.A. painter Henry Taylor's unforgettable art 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z “There is a sense of undressing almost,” says Fryer, who built apertures and translucence into the garments, slyly suggesting the repressed person seeking escape. As 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' heats up, you almost want more of those stylish clothes 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The two thematic collage-posters in “Blue Denim,” each advertising drive-in movies warning of the dangerous pleasures of teenage lust, are slyly linked together by a set of automotive jumper cables. Review: L.A. artist Alexis Smith upended taboos. A thrilling new museum exhibition shows how 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z They mocked his mannerisms and purported resemblance to a toad, while slyly celebrating his relative tolerance compared with his successors. Jiang Zemin, Leader Who Guided China Into Global Market, Dies at 96 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Those elegant, poignant, slyly simple lines curled and curved their way into religion and sports and war and mental health and love unrequited. Schulz at 100: How ‘Peanuts’ lifts those on stage, on ice and in space 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z It also feels like a criminal disservice to the movie, an audience picture through and through, whose slyly tuned jokes and ingenious surprises are worth discovering with a crowd. Review: As all-star whodunits go, 'Glass Onion' has enormous appeal 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z “What is driving down shark populations is overfishing. They have been slyly labeled bycatch when in reality they are targeted,” said Philip Chou, senior director of global policy for the conservation group Oceana. Hippos, sharks up for protection at UN wildlife conference 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z The queen accommodated yet again, often with a twinkle in her eye, such as when she helped open the 2012 Summer Olympics by appearing in a slyly amusing skit with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Perspective | When it came to her image, Queen Elizabeth II ruled until the end 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Munroe slyly engages with write-in inquiries while either “doing the math” himself or reaching out to field experts. The world’s funniest former NASA roboticist will take your questions 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Buchwald’s satire was biting, but the bites were delivered so slyly that recipients rarely objected — or even knew they had been bitten. Review | The remarkable career, and long-hidden pain, of satirist Art Buchwald 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z When asked if it could change the way clubs value players and view roster construction, he slyly smirked. Dodgers players have mixed opinions about 2023 MLB rule changes 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Or, as Ma slyly notes, has fiction pushed them out of the frame so many times that now it has to drag them back, kicking and screaming? Review: 'Severance' author Ling Ma doubles down on surreal premises in 'Bliss Montage' 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z When Riley resolved to replace him in the fourth quarter, Williams tried to slyly convince the coach to stay in. USC showcases a new era for its football program in dominant win over Rice 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z For all its character depth, the slyly plotted season has no shortage of twists and surprises. Review | Steve Carell treats ‘The Patient’ in stellar serial killer drama 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z But Mr. Zelensky noted slyly in his evening video address that “one can literally feel in the air of Crimea that the occupation there is temporary.” With Military Attacks and Mockery, Ukraine Pokes the Russian Bear 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z With her laserlike glare and killer deadpan timing, she can say absolutely nothing and slyly pocket a scene. Review: Aubrey Plaza kills it in 'Emily the Criminal' 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z When “Super-Pets” isn’t delivering animal antics or reveling in a drawn-out riff on “The Great British Bake Off,” it’s slyly poking fun at the larger absurdity of the superhero genre. Review | ‘DC League of Super-Pets’: Supporting cast outshines the marquee names 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Guess in which direction Calder’s slyly hopeful vision points its most appealing female lead? Review: Millennial angst, vacuum-packed, in debut stories after Sally Rooney's dark heart 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z On the sixth album from the Nigerian superstar and purveyor of Afrofusion, the “surfaces are glossy and reassuring,” our pop critic Jon Pareles writes, and “the inner workings are slyly playful.” Summer Travel, Made Easy 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Farther down the menu, I’m a sucker for the fried chicken poutine with herbed gravy, a dish that slyly redefines a fry basket. Review | Honeymoon Chicken aims high — and hits its mark 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Bridgers slyly responded to said friend that she would “TOTALLY” go to a protest afterward. 'I want to scream': Stand-up comics around L.A. rally onstage over Roe decision 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z From a ripe vintage, this wine is slyly deceptive. Perspective | Make this $11 malbec your summer grilling partner 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z When reminded of those comments Thursday, Roberts slyly smiled. Tony Gonsolin effective as Dodgers blank resurgent Mets 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z It was an ironic exchange given that Reichardt films, where economic inequities often slyly dictate characters’ lives, have never catered to traditional dichotomies of status. Kelly Reichardt: ‘I’m fine with being a side B-er’ 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Also, the case genuinely interests some people for good reason — accusations alone on the tail of the #metoo movement should not be enough to attack a person, even when done slyly, in print. Why is Justin Chang dissing 'Downton' sequel? 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Moore’s close-up framing of the composition slyly cuts off her head too. Review: Five pandemic-postponed art shows worth seeing right now 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z More of a stretch are the circular, vinyl record-derived pieces that slyly incorporate the show’s title, “Flip Side.” Review | In the galleries: Where simple techniques reveal complex visions 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Sciamma has little interest in explanations, and she slyly passes along that disinterest to her characters. Review: The sublime French drama ‘Petite Maman’ needs only 72 minutes to crush your heart 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z More than anything, “Barbarians” is a showcase for Tom Cullen, who gives a slyly comic and properly infuriating performance as the film’s true villain. Review: Strong performances highlight a dinner party gone wrong in thriller 'Barbarians' 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “I think we could operate more slyly, gather up our forces and launch a counterattack.” Scenes from Kharkiv: Battle wreckage, the boom of artillery, and people sheltering in the subway. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The scene on the train platform, in which Lucas slyly entices Charles to indulge in some white pride, is disturbingly fresh. Review: Bryan Cranston tests the bounds of free speech in 'Power of Sail' at the Geffen Playhouse 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z The idea of a masked serial killer who uses the arch insights of a slasher-movie fan to torment his victims, also slasher-movie fans, before killing them was slyly, pleasurably circular. Review | I scream, you scream, we all scream for no more ‘Scream’ movies 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Love — of people, of storytelling, of being alive — is its slyly intoxicating theme. Review | ‘The Tender Bar’ movie review: Liquor and life lessons, served neat 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z No wonder Sorkin looks down on — or, at least, is baffled by — the broad, slyly feminist slapstick of “I Love Lucy.” Perspective | Three things Aaron Sorkin doesn’t understand: Comedy, sitcoms and women 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z But in adobo, vinegar doesn’t sit slyly in the background — it dominates. Embrace the tangy, salty balance of Filipino adobo with this adaptable chicken or tofu recipe 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z A woman who slyly cracked open the floodgates to so many queer sexual awakenings. Anne Rice wrote 'dope stories': How authors and 'Vampire' actors are honoring her legacy 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z Dole came over to me, smiled slyly and said, “This is working out pretty well.” Perspective | Bob Dole epitomized the World War II generation 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “I didn’t think that was allowed in football anymore,” said safety Jamal Adams, who added slyly of his discussions with officials about the play that “I just wanted some clarity.” Seahawks lament officiating decisions in loss to Packers 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z The traditionally feminine associations of a vessel are slyly discomfited by dense tangles of handles, Medusa-like in their clusters of writhing, snake-like forms. Review: Ex-President Trump claims to be a witch hunt target. These feminist artists beg to differ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Martin Chalifour pulled that off with his own slyly horripilating suavity. Review: L.A. Phil gives Steven Mackey's riotous trumpet 'Shivaree' a defining premiere 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z “You know what you’re doing, I can tell,” Bruno says slyly. Ranking the best and worst of the ‘Dancing With the Stars’ premiere, which featured the show’s first same-sex partners 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z But if this is beautiful filmmaking, it is also slyly subversive of its own beauty, and of the ritualized pomp and formality that, for the free-spirited Diana, proved an intolerable substitute for a family’s love. Telluride: 'Spencer' showcases Kristen Stewart; Peter Dinklage shines in 'Cyrano' 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z McGregor wrote on Twitter he was "salivating" as the two squared off, but later slyly tweeted a video of his dinner. Jake Paul responds to Conor McGregor tweet: Tyron Woodley 'is a harder fight than him' 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z As this is an Echo Theater Company production, it’s safe to assume the questions raised about social justice will slyly speak to our own age. Fall Preview: 11 SoCal theater picks to celebrate our return to the stage 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Don’t shame this family; be an artist!’ ” he says slyly. Filipino American trailblazers speak truth to Hollywood through jokes and rhymes 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z By then, the now-55-year-old artist had become known for sorting clusters of googly eyes and thick lips into minimalist grids; paintings that slyly located the roots of Western abstraction in minstrel caricature. The Black Artists Leaving America 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Johnson said, grinning slyly, a crescent of pizza crust clasped by her iridescent nails. Saving Pop Punk? That’s Just Their Warm-Up Act. 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Lin slyly defended his dissed dreads by explaining that they — just like the other man’s Chinese tattoos — should be viewed not as cultural appropriation but as cultural appreciation. I’m an Art Therapist. Am I Guilty of Cultural Appropriation? 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z And, despite its unconventional source material, it turns out to be surprisingly well-crafted, elevated by breathtaking central performances and the stylish, slyly knowing sensibility of director Janicza Bravo. Review | ‘Zola,’ a movie based on a tweetstorm, is squirmy, sordid, stylized, sexy — and smart 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Another way to interpret last week’s events is that Manchin slyly revealed Republicans’ stated concerns about stolen elections — and their professed desire to work across the aisle — as the baloney they always were. Opinion | Manchin just got Republicans to admit their ‘election fraud’ concerns are nonsense 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Hong Kong artists have been slyly commenting on politics and social issues for decades. Hong Kong Protests, Silenced on the Streets, Surface in Artworks 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Crystal also “slyly” remarked on last month’s Academy Awards, according to the Post, after the ceremony brought in the lowest ratings ever at just 10.4 million viewers. Billy Crystal says cancel culture turning comedy into ‘minefield’: ‘I don’t like it’ 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The goal is to create the illusion of choice — a carefully developed video game that slyly transfers the sensation of authorship to the player. Disneyland's reopening: Why it matters and what to pay attention to when you return 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z "Those who knew him well admired his brilliance as a scout and his extraordinary ability to find players of good character. He was slyly funny and a loyal and true friend." Ted Thompson, Packers Super Bowl-winning general manager, dead at 68 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z In doing so, she slyly turns the conventions of the film noir inside out. Review: Hungary's 'Preparations to Be Together … ' brilliantly turns noir inside out 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Sandground liked to tell stories that slyly doubled as publicity. Mark B. Sandground Sr., Machiavellian divorce lawyer, dies at 88 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s tough to taste a bottle that slyly hints at being a rum without comparing it to the original. Good zero-proof drinks aren’t just for Dry January. Here are some products we’ve tried — and liked. 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z The Rohde touch is most evident in how Pandora explores urgent issues such as environmental conservation, or how a high-priced Hawaii resort, Aulani, slyly doubles as a cultural heritage site. Disney Parks without Joe Rohde: A world-maker retires. What's next? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Here, as in the romantic comedy “Bridesmaids,” she uses familiar genre beats to build a slyly multi-dimensional performance, one whose emotional layers are even more impressive than her many changes of wardrobe. Review: With big villains and bigger hair, ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is a gloriously overstuffed sequel 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z This ignites the main action of “I’m Your Woman,” whose very title — suggesting the efforts of a loyal wife, or wives, to save their husbands — slyly subverts genre expectations. Review | ‘I’m Your Woman’ re-centers thief-on-the-lam story to focus on the fugitive’s wife 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z |
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