But the children soon came back, unable to resist the scene of such a spectacle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ocean really wanted to drive me to school in the mornings and I wouldn’t accept his offer, no matter how badly I wanted to, because I didn’t want to make a spectacle out of us. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a commotion in the chicken run, but not the spectacle that Fern had in mind. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We went to church only rarely now, mostly because it had become such a spectacle, involving reporters shouting questions as we walked in to worship. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was the moment of intermingling with a noise like thunder, the spectacle of broken lances sailing in the air while hones pawed that dement before they went down backward. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys pushed their neighbors out of whatever desks they chose while Mr. Mwila looked on at the whole spectacle, nodding to himself. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

This spectacle of another’s suffering and sacrifice rapt my thoughts from exclusive meditation on my own. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was struck for the first time by the spectacle of him—this strange mix-of-everything man. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At first the wildfire had scared him, but over time van der Donck had come to relish the spectacle of the yearly burning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Harry and I had been at the table for the entire spectacle, and when it was over, Harry had gone to his room and, as usual, locked the door. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

And what class of a spectacle you’d be strolling down the street, lopsided in Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mind became unnaturally calm, as if part of me had lifted right up out of my body and was sitting on a tree limb watching the spectacle from a safe distance. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to make a spectacle of myself, which was something many of our neighbours seemed to always expect from our family, I backtracked away from the door and vanished into the dark street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tonight we witness the spectacle of human folly and tragedy,” he said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I never get tired of this—of the spectacle, of the pageantry. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m surprised the King still allows such an old-fashioned spectacle,” Ana observed. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the spectacle, proud as he was of it, was not for children. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Topping off the spectacle was a military parade including nearly sixty thousand infantry and more than twenty thousand horsemen. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The spectacle of Lawrence’s lending his highly developed talent for persuasion to a project of such dubious morality was more painful still. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was a spectacle to Moss, seeing his mother’s eyes wash over the people in that church, jumping from one raised hand to another, always knowing when to shift the conversation to the next person. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then, on Fridays, he went to Ghazi Stadium, bought a Pepsi, and watched the spectacle. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Drivers were only just registering the spectacle through their windscreens. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This spectacle arrested us with its strangeness; for the landing parties had been ordered to fire merely the docks and buildings by the water, not the town itself. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He and I make a great spectacle of leaving the tent. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Lefty, exhausted from work, looked down at the spectacle of this menagerie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain could see the men shuffling, strange pathetic spectacle, dusty, dirty, ragged men, heads down, faces down: it reminded him of a history- book picture of impressed seamen in the last war with England. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The liner passed over a bank of clouds at the moment, and Gloria was instantly absorbed in the usual spectacle of clouds underneath one. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

There are plenty of the Folk who delight in murder and plenty more who delight in spectacle. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Wonderfully! Simply perfect. I say, it is a spectacle!" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Of course, none of the vast crowd who would be there today would know that she wasn’t there of her own free will, but had been condemned to watch the spectacle as a punishment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We were going to let him finish dying in public, but he has no entertainment value. He’s spent days curled up sleeping. What sort of spectacle is that? Otis, tip over the jar.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She swallowed and turned toward the ballroom, hesitating in the grand doorway to stare at the spectacle ahead of her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately the Attendant is providing the wrong kind of spectacle, because the shambler lurches off the stage and after the trio in the aisle. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It had been so long, so many years since I’d done this, and I wondered if I’d make a spectacle of myself. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote: It is unfortunate that congressmen and their ladies should have been deprived of this spectacle. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleared at least to proceed into the city, the visitor would soon encounter a spectacle of urban grandeur widely celebrated in its time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The crowd laughed and ate baklava and enjoyed the whole spectacle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

One day, as she began to bathe herself, a stranger lifted a tile from the roof and was breathless at the tremendous spectacle of her nudity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Just the spectacle of it. The excitement. The show itself. My eyes were like saucers.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She is making a spectacle of herself, at last, and I am in control. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ferocity of such a spectacle left that population satisfied and stupefied at the same time. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I was ashamed. Of Biggs and us and the noise. Christ, what a spectacle.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, to me, was a spectacle of glory; and yet, because it had condemned me, because it was blind and ignorant, I felt that it was a spectacle of horror. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver of the lorry pulled up at the side of the road and, with his two companions, stared open-mouthed at the extraordinary spectacle. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the train ride to New York — famous mountains lumbered by, famous rivers, plains, canyons, the whole holy American spectacle, without his looking up once. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if we refuse to cooperate with your spectacle?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Though she had been too young to witness the spectacle herself, Cersei had heard the stories growing up from the mouths of washerwomen and guardsmen who had been there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sun was melting onto Roundtop Ridge, a puddle of pinks and reds and violets, and the bubble nests mirrored the spectacle. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Why dont they go on, before Benjamin comes out and makes a spectacle. Poor little boy. He doesn’t know. He cant even realise.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many had their kids with them, for it was clear they thought it was important for children to see this spectacle at a young age so they could begin to understand what it all meant. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed, wanting her to interpret the baffling spectacle I had seen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment the khaki mob was silent, petrified, at the spectacle of this wanton sacrilege, with amazement and horror. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma said, “I don’t know why we have to make a grand Negro spectacle out of everything. “I’ll get my hat.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Blake wrassled his buddies and any other comers in a frequent spectacle, kicking up the dust, inevitably emerging the conqueror. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That evening, Sasha checked out the news coverage online, but the spectacle didn’t hold their interest. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This time it pierces the now nearly shredded paper in between the words “audiences” and “spectacle,” obscuring the “with” completely. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I stared up at him, not recognizing him, and felt my face flush with the embarrassment of being a public spectacle. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For Mrs. John Brooke, with the maker’s congratulations and compliments. Bless you, Beth! What a refreshing spectacle you are, Jo. Amy, you are getting altogether too handsome for a single lady.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, I do not wish to witness the awful spectacle of the Negroes moving upward into the middle class. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t thinking about running a record time or qualifying for the Olympics or being a spectacle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Rising to my full height—a spectacle in itself—I looked down upon the offending policeman and crushed him with a comment which, fortunately, he failed to understand. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the strangest thing happened: The clouds parted and the sun burst out, flooding the spectacle. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed a front-row seat at a spectacle that the rest of the citizenry learned about in the daily newspaper and on the nightly news. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

What I had before me was a spectacle of wind and water, an earthquake of the senses, that even Hollywood couldn’t orchestrate. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma didn’t appreciate any of this finger popping and making a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves in the junior miss section of Korvettes department store. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Pinmei peered below and gasped, the sound swallowed by the roar of the spectacle behind them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the booster soared, Mitch had no time to watch the spectacle on the main screen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this wasn’t a grand Negro spectacle, I didn’t know what was. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The three wives of academicians went for a walk up the lane, haughty and masked, unimpressed by the spectacle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the spectacle of the hangings fades from the public’s preoccupation, Lincoln’s reputation grows. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the spectacle draws almost incomprehensible good will—“Welcome to Egypt!” and “Welcome to Alex!” come from all sides. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But I remained focused on the spectacle right in front of me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sam liked the spectacle of the human animal up close, as well as his access to the workings of the town, once the drink loosened tongues. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But after a while I realized that it was all just spectacle. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

No one would suspect her of cheating, because who in her right mind would make such a spectacle of herself if she intended to cheat? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even known I’d been making a grand Negro spectacle out of myself, bawling over a word in the dictionary. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What a spectacle!” wrote Ray Stannard Baker in his American Chronicle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But all the passengers were at the windows, staring at this spectacle. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thus one of the greatest jokes in the world is the spectacle of the whites busy escaping blackness and becoming blacker every day, and the blacks striving toward whiteness, becoming quite dull and gray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As anti-religion as Gramps was, he was all about the spectacle. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had chosen to rise in a balloon, convinced that the spectacle of a gigantic balloon suspended in the clouds would be an irresistible form of publicity for almost any carbonated drink. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spectacle, created by the slow disintegration of the comet Swift-Tuttle, is named for the constellation Perseus, the Greek hero who killed Medusa. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were all looking forward to the night’s spectacle. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A crowd of kids gathered around to witness the spectacle. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, you will wish to retire to a safe place to observe the spectacle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“This beautiful, natural spectacle gave us hope and almost a sense of triumph. There was, after all, a force in this world far superior to our oppressors. I was sure this force would ultimately prevail.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were wearing green army uniforms, and Richard wondered why soldiers would make such a spectacle of themselves, dashing in like that, until he saw how red and wildly glassy their eyes were. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The second was high and more powerful than the first, and the third was a spectacle. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On the main road the weekend spectacle strolled before them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The spectacle which they came across was one for which they were not prepared. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered through the maze of booths and tents, thinking how much Jesse would have adored the spectacle of it all. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And to Trip, the whole thing was pure comedy: a glorious slapstick spectacle, complete with bleeped-out tirades and plenty of chair throwing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This happened about once a month, and was a popular spectacle. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In housedress and sandals, Desdemona held her cardboard fan to her chest, shielding herself against the spectacle of life repeating itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And then I’d enjoy every minute of the sweaty spectacle before me—the leaping and charging, the rippling and roaring, the pulse of maleness and all its mysteries on full display. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I think everyone in the building has really appreciated the spectacle. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I caught an old woman looking out her living room window at the whole spectacle. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

From the tip burst three silver cats with spectacle markings around their eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The men all smiled and laughed at the spectacle. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a time, the fires were more isolate in their devouring; the town presented a spectacle of black chimney-stacks and scorched ruin as far as eye could see. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We grew tired of the spectacle and turned to go. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Shortly after lunch, just before the rains hit, the dockers were startled by an improbable spectacle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A spectacle of rhetoric. These days, I hope they get the spectacle done early so I can retire at a decent hour.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he’d walk out after dark and sit on a rock and look out over the canyon, just for the spectacle of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Students laughed and pointed, reveling in the spectacle, the drama. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The African youth stood before us, a gawky and immobile spectacle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘The enjoyment of a spectacle is something you have never known,’ he said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She did not come alone, but had brought her mother with her—promising what spectacle Gabriel could not imagine, nor could he imagine how she had escaped her young man of the evening. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Yossarian was making an uncouth spectacle of himself by walking around backward with his gun on his hip and refusing to fly more combat missions, Milo said. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was a grisly spectacle that made South Africa appear as if it was on the brink of internal war. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like me, they're thinking of something positive to say once the spectacle is over and the performer takes up her post beside the front door. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

This, too, how the love works and then doesn’t: a mutual spectacle of imagination. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was no regret,” observed the Chicago Tribune, “rather a feeling of pleasure that the elements and not the wrecker should wipe out the spectacle of the Columbian season.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The active parties are the writer and the reader, who are taking in the spectacle together, and the writer can refer to them with the good old pronoun we. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But when I looked I saw a glinting silvery spectacle against a white sky. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.’” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

No matter how exciting the spectacle before her, nor how novel to her girlish eyes, she turned away instantly if the corner of her eye caught a glimpse of metallic movement. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In the early morning light, I see a bizarre spectacle. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The mountain displayed a constantly changing face of weather and shadow, rain and sun, a spectacle of African light. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them had seen the spectacle; none of them had seen the shadows in the gusting wind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She was in the crowd that was witnessing the sad spectacle of the man who had been turned into a snake for having disobeyed his parents. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The rest of the women, perhaps because they don’t want to make a spectacle, watch reluctantly as their men drift off and get in line. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t believe that motion picture cameras ever have filmed a human spectacle mote colorful than my eyes took in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother hugged him as he got lost in the spectacle before him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Captain Cook found this spectacle very interesting, and in order to get a better view, he jumped up on the mirror ledge. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of thing I should look out for: crying without reason, making a spectacle of myself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was an amazing spectacle, those nine helicopters winging through the sky, each with a trussed-up fifty-foot-long giant slung underneath it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I understood that I was supposed to be terrified by this spectacle—these two demonic creatures on this dark, lonely road. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora had no intention of watching the weekly spectacle but looked forward to one last stretch in the bed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If so, she might have enjoyed the spectacle, given their bitter history of envy and hatred. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the spectacle began with a thunderclap—the beating of a gavel and the call of the sergeant at arms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t collapse or make a spectacle of myself; I spoke with reporters, signed the forms, made the decisions. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Bull, and he still thinks that Ace and Sammy chowed down on your vomit. He said that he had never seen such a spectacle performed by officers and gentlemen in his entire life.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the sun had been shining, it would have been a spectacle, like something Prospero might conjure up. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And yet the spectacle of desolation I had just left prepared me in a measure for a tale of misery. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They passed a room with a huge piano and another with a dining table, each sight a spectacle, before turning and heading up a set of stairs that made Ophie’s thighs ache. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The second myth is that in its appetite for death as spectacle the Triple Alliance was fundamentally different from Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘That fellow downstairs is a spectacle, all right, and a circus too. But I’m through putting up with him.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There would be a certain amount of spectacle involved in the proceedings, I imagine. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Making a spectacle of yourself,” as if there’s something wrong in the mere act of being looked at. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

An audience digesting war as spectacle may have a very different idea of the correct ethos for an eve-of-battle speech than the men at the sharp end. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It always made a spectacle special when the Emperor attended, but the people were delighted beyond measure to see that he had brought the Lady Aurelia with him this time. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No matter how poorly you perform, they will still choose one of you, for the spectacle alone.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We would have been the grand Negro spectacle that Big Ma had scolded us against becoming when we were back in Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two workers on my roof, right over the bunker in the attic, and a little crowd of neighbors in the yard, watching the spectacle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a bloody, brain-splattered mess of a killing, a spectacle that sickened and frightened Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The deep-swimming fish covered their mouths with their fins and laughed sideways at the spectacle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spectacle of two young women giving breast to their babies made her blush and turn away her face. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging by one pa\\^ he swung back and forth, admiring the spectacle below him: the smells of the food, the sound of the music, and the light, the light, the light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

This funny spectacle appeared to amuse the sun, for he burst out with such radiance that Jo woke up and roused her sisters by a hearty laugh at Amy’s ornament. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leave me now. Tend to your own preparations. You will have your spectacle. And I...I will work in darkness.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was gone Observant, my body rigid; and Dr. 09-01 had his arm about me, and was with great effort trying to turn me away, though my gaze remained locked upon the awful spectacle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Killing demigods is one thing. But using leopards for your spectacle? That’s over the line.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There is no point in making a spectacle of yourself, Janine, said Aunt Lydia. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And one could only be left to sit back and witness this spectacle, waiting to see if anything brilliant or cathartic would come about. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

All along the benches men put down their cups and spoons to turn and gape at the grisly spectacle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The spectacle that the twins had invented when they became aware that they were equal was repeated in honor of the new arrival. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The SS men who were watching were greatly amused by the spectacle. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Water Gap is not only the nearest thing to spectacle in eastern Pennsylvania but also the only usable breach in the Appalachians in the area of the Poconos. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur’s were of the pitiful spectacle— the show of an earthly, sinful man, but the best of them, plodding along behind these three supernatural virgins; his doomed, courageous, vain toil. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you need inspiration! The stage hasn’t been properly set. You call this a spectacle, Ephialtes? Let me show you how it’s done.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I grew anxious thinking about witnessing the spectacle of a man being electrocuted, burned to death in front of me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dad listened to the radio with a drink in his hand and watched what I now know was a pitiful spectacle. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people in the crowd cheered at the spectacle, but Mr. Derby did not seem to be amused. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

People all over the yards leaned over fences, witnessing the spectacle. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian’s heart pounded with fright and horror at the pitiful, ominous, gory spectacle of the broken corpse. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The worker watched the spectacle with great interest. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't much in terms of a spectacle. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was just concerned about me being made into a spectacle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She went on scolding, “Delphine. What do you mean running through the airport, knocking down a white man, causing a grand Negro spectacle for all the world to see?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

London is an absolute spectacle, crowds cramming the streets outside Buckingham Palace and all through the city, draped in Union Jacks and waving tiny flags over their heads. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The spectacle of his suffering does not make me compassionate, but ruthless. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took in the spectacle: thousands and thousands of pounds of metal, a squad of commandos, bulletproof everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For a second I considered stiffing him, but seriously, I didn’t want to be involved in some humiliating fat-guy-staggering-across-a-slushy-parking-lot chase scene, didn’t want to have to explain that spectacle to Faith. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You may have ruined my spectacle, but Gaea will still destroy your world!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And as distasteful as all this spectacle was, it still made his adrenaline flow. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up in heaven one spring morning as he idly watched the earth, Zeus suddenly saw a charming spectacle. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns away to escort the chief back to his patrol car, no doubt apologizing for the public spectacle I’ve caused. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“An awful spectacle,” opined The New York Times, a “sacrifice to the whims and theories” of a “coterie of cranks and politicians.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark poked his head out to watch the continuation of the spectacle. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She nattered on about the spectacle whilst assembling the tea things for Madam and Lady Seymour, who had come again to call. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the pride Americans had felt in the Big Science that had won World War II was draining away at the spectacle of multimillion-dollar rockets exploding in flight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

His expression suggested that the spectacle before him, the emerald grass, the white wooden bleachers, the school in the distance with its blue slate roof and ivy, pleased him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The royal entourage was always a gorgeous spectacle, but that wasn’t what stopped Lazlo’s feet as abruptly as though his soul had flown on ahead of his body and left it stranded. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s funeral procession was the saddest, most profoundly moving spectacle ever staged in the history of the United States. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He roused his companions to view the awesome spectacle. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Not that he had any intention of using it today—it was merely a part of the spectacle. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She would chain herself with other ladies to the gates of Congress and the Supreme Court, setting off a degrading spectacle that made all their husbands look ridiculous. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cell phones surreptitiously removed from pockets to film the spectacle. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t pick me just for the spectacle. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sight and sound of water became a torment; Fitzsimmons habitually avoided areas of the barn where horses were being washed because the spectacle of flowing water was agonizing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talk about a grand Negro, well, a grand black spectacle. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would these young men, who are targets of a brutal drug war declared against them, put on a show—a spectacle—that romanticizes and glorifies their criminalization? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Woolf felt the spectacle was worth the price of new paint and a furious agent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who carried out the lynchings made certain that, whenever possible, they were a public spectacle. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he watched the tower the whole time during his luncheon, waiting for the amusing spectacle of me jumping to my death. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I feel it’s a spectacle, even though no one’s watching. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t disappointed: not only did the Dodgers win, but he was treated to a spectacle courtesy of Jackie Robinson. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Emma and I slipped in among them and huddled in a corner, eyes glued to the unfolding spectacle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So did Dorothy Fowler, who fumed to a visitor one day, “This community doesn’t want academic excellence. It wants a gladiatorial spectacle on a Friday night.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spectacle of the Transvice dissolving a person like a cloud of smoke caught in the wind wasn’t even what weighed on his thoughts the heaviest. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One hundred thirty-five million people, an audience of unprecedented size, tuned in to watch the spectacle as it unfolded on live television. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For me the most amusing spectacle was a drunken woman stumbling and urinating, the dampness seeping down her stockinged legs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the spectacle for a while, then decided that the whippings were going too slow, so he had guards set up long tables and lined us up in rows, four across. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to look at these things, but as I stepped farther into the room my attention was diverted by the grand spectacle on the bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At most, it would have created a more entertaining spectacle and saved Bing, Lin, and Jimmy Smith from the humiliation of seeing their horse routed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching that spectacle, I couldn’t help but laugh. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The little man was there: a soggy spectacle on a pale and spattered horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Villagers turned from the spectacle of the dung heap to see little Jeanne, carried like a willful calf in the arms of the weasel-faced knight. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Weren’t they thrilled by the spectacle before them? Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The organizers of the parade understood that such a spectacle might provoke an air raid or attack on New York City, so extra precautions were taken. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He did not wish to bear the spectacle of a trial that would put him on public display for the amusement of the press and curiosity seekers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talk about a grand Negro, well, a grand black spectacle. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard not to wonder what Jeremy Lam, an activist who criticized a white teenager on Twitter for wearing a cheongsam to prom last year, would have made of the spectacle. Dressing Up With Alexander Wang, and Replacing Kanye West at Philipp Plein 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

On Monday the classic show “Let’s Make a Deal,” on CBS, broadcast its 1,001st episode, turning the occasion into a rather amusing spectacle. ‘Labor Games’ Is a Brilliantly Absurd TV Game Show 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

In this sort of picture, the madness spectacle comes at the end, having been prefigured, usually, by hallucinations of steadily increasing intensity. Movies: ?A Dangerous Method? and Mental Illness in Movies 2011-11-27T04:53:01Z

Delightful as the spectacle is, however, it's not a work in which Bausch's imagination feels fully focused, or fired. Tanztheater Wuppertal: Wiesenland – review 2012-07-09T17:59:00Z

At a time when our military adventures are increasingly morally incoherent, football feeds us the spectacle of simulated combat. The NFL is morally reprehensible: As players walk away from brutality, fans must do the same 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

The abject spectacle that Eowyn is making of herself in this scene, and the slap that Aragorn is giving her, caused my very toes to crawl away with embarrassment. How small can things be and still exist? 2012-11-07T16:15:02Z

The experience, she added, “is closer to peering at a collage hanging in a gallery than watching a cinematic spectacle.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Yourself and Yours’ and ‘Circumstantial Pleasures’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

It was a baffling way to draw the bold, confused and exhausting spectacle to a close. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The battle-scarred surface lends its weight, too, and reinforces the artist's penchant for a theater of spectacle. New and unimproved: the spectacle of Julian Schnabel 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

A spectacle of philanthropy, pomp and power that wound through the National Building Museum every fall. The fabulous CharityWorks galas raised millions for good causes over the years. Then something changed. 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Most of its characters are verifiably real figures — including famous and half-forgotten directors, screenwriters, stars and studio bosses — but they are embedded in a spectacle that shimmers with knowing artificiality. ‘Mank’ Review: A Rosebud by Any Other Name 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

If they got beyond the spectacle of my tears, students discovered that raw, genuine emotion has its place in the classroom because it cracks us wide open, creating a space for deeper intimacy with ideas. The tears of men: a crusade to have the sight of male crying be accepted, once and for all 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Yet this is spectacle with a brain, subtly placing scenes above and behind others to emphasize the ship’s punishing hierarchies and deceptions. Critic’s Notebook: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Has the Gay Closet as Its Subtext 2012-07-03T21:36:04Z

The “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner” was a night of political-themed spectacle tailored for people whose understanding of politics and Beltway culture is informed primarily by television. “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner”: Samantha Bee comes out stinging in a funny, freewheeling live special 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

Stunned and sickened, he walked amid the corpses and skeletal survivors, compulsively shooting film, duty bound to capture on camera a spectacle beyond belief. Books of The Times: Mark Harris’s ‘Five Came Back’ Covers Auteurs in Combat 2014-03-02T23:09:53Z

And the reader is given the satisfying spectacle of duty being done, of hard work turning into heroism, of justice resuscitated. Books of The Times: ‘An Officer and a Spy’ Is Robert Harris’s Latest Novel 2014-02-03T22:23:02Z

Sometimes the spectacle of talented people doing the things that interest them in front of an engaged, appreciative audience is a theme in itself. Music Review: Philip Glass at Issue Project Room 2012-06-14T21:26:50Z

For those who enjoy the comforts of a sofa, “In the Heights” can bring a taste of Broadway-scale spectacle to your living room. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Great Performances’ and ‘In the Heights’ 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

On a mezzanine overlooking the spectacle, a few busloads of second graders, a wine columnist and his daughter looked on, transfixed. Does your county recycle wine bottles? The answer might surprise you. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

At the end of the day, I don't want audiences engaging with this film as spectacle; it's suspense. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

He’s all unedited impulse, and watching him try to control his peacetime temper evokes the irresistibly awful spectacle of a tantrum-prone tennis star losing it on the court. Review: An Electrifying ‘Coriolanus,’ Addicted to War 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

This manipulation included the spectacle of reporters standing in deserted city centres insisting that life was going on as normal. Spanish government accused of purging critics from national radio and TV 2012-08-05T14:09:28Z

Audience members stand or sit around the outside edges, some oddly smiling as the disturbingly cruel spectacle unfolds. Review: Mike Bartlett waves red flag with 'Bull' 2013-05-03T01:53:08Z

With its emphasis on spectacle and action, it set the template for future Robin Hoods flicks. Robin Hood's appeal tested again at Cannes 2010-05-12T01:41:00Z

For all the theatricality of the performance and the artifice of the spectacle, Pavlova has the rare quality of cinematic aliveness and immediacy that leaps out of its context and its story to appear ever-modern. A Great Ballerina’s Explosive Movie Performance 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

As a virtuoso guitarist, an expansive composer and, above all, an inveterate searcher, he knows how to bring human scale and feeling to the most outsize sort of spectacle. Music Review: Pat Metheny at the Blue Note - Review 2011-10-14T23:15:27Z

The mishap made for great television: a spectacle mingling triumph, embarrassment, disappointment, humiliation, fear and elation—an entire spectrum of human emotion unspooling within the space of about three minutes. It’s time to call foul on the cruelty of beauty pageants: Trump may not own the Miss Universe pageant anymore, but his dehumanizing worldview permeates all beauty pageants 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

At the Grammys in February she gave the most shocking performance, part exorcism and part Broadway spectacle. Nicki Minaj Is the Influential Leader of Hip-Hop 2012-04-01T02:43:03Z

The spectacle was impressive, the noise was all consuming, and I remember looking at all the fascinated children and parents excited and intoxicated by it all. The end of Ringling Bros.: What the Greatest Show on Earth meant to a man raised in the circus 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

The spectacle was reminiscent of the animated moon and spoon featured at Studio 54 decades before. A Club for Aerialists and Clowns Moves to Manhattan 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, the plot-forward strategy necessitated by TV makes the series smart fun from the start, managing impressive spectacle even if it doesn’t have the visual firepower of the most epic Thrones episodes. Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Brings the Old-Time Magic 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

They do more, that’s to say, than merely feed into the spectacle of art and society. Review | The acclaimed, exasperating sculptures of Rachel Harrison get a star turn at the Whitney Museum 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The spectacle inspired me to embark on my own act of daring. Living Like a Local in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

It’s a dark, grimy spectacle of moral chaos. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

This also means that picket lines will turn into more of a spectacle than they already were. Look to the Logan Roys to understand who's causing the Hollywood "double strike" 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

None of the cardinals dignify the question with a response, but with this scene Mr. Moretti, with characteristic efficiency, makes his own quiet statement about the connections among religion, spectacle and the media. Movie Review: Michel Piccoli in Nanni Moretti?s ?We Have a Pope? 2012-04-05T23:37:56Z

On Twitter, I watched the queasy corporate spectacle of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco light up with a video of clapping hands. In Praise of Quarantine Clapping 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

For the moment, all paradoxes were subsumed in the spectacle. Music Review: Waters Points ‘The Wall’ Toward Abuse of Power 2012-07-07T13:03:25Z

What interests Mr. Gold is the intimate spectacle of two disastrously different, equally great minds in collision. Review: Jealousy and Lies in a No-Exit Theater of War in ‘Othello’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Willy Russell's Our Day Out at the Royal Court in Liverpool is clearly a winner, and Dr Faustus at the Royal Exchange in Manchester is quite a spectacle. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-09-17T16:05:00Z

In its native land, this natural spectacle induces its own ritual of leaf viewing, momijigari. Why the Japanese maple is a must-have for any foliage-loving gardener 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The New York Times’s Glenn Thrush called the 11-minute spectacle “one of the most exquisitely awkward public events I’ve ever seen.” The pandemic was hard on office suck-ups. Now they’re back and ready to schmooze. 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

Under the marketing whiz Steven Warshaw, the games were transformed into spectacle, including bears on skates and exotic dancers, until oligarchs and the Russian mob got involved. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero’ and a Timely Documentary 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

For some reason, that old-fashioned spectacle translated for Lord G as “a new couple in a new world,” but all I could see, Abbots, was the past dragging behind them like tin cans. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 8: Lady Mary, That Skinny You-Know-What 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

The “Life of Pi” trailer features almost otherworldly visuals of animals, fish and starlit skies, but for Mr. Lee the key was to balance the spectacle with “the delicate moments.” ‘Life of Pi’ Is New Ang Lee Film, Based on Yann Martel Tale 2012-09-09T03:43:02Z

In a post-“Game of Thrones” world, every programmer’s dream is finding the next big spectacle series — and in the age of Covid, a new binge-worthy show is worth its weight in mystical swords. How the Creators of ‘Cursed’ Conjured a Fresh Take on King Arthur 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Considering the tepid reviews of Love Never Dies, and Sheila Hancock's observation that many hold "an incredibly grand attitude" toward musicals, he asks if it's about the cost, the overblown spectacle or the audiences. Blood, sweat and tears can still produce great musicals | Response 2010-03-30T23:05:00Z

Our cultural reverence for athletes is only one kind of spectacle. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z

There lies the spectacle of people just like us doing things that today seem scary and alien, like smoking, drinking old-fashioneds at lunch, letting children play with dry-cleaner bags. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z

On the streets themselves: in the flashmobs and demos that disrupt the spectacle of everyday life; and in community-inspired events that transform familiar landscapes. Spirit of the underground: theatre 2011-01-30T23:00:00Z

The result is spectacle without substance: lots of pretty lighting and sound, and moments to make you go wow. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ? review 2011-08-21T17:32:01Z

"We wanted Fry's for several reasons: obviously, the spectacle that Fry's is ... It's iconic, and that intrigued Jordan." "Nope" and the Fry's Electronics UFO sighting that almost wasn't 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

Back in 2002 he delivered a blistering sermon on “the sad spectacle of those who no longer know how to lie and contradict themselves to hold onto their privileges, their rapaciousness, and their ill-earned wealth.” Pope Francis, no friend to the 1 percent: The pontiff continues to champion the “discarded” 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Might this be a movie that manages to marry blockbuster spectacle with 1970s sci-fi intrigue, like a Solaris meets Independence Day hybrid? Oblivion trailer adds to the intrigue 2013-01-25T11:11:03Z

The row follows the broadcasting of the audition rounds – the annual stomach-squirming spectacle where genuine talent shines through while the hopeless are encouraged to embarrass themselves before a baying live audience. Fans suspect X Factor of enhancing singers' pitch with Auto-Tune 2010-08-22T20:11:00Z

How could these showbiz veterans be so flat-footed when it comes to figuring out how to create a satisfying three-hour spectacle? Perspective | Without editing and cinematography, there’s no movies. So how can you have an Oscars telecast without them? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

This ballet has another purpose beyond dazzling the viewer with a showy, triumphant spectacle to announce the series’ return. Smart Watch: Emmy winner “Mrs. Maisel” is still marvelous in a dazzling season 2 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Broadly speaking, the music was subordinate to the spectacle, even by the forgiving standard of an arena tour, and even though Ms. Perry seemed to be doing an impressive amount of live singing. Katy Perry at Madison Square Garden 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Kurt Weill’s sweeping, rarely seen spectacle of Jewish history, “The Eternal Road,” gets a new lease on life in concert on Wednesday and Thursday at Carnegie Hall as “The Road of Promise.” ‘The Eternal Road’ by Kurt Weill, Revisited at Carnegie Hall 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

“People were not paying attention to who he is; they were too busy watching the spectacle. But now people are saying, ‘Wait a minute. A Sci-fi Writer Inspired by the Plight of Irish Immigrants 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

In four years, Mr. Joseph and Mr. Dun have figured out how to build an arena spectacle that convinces audiences the detonator lies in their hands. Review: For Twenty One Pilots, Time to Shine on a Stage of Dreams 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

There's a fine line between part of good television in a way that leads to more opportunities, and forcing television spectacle in a way that will likely land you in divorce court, or jail. "The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans" recap: Fun on demand 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

For most of the 1970s, Mr. Stigwood had a golden touch in music, theater and film, recognizing early on the cross-promotional power of pop music and theatrical spectacle. Robert Stigwood, Entrepreneur of Rock and Film, Is Dead at 81 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

This kind of spectacle turns out to be more durable than the number’s comedy. Review | The new musical ‘Blackbeard’ swashbuckles into rough waters 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

Pop quiz, hot shot: Why is “Speed” a fantastic, rip-roaring summer spectacle? Four Movies About Summer to Stream Now 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Engineers determined the structure, which for more than five decades hosted a spectacle billed as "The Wildest Show Behind Bars," was no longer safe. Workers tear down famed home of Texas prison rodeo 2012-01-11T22:55:12Z

Cameron, fairly or not, is likely to be dogged by the slogan “hug a hoodie” and by the spectacle of his notional “big society” shrunk by austerity and dented by anarchy. Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z

The trial, which takes place in a secure courtroom known as The Bunker in Amsterdam, is expected to last until next summer, and is a national spectacle. The Book Everyone in the Netherlands Is Talking About Is Finally Coming to the U.S. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The tale of Orpheus, whose song softens the hearts of the haughtiest deities, morphed into the spectacle of the famously demanding La Scala patrons, sitting in judgment on operatic superstars. Past and Present, the Orpheus Myth Makes Us Rethink Music 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Passers-by stopped to gawk at the silent spectacle. Storefronts Turned Stages for ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Its story is the behind-the-scenes story of movie-making, the gory emotions behind the glorious spectacle. These So-Called Bad Movies Prove the Urgency of Film Criticism 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

I like it when it’s more artistic — when it’s more about the fantasy and spectacle of the red carpet rather than being in the moment in terms of trends. How Margaret Cho revives “Fashion Police”: Performing fashion snark as “a woman of color, as a queer woman, as someone who is plus-sized and very proud of my fat” 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

This movie packs in plenty of cinema acrobatics and spectacle without ever feeling out of control, even as it morphs into a far-fetched whodunit. ‘Knife + Heart’ Review: Gay Porn and Murder in ’70s Paris 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Of course, he is a consummate entertainer, with a Spielberg-like sense of how to please the crowd, orchestrate the spectacle and set the tone just right. JJ Abrams’ Hollywood takeover: will he save or kill cinema? 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

But perhaps the biggest play is by Amazon, which on Friday launches the kind of summer sci-fi spectacle usually only playing theaters in “The Tomorrow War.” New this week: ‘No Sudden Move’ and ‘The Tomorrow War’ 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Driving them out is an explosive spectacle of little images and drugs radiating from a small circle like the eye of God. Art Review: Picturing a Mind-Blowing World Made of Drugs 2010-10-07T21:19:00Z

Air travel, which forces passengers to behave in strict and regimented ways, to pass through tubes and gates and sit in preordained seats, was turned into a spectacle of choice, freedom and flow. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

“And, of course, the festivity and the spectacle is always a lot of fun, but the core of it, what we’re showing this year, is that it still exists — here.” No Vulcan? No problem. Seattle-area galleries put together their own decentralized art fair 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The effect of spectacle is visceral, not intellectual — it’s a thrill. Notes on political theater: The perils of spectacle 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Some of the more serious moments of the night — “Because The Night,” “The Rising,” “She’s the One” — were so bombastic that they felt more like spectacle than song. Springsteen’s subversive joy: On the Bruce concert as antidote to nihilism and American self-destruction 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

That man, of course, is Vin Diesel, who is back in the realm of over-the-top spectacle in the first trailer for XXX: Return of Xander Cage. Vin Diesel Is Back in 'XXX: Return of Xander Cage' Trailer 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The spectacle is riveting: The gargantuan toys, executed in scary detail, do particular tribute to the Paris Opera’s design workshops. Review: ‘Iolanta’ and ‘The Nutcracker,’ Reunited Naturalistically at the Paris Opera 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

A spectacle both romantic and smart, it unfolds in a grand series of Technicolor ballroom dreams. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at David H. Koch Theater 2012-02-11T00:40:27Z

Making a rare appearance on screen Sunday is Cecil B. DeMille's wonderfully kitschy spectacle. Cecil B. DeMille's 'Cleopatra' still alluring at 80 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

The screen in front of you is full of spectacle, laughs and wonderful skills. Living in a television time warp 2011-01-03T07:00:01Z

And I think a lot of people in the country were watching a spectacle that they have never seen before. Trevor Noah talks to Salon about worrying less about Trump’s spelling and more about democracy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of a commercial enterprise so immodestly celebrating itself is off-putting and intellectually discomfiting. Last Chance: The Pace Years: When One Gallery Is Not Enough 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

So she rents three dilapidated billboards to advertise her discontent and this spectacle has an explosive effect. Golden Globes 2018: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

And then at the same time the film really works as a beautiful costume spectacle, which is what we needed for here. Beijing film festival: Marco Mueller back where his love of film began 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

This is the Linda that the world didn’t see and who, even as her body became a public spectacle, nursed her wounds in private. Movie Review: ‘Lovelace,’ About the Star of ‘Deep Throat’ 2013-08-08T22:39:00Z

But the movie is not just spectacle; it's got a tender, ultimately tragic love story and enough deadly political scheming to fill a Gaddafi playbook. 'Detective Dee': A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami 2011-09-01T05:10:00Z

And how taken together they create a grand, unified spectacle, a kind of totalitarian dream that must be dreamed by everyone at the same time and from which no one can wake up. In praise of boredom, at the movies and in life 2011-06-08T01:01:00Z

Nelson Pressley: Philip, you’re close to where I was when this appeared in the 1980s with its huge scale and spectacle. A musical whose time has gone: Three Post critics take on ‘Phantom’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

The spectacle unfolding in Europe and the Middle East right now isn’t something anomalous. What might Aeschylus say about the European refugee crisis? 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

In the late ’70s, she chased her ambition to incorporate rock spectacle into her music to Los Angeles and released an album, “TNT,” that was mistaken as a cold shoulder to the country world. Tanya Tucker Would Rather Be Celebrated While She’s Alive 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Above all, the spectacle of racial injustice in his homeland spurred him to write. Peter Abrahams, a South African Who Wrote of Apartheid and Identity, Dies at 97 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

His music meant so much to so many because it presented “a spectacle of not-belonging.” Books of The Times: David Bowie, the Cool Chameleon From Mars 2011-07-21T22:10:17Z

The Zero Theorem is a spectacle that demands to be cherished — as long as the society Gilliam portrays is a satire, not a prophesy. Postcards from Venice, Previews of Toronto 2013-09-06T15:46:17Z

London, in the author's estimation, was already in 1913 the "core of global finance", though not yet a city of conspicuous emotional spectacle. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-04-28T07:00:01Z

Stories about high school work best when they are borderline outrageous, when there is spectacle and broken hearts and love scenes backed by swelling music. Small screen queens: how teen angst took over the TV scene 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

"You can do spectacle on Broadway with no book," she said, "and have a very successful show." Troubled 'Spider-Man' is beaten but unbowed 2011-01-24T03:57:33Z

Landscape becomes spectacle, a painted drama of snowy peaks beneath flashing white lights and angry black clouds, the fields below interrupted by rocky outcroppings and dense brambles of vegetation. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

She is a purist who has never worried about challenging audiences with difficult music and grueling physical repetition, and she is an entertainer who has thrilled with spectacle, rhythm, color and light. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the Passionate Formalist 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Elizabeth King’s sculptures, stop-motion animations, and photographs might, in this context, similarly appear bent on spectacle. Berkshire Tour: Formalism Relaxes, Handcraft Goes Digital 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Their effort gave the spectacle noise and momentum. Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” Reviewed 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

While the sport’s biggest stage, that of World Wrestling Entertainment, is often puerile and retrograde in its presentation, even that entertainment powerhouse is capable of staging moments of transcendent spectacle. Donald Trump, professional wrestler: How the billionaire body-slammed GOP politics using a very peculiar playbook 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Wrapped around all three walls of the atrium, it was an early sign of the space’s potential for spectacle. Hold That Obit; MoMA?s Not Dead 2010-12-30T16:49:20Z

The premise underlying this documentary, directed by Beth Elise Hawk, is that all cultures can unite over the spectacle of mouthwatering food on camera. ‘Breaking Bread’ Review: Peace Meals 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

It’s either/or, and the public spectacle of locking horns.” If GMOs aren’t the problem with our food system, then what is? 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

Part of the tour's aim is to show off the behind-the-scenes skill that went into creating the spectacle. Harry Potter studio to open for public tour 2011-10-13T10:36:09Z

The critic Jon Caramanica, writing in the Times, recently argued that pop music—which he defines as songs that strive for “gloss, pep, ecstasy, spectacle”—has faded as a dominant cultural force. Taylor Swift’s Netflix Special Is the End of an Era 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

This spectacle, like the music’s ghostly dispatches from a fading history, spoke for itself. Planned Before War, a Festival Embraces New Ukrainian Music 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

I'm hoping to create an original live experience … This piece isn't aiming to be all about spectacle or abstraction though there is good helping of both in the production. Karen O reveals new 'psycho opera' details 2011-08-26T10:59:19Z

“Zero to Hero” — “possibly the most fabulous musical theater number known to humanity,” Ms. deBessonet declared — will still be a spectacle. How Do You Stage Disney’s ‘Hercules’? Invite Everyone 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Employees of color can feel as if they’re being made into a spectacle — expected to “teach” white people and serve as “an instrument for others’ self-improvement.” ‘The End of Bias’ Says There’s Hope for Meaningful Change 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

The spectacle is dramatic, comic and tragic at the same time. Fight of the condor: Peru bull fiestas threaten future of rare Andean bird 2013-01-29T14:54:28Z

About midway through the second episode even the tension-swelling strings stop working their charm as the entire spectacle become straitjacketed by unintentional parody. "Ratched" gilds pop culture's most famous nurse into something unrecognizable and barely watchable 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

Newman commented, "Yes, and a more disgusting spectacle I cannot recall." ‘Saturday Night Live’: Alec Baldwin and Larry David Contribute to an Awkward Episode 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

The show house attracts top design talents to produce a decor spectacle nothing short of marvelous. Inside Design’s Biggest Night of the Year 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The correct movie was announced minutes later after a brief but stunning spectacle of confusion and shock. Too Much Politics Led to the Oscars Mistake, Trump Says 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Sure, it was meant as a paean to all halftime shows, or a platonic ideal of celebrity spectacle that exists only in the viewer’s imagination. Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show Transcended Expectations 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Even in a pandemic, the 21st annual Latin Grammys didn’t stint on spectacle. The Latin Grammys, Still Over the Top in the Shadow of the Pandemic 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Crowds are encouraged to gather for the spectacle, and though they buzz with nervous excitement, in the ensuing chapters a spirit of heaviness and dissatisfaction emerges. Debut Novels by Jesse McCarthy, Gabriel Krauze and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

But the movie industry has never forgotten the appeal of pure spectacle, although it's harder now to charge for only a few seconds of it. "Jackass 3D": The ultimate action spectacle 2010-10-15T18:50:00Z

Those six-plus minutes at the C.M.A.s, though, were a more captivating political spectacle. Beyoncé’s True Political Statement This Week? It Wasn’t at a Clinton Rally 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

This sort of spectacle — dress her up, dress her down, smack her around and wait for payback — isn’t new, even if moviemakers like to insist otherwise. Review: Dressed to Kill, ‘Atomic Blonde’ Also Shoots to Kill 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

“I lived in India, and there’s an Indian word called tamasha,” he said, which translates to “spectacle.” Book on Gandhi Stirs Passion in India 2011-03-31T22:00:02Z

The production, a blend of contemporary dance and Broadway spectacle, became an international sensation and, a quarter century later, was one of the last seen on New York City Center’s stage before Covid-19 arrived. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

According to reviews, "Five Armies" is a flawed but fitting finale to the "Hobbit" trilogy, sharing many of its predecessors' faults but also wrapping things up with some rousing spectacle. 'Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' a flawed finale, reviews say 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Saturday saw its first full-fledged commercial spectacle in China. Chinese fans bowled over by U.S. professional wrestling 2012-08-12T09:33:41Z

The theology is invoked not to elicit meditations on mercy, justice or sacrifice, but to buttress a spectacle of power. Review: ‘Batman v Superman,’ Dawn of a Franchise 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

“The Infinite Hotel” ends with the mawkish spectacle of a dead father holding his daughter. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

At first, this bigness seems off-kilter, even distracting, perhaps because immensity in movies tends to serve visual spectacle. Review: Sully Landed the Plane. Then He Had to Endure the Spotlight. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

In that series, Arnold captured the rarely seen “staff only” side of a public spectacle, a point of view that became her trademark. Who was Eve Arnold? The woman behind some iconic photographs 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Even if you're not sure about seeing field guns taken apart and re-assembled or watching horseback skills, arms handling and marching bands, this is a stunning spectacle. This week's new events 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

Bowie was the rare artist who inspired not just adulation but imitation, a desire to inhabit and inhale the glittering spectacle he presented on album covers, in music videos and onstage. See TIME's Cover Commemorating the life of David Bowie 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The burro cart as tourist spectacle, she reported, started in the 1930s: How the zonkey got its stripes: Long before Instagram, Tijuana's tourist donkeys were camera-ready 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Behind the spectacle, though, I couldn't help detecting a geopolitical subtext. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-12T13:42:39Z

For those who enjoy a good fashion spectacle, the showman Jeremy Scott lived up to expectations. A Face in the Crowd: Jared Leto at Jeremy Scott 2014-02-13T01:43:53Z

A few people pulled out their cell phones to record the spectacle in front of them. Stromae in New York 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

A video artist and photographer capable of creating unforgettable imagery about religious overreach, Neshat produced a visual spectacle in which ancient Egyptian priests became unbending imams. Why do music festivals matter? For an answer, America, look to Salzburg 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

Shots are held for minutes at a time, as Mr. Costa observes the human spectacle unfolding before him. DVDs: On DVD, Pedro Costa?s ?Letters From Fontainhas? 2010-03-24T22:24:00Z

In those cities, the staging was a full one, by Robert Carsen, that turned the opera into a fashion-show spectacle of materialism and rejection. Giving a Semi-Hearty Cheer for Semi-Staged Opera 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

That’s the real wink-wink of “Will”: the curtain drops to show us the man, then goes back up again to present another spectacle. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

His spectacle and its meticulous design are something to see, but his direction doesn’t shape the elements stylistically—it doesn’t provide anything to look at. The Pre-Fab “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Certainly, he knows his way around a spectacle. This season is your last chance to see Joffrey Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ a 28-year tradition 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

For some people the appeal of the Oscars is the spectacle. The Carpetbagger: It?s Back to the Studio, as Oscar Season Ends 2011-03-02T23:27:13Z

Even the grand spectacle of the Olympics opening ceremony is subject to the overwhelming power of modern communications. Tino Sehgal has created a you-had-to-be-there moment at Tate Modern 2012-07-24T12:56:01Z

The over-the-top spectacle of this party can also, however, stand in for a few of the bummers about “The Forgiven.” Books of The Times: ‘The Forgiven,’ by Lawrence Osborne 2012-09-25T21:17:10Z

Cole says Major wasn't paid anything, and she declined to cooperate because she did not want a court spectacle. Domestic violence charge dropped against Lohan dad 2011-07-06T00:33:09Z

This was the Kanye M.O. for more than a decade: By pairing smash hits and unscripted spectacle, the artist often got away with messy moments thanks to the clarity of his creative vision. Can Kanye West Find Refuge, or Money, in Music? 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

But to my surprise and relief the new “On the Town,” having decided that it’s a big, brassy spectacle worthy of Vegas, is a lot of fun on its own terms. An “On the Town” for Our Time 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

If you’re guiltily thinking that there might be some inherent comedy in the spectacle of a blind man changing a light bulb, you needn’t worry. “Planet of Snail”: An unforgettable love story 2012-07-26T00:01:00Z

It certainly isn't the show itself – a hollow spectacle of noise and light that you could quite easily replicate by bingeing on Haribo and then rabbit-punching a gong. The wonder of Wagner 2010-10-18T12:58:00Z

You want to create moments that people remember, some sort of comedic spectacle; the thing that makes people go, 'You have to see this movie!' Paul Feig: Hollywood's accidental feminist 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z

Cormac McCarthy’s subject in his new novel is as big as it gets: the end of the civilized world, the dying of life on the planet and the spectacle of it all. Review: ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Though the years immediately following Prince reverted to far less rebellious legacy-rock acts, it’s hard to imagine the contemporary Super Bowl halftime spectacle—for all its delights and in all its excesses—without Prince’s virtuosity. How Prince Transformed the Super Bowl Halftime Show 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

They also wanted the reality of Russia’s invasion shown onscreen — something with the potential to strike a downbeat tone for the traditionally campy, showy spectacle. How Liverpool Put on a Song Contest for Ukraine 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

"Appropriate" is more conventional in its dramaturgy, yet the author finds opportunities to startle us just as we're settling back to enjoy the familiar spectacle of flamboyant family dysfunction. 'Appropriate' unearths ugly family dynamics in epic dramatic fashion 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

There’s no preparing for the visual spectacle of Kauai’s north shore, with its mountains practically dripping green and beaches aglow with barely trodden golden sand. 36 Hours in Kauai, Hawaii 2013-12-05T17:25:08Z

Like the Groundhog Day spectacle of votes for a House speaker this week, the performance gave the sense of hearing the same concerto again and again. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

It seems a colorful event, dense and teeming with people, yet rigidly choreographed, like theatrical spectacle. Artists helped make the Mexican revolution an international phenomenon 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Broadway musicals in the 1980s and early '90s often seemed to have one of these high-budget spectacle moments: the helicopter in "Miss Saigon," the boat in "Big River." Farewell to “The Phantom of the Opera,” which welcomed outcasts 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

It's quite comic, the spectacle of one's own creeping dissolution. John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z

But Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who was making his first trip to the Biennale, saw the spectacle differently. Old Patina Encircles Fresh Art in Venice 2011-06-05T21:15:27Z

Today, the murali is the world's most popular Indian instrument and a global spectacle. Rating "Bridgerton" on its South Asian authenticity, from its hair oiling to the haldi ceremony 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

The 69-year-old director has never lost his infant wonder at the spectacle of giant images in a darkened movie palace. Hugo: Scorsese's Magnificent Dream Machine 2011-11-22T20:39:54Z

This is a movie that's tailor-made for groups of friends to get together and giggle and ogle at the spectacle of it all. Review: Substance, sex appeal mix in `Magic Mike' 2012-06-26T19:37:15Z

But this is being packaged as a cultural event, something more about influence, spectacle and spin. Should the country spend £55m to commemorate the first world war? 2013-05-25T16:45:01Z

This amusement park, rather than offering distracting spectacle or terrifying adventure, is focused on the simple, human give-and-take between artists and their audience. Eccentric French 'Dragons' exhibits commendable humility 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Officials said those attending the spectacle would have to wear masks and show proof of vaccination. Revelers await return to NYC’s Times Square to usher in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

It's been around for years but, as studios now struggle to find a way to offer audiences a spectacle that can't be replicated by downloads or illegal streams, it's currently enjoying a quiet renaissance. Why Imax is still the way forward for cinema 2010-10-14T21:45:00Z

Plenty of musicians refused to be a part of this spectacle, publicly and privately — but among those who did show up, their intent wasn’t totally clear. The incoherent music of Trumpism 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Part of what makes the New York Film Festival distinct is that, while there are red carpets and standing ovations, the Upper West Side gathering has always put sober reflection above spectacle. A blurred movie year comes into focus at New York Film Fest 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Moral tales sugared with spectacle like anything Disney? Review: ‘The Lightning Thief,’ a Far Cry From Olympus 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

There is experimentation across the streaming industry in licensing strategies, spectacle television, pricing models and beyond. Ads are coming to Netflix soon – here’s what we can expect and what it means for streaming 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

In that tradition—and, in fact, in the vast majority of films—the music is expected to dissolve seamlessly into the over-all spectacle. Mica Levi’s Anti-Musical Soundtracks 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The daring balloon-powered escape is a moment of blissful spectacle on the steps of the old town hall. The Great Escape ? review 2010-12-02T22:01:00Z

At its final presentation on Sunday, this experimental opera played like a cross between a gallery art show and a black-box theater spectacle. Review: ‘The Force of Things,’ an Indirectly Audible Opera 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

In other words, Bannon is as reflexively attuned to the spectacle as the substance of the “major war” that he and his boss are girding themselves to wage. You can learn a lot about Steve Bannon by watching the films he made 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

As entertaining as it is predictable, “Creed III” does exactly what you expect, delivering nicely balanced helpings of intimacy and spectacle, grit and glamour. ‘Creed III’ Review: A Franchise Finds New Fertile Ground 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Its muddled dramaturgy baffled critics, and it developed a reputation as a neon-lit spectacle of little substance. The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

The Salon Project The Pit, Until April 14Box office: 0845 120 7511 And we must, because in the Pit theatre, magically transformed into a white, mirrored space, we are the main spectacle. The Salon Project – review 2013-04-05T16:44:45Z

Illustration: Tristram Kenton This is an archetypal Cheek By Jowl production: spare, disciplined, purged of gore and gratuitous spectacle. Macbeth | Theatre review 2010-03-25T21:30:00Z

Something about the spectacle of the ceremony—Noni being handed off from father to husband like a doll at a yard sale—struck me as patronizing, outdated, and terrifying. The Bride in Her Head 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Taking in the entire spectacle is like following a sloppy brainstorming session through to its illogical conclusion. Review: ‘Drama’ Contains Many Things. But Drama Isn’t One. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s a spectacle and an entertainment, not to mention a chance to sell some clothes. London Men’s Wear: Burberry, McQueen and Others Puncture the Fashion Bubble 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mostly, “Judy” offers the familiar spectacle of one star playing another. ‘Judy’ Review: The Singer (Disaster, Legend) at Rainbow’s End 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

When Slappy reveals an ability to grant life to other inanimate objects, Wardenclyffe’s electrical towers and department store costume sections become the source of supernatural spectacle. Review: ‘Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween’ Is Toothless Terror 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The spectacle — settings, hardware, etc., much of it computer animated into the picture — are stunning. 3D doesn't improve 'Star Wars: Phantom Menace' 2012-02-10T19:52:03Z

Cuero would host Turkey Trots, off and on, for decades until the early 1970s, each one a spectacle in itself. Once upon a time, your Thanksgiving turkey took a very long walk to get to your table 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Not long after our afternoon arrival we went to the beach just a few steps beyond the thatched-roof bar to take in the nightly spectacle. Frugal Summer: Highs and Lows 2010-09-16T02:13:00Z

But, especially with the move to Madison Square Garden, the audience isn’t there for refined theater so much as for a holiday spectacle. Theater Review: ‘A Christmas Story,’ at Theater at Madison Square Garden 2013-12-15T22:32:32Z

To compare, “Black Widow,” the recent Marvel spectacle, collected roughly $60 million over its first three days of availability on Disney+ Premium Access. Sunken ‘Jungle Cruise’ Sales Reflect Hollywood’s Delta Variant Troubles 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z

The result is a spectacle that conveys the thrill of the Enlightenment as well as the delirium of revolution. Aux armes, historiens! 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Jennifer Miller plays ringmistress of their latest free spectacle, in which seven performers try to save the city from “the pit of big box capitalism” while a five-member band plays on. Theater Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

There, she's introduced to such joys as hard-rock music on an iPod, the exotic spectacle of Mardi Gras and a burgeoning attraction to a nice young man who returns her interest. Review: 'Last Exorcism' lacks genuine scares 2013-03-02T04:24:09Z

Anxiety Wrapped in Gleaming Pop and Lamé Kevin Barnes, the of indie rock, didn’t stint on polymorphous spectacle when his band, Of Montreal, began its two-night stand at Terminal 5 on Friday night. Music Review: Anxiety Wrapped in Gleaming Pop and Lam? 2010-09-19T22:31:00Z

That’s nearly the whole of the spectacle, and it’s more than enough. Choice Tables: How to Eat Well in Athens 2011-01-14T19:55:00Z

And the spectacle doesn’t stop with the Richardsons and Warrens. In a Quiet Ohio Town, Who Started the Fire, and Why? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

The incident quickly mushroomed into a televised spectacle and became a turning point in hostage negotiating; more than anything, it exhumes an instructive, bleakly relevant chapter in the city’s long racially fractious history. An Eerie, Thrilling Trip to the Toronto International Film Festival 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

What Wallace wanted to see occurred only as spectacle. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The result is a fine balance of textural spectacle and elegant dancing. Review | Ballet West’s historic, sumptuous ‘Nutcracker’ delights at the Kennedy Center 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Still, the spectacle of a boom-time project by one of the world’s most celebrated designers razed by a controlled implosion is sure to spark talk about the state of architecture today. The New Season: Architecture?s Future, Retrenched 2011-09-18T04:00:09Z

As a publicity spectacle, this couldn't be going better if MTV had masterminded it. That uproar over 'Skins': A blessing for the show 2011-01-22T01:01:09Z

Along with a theatrically kinetic style and a voice that reaches the last row, he understands rock-show spectacle. Kevin Hart Is a Comedian Built for the Big Stage (and Screen) 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

He added: “There is a part of me that wants Le Périgord to stay in its peculiar time warp. The spectacle is simply too delicious.” Georges Briguet, Who Presided Over Le Périgord, Dies at 85 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Musical invention meets visual spectacle in "VIVIDA: A Choral Synthesis of Sight and Sound," two unusual concerts presented by the Esoterics this weekend. The visuals will inspire the music in the Esoterics' concerts at the Sculpture Park 2010-10-07T20:49:00Z

And no art form is better suited to momentous spectacle than opera. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z

He concluded his tweet with: “Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.” Neil deGrasse Tyson apologizes for weekend tweet about death 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

“Now I’ve seen everything,” an anonymous New Yorker remarks, marveling at the spectacle unfolding more than a hundred stories above street level. Review: ‘The Walk,’ High-Wire Bravado at World Trade Center 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

"He walks that line of delivering you a spectacle but not talking down to you." And the Oscar goes to ... Batman? Could happen 2012-07-11T16:58:11Z

But "Green Lantern" likely has the colorful spectacle to distract audiences at least until the red, white and blue of "Captain America" swoops in into theaters next month. 'Green Lantern': Ryan Reynolds lights the way through brisk, vapid narrative 2011-06-16T17:32:04Z

The Eurovision Song Contest, a television spectacle, has been held annually overseas since before the British Invasion. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Atlanta’ and the Academy Awards 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

O. Scott, a film critic for The Times, in an essay noting that Oscar season shares this time of the year with a “less-heralded seasonal ritual: the spectacle of great actors appearing in bad movies.” ArtsBeat: Arts & Leisure Preview: Good Actors in Bad Movies, 'The Book of Mormon' and More 2011-02-18T20:57:58Z

“It almost had the feeling of a recital. And without the glitter and spectacle he’s known for, you could appreciate the songs for their fine lyrics and engaging arrangements.” From the archives: A look back at Elton John’s very energetic Seattle-area concerts 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

As for spectacle, the Bellagio’s Las Vegas fountains outdo nature, at least in this case. A Shrine That It Seems to Tame Old Faithful 2010-08-30T17:28:00Z

In the midst of the film’s expensively produced spectacle, the gradual loss of a will to live—a subjective experience by nature—resists being rendered on screen. What Disaster Films Miss About Death 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

This was a work, after all, that transliterated a 19th-century French opera depicting the supposedly lusty, homicidal nature of Gypsies into a 20th-century spectacle depicting the supposedly lusty, homicidal nature of black people. Review: Bad Girl Makes Good in a Glorious ‘Carmen Jones’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Anything captured on film was part of the spectacle; anyone was potentially worth watching. J.F.K. at Dawn’s Early Light of Reality TV 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Staged with fried enoki and aromatic coconut rice, the spectacle is a Thai thriller. Pineapple and Pearls review: Dining so fine, we’re seeing 4 stars from the start 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Although elephants are an unconventional choice for a pet in today's day and age, Hanno was revered as a spectacle and became a symbol of grandeur. 5 Popes who formed a holy bond with their animal companions, from cats and dogs to even an elephant 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

The spectacle of Flora’s gross but vital humanity in abject terror before its extinction cannot fail to move. | 'The Milk Train Doesn?t Stop Here Anymore': Reaper Arrives? Grab a Kimono 2011-01-31T03:01:00Z

There's really only one reason to tune in to the Billboard Music Awards: the spectacle. Billboard Music Awards: Michael Jackson thrills in hologram 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

In an age of ballooning pop spectacle, here was an act of spectacular compression, one that served both to illuminate the songs and to interrogate their premise. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

This isn’t history, it’s spectacle, and it engulfs us, makes us a part of it, animating our emotions as if we were there, again, watching it all unfold. The 9/11 Memorial Museum doesn’t just display artifacts, it ritualizes grief on a loop

But the hallucinatory, out-of-body experience, the sonorous drumming, the vivid colors and dreamlike actions that Mr. Holder conjures make for a compelling spectacle that isn’t the usual one seen on Ailey stages today. Dance Review: Voodoo, Vivid Colors and Strange Visions 2010-12-08T23:56:00Z

Working overtime to make an entertaining spectacle out of the Texas energy company’s world-rattling implosion in the early 21st century, “Enron” digs deep into the vaudevillian’s trunk. | 'Enron': At the Broadhurst Theater, Revisiting a Scandal 2010-04-28T02:26:00Z

From now on, I’m saying no to this sorry spectacle. Motherlode Blog: Giving Up the Guilty Pleasure of 'Toddlers & Tiaras' 2011-10-21T20:18:29Z

A frenetic spectacle complete with rainbows, construction workers, Questlove, a possum, the awarding of Lego oscars, and Will Arnett in a Batman suit, it was exactly the injection of energy the tepid telecast needed. “Everything is Awesome” injected some much needed energy into the Oscars telecast 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

It was no modest entrance: Carsen greeted the piece’s messiness with a spectacle of smoothly shifting registers of sincerity and sarcasm. Robert Carsen Is Opera’s Most Reliably Excellent Director 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

And in keeping with the Grammys’ focus on flashy live spectacle, the show included 21 performances, often in special or unusual combinations. Grammys Laud Giants and Upstarts 2014-01-27T05:22:19Z

As people become more and more engaged with theatrical spectacle, life came to seem more like something that passes before the eyes, something we watch but never quite engage with. Phillips Collection’s Neo-Impressionism exhibit captures movement’s escapist mood

Still, when Mr. Talen and Savitri D traveled there for the show’s opening in August, they were not prepared for the spectacle. Reverend Billy?s Revelation: A Role for Money 2010-10-08T22:42:00Z

By this, I gathered he meant it’s a sham that this financially troubled country could ill afford — a big spectacle, not unlike the exorbitant, overdesigned arenas and “villages” built for the modern Olympic Games. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

It is a grim spectacle, not unlike a former convict’s checking in with a parole officer. Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z

The style combined aspects of ethnic dance, spectacle, ballet, a new genre called “music visualization” and more. In the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Archives, a Magical Past and Present Unite 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

A soulful send-off for a group that, too often, was overshadowed by unnecessary spectacle. Pogues, MacGowan bid a gruff, stomping farewell 2011-03-04T14:46:29Z

It would make a more interesting spectacle – but, of course, they'd slam the door in the archbishop's face. I'd rather see Rowan Williams meet the Phelps family 2011-04-06T13:59:00Z

I saw the London Olympics opening ceremony late, on Pacific Time—my colleague Catherine Mayer reviews it elsewhere at time.com—but it was a spectacle and a hoot, in the best sense of both words. NBC’s Unkind Olympic Cut 2012-07-28T16:00:53Z

Live, “Absinthe” is a touring version of the politically incorrect, gymnastically impressive spectacle by the production company Spiegelworld playing at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for close to six years. 'Absinthe' in L.A.: Like Cirque du Soleil on Red Bull and vodka 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

The flying flowers on the planet Uriel are sublime, the spectacle of Ms. Witherspoon transformed into an airborne cabbage less so. Review: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Gives a Child of the Universe Powerful Friends 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Eifman is unwavering in his belief in dance as theater and spectacle and not shy about expressing his disdain of most prevailing contemporary approaches to choreography. Boris Eifman on creating 'a new type of theater' in ballet 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Like Amanda Levete's timber wave in 2011, it will be a striking object – but could such expensive sculptures not do more than provide a brief diversion, purely framing design as spectacle? What's the point of architecture and design festivals? 2013-06-21T16:59:00Z

The first things you see in the restrained spectacle of this show are four lavish bouquets in substantial vases on pedestals. 10 Galleries to Visit in Chelsea 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

“For me as a kid, it was all spectacle,” he said, looking out over Place de l’Opéra, where an Act Up die-in once took place. He Wanted to Give Massages, but the Movies Called Him Back 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

And there are concessions to Percy's learning problems, but too often the spectacle overshadows the drama. 2010-02-12T01:20:00Z

Cooper, whose hits with his band include School's Out and Poison, said that before they came onto the scene in the 1970s "there was no spectacle in rock 'n' roll". Hall of Fame honour for Diamond 2010-12-15T09:34:03Z

I recorded the trajectory from punk as a creative cultural upheaval to punk as a tabloid spectacle. Anarchy in the UK: punk's early years 2013-04-27T18:00:01Z

There’s something addictive about “Hamilton,” and that’s partly a result of spending three hours fully concentrated on sound and spectacle, straining to get every word, alongside hundreds of other people doing exactly the same thing. Perspective | Art by heart: ‘Hamilton’ is opera for our time 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

If the spectacle is the point, then here are a few bits of amateur advice for the spectacle-designers. A few fixes for the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The choice was made as part of an overhaul of the preshow spectacle, which, for the first time, was managed by members of the Met Gala’s creative team. ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Is Big Winner at the Oscars 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Hearing this piece is as awesome an experience as watching some life-changing natural spectacle. A guide to Iannis Xenakis's music 2013-04-23T16:57:59Z

As my mother and I were taking an evening walk down an alleyway in our neighborhood, several cawing crows drew our attention up toward a fabulous spectacle of reds and greens in the sky. Long aftermath of a mass shooting: Remembering my father, killed in 1991 at the University of Iowa 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Movie studios release less and less films each year, usually centered on spectacle. Small screen queens: how teen angst took over the TV scene 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

And when you make a film, filmmakers often focus on the spectacle, not realizing that the spectacle has to be elided. How Stephen Sondheim’s Work Did (and Didn’t) Translate to the Screen 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

It made for a vivid spectacle, but I was watching the chicken. Review: ‘They Are Gone’ Is Kathryn Hamilton’s Play About Protest and Apathy 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

Producers of feature films and TV commercials will set up at key locations to capture what they hope will be unique scenes using the natural spectacle of Monday's total solar eclipse. Lights, camera, corona: Hollywood embraces the eclipse 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

So there's something always very superficial about spectacle in a commodified culture. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

But look at what Boyle has accomplished in the spectacle: a reverence for our past, an acknowlegment of our flaws as a nation, and our embrace of the future. Reader reviews: your take on Much Ado about Nothing and Danny Boyle's Olympic ceremony 2012-08-03T17:33:40Z

But the most graceless of all might be the ones based on a spectacle of racial catharsis, in which a white penitent is guided by a black person through a process of self-reflection and self-reproach. Bill Maher’s Weird, Effortful Apology for Saying the N-Word 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Ammaniti does well with the spectacle of children enacting adulthood amid decorative squalor, and this is the strongest section, along with the early scenes in the forest. Review: In ‘Anna,’ the End of Adults, but Not the World 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

Theater critics disputed that: We know spectacle when we see it. Notes on political theater: The perils of spectacle 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

But then the girl then did what most of her peers would have done in that situation: She pulled out her phone to record it, watching the whole spectacle through a six-inch screen.   Katy Perry shows all sides of her 'Prism' at Honda Center 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

And Boston Ballet is staging a new spectacle: a pas de deux inspired by traditional Chinese ribbon dancing. As ‘Nutcracker’ Returns, Companies Rethink Depictions of Asians 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

As Rick and Tate have their acting adventures, Charles Manson’s acolytes are camped out at Spahn Ranch, an old Western-town TV-and-movie set, readying themselves to perform their own lasting and unforgettable spectacle. The Brutal Logic of Stardom in “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood” 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

For young Trump supporters, there was no shame in putting on a grand spectacle. Young people flocked to the White House last night — to take pictures of themselves 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Then he became a spectacle himself when he left his wife of 50 years for another woman. Mario Vargas Llosa on Love, Spectacle and Becoming a Legend 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

That was a veiled reference to his 2010 exhibition in New York: an overwhelming spectacle of painting, photography and sculpture that related, as usual, to the legacy of Nazi Germany. | The Dinosaur in Anselm Kiefer 2013-05-03T22:13:05Z

And once this realisation is established, it's an entertaining spectacle, topped off by a rousing Dionysian finale. Cannes 2013: Venus in Fur - first look review 2013-05-25T10:04:14Z

At every turn there is another spectacle, another illusion, another coup d'éclat and, of course, there is light at the end of every tunnel. Light Show – review 2013-02-03T00:05:16Z

Besides highlighting the spectacle of a healthy, attractive young girl’s determination to starve herself, the storylines usually focused on the family dysfunction that psychologists believed lay at the heart of the disorder. Anorexia: you don’t just grow out of it | Carrie Arnold 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Momix is spectacle, and for me, the main barrier blocking enjoyment of it is aural. Dance Review: Momix Performs at the Joyce Theater 2013-12-19T23:36:22Z

The answer isn’t that @GaryXXXFisher — as the author and pseudo-autobiographical main character of “Black Exhibition” are called — is hiding a messy, heartfelt, intensely personal spectacle from too much scrutiny. Review: In ‘Black Exhibition,’ a Playwright Exposed 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Console yourself over winter’s impending darkness with the spectacle of the Northern Lights, best viewed during those long nights. Tour and Festival News: Northern Lights and Miami Yoga 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

The war had visited upon America an unimaginable spectacle of death and grief. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The clients, who paid well for their teams of expert pruners, would observe them at work as a form of timeless cultural spectacle. Perspective | A gardener went to Japan to polish her pruning skills. She found tough love. 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

It’s also a dramatically static piece, familiar without being especially beloved, so the more spectacle you shovel onto it, the better, and audiences are not likely to mind much. Review | With spectacular squib of ‘Samson,’ Met Opera grasps at new start 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of these great throngs of outraged, unbowed mourners reclaiming their public spaces was heartening. The Life-Giving Defiance of the Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

“The Nazi Games” also explains just how much contemporary Olympic spectacle has its roots in these specific games. What to Watch This Week: Films New to Netflix and ‘Gilmore Girls’ 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

This is a comment more on the state of Broadway than on American playwriting, which is flourishing in quarters far from the madding crowd of tourists and empty spectacle junkies. Tony Awards 2014: A few rays of sunshine in a mostly cloudy Broadway season 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

At one time, “Game of Thrones” trafficked in surprise and spectacle. Fans used to love ‘Game of Thrones.’ Now they just love criticizing it. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

The 2016 song, presented at first as a component part of an hourlong visual spectacle directed in a grandly cinematic manner, is not lyrically more sophisticated. Beyoncé's Lemonade on HBO: A Familiar Message, But a Crystal-Clear Future 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

In fact, looking back at photographs of Times Square in the heyday of neon, the spectacle seems tame, banal, laughably wholesome. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z

It’s great when a performing institution known for in-your-face spectacle still remembers the power of imagination and how to make a lot out of a little. At Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Alegría’ at Marymoor Park, less is more 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Few pleasures could equal the spectacle of this masterly musician playing all six of Bach’s suites for solo cello in a space where the composer worked, St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, Germany. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Alan Bleasdale's fine two-part doesn't want for spectacle but prefers to imagine the human stories that may have lain at the centre of the event. Tonight's TV highlights: The Sinking Of The?Laconia 2011-01-06T00:05:01Z

This isn’t Victor Hugo’s Paris anymore, but a stylized world that mingles 1960s chic, music hall and grand spectacle. Roland Petit: A French Choreographer, Most Savored in France 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Democrats were clearly enjoying the spectacle of Republicans trying to justify opposition to a tax cut. House GOP leaders yield on payroll tax 2011-12-23T02:49:00Z

Were they drawn to it simply as lecture hall spectacle? Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z

What, a viewer wondered, was this sorry spectacle supposed to prove? Perspective | The Michael Cohen hearing wasn’t a hearing at all. It was cheap theatrics. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

It's almost like the abusive aspects of the relationship become a spectacle and gimmick — exactly the way the Depp and Heard trial snowballed into a vicious media circus. The year's worst Halloween couple costume, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, indicates a disturbing trend 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z

As is watching the spectacle: the operas total 16 hours, with Friday night’s installment clocking in at 5. The Week Ahead: Sept. 9 — 15 2012-09-09T07:00:07Z

The new music project, “Planetarium,” was a solar system-themed spectacle, a cycle of songs dedicated to the monuments of space: the planets, the sun, the moon. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly on making space music for a hard time on Earth 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

But accusing him of promoting empty spectacle is gross oversimplification. El Sistema founder, Gustavo Dudamel are targets of scathing new book 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

My co-watchers seem to share my feelings and nonetheless enjoy the spectacle. The Bachelorette Finale Is Terrifying If You Know Nothing About the Show 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

In Happy Valley, a man has been convicted of committing terrible crimes — and a great many more men stand accused of enabling his misdeeds, all for the sake of the spectacle. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z

It bids to be the city’s next architectural spectacle. Natural History Museum’s Expansion: Part Dr. Seuss, Part Jurassic Park 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Which brings us to Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s final program for June and — except for the “Cirque de la Symphonie” spectacle next month — the current season. Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z

Keith is by no means likable; it’s his moments of despair, brought on by cringe-worthy setbacks, that make a raw spectacle. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling’ and ‘The Terror’ 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

If Mr. Diaz’s breathless, pumped-up language incarnates the self-charging rhythms, hyperbole and surface spectacle of the world it portrays, so does nearly every aspect of Mr. Torres’s production. Theater Review: Kristoffer Diaz?s Body Slam to the American Dream 2010-05-21T03:52:00Z

If there is such a thing as a cozy dystopia, that’s what “Zoo” is: an Animal Planet spectacle for people who don’t like reality television but who aren’t in the mood for anything too surreal. Review: ‘Zoo’ Is a James Patterson Novel Brought to TV 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

The pulse of the music, and the pitch of the spectacle, hold to a trustworthy standard, and the programming can seem like a fait accompli. | Pop: Microcultures on the Island 2013-08-23T17:55:05Z

And you may find yourself sitting back and grinning at this noisy spectacle of so many people having so much to say with so much passion and eloquence that you can’t follow a single one. | 'The Intelligent Homosexual?s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures': Debating Dialectics and Dad?s Suicide Plan 2011-05-06T13:00:05Z

The Mariinsky’s “Le Corsaire” is a bright spectacle, from the billowing waves and driving rain that engulf the stage at the beginning to the lavish sets draped in gold, red and other brilliant colors. An 18-year-old new ballet star salvages an outmoded tale of pirates, slaves and stereotypes 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

But the abiding memory will be of bloodsoaked bodies arising from banquet bowls, and canvas apertures suggesting that we are gradually retreating to a Victorian theatre of spectacle. Macbeth 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z

There will be a spectacle to it, but we don’t want people coming in and expecting the movie.” ArtsBeat: Nail Down the Seats ? 'The Exorcist' Is Coming to the Stage 2011-05-12T20:49:26Z

The same could often be said for his recordings, even without the spectacle of a live concert. Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

With his splendidly expressive, delightfully scrunchable face, he makes Jim a human spectacle of awkwardness and alarm yet also imbues the character with intelligence and warmth. Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship 2014-04-13T21:06:55Z

That night the spectacle of Pigalle made it easy to imagine the scenes of decadence and freedom Baldwin described when reminiscing about his trips to the area. James Baldwin’s Paris 2014-01-17T21:44:03Z

The tune "Sticky Situation," for instance, mushrooms into the spectacle of a half-dozen boys getting their mouths soaped by moms. Review: 'A Christmas Story' on stage will please fans of the movie 2010-12-10T22:43:00Z

It is about what he called: “The age-old spectacle of the witch-hunt of a minority group, security paranoia, secret military tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, governmental cover-ups, and a rabid press.” ArtsBeat: Polanski's Next Movie Is of a Man Persecuted, a k a the Dreyfus Affair 2012-05-09T19:37:44Z

C-SPAN had decided to broadcast the spectacle for the first time and got way more than it bargained for. The golden age of the White House correspondents’ dinner (yes, there was one) 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

The network that was once CNN Headline News became Caylee Headline News, capturing the trial's sad spectacle and inflaming the bloodlust. The Avenger 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z

It's still a simplistic action-heavy spectacle that isn't shy about showing its heroic protagonist use any means necessary to protect the downtrodden with nowhere else to turn. A Queen becomes "The Equalizer": What it means when Black women take on legacy superhero roles 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

The history of lynching in the United States is in part a history of public spectacle, in which the mutilation and murder of Black men brought out white crowds to stare, cheer and take photographs. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

But there’s no one here like Capote to guide you through the murk and no one who gives the spectacle of human struggle its spark, as the baseball savant Billy Beane does in “Moneyball.” Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in ‘Foxcatcher’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Not a classic Fall gig, but a very enjoyable one, ending with the rare spectacle of musicians and audience grinning from ear to ear. The Fall – review 2013-05-10T17:01:21Z

Still, the artificially-created spectacle effectively eclipses the human input; perhaps a Will Smith or two would have kept mankind's end up. Pacific Rim – review 2013-07-08T07:00:12Z

And this means I am no good to TV or radio or the foundations of a pub brawl as I am just not certain enough to create a spectacle. If you want my opinion, what we need are experts, not windbags 2013-02-24T00:05:40Z

Despite all the jokes, the whole spectacle sometimes felt as terrible and exhausting as a dysfunctional family gathering -- replete with emotional baggage and hurt feelings. The Year in Sanity: Jimmy Kimmel 2010-10-12T21:13:00Z

We also go for the pleasure of spectacle and the satisfaction in the accomplishments of craft. Critic?s Notebook: Hiding Up in Telluride, Silver Mined on Screens 2011-09-05T22:03:11Z

But a word of caution if you decide to partake in the spectacle: Protect your eyes. `Chasing Venus' is thrilling adventure story 2012-04-30T15:55:44Z

Now, as part of a series of exhibitions and events for the anniversary, the public can witness this extraordinary spectacle again next year. Steam train back on tube track for 150-year anniversary celebrations 2012-12-16T19:00:03Z

The spectacle is structured as a hero’s journey, the narrative archetype popularized by mythologist Joseph Campbell in which a protagonist ventures into unknown territory to bring back boons for civilization. 'The 14th Factory' art exhibition, despite all the hype, is an $18 ticket to spectacle 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

But Madonna’s spectacle doesn’t confine itself to clubland; its aspirations go further. In Newest Spectacle, Madonna Morphs but Refuses to Give In 2012-08-29T10:57:00Z

Contemporary dramaturgy is committed to the ahistoric piety that only the singing and drama matter, that scenic design and spectacle are merely excrescences of the melodramatic mind-set. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

There’s no shortage of rural white folks as spectacle; a battalion of doomsday-prepping Honey Boo Boos on television have thoroughly mined the conceit that anyone with a regional American accent exists for viewers’ entertainment. Everyone is reading books trying to explain Trump voters 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

There is a long shot of his sick wife, who has outgrown her usefulness and knows it, being carted off to die elsewhere — that way, the duke doesn’t have to suffer the spectacle. Cloying Royals Scheme for Greater Glory 2010-05-19T13:38:00Z

Another voter called it “truly an all-around spectacle of storytelling and presentation.” Tonys Magic Likely for Harry Potter and ‘Band’s Visit’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

These images have the power to remove the fetus from the realm of a pregnant woman’s visceral experience and expose it as a public visual spectacle. The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Pop is about spectacle, exhibition, fandom, he explains; “it isn’t about the music.” Review: Kurt Cobain’s ‘Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings’ 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

He remains convinced that the anticipation of a major big-screen spectacle is proof that cinema – like live music or sports – can be a unique experience. 'We stick to the rules': why cinemas in Sweden have stayed open during the pandemic 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Then again, as the Hollywood veterans knowingly observe, there is a certain kinship between the spectacle they’re putting on and the really big show the Iranian revolutionaries have staged. Movie Review: ‘Argo,’ Directed by Ben Affleck 2012-10-11T17:05:05Z

I think it was probably part of the spectacle of pretending to do something about it. Russell Brand: methadone is a bad way to treat heroin addicts 2012-08-11T23:06:16Z

This hourlong spectacle, broadcast live on Samaa TV on Jan. 17, set off a furious reaction in parts of Pakistan. For Many in Pakistan, a Television Show Goes Too Far 2012-01-27T02:19:30Z

They have also taken the opportunity to somewhat revise what “Spanish Colonial Art” means by, overall, downplaying gilt, ornamentation and spectacle in favor of complex cultural narratives and subtler visual drama. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Even better than a Hollywood superstar was the spectacle of Prince, who came onstage in huge insectile sunglasses, with a crown of hair and wielding a slick-looking cane. Tina and Amy’s Last Golden Globes 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

"Punk was a cyclone of very toxic energy, despite its creativity and colour, and still emanates a very bad energy – as summed up by the ugly spectacle of McLaren's funeral," points out critic Michael Bracewell. Malcolm McLaren's widow fears Met will get punk fashion show all wrong 2013-02-16T14:13:15Z

Lying flat on his back in the dining area, he pointed up at the all-glass ceiling and, above it, the rich spectacle of storm clouds racing one another across the summer sky. Blue Horizon 2010-08-01T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of “Mr. Klein” is that of the absurd rendered ordinary, of the senseless depicted as normal. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

That’s the rub of trailer editing, of course: whether the film itself will successfully find feeling in its uncanny-valley spectacle very much remains to be seen, though it’s off to a bewildering, even creepy, start. Litter-ally terrifying: is Cats the creepiest film of the year? 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

And, unfortunately, the "Thatcherism in action" principal that Jack cites – of spectacle over content with the potential to "make loads of money from long runs and franchises" – has exacerbated this problem. Blood, sweat and tears can still produce great musicals | Response 2010-03-30T23:05:00Z

The modern orchestra concert is not entirely unrelated to the spectacle of a Civil War reënactment. The Berlin Philharmonic Searches for a Messiah 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The spectacle was humiliating for Wilde and possibly her two children, who may have to endure ridicule about the incident in school. A look at the bizarre legal documents incident between ex-couple Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

A tightly contained drama, it simplified what had been the operatic convention of extravagance, carefully integrating dance and diminishing spectacle. Joffrey Ballet dazzles in L.A. Opera's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

The movie never quite seems to balance its aspirations as a work of art, a gripping action spectacle and a somber teaching vehicle. The 10 Most Disappointing Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Amid the metropolitan spectacle of an international music festival, it’s strange that this culminating event, one of the Corporation’s most prominent, is perhaps its most parochial. The Sound of Brexit at the BBC Proms 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Public opinion is changing, and even the revelry of “stoning day” — a self-explanatory spectacle designed to expose witches — is being questioned. ‘Judy & Punch’ Review: On With the Horror Show 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

But there was no denying it was a riotous spectacle — and something you probably wouldn’t experience in New York. Frugal Traveler: In Europe, a Few Coins for a Wealth of Culture 2013-06-21T18:25:25Z

Fire dancers and other performers add human spectacle to the fanfare, taking place Jan. 15 to 19. In Telluride, Fire as Art 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

It made industry-wide practice of the kind of video delay that would have spared us the whole spectacle. Nipplegate at 10: A Flash — and a Flash in the Pan 2014-01-30T19:48:50Z

But the ensuing media coverage on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election victory in 1979 turned the event into a spectacle of an altogether different kind: a political caricature of excessive public spending. Musicians and artists rally to save Glasgow's modern stone circle 2013-01-18T08:00:00Z

“The Detour,” which begins Monday night on TBS, is a comedy for people who find one particular spectacle funny: parents talking and behaving inappropriately in front of their young children. Review: Jason Jones Offers Clues to Bad Parenting on the Road in ‘The Detour’ 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

The seaside town is unnamed, but it appears to be shot in Hastings, making full use of that town's eerie Graham Greeneneian spectacle: the charred pier that was torched by arsonists in 2010. Byzantium – review 2013-05-30T14:31:01Z

“It’s not just about bravado and spectacle,” he clarified. ‘Not Understanding Is Really Satisfying’: A Director Keeps You Thinking 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

There was more attention to spectacle in the protest style of feminist groups like the Rosies, who draw their name from Norman Rockwell’s feminist icon Rosie the Riveter. For France’s Protesters, the Streets Are the Ultimate Stage 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

But this is simply philosophical window dressing to Scott's shimmering presentation of spectacle. From "Gladiator" to "Nope": How Jordan Peele maps our decline into spectacular denial 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

Transformers 4 promises to be a gormless spectacle of relentless destruction. Transformers 4: why I can't wait for Wahlberg 2012-11-14T14:59:48Z

Rather, “poetry happens when we are shaken out of our psychic, linguistic, phenomenological, and indeed even physiological compliance with the spectacle and its myriad illusory modes of reification.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

As a work of art, “Manifesto” may conform too much to the current taste for art as public, big-budget spectacle, but it is carefully wrought, thought provoking, elucidating and, for the most part, quite enjoyable. 12 Faces of Cate Blanchett: A Chameleon in the Armory 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

There’s really no bright side to discern from this week’s bizarre, unprecedented spectacle involving Sony Pictures and “The Interview,” a Seth Rogen-James Franco satire about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony, ‘The Interview’ and the unspoken truth that all movies are political 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

After almost two hours, it seemed there was little spectacle left, and the only hit left to play was “Patointeligencja.” A Polish Rapper Goes From Scandal to Superstar 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Die Hard wanted the spectacle without the job sharing. How Die Hard set the stage for 25 years of action films 2013-07-19T14:00:59Z

It’s true, especially in fiction films, that when you are dealing with genocide and mass crimes, there are zones that are dangerous, where there is a risk of verging on spectacle. The Carpetbagger: Rithy Panh on ‘The Missing Picture’ and Living With Tragedy 2013-12-13T14:20:31Z

It played like a pro-wrestling spectacle: Mr. Cruz’s preening heel turn, the hooting crowd, Mr. Trump’s surprise appearance just as the boos crescendoed. A Donald Trump Speech Whose Sunny Spots Came Mostly From the Stage Lights 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

But as a spectacle – Yorke and Flea facing off against each other, each dancing to their own arrhythmia, Refosco playing washboards and something that looks like a Christmas tree of tambourines – they're just exhilarating. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-27T23:05:19Z

The three-acre Heather Garden at Fort Tryon Park is a spectacle of shrubs, perennials and bulbs along with heathers and heaths that bring echoes of the Scottish Highlands to the Hudson. Review | Dig into these gorgeous books for gardening inspiration 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

And what better way to approach an extravaganza than with a beautiful spectacle of one’s own? Panic! at the Disco’s Flourishes Weren’t Just Dramatic. They Were Theater. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

This was a completely integrated production, with spectacle working in tandem with story. 'Pippin' brings big-top wonders to Hollywood Pantages 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Instead, the spectacle of a deadly, dead-end game is overwhelming. Review | There will be blood in the STC’s gross-out ‘Richard the Third’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Out go the opera's pantomimic spectacle, big processions and trios of boys and ladies. Peter Brook: and for my next trick ? 2011-03-16T21:31:01Z

Stromae, who is 29, plays big theaters in Europe, and he brought some of his spectacle — video clips, costume changes, dance moves — to Friday’s concert. Stromae Is a Voice Out of Belgium 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Yet you can never be sure what this $100-million spectacle is trying to be, or exactly whom it’s for. Review: The New Ben-Hur Is Mildly Exciting At Best 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Stone's Coachella performance was a "sad spectacle", according to the LA Weekly. Sly Stone sued for Coachella rant 2010-08-11T09:40:00Z

He was referring to the drink-infused spectacle that can overtake the place far into the morning. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Ruschmeyer’s in Montauk, N.Y. 2012-08-22T18:30:02Z

And no, the journalists who traveled to Detroit to gawk and philosophize at the spectacle are not exempt from that judgment. Critic?s Notebook: Belligerent and Boozy, and That?s Just the Audience 2011-04-03T20:27:46Z

A culminating masque, ­accompanied by singer Nancy ­Anderson, reaffirms McSweeny’s sophisticated sense of spectacle. Ethan McSweeny’s “Tempest” casts a bright, uplifting spell 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

There's a fine line between part of good television in a way that leads to more opportunities, and forcing television spectacle in a way that will likely land you in divorce court, or jail. "The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans" recap: Fun on demand 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Maybe the combination of liberal duty and built-in spectacle will keep people watching, but I find myself waiting for something surprising to happen. I Am Cait panel review - five trans writers give their verdict 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

That was, more or less, the spectacle that greeted the audience in a program by the Mutter Virtuosi, a small string orchestra led by the eminent violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Anne-Sophie Mutter and Her Protégées at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Since then, new music, dialogue and bloody spectacle have been added to the show, and it was supposed to have had its New York premiere in February at Second Stage. Producers Have Big Plans for ‘American Psycho’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

It is quite a spectacle: 16 feet wide, with circling beasts plastered and piled with glinting handfuls of the artist’s favorite glittering tiny plastic beads. All the Pretty Horses! A Carousel at Art Basel 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Portentously titled “Next Year in Jerusalem,” the Gagosian exhibition is effective middlebrow art as catharsis, spectacle with a message. Art Review: A Spectacle With a Message 2010-11-19T06:45:00Z

Showmen exhibited her throughout Europe, where, in an embarrassing and dehumanizing spectacle, she was forced to sing and dance before crowds of white onlookers. Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

It's like watching fate in action; it's like being fate – because what is fate, if not an audience to the spectacle of human self-destructiveness? Calling on the audience to live the dream 2010-08-21T06:00:00Z

"We have to use our imagination. A spectacle can be made, an unmistakable statement outside the war psychology which is leading nowhere. Such statement would be heard around the world with relief." Black lives, white eyes: what's different this time is we're locked down and can't excuse it away 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Innovations including double-decker floats helped create a spectacle that draws massive crowds every year. Blaine Kern Sr., New Orleans’ ‘Mr. Mardi Gras,’ dies at 93 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Costumes and uniforms are a form of spectacle that attract attention. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

Inside, in the waning hours of the two-day spectacle, another lonely man holding the O’Rourke sign has taken up his post, with a hopeful look on his face. Biden’s spin doctors, Beto’s flop, a sea of sweat: The madness after the Miami debates. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

The festival’s centerpiece this year, the boisterous spectacle “Monkey: Journey to the West,” is a notable departure. Theater Review: ‘Monkey’ Is a Break From Usual Lincoln Center Festival Fare 2013-07-10T02:01:08Z

The tented stage was smaller and lacked the changing sets of the Opera House, but what it lost in spectacle it gained in pace and cohesion. Noisy jets, secret performers and rooftop dancers: Inside the making of an unprecedented Kennedy Center Honors 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

Even so, in his review for The New York Times, Mike Hale wrote that “‘Seven Worlds’ is full of the usual beauty and spectacle.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Seven Worlds, One Planet’ and ‘Little America’ 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

“We want to get as close to the bone as possible, to get to the idea of performance rather than any idea of spectacle,” he said. The Shed Opens With a Purpose. And a Party. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Mostly, I object to how it slobbers over its female lovers, turning them into the kind of exploitative spectacle that has long defined the representation of women and limited their role in the art. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

They may not be entirely off the mark judging by the extravagantly effective design of enormous spectacle sequences between the intricately articulated robots in hyper-realistic settings. 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon:' Plot, 3-D change for the better 2011-06-28T16:59:03Z

“Like a Boss” mocks her accent and turns her looks into a spectacle, reducing her threat and power. ‘Like a Boss’ Review: Tiffany & Rose’s Very Unfortunate Adventure 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Arguably, the best “battle” scenes in Blackwater–or at least, those which allowed the actual fighting to have an effect beyond spectacle–came off the field or before the fighting even started. Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky 2012-05-28T15:20:17Z

The spectacle of a strange man playing in the park with pink-cheeked kids usually sets off alarm bells, at least in this era of the Amber Alert. Review: ‘Finding Neverland,’ a Broadway Musical With Matthew Morrison 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

A short film by Luna Carmoon shown at the London film festival about a toxic female relationship takes its title from the spectacle itself. The unstoppable rise of nosebleeds in cinema 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Even as a mere spectacle, it’s absolutely breathtaking and a fitting finale for a strange, immense and unforgettable event. The crazy world of Burning Man – festival survival guide 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

In New York recently, I found fresh reminders of how little size and whiz-bang spectacle matter when craft, creativity and performance prowess are in abundance. On and Off Broadway, doing more with less 2013-12-04T22:00:07Z

“It made for a fun little spectacle, and Danes tend to have a great sense of humor about these things.” In pandemic, travel pros repurpose their gear to entertain kids, haul groceries and stay comfy 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

I may live to regret these words but as I sit here today watching the bloated spectacle of another primary season, I want Trump to win. F**k it, I’m rooting for Donald Trump: It’s what the GOP deserves, and what we all deserve if we don’t mobilize 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Instead of the usual industrial spectacle what we get is a musical about people and life's missed opportunities. Sweet simplicity 2013-04-09T22:01:00Z

The ghastly spectacle of his suicide remains on YouTube, seen by millions of Arabs. Zero Dark Thirty and Argo don't do justice to Arabs 2013-02-20T13:00:00Z

People have always tuned in to the Trump show for the spectacle, but now, at a time of profound crisis and fear, they show up for their families and their own lives, hungry for information. It’s 5 o’clock. Do you know where your president is? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

There are definitely better kung-fu flicks in terms of pure action spectacle, but "Ip Man" delivers as tremendous entertainment even if you don't much care about martial arts. "Ip Man": A dazzling martial-arts epic 2010-10-01T20:25:00Z

Skirball stage, when glittering fish appear, their tails swishing in the darkness, the wondrousness of this show lies in its spectacle and ambience. At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Eye-popping Himalayan vistas and Hindu spectacle make this action-packed epic, based on a best-selling novel by M.M. What our writers love this week 2011-06-15T21:33:04Z

For “Play,” newly revised, depends for its true impact on visual spectacle, on spatial relations, on the physical nature of playing. Andrew Norman’s ‘Play,’ a Symphony That Levels Up 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

First, take a look at Black Panther if you want a large budget spectacle that does deal with challenging themes and develops iconic characters, and was handed off to an ambitious young director. ‘Avengers,’ the Most Lucrative Movie Franchise Ever, Is Wrapping Up. Why? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

The Austin sequence matters, though, and not only because it grabs the viewer with some thrillingly chaotic spectacle. ‘The Last of Us’ Series Premiere Recap: Fungus Among Us 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Henry the Eighth, dying, is “a swollen, hideous spectacle, with a great hole in his leg, and so odious to every sense that it was dreadful to approach him.” Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

When you get inside you see more of a spectacle than just a regular game. The NHL Moves Outside 2013-12-26T10:45:50Z

"He was, after all, brought down to London especially so that his execution could be the opening spectacle for the fair of St Bartholomew," said Davies. William Wallace leads charge of TV history dramas 2013-07-20T12:10:37Z

This edition, which runs from Nov. 20 to Dec. 18, offers spectacle at a cost. What to Read During the World Cup 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Visual spectacle is a given, though it doesn't quite play by Hollywood rules. This week's new films 2012-09-28T23:05:52Z

Mr. von Trier started to talk and then he began to babble, finally ending this excruciating spectacle with a little laugh and the disastrous words: “O.K., I’m a Nazi.” Is Lars von Trier Trolling Us? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Any president and first lady are obviously top draws, and Washington will soon face the unprecedented spectacle of having both the former and current president in residence. How money muscled out power on Washington’s A-list 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Either way, the spectacle of a man going so wildly, unstoppably out of control, burning bridges with such enthusiastic abandon, looks unlikely to abate any time soon. Charlie Sheen commits career suicide 2011-02-25T15:26:00Z

The show's appeal is the spectacle of emotional violence. Reality TV: A blood sport that must change 2011-08-18T14:59:00Z

Unlikely to deliver a participatory spectacle, she should change the way the audience approaches this most public and high-profile of annual commissions. The best visual arts for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:01Z

“I know it seems like a lot of spectacle,” Timbers says. The creators of the ‘Beetlejuice’ musical ‘tried to run toward Burton’ visually 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Pandemonium ensued, and the crowd outside the bank swelled to an estimated several thousand, who alternately cheered and jeered at a spectacle that included appearances from Mr. Wojtowicz’s mother, Terry, and several specially delivered pizzas. Movie Review: ‘The Dog’ 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Yet, now more than ever, the spectacle of a lone Black musician on a huge, packed stage at Lincoln Center is unbearably depressing. To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

This kind of theatrical spectacle was a sensational crowd-pleasing draw, along with re-enactments of famous sea battles and infamous wrecks – the more realistic the better. Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

It was to be "a huge global spectacle" and "the biggest concert in years", according to sources. Wembley 'supergig' for Japan cancelled 2011-04-04T08:58:20Z

One of the women, now visible in the frame, tries to keep the spectacle going by further imitating the bird’s artificial laugh. Not all animals have a use: The passing of John Berger brings to mind a prancing cockatoo 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

For Letterman, the gee-whiz regard for spectacle is tempered by an instinctive worry that it’s wrong to show off. David Letterman taught us to ward off celebrity stupidity. But stupidity won. 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

While they share the same interests in spectacle and the careful disbursement of emotion, Handel’s operas focus more on virtuosic vocalism and less on the text. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z

In English, the title's acronym stands for "Rise, Roar, Revolt," blaring expectations related to pacing, spectacle, and explosiveness that Rajamouli exceeds. Forget "Top Gun." "RRR" is the ultimate summer movie – explosive, inspiring & with catchy dance beat 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Transformers 4 is likely to be identical to the three previous Transformers movies – a gormless spectacle of such relentless destruction that it quickly becomes tedious beyond words. Transformers 4: why I can't wait for Wahlberg 2012-11-14T14:59:48Z

Many directors use spectacle to convey larger-than-life events while reserving devices like close-ups to express a character’s inner being. ‘Roma’ Review: Alfonso Cuarón’s Masterpiece of Memory 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

There is a Chinese theater looking at finding solitude in this age of spectacle. Ong Keng Sen on his vision for the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

He added, “We must have presented a comic spectacle — an elderly man struggling to remove the garments from an old lady, still with white skin and incongruously fair hair.” John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

He brought pop stars and young celebrities into the mix at Chanel, more or less engineered the explosion of the “It bag” at Fendi, and turned every runway show into a Broadway-level spectacle. Karl Lagerfeld, the Designer Who Dressed to Survive 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Today, extramarital affairs are common, gay marriage is legal in a half-dozen states and the devil has become an erotic spectacle, symbolized by Lady Gaga’s exaggerated persona. America’s new sex toy revolution 2013-03-09T16:00:00Z

And the bigger the spectacle they made of themselves, the greater their appeal and, presumably, the fatter their paychecks. Shutting down the house: 'Jersey Shore' ending run 2012-12-18T16:32:50Z

The likes of Madonna and the photographer Helmut Newton had primed that pump long ago, turning dominance, submission and toys into an acceptable spectacle. Review: ‘Fifty Shades Darker,’ and Only Half as Watchable 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

He's not expected to arrive in California until later this month, and it's unclear if he's aware of the spectacle he's created. 340-ton boulder gets celebrity status in L.A. 2012-03-11T01:27:04Z

Then a minority of voters elected as president a salesman who built his empire on fraud, spectacle and bankruptcy. American exceptionalism was our preexisting condition 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

He said they were moved by the scalding spectacle of Charlottesville, Va., to make the movie. Sam Rockwell, Screendom’s Slinkiest Rogue 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

The quality press preferred to stress the glamorous side of the spectacle. Belmont Awaits Its Annual Return to Glory 2011-06-09T23:00:12Z

For a movie that appears to run on spectacle, it’s nearly iconoclastic in its dressed-up austerity. Ridin’ Dirty: “Mad Max: Fury Road” 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

A nasty, exploitative spectacle of a woman’s victimization, or the celebration of her resistance? Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

There’s no better avant-garde kitchen than the spectacle known as Minibar, and few standard-bearers of fine dining as delicious and innovative as Pineapple and Pearls. Perspective | Michelin is too buttoned-up to see the stars of D.C.’s dining scene 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

That spectacle, I was told, is just a typical day on an island where one of the Gaelic proverbs is “what comes with the wind goes with the rain.” Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

No surprise that Teatro el Público bills itself as a “provocateur in the underground counterculture of fashion, spectacle, cabaret, theater and drag.” Three Journeys Under the Radar: Trippy, Unsettling and Affectionate 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who turned 80 last month, came here this week for a more benign form of spectacle, a prize ceremony. Mario Vargas Llosa on Love, Spectacle and Becoming a Legend 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

But before Tuesday — the first of 22 performances of an extraordinary spectacle called “Before the Dawn” — a 1979 six-week European tour was her last time in front of paying audiences. Kate Bush Returns to the Stage, and Her Fans Are There to Welcome Her 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

They have a great big spectacle show and we have a pretty, you know, non-spectacle show. Heart's Ann Wilson ? no Auto-Tune, please! 2011-09-08T20:35:17Z

Without a strong script — the defining foundational document of every great film — the audience is subjected to an ad hoc of stunts, set pieces and effects-driven spectacle. Perspective | ‘Trump: The First 100 Days,’ a troubled production in constant rewrite 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The ceremony was a large spectacle involving troops, dancers and military bands. World leaders gather to honor veterans on eve of D-Day anniversary 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

The grander the spectacle, the more fragile it is. S.F. Opera makes an epic effort with 'Les Troyens' 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Faces and bodies smeared in mud, they are a mesmerizing, surreal spectacle — one of the smallest, a Dennis Hopper-esque runt, wears what looks like a skinned bobcat for a hat. Review: Viggo Mortensen Captivates in ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

It must have been quite a spectacle, a curious mix of the old-fashioned and the newfangled that could only have suggested the gamut of performance techniques and styles to follow. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

She was on the red carpet, and backstage in the press room, to live-draw the stars and the spectacle. Live-Drawing the 2016 Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

And that will be a spectacle certain to attract far more attention than the webcam at the undisclosed, secure location. Boring Wisconsin recall webcam draws big audience 2012-01-20T13:04:00Z

Mr. McDonagh brought his parents, and the spectacle brought the news media. ?Cripple? Finally Comes to Inishmaan 2011-06-29T21:52:37Z

Moreover, divorce is a kind of anti-story: It is the spectacle of narrative breaking down, both personally and publicly. Book Review Podcast: 'Leaving Before the Rains Come' 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Memories of Christmas morning, for example, might warm our hearts; but seen dispassionately from the outside, the whole frenzied spectacle is bizarre and absurd and delightfully funny. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

“Six” was the epitome of the grand spectacle that Broadway can be — in all the best ways. Welcoming Back Live Theater Doesn’t Mean Agreeing About All of It 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

“I’m not comfortable with the spectacle,” he said. The Artist Ben Morea Returns to the Site of the Revolution 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

She is, naturally, extremely entertaining on “Rhythm + Flow,” on Netflix, which explodes a reality competition into a semi-documentary spectacle, like a “Truth or Dare” for itself. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

In 1960, French theorist Guy Debord summed up the main problem facing the society of the spectacle: “When the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings.” What TV gets wrong about guns 2014-02-14T23:30:00Z

Yet despite the Whole Foods on 125th Street and the queasy spectacle of a townhouse going for more than $4m, Harlem and its cultural institutions have managed to hold on to a distinct identity. Harlem’s renaissance: how art, food and history are shaping its latest evolution 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

But the fact that this story is really happening, and that we don’t know how it will end, doesn’t mean that it’s not a symbolic spectacle, or an allegorical fable. Trapped in a cave: A true story with mythic roots and symbolic power 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

On Saturday night, even with Tvorchi’s sixth place finish, Ukrainian culture was on display right until the end of the spectacle. Sweden Wins a Eurovision Song Contest That Showed Solidarity With Ukraine 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

Its deathknell came with television and all the spectacle that brought to the living room. New pulp fictioneers are ready to rock'n'roll 2012-05-29T13:14:20Z

The kindergarten years are staged as an opera infiltrated by rhythmic gymnasts, while the elementary-school period becomes a poppy spectacle, in the style of A Chorus Line, about fitting in with the crowd. Life and Times: Episodes 1-5 – review 2013-05-27T16:39:07Z

When they share a room, that delight balloons into a spectacle. “Hate is nature’s most perfect energy source”: Showtime’s “Billions” hits its stride in its return 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Though the "Pirates" episodes suffered from a similar abundance of excess, the "Prince" spectacle falls short in ways less comic, more pointless and just not very much fun. 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time': Overloaded with special effects and fairy-tale gobbledygook 2010-05-26T22:20:00Z

This is both an eighth instalment in the Potter saga worthy of Rowling's seven novels, and a stage spectacle to delight even the uninitiated. Wizard magic: JK Rowling hopes Harry Potter play goes global 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

Passers-by lingered at the spectacle of sprawling bodies. Elastic City Walks Festival Has Its Inaugural Run 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

As embodied by Hiddleston, this revulsion presents a painful spectacle, and you want to avert your eyes, except that you can’t. 3 celebrities portray Shakespeare’s uncommon men 2014-02-03T06:51:22Z

It’s closer in spirit to the MTV dating reality series, “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila,” a competition that mainly made a spectacle of the roadkill of show business. Television Review: Gross? Maybe. But It Got Me on TV, Right? 2011-04-06T18:11:34Z

That hat was quite a spectacle; it was both dramatic and protective, its brim serving as a kind of force field to ward off unwanted displays of affection. Perspective | At second state dinner, Melania Trump’s dress is as quiet and dutiful as her 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

On Instagram, we have an infinite two-dimensional zoo in the palms of our hands, where the spectacle of animalia is on display and caged behind glass 24/7. The Cutest Animal on Instagram Is Possibly in Your Trash Can 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Short of staging a whole opera yourself, one alternative some singers are exploring is creating a glorified recital with a sense of event, spectacle and stagecraft, beyond the standard stand-at-the-piano and sing. Review | During ‘In War & Peace,’ Joyce DiDonato offers an unconvincing recital masked as theater 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

With “Tosh.0,” Comedy Central has found a way to bring the spectacle of amateur Internet videos to television successfully. Television: Daniel Tosh Is a Hit on ?Tosh.0? 2010-08-20T17:25:00Z

Doubtless 3D will continue to play a part, at least for a while, in films that depend on spectacle. Shrek Forever After shows why 3D won't save cinema 2010-07-05T09:59:00Z

But Lady Gaga grounds this sort of spectacle with her voice. Music Review: On Stage, Lady Gaga’s Artistry Endures 2014-03-30T01:32:27Z

Mr. Ledare is making a sensational spectacle of himself and his clearly troubled parent, but he is also taking us deep into the darkness and torment that drive many artists. Art Review: Emerging Artists at ?Greater New York? at MoMA P.S. 1 2010-05-27T21:27:00Z

Directed by Jude Kelly, this fusion of musical spectacle and intimate storytelling gets its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival. This week's new dance 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

The Simpsons mocked the spectacle that is the 2016 presidential election in a short clip that reimagines a world in which the candidates all get along. 'The Simpsons' Imagines a World Where the 2016 Candidates Get Along 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

Participants interacted as they meandered along the shore while hundreds viewed the spectacle from cliffs overlooking the area. Elders and an Artist Bring a Social Sculpture to Life 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

But we had front row seats to his spectacle when Sandusky was interviewed by Bob Costas on “Rock Center” at the end of 2011. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z

I remember thinking, “It’s just me on that stage, there’s no spectacle, what am I supposed to do? There’s no way I’ll be able to command these people’s attention.” You’ve Seen Mary Elizabeth Winstead Onscreen. Get Ready for Her Onstage. 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

Why is Ferris’s disease called upon to generate a spectacle, the “drama” of this scene? A Cold and Hip “Glass Menagerie” 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Photograph: David Bloomer/BBC/Wall to Wall The film depicts this accurately, though Jones's Hitchcock appears to be more gratified by the spectacle than the real Hitch was. Do Hitchcock and The Girl reveal the horrible truth about Hitch? 2013-01-11T07:00:00Z

Her death was both a spectacle and a singular American tragedy. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

The fusion of supernatural spectacle and high human drama is all very photogenic, which makes it very attractive to Hollywood. 'Clash of the Titans': Ancient Greece and Us 2010-03-19T20:01:00Z

It was a spectacle familiar to New Yorkers from seeing busloads of plastic-wrapped tourists soaking in the sights from upper decks exposed to the elements. Share Your Thoughts 2010-09-28T18:15:00Z

As the hours tick by, these characters swing erratically from domestic banality to absurdist spectacle. Review | Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’ is an absurdist look at our technology dependence 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

Things become increasingly unorthodox and fragmentary as prints devoted to the spectacle of the cafe, concert hall and theater progress along one wall. The Modern Degas You Haven’t Seen 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

When the movie abandons its go-to mode, muted efficiency, and becomes boldly emotional or visually arresting, it's never superimposing spectacle on top of a story that doesn't need it. 1. "Let Me In" 2010-12-31T17:01:00Z

This is followed by the queasy spectacle of a dirty foreign war being pursued on home turf. Cannes film festival review: Route Irish 2010-05-19T16:32:00Z

But can every such thing become a successful stage spectacle? Musicals from movies, TV, history try to find footing on slippery Broadway 2010-12-18T01:22:59Z

While there are pleasures to be found there — its spectacle of gender stereotypes scratches a kind of itch — it is only natural to yearn for a deeper connection. Netflix Finally Brings Romance to Reality TV 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

It may be a slight exaggeration to say Terfel single-handedly redeemed the spectacle that premiered Sunday night - but only slight. Review: Terfel shines in Zurich's odd 'Dutchman' 2012-12-10T11:31:05Z

Mr. Iñárritu would reveal little about how this chilling spectacle was confected, other than to describe it as a bit like a magic trick insofar as the “how” of it would only spoil a mystery. About That Bear: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Discusses Making ‘The Revenant’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

But it’s harmless fun, assuming that you consider the spectacle of men trying to slug and kick one another into unconsciousness to be harmless. Movie Review: Kevin James in ‘Here Comes the Boom’ 2012-10-12T02:14:59Z

Witnessing a grim spectacle like that once was bad enough; twice would be little short of a tragedy. Four reasons why James Cameron mustn't re-release Avatar | Stuart Heritage 2010-03-17T10:33:00Z

Impressive as it is, "Elizabeth had witnessed the amazing spectacle before … it seemed to her that there had been an enormous crowd out there in the Mall all her life." Night of Triumph by Peter Bradshaw – review 2013-06-12T15:00:00Z

For a while, such fears were put aside as growers and visitors alike savoured the spectacle of the exhibition flower. US flower growers fear bloom is off the hobby 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Conceived as a vertical city in miniature, the structure glorifies what Guy Debord called the “society of the spectacle” — the delirium at the core of popular consumer culture. Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World 2010-03-09T23:26:00Z

The final act, though, is a shimmering spectacle of white and gold and truly breathtaking. ABT's 'Sleeping Beauty' at Segerstrom a lush return to tradition 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

From his earliest days as commentator, Wogan positioned the British as bemused participants in a distinctly foreign, European spectacle, one in which the UK nonetheless enjoyed success and status. Eurovision: it's time to stop laughing at foreigners 2013-05-17T11:47:54Z

But, for sure, nobody took their eyes off this spectacle for a second. Cantina – review 2012-06-09T23:05:43Z

Ms. Welch watched the spectacle from the front row, wearing a sheer black blouse from her own closet with Mulberry skirt and booties. The Bohemian Fashion Muse 2011-02-12T00:45:24Z

After the parade, the spectacle moves indoors for a show in the Pennsylvania Convention Center — and even then, it’s not over. Some Mummers strut despite Philadelphia parade cancellation 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

“Without the spectacle, the novel is undistinguished,” Mr. Dobyns wrote, “but that spectacle becomes part of the novel’s reason for being.” Katherine Dunn, Author of ‘Geek Love,’ Dies at 70 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

“It was life changing to work on something so prestigious with so much history,” Collins said of the spectacle starring The Weeknd. Meet Jesse Collins, TV’s most requested producer 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Blade Runner inspires its audience to consider big questions about the nature of humanity, artificial intelligence and the soul, rather than simply marvel at the futuristic spectacle on show. Has Blade Runner 2049's failure killed off the smart sci-fi blockbuster? 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

What was once the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season has in recent years morphed into a grotesque spectacle. Black Friday is the worst: Shopping is ruining Thanksgiving — but at least one retailer is pushing back 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Performance, ritual, spectacle: an element of theatre has always been present in the world of food, and Heston Blumenthal's Feasts series was as much about historical recreation as futuristic cookery techniques. Have you got the guts for an edible performance? 2011-01-31T18:29:33Z

Although the results are sometimes mixed, this alluring spectacle makes powerful statements about the rights of both animals and people. ‘The Vanishing Elephant’ Review: Bringing ‘a Thing of Wonder’ to Life 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

“I’d love to play alongside them in December. The dogs’ enthusiasm and desire to fetch would certainly make it even more of a fantastic spectacle and no doubt they’d get more attention than the players.” Britain's Tim Henman trains 'ball dogs' for tennis tournament 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Earlier in the quarter, overseas hunger for spectacle in 3D propelled 20th Century Fox's "Avatar" to the top spot for eight consecutive weeks, through February 28. "Wonderland" No. 1 destination at overseas theaters 2010-03-28T22:21:00Z

The pirates fell silent as their Audio-Animatronic souls left their bodies, an oddly upsetting spectacle. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

It’s an ugly spectacle, and Ketcham’s seething language doesn’t soften it. Can the American West Be Saved? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

What all of this had to do with a featherweight breakup album, I’m all ears, but when it comes to spectacle, Swift definitely seems to be taking a page from Lady Gaga. Grammy Awards: Fun. takes song of the year; Frank Ocean, Adele win 2013-02-11T03:02:00Z

Pacific Rim is put together with such artistry and such devotion that it can’t help but be impressive as a visual spectacle. Pacific Rim – review 2013-07-08T07:00:12Z

I was also acutely aware that any women in the room might have found the spectacle terrifying. The search for my inner ‘hero’: a modern masculinity retreat 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Purists may see this as a musical violation – but, while the effects are sometimes too loud and too literal, it makes for a gripping theatrical spectacle. Cinderella ? review 2010-12-10T17:26:00Z

In such moments, St. Nicholas’s photography rises from the stuff of awe-inspiring spectacle into a kind of subtle grace and power all its own. "My Name Is Prince": A graceful, powerful photographic tribute to the Purple One 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

The noise, the spectacle, the people, the ritual of it. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

As a result, from the sole perspective of action movie spectacle, this is easily the worst of them all. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

It was an odd, poignant spectacle: dedicated musicians donning costumes or tuxedos to perform for people at home. In a Pandemic, Musicians Play in Empty Halls for Audiences Online 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Video, film, audio and interactive games complete the spectacle. The Canning Stock Route exhibition 2010-08-08T21:29:00Z

In short, the emphasis in “Fela!” on the spectacle of African culture tilted the show a little too closely toward minstrelsy. 2010-01-29T03:33:00Z

Star power also partly explains why “Robin Hood,” an enjoyable old-fashioned spectacle playing out of competition that drew expected critical japes, was slotted into opening night. Film: Cannes Runs a Bit Short on Stars This Year 2010-05-13T21:44:00Z

“Here, the Games are still a miserable spectacle, a poor version of the lavish, grotesque extravaganza they will become.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

His show was, as usual, a fascinating production, but not the completely surreal spectacle of last season, on a blackened, charred, post-apocalyptic set of black sand and debris. New York Fashion Week Ends With Its Hottest Show Yet 2014-02-14T18:48:23Z

“But I don’t care what anyone thinks, and I want to create a spectacle.” Prom Looks Now Include Vintage Clothing and Styles from the Red Carpet 2014-04-25T22:16:02Z

"There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude." Robert Hughes quotes: 20 of the best 2012-08-07T10:44:50Z

He's simply a true believer in the cinema as argument, the cinema as essay—trends that cut against the movie as spectacle. Film: The Problem With 'Breathless' 2010-06-05T01:58:00Z

The surprise, Mr. Ford said, is in how quickly non-art-world audiences were to accept the notion of graffiti as a major spectacle. Banksy Puzzles With ?Exit Through the Gift Shop? 2010-04-13T22:55:00Z

But on Tuesday the old Met, a company of grand tradition and unabashed spectacle, returned with a revival of Puccini’s “Turandot” in Franco Zeffirelli’s glittering, gaudy, opulent, tacky and overwhelmingly popular 1987 production. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Although the race between the two executives lingered, it never became a public spectacle. At Disney, Staggs' elevation puts him as front-runner to succeed Iger as CEO 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

This latest offering, Tyler Perry’s spectacle about the last days of Jesus, set in New Orleans, comes just in time for Easter. What to Watch Sunday 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

It’s as if, instead of the Kentucky Derby, viewers were urged to enjoy the spectacle of thoroughbreds harnessed as dray horses. The Dishearteningly Safe 2017 Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

He’s an auteur with an unprecedented command of spectacle, but onstage, he completely rejects the discipline of his virtuoso heroes — Prince, Michael Jackson and Beyoncé among them. Kanye West will not come down 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

It is described not just as a mere musical but as a “burlesque, extravaganza, spectacle.” Theater Review: ‘Pippin,’ Directed by Diane Paulus, at the Music Box Theater 2013-04-26T02:01:15Z

Sandwiches are filled to bursting and tough to get your jaw around without making a spectacle of yourself. Taim brings falafel nirvana from New York to Georgetown 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

But I worry that films like these reveal an overarching and myopic ideology, in which 3-D serves as anti-art, or as a tool for the puncturing of spectacle. The Misunderstanding of 3-D 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

After you’ve enjoyed the awe and spectacle of the Great Pyramid, outside of Cairo, you may think: What a terrified little man the pharaoh Khufu must have been. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

In attempting to redeem his past actions, we see the queasy spectacle of Joe the Saviour – “I don’t hurt women” – rewiring his misdeeds into a Dexter-shaped narrative. You on Netflix: the awful, sociopathic show we're absolutely addicted to 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

The demise matters less than the resulting spectacle or mounting suspense. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

"Oz the Great and Powerful" plays with the notion of making people believe through spectacle and trickery - that what you see is more important than what you actually get. `Oz the Great and Powerful' isn't exactly either 2013-03-05T23:16:13Z

For another night, Irsay had turned the threads of his life into a shared spectacle, one that helps him keep the demons at bay. N.F.L. Owner by Day, Rock ’n’ Roller by Night 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

This scene follows the extraordinary spectacle of Danny finally bedding Suzi, after which he has a rant in the darkened bedroom. Your next box set: Tutti Frutti 2010-07-09T05:45:00Z

This controversy led to the odd spectacle on Monday: At an industry event devoted to new games, there was raucous enthusiasm for the untrammeled right to sell and purchase old games. Critic’s Notebook: Unwelcome Innovation Earns Gamers’ Jeers 2013-06-14T22:23:07Z

If they have two things in common, it's that and being at the center of a teeth-gnashing spectacle. Congratulations, it's a Kardashian! "American Horror Story: Delicate" delivers a new scream queen 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

Still, entertained though I was, I did find myself occasionally checking emails: a first for me in a cinema, and surprising when you consider the amount of spectacle on display. Behold: the Marvel Avengers Assemble 3D experience 2012-05-20T19:00:09Z

It’s about big dreams, big notes and big spectacle. Live(ish), From Someone’s Room, This … Is American Isolation 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Of course, their procession to the stage was quite a spectacle. ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

But for a U.S. audience, its focus on movement and imagery sets it in the weird zone between dance, concert and what the Los Angeles Times describes as “a cinematic, hourlong spectacle.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

This signature behavior gave Gould his nickname and Mitchell a title, but it gives the contemporary reader a jolt that autism may have lain beneath street spectacle. What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

There will be daredevil feats, bold images and high-flying acrobatic spectacle. Arts & Leisure: How Do You Make a Whole Show Fly? 2011-06-08T12:00:00Z

Not only did the alien invasion theme fit the film's main imagery, but the store's tribute to science fiction films echoed the theme of filmmaking, storytelling . . . and spectacle. "Nope" and the Fry's Electronics UFO sighting that almost wasn't 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

The stagings in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles concentrated on spectacle. Two Ways of Looking at Philip Glass’s ‘Satyagraha’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

What are the trade-offs between scientific research and public spectacle? The Zoo; Horizon: The Truth About Personality; England v Australia – TV review 2013-07-11T06:00:08Z

But the final stop on her “Speak Now Tour” was airtight bliss, and the James Taylor cameo felt like something deeper than spectacle. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z

Trump taking Mitt Romney out for a candlelight dinner to build anticipation — and then making a spectacle of not choosing him — was a tactic straight out of “The Bachelor.” Donald Trump’s reality TV bamboozle: A political style shaped by “The Apprentice” 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

In addition to the true and immutable inner personality, there is Rodrigo the musical performer, and Rodrigo the public spectacle, a subject of increasing tabloid interest. Allow Olivia Rodrigo to Introduce Herselves 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Paris Fashion Week closed in March with a spectacle held by Louis Vuitton in a shadowy courtyard of the closed Louvre museum. London Fashion Week Gets a New Look for a Changed World 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Why is this kind of imagery, this spectacle of destruction, so compelling to us? Steven Soderbergh and Amy Seimetz Made the Pandemic Movies of the Moment 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

In a series devoted to spectacle, it harnesses the power of what we can’t see. Was ‘Game of Thrones’ Too Dark on Sunday? Yes and No 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

The very society he undermines, one that feeds on spectacle, has made him famous and his art immensely profitable. Banksy and the tradition of destroying art 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

A. O. Scott of The Times called it “a refreshing reminder, at a time of large-scale, highly polished cinematic spectacle, of the essential, elemental sources of movie-watching pleasure.” What’s on TV Monday: Isabelle Huppert in ‘Elle,’ and ‘A Cat in Paris’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

Even though Ms. Melnick focuses on the solo form and is not planning to create a spectacle “with big overhead,” as she put it, having the option to do so is rare. Make It Relevant, but Make It 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z

This is a spectacle that trusts us to think. 'War for the Planet of the Apes' Makes Chimps More Human Than Humans Themselves 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

“It is clearly dead and it represents a shameful spectacle for citizens and tourists,” said the consumers’ group Codacons. Romans decry 'Mangy', city's threadbare Christmas tree, as symbol of d 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

“All the political correctness and media critique — this idea of a society of spectacle that you were supposed to detach from — got really boring,” Mr. Stillpass said. The Artist Rob Pruitt: Paradox on a Pedestal 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

As always, the reason I’m watching is the spectacle. We don’t watch “Empire” for the plot: It’s the unabashed spectacle of wealth and style that keeps us hooked 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Seeing such a natural spectacle – as well as the beautiful viaduct that runs across the top of the valley – from the gorge itself was spectacular. 10 of the best off-grid adventures in Europe: readers’ tips 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Manson was arrested four months after the murders and the trial was a media spectacle that lasted over a year. Behind the bloodshed: the chilling untold stories about Charles Manson 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Dots to Connect “Illuminations,” the Biennale’s low-key headliner, works best as a kind of foil to the steroidal muscle and didacticism of the Giardini, playing down spectacle in favor of art making. Art Review: Artists Decorate Palazzos, and Vice Versa 2011-06-08T22:24:39Z

At a time when visual media were proliferating, and musicians were developing a treacherous new primacy over their dancing audiences, Puente moved to re-emphasize the physical spectacle of performance. Bringing Tito Puente’s Fire to a New Generation 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

“Vienna Waltzes” is the last grand spectacle that George Balanchine created for New York City Ballet. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of talented cooks’ imitating the style of chains is embarrassing. Is Lodi Too Good for Rockefeller Center? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Little things like self-editing and narrative coherence were abandoned in favour of vast, meaningless spectacle. 'We're gonna need a smaller boat': where should Pirates of the Caribbean 4 make its savings? 2010-05-06T13:13:00Z

Like Nick, it is accused of being passive, or worse — complicit in the spectacle it appears to criticize. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

And yet James Cameron’s Avatar proved beyond doubt seven years ago that audiences will still sign up for a good old-fashioned love story, provided there’s plenty of spectacle among the lingering glances. Could Passengers be the next Avatar, or will it disappear into a black hole? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

You can’t say Marco Polo isn’t committed to spectacle and popcorn entertainment, and that may make it a hit worth its price tag. REVIEW: Khan Job: Netflix's Ludicrous Marco Polo 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

And it was an inventive visual feast that combined spectacle and storytelling. The Sad Connection Between Scott Pilgrim and Pacific Rim 2013-07-23T15:05:15Z

He was big in every sense of the word, and there was instant pathos in the spectacle of a giant confined by the smallness of a world hedged in by 1950s racism. | 'Fences': Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in August Wilson?s Classic 2010-04-27T02:03:00Z

On the other hand, shaming people for enjoying the glitzy spectacle of cultural events like the Met Gala isn't the political action or bold act of resistance that keyboard activists seem to think it is. From AOC to Cara Delevingne, are the Met Gala’s feminist displays meaningful or just performative? 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

The Gaga spectacle is brand-content synergy perfected and it's proved so successful that it will surely produce an entire generation of imitators. The coming of Gaga-ism 2010-03-20T11:00:00Z

It is a spectacle in earth tones and small dimensions. Beijing Dance Theater’s ‘Wild Grass’ at the Kennedy Center: A superficial spectacle

Dioramas, meanwhile, became a well-established form of education and entertainment, enthralling Victorian viewers with the spectacle of a well-controlled and delightfully tiny world. Peeps Dioramas and Their Surprisingly Long Prehistory 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

In the age of hyperrealism, fantasy worlds must blend with our own, and imagination takes a back seat to spectacle. Don’t call him the Walt Disney of Japan: How animator Hayao Miyazaki became a cultural icon by doing everything Pixar doesn’t 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

A landmark destination, crowded and bigger, it’s a place for spectacle. NYU2031: University?s Plans for Greenwich Village 2012-03-22T17:26:23Z

Restraint may not be obvious during this year’s spectacle, but most schools are using one or two fewer floats and a few hundred fewer people. In Rio, the Work Goes In Before the Party Goes On 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

In Algeria or Morocco, the dances accompanying raï and chaâbi are less a staged spectacle than a part of daily life, with techniques passed between generations. From Her Algerian Family’s Living Room to the Dance Stage 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

But when trauma survivors are staring down cameras, reporters, and this show’s hosts, the usual treatment of the spectacle really should take a backseat. “The Circus” goes to Kavanaugh: Women’s pain collides with the sport of politics 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

As they vogued to the tribal throb, it became apparent that the backs of their outfits were actually see-through mesh, the only part of the spectacle that left little to the imagination. Pop: Disco Revival in New York With Crystal Ark and Escort 2012-11-18T02:23:03Z

The Grammys are more about today’s biggest artists demonstrating their showmanship than creating a spectacle. Taylor Swift Opened the Grammy Awards With 'Out of the Woods' 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Told in a cacophony of voices, the book becomes an investigation of ethics and ambition, both personal and collective, with an eye toward the various ways in which public spectacle intersects with private lives. Marlon James' powerful mix of influences and cultures lands him the Man Booker Prize 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

His ultimate object of contemplation was his own contradictory self, and he turned his obsession with fragmentation, discontinuity and the limits of language into a spectacle that enchanted children, disturbed adults and fascinated postmodernist critics. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

The sheer spectacle is distracting, and should someone take the moment to cast a glance my way, they simply saw another patron trying to experience the park to its fullest. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

The tours are just part of the spectacle surrounding the race, including a food truck competition called the Feeders’ Cup, bourbon tastings and art exhibitions. Tour and Event News: Arizona Light Show; Skiing in the Dolomites 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

As the show went on, they faded before the spectacle, which got bigger and bigger, just like the bouquets that were presented to each performer. Fashion Week’s a Drag at Opening Ceremony 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Here was a spectacle of normalcy that might turn out to be an illusion: a slate of ambitious, mostly well-made, non-franchise-driven films, some of which will surely figure in the looming Oscar race. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s fun to take in the spectacle of Howard’s transformation into a ranting soothsayer, inveighing against materialism and corporate greed, amid the studio’s buzzing forest of technology. Review | Bryan Cranston is stellar in the stage version of ‘Network.’ The rest, not so much. 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

The concept works best when spectacle leaves space for perception of human plight. Sex, Death, Suffering and Surrealism, in New Books of Poetry 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

The former, which isn't even Spielberg at his best, offers the thrill and the uneasy, complicated spectacle of destruction you get from a first-rate entertainer. Transformers: A 'Moon' to howl at 2011-06-28T05:19:00Z

The point about the oppressive whiteness of beauty standards was overwhelmed by the odd visual spectacle — two women competing to get harassed the most. The Sex-Ed Queens of YouTube Don’t Need a Ph.D. 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

An embrace of the real has become a recurrent element in contemporary action cinema, with digitally created and enhanced spectacle being deployed alongside actual bodies moving through, bouncing off and slamming into the physical world. Movie Review: ‘Premium Rush,’ Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt 2012-08-23T19:30:55Z

Mock helped to change the tone of “Pose,” which began as a darker series and matured into a warmer, more affirming one — a family drama with some glitter and spectacle. True Romance: Janet Mock on the Final Season of ‘Pose’ 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

A showdown on the Golden Gate bridge in Rise set a bar for action spectacle that a firefight by firelight in Dawn cleared with room to spare. How Planet of the Apes became a truly modern movie franchise 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

But they also turned the trial into a loopy spectacle that included rambling speechifying, outbursts of protest and Ms. Malina’s recitation of her poems. Judith Malina, Founder of the Living Theater, Dies at 88 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

A popular pre-parade spectacle — the inflation of the giant balloons — was limited to vaccinated viewers. Macy’s Thanksgiving parade returns, with all the trimmings 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

French writer Salmon here treats us to the useful spectacle of a relentless polemic against a ubiquitous idea widely held to provoke only positive feelings. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

But the spectacle of a celebrated protest singer becoming a target of liberal political protest shows how treacherous this issue can be. Bob Dylan's political road ? and Sesame Street's 2011-04-10T18:30:00Z

Hornaday and Douthat are correct that the traditional sex scene – a tasteful "pas de deux" between glossy stars, typically straight and vanilla, presented as a spectacle for our visual pleasure – has become increasingly rare. The sex scene isn’t disappearing — it’s simply shifting from clichéd fantasy to messy reality 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

“It’s all the spectacle I want to see in the theater,” he said. A Playwright Who Won’t Let Anyone Off the Hook 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

It’s not exactly spectacular, but it is a spectacle. From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The result was an ignoble spectacle, with fashionably dressed actresses sprinting to the stage, toting their high heels in their hands. After Levy, what next for Theatre Washington and the Hayes Awards? 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

This was dark, challenging stuff by late night comedy standards, and a sign of Colbert’s moral imagination, forcing at least some of his coverage of the Cleveland spectacle to engage with the wider political scene. The Election Has Given Stephen Colbert a New Lease on 'The Late Show' 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

For all its noble intent in bringing the Manganiyars’ eloquent music to a global audience, Mr. Abel’s show is potentially just as much a populist spectacle. Music Review: Muslim Troupe Arrives With Splash and Age-Old Ecumenical Traditions 2010-11-23T22:43:00Z

With the production's successfully bold musical choices and its sheer size and spectacle, the new Aria Resort & Casino can rest easy that folks from all over will seek an audience with the King. Cirque du Soleil's "Viva Elvis" outfabs Beatles 2010-02-21T23:34:00Z

There are a few moments, especially in scenes of near-drowning, when Chaves embraces the spectacle of child endangerment a little too lustily. ‘The Curse of La Llorona’ Review: California Freakin’, With Scares, Laughs and a Murderous Ghost 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

There is something so transforming about this odd spectacle that it feels subversive. Spirit of the underground: theatre 2011-01-30T23:00:00Z

The proceedings will be televised, all but guaranteeing that they will become a public spectacle. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard to Face Off in Defamation Trial 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

But there's more to it than the spectacle of delusion. Is awful the new good? 2011-03-21T20:03:00Z

This Broadway transfer makes tremendous use of the deep stage and various aisles of Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, creating a spectacle both intimate and epic. London hit "War Horse" makes thrilling Broadway bow 2011-04-18T03:57:08Z

However, most critics have praised the show's sheer sense of spectacle. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has mixed reviews but announces extension 2013-06-26T10:28:21Z

In fact, Mackintosh has fully retooled three of the four game-changing 1980s mega-musicals that adapted classical material and were branded by trademark elements of spectacle. Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

For each of these movies, the Coens offer loving parodies—scenes from these films-within-a-film that suggest the hyperbolic rapture of an effective studio spectacle. The Coen Brothers’ Marvellous “Hail, Caesar!” 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

It was such a splashy spectacle that the event shut down a few blocks of busy Hollywood Boulevard. Gucci’s star-studded fashion show shines bright in Hollywood 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Of course, you don't have to have to have the last name Lohan to make a 140-character spectacle of yourself. Celebrities: Please think before you tweet 2011-06-22T20:20:00Z

Likewise, in his search for an alternative to spectacle, he is too willful about antitheatrical gestures. Dance Review: For Colin Dunne, Life After ?Riverdance? 2011-10-21T21:30:31Z

Witness Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne in London's National Gallery, a spectacle of sacrifice, savage rites and the transfiguration of flesh into light. Juiced in time: Bacchus 2010-12-28T09:30:01Z

The first Broadway show he attended was "Fiddler on the Roof," and the songs, the crowd, the movement and the spectacle left a lasting impression. Tony-nominee David Rockwell reveals his first love 2013-05-24T12:24:08Z

Sadly, those qualities are absent from “Home for the Holidays,” a limp revue of carols and Yule-themed pop songs that makes the Osmond siblings’ spectacle look as debauched as a Mötley Crüe concert. Review: TV Crooners (and Danny Aiello) Head ‘Home for the Holidays’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Ultimately, she said, “we all had a conversation about Taxing the Rich in front of the very people who lobby against it, and punctured the 4th wall of excess and spectacle.” A.O.C.’s Met Gala Dress Triggered Strong Reactions 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

On Broadway, where craft is polished and spectacle is heightened, there is much at which to marvel. 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

One day of spectacle is not itself going to solve any of the church’s problems; by evening-news time, the TV commenters had already moved on to those. The Papal Announcement: For a Day, (Very) Old Media Triumph 2013-03-14T12:23:31Z

She created the idea of bringing an audience into the spectacle of the red carpet. How Margaret Cho revives “Fashion Police”: Performing fashion snark as “a woman of color, as a queer woman, as someone who is plus-sized and very proud of my fat” 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Watching a relay of Il Trovatore in a sports stadium in San Francisco last autumn, I found the spectacle, with those wobbling Brobdingnagian tonsils several feet high, somewhat out-of-kilter. Plays beamed into cinemas: is this the future of theatre? 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z

I fail to see any "us" about this upsetting spectacle – it all looked distinctly one way to me. Nigella Lawson: the best way to end abuse is to shine a light on it 2013-06-22T23:06:08Z

He heightens the domestic-drama aspect in certain scenes and pushes the auto-da-fé into the auditorium and lobby, where it becomes a fourth-wall-breaking media spectacle. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z

She’s nowhere to be seen in The Devil Wears Prada, because that wouldn’t fit the absurd spectacle people generally hope to see in a movie about the fashion world. 'I Hate The Devil Wears Prada More Now Than I Did 10 Years Ago' 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Jeremy Podeswa has been a regular fixture as a director on “Game of Thrones” since the show’s fifth season, capable of delivering both great spectacle and quieter moments. ‘Game of Thrones’ Director on Jon Snow’s Past and Tyrion’s Reaction 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

What brings them here is the sheer scope and Technicolor splash of the spectacle: Bollywood singers are flown in from India. If You Missed Diwali in India, Dallas Is the Place to Be 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I feel like it’s going to be a spectacle, no matter what.” Kate Bush Fans Travel to See Rare Concerts in London 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

He saw disco mostly from the sidelines, as a spectacle; I was swooning in the middle of the crowd, lost in music. How Peter Hujar Defined Downtown 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

The Guardian said Interstellar was "a glorious spectacle but a slight drama". Nolan's Interstellar 'a flawed epic' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

But overall the show was low on spectacle, with most artists presenting stripped-back, muted performances; largely concentrating on their slower numbers. Grammy audience falls three million 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

"I think the sheer mass and spectacle of the exhibition shows how driven and disciplined he is," Salvesen said. Tim Burton is happy to share his nightmares 2011-06-01T15:46:10Z

Yet there is a bit of emptiness there, too — a feeling that we’re revisiting these deaths for pure spectacle rather than a deep interrogation of the forces behind them. Fictional Police Brutality, Real Emotional Toll 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

It has sometimes been suggested that Hytner's flair for theatrical spectacle – and his efficiency at getting a show up and running – has not always been matched by his taste. A life in theatre: Nicholas Hytner 2010-10-18T07:00:00Z

His set, drawing on his more traditional repertory, was both ritual and spectacle, with band members stepping forward to jump and twirl in their multicolored robes. Music Review: Qawal Najmuddin Saifuddin & Brothers at Met Museum - Review 2011-10-30T22:51:18Z

The spectacle also requires the co-operation of more than 120 local landowners. Roman candles 2010-03-11T20:44:00Z

Primitive art, peasant art, Indian art, Japanese and Chinese art, musical instruments, drums, jazz, the spectacle of sport, the colour of sport, magic realism, Borges, the metaphysical, dawn, sunsets, fish eyes, trees, flowers, seas, atolls. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z

Whatever socialistic sympathies may have driven Endfield into exile, it’s the spectacle of unchecked individualism that seems to fascinate him, red in tooth and claw. DVD: Desert Tales, Centuries Apart 2011-08-06T20:23:02Z

Like many indies, “Cat Person” opens stronger than it closes, partly because it uses the spectacle of violence to tie up its loose, provocative ends. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

Everything was speeding up, becoming more commercial, more ambiguous, more of a spectacle. ‘Splendor and Misery: Images of Prostitution,’ Captures a Profession in Paris Through Artists’ Eyes 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Scorsese's comments have sparked endless discourse on the meaning of cinema, and similarly many actors feel the same way about his comments and the spectacle surrounding Marvel and its movies. Actors who’ve dragged Marvel for its capitalistic, IP-driven franchise 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z

Jennifer Lawrence may have won an Oscar for her marvelous acting in "Silver Linings Playbook," but take her beating heart away from the "Hunger Games" movies and you'd be left with an empty spectacle. For your consideration, Oscar voters: Shailene Woodley 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

“Black bodies in pain for public consumption,” Alexander wrote, “have been an American national spectacle for centuries.” Endless Grief: The Spectacle of ‘Black Bodies in Pain’ 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

I don't know how much you know about it, but it's this huge, outlandish science-fiction spectacle. Joshua Jackson: 'If I'm satirising anything, it's the trap of my own mind' 2012-06-21T19:30:02Z

In her 2011 book “The Art of Cruelty,” Maggie Nelson writes about cultural products that “seem designed to analyze themselves, and to make a spectacle of their essentially consumable perversity.” “13 Reasons Why” Makes a Smarmy Spectacle of Suicide 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of true crime stories in an age of hashtags is always a little disconcerting. The Case Against Adnan Syed: what happened after Serial? 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

In an era darkened by the revelations of the parliamentary expenses scandal, the spectacle of a politician leaving office in protest at his colleagues' plans to spend money on themselves was refreshing indeed. The Northerner: 'I'd like to thank the Bront?s, Michael Palin and ?' 2010-08-04T14:27:00Z

“Just visually, it’s going to be quite a spectacle,” said Susan Jaffe, the incoming artistic director and a former principal with the company. Ballet Theater to Bring ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ to Met Stage 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Most famously, Disney has paused its nightly Magic Kingdom parade and fireworks spectacle in California and Florida, and it no longer allows characters to embrace guests and sign autographs. Theme parks aim to keep visitors safe — and screaming 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Here, the Games are still a miserable spectacle, a poor version of the lavish, grotesque extravaganza they will become. A ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Focuses on an Unlikely Character 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Though afflicted with the stodginess and staginess that characterized Biblical dramas of the nineteen-fifties, “Mary Magdalene” entirely lacks their sense of spectacle. “Mary Magdalene,” Reviewed: A Sludgy, Trivial Attempt at Revisionist Christian History 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

It was a silent spectacle after an efficient, effective trial. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z

It is, after all, just one more part of the spectacle she disdains. In France, an American Woman Learns the Butcher’s Trade 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

A cellphone tower perched on top of it completes the spectacle. Iquitos, Peru: Wet and Wild 2013-09-13T17:49:30Z

They are warmly applauded for their service and also callously exploited, fodder for a spectacle that collapses the difference between patriotic sentiment and gross commercialism. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

What we do get is the spectacle of perpetual political maneuvering that starts with public policy and increasingly boils down to internal family dynamics. Manners and politics collide in Arena Stage’s ‘City of Conversation’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

How is it possible to pick out one instance from Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, a series that delivers maximum blood, sex and spectacle in every shot? Rewind TV: The Kennedys; The Crimson Petal and the White; Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis; My Brother the Islamist 2011-04-09T23:05:33Z

Still, “what’s appealing about Biosphere 2 is the spectacle and theatricality of it,” said Wolf. 'It's useful for viewers today': the film about a two-year voluntary isolation 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, things looked more or less like any other runway show, rather than a reality spectacle. On the Runway Blog: Rachel Zoe and Reality 2012-09-12T21:04:27Z

When it played at a summer-camp dance and a girl I didn’t like made a spectacle of dancing to it, doing some dramatic vamping with a scarf tied around her head, I felt personally wronged. Growing Up with David Bowie 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Michael Cohl, announcing the spectacle will close on 4 January after falling ticket sales, added it would be "more exciting and better" in Vegas. Spider-Man show 'better' in Vegas 2013-11-20T10:28:39Z

Wintrich understands that spectacle alone can sometimes be enough to distinguish a ho-hum gallery opening from the rest. The Sad Attempt to Make Trumpism Cool 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

For years, it offered overlapping festivals that competed for audiences and donors: Mostly Mozart, known mostly for traditional concerts; and the Lincoln Center Festival, with theater, dance and spectacle. Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of Ms. Huppert, the epitome of adult self-possession, impersonating a schoolgirl is grotesquely amusing. | ?Special Treatment?: Isabelle Huppert in ?Special Treatment? - Review 2011-08-25T23:05:36Z

Many of the 20,000 fans walked out in protest, angry that they paid steep ticket prices for such a spectacle. Rest of Amy Winehouse's European tour in doubt 2011-06-20T17:07:15Z

Mr. Edwards’s first feature was the clever, low-budget “Monsters,” and even with a lot of money at his disposal, he often prefers subtlety and indirection to obvious noise and spectacle. Godzilla, Grandaddy of Movie Monsters, Stomps Back 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

“We the People” is, alas, an enervating spectacle. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z

If I could self-immolate in it, I would for the spectacle. When your friend is dying, it's OK to steal her scarves 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

The show is utterly frivolous and is reviewed here only because it’s another development in the continuing spectacle that is religion in America. In ‘It Takes a Church,’ the Congregation Helps Pick Your Date 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Normally, I look at it and think it's just a beautiful spectacle. Dermot 'never wants to dance again' 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The spectacle will be broadcast as usual from 9 a.m. to noon on NBC and will include live and recorded elements, Macy’s officials said. Macy’s plans smaller but camera-ready Thanksgiving parade 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

For eight days leading up the Iowa caucuses, Kolb crisscrossed Iowa in a rented Jeep, steeping himself in the quadrennial spectacle. How the presidential campaign looks through the eyes of a foreign journalist 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Dior splashes shamelessly into the theater of spectacle, for those in a position to flaunt conspicuous consumption. Critical Shopper: At Dior, a New Look That?s More of a Sneer 2010-12-29T20:50:03Z

Arceneaux understands this impossibly complicated history, and his work illuminates the spectacle of performance without losing sight of the psychic toll exacted upon those who portrayed such distorted caricatures. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The ugly spectacle of negative eugenics was finally recognized for what it truly is: racial and class prejudice, pure and simple. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z

But if it's captured with intelligence and empathy, as it is here, it's a lovely and horrifying spectacle, misery transformed into art. A grand finale for "Mildred Pierce" 2011-04-11T13:01:00Z

The question of what happened — as well as why, who and where — reverberates through this thoughtful, low-key drama which tracks Mandy’s anguish and anger as a personal trauma increasingly becomes an exploitative public spectacle. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Like an installment of a deathless Marvel franchise, for all its spectacle “Peril” ends with a dismaying sense of prologue. Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Director Michael Bay's special effects spectacle "Transformers: Age of Extinction" led all movies in ignominy with seven Razzie Awards nominations, including worst picture, screenplay and director. 'Transformers' tops Razzies 'worst film' nominees 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

I was most captivated by the shots of the concert’s massive audience: A wistful spectacle of collective joy, grief and resistance. After the First Virtual Sundance, Four Writers Compare Notes 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

You don't look to Sorkin for car chases, pyrotechnics or other spectacle. A big story developing on HBO's 'The Newsroom' 2012-06-20T09:16:04Z

February’s Oscars provided the usual spectacle of celebrities striking red-carpet poses and exchanging air kisses en route to a packed theater. 2020 indelible TV moments: Trebek, debate bluster and Floyd 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

In “Citizen,” Claudia Rankine showed it was possible to rescue the suffering of black bodies from spectacle if we questioned how we watched and from where.  Solmaz Sharif and the poetics of a new American generation 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

This movie begins as a lighthearted exploration of a peculiar online spectacle known as “competitive endurance tickling,” in which athletic young men are paid to tickle each other on camera. Unveiling the international tickle-porn conspiracy — it’s not as funny as you think 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, revelling in the sheer cinematic spectacle of a ghost-town London, 28 Days Later might seem to owe more to The Omega Man and Dawn of the Dead than Gilliam. Forget America, nobody does cinematic dystopia better than us Brits 2011-02-11T15:19:19Z

The initial spectacle of mediocrity condescending to genius is painful, but the subsequent triumph of self-taught brilliance over credentialed ignorance is thrilling to witness. Review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Make You Rethink Race 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

This imaginative five-movement work, inspired by texts by the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, is billed as a “meditation on virtuosity, freak shows, entertainment, spectacle, business and the sacrifices one makes to survive in the world.” Classical Music & Opera Listings for Dec. 4-10 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Suljic’s slightness and shortness of stature, even on wheels, maximizes the spectacle of such physical peril. “Mid90s” exposes the violence of boyhood: Teen trauma is a masculine rite of passage, too 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

The televised spectacle of rioters, mostly young white men, storming the field in Chicago, sent shock waves through the music industry and accelerated the demise of disco as a massive commercial force. The Day Disco Was Demolished 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

Ten inches of jutting bone add to the spectacle. Review | The stars of the show at Cut by Wolfgang Puck might surprise you 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

But the whole spectacle of his suffering wasn’t just baroque in its intensity — it shared the spirit of the “Laocoön” depiction of meaningless, amoral, unproductive agony. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

It was an entertainingly site-specific spectacle in the summer of 2009 when projected in a lavish Benedictine refectory in Venice for which the work, now at the Louvre, was painted. When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends 2010-12-17T14:43:28Z

But there’s something tragic and unfair about becoming a spectacle in death, especially in a spectacle that’s more about a murderer than any of his victims. Review: ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace’ Is Fashionable, but Flat 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

The point is that it’s going to be a spectacle, even if the talent is spottier. ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ a Family Holiday Treat at the Met 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

It’s not often something is such a spectacle that Anna Wintour, the artistic director of Condé Nast, takes off her sunglasses. Anna Wintour Removed Her Sunglasses for This 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

There is always something new to mock — so much seriousness and silliness, so much sound and spectacle, so much strenuous novelty and lazy cliché, so many anthems and earworms to sample and subvert. Review: Andy Samberg Spoofs Pop Stars Without Spite. And That’s 4 Real. 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

While the Hollywood majors have abandoned the mature, mid-budget space in favour of megabucks spectacle, over the past five years A24 has set about filling the vacuum. From Ex Machina to Moonlight: how A24 disrupted Hollywood 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Pyrotechnics accompanied the ascent of a mirrored colossus during opener “Reflektor”, indicating that this was going to be the sort of ‘true event’ spectacle worth bragging about online and in the very far future. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

There’s something mesmerizing about the spectacle — like watching your family’s resident pyromaniac resuscitate a dying campfire. Review | I used to think Ansel Adams’s photographs were boring. This exhibition changed that. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

So we get the wonderful spectacle of Connor delivering a peppery kiss-off speech in front of a sign bearing his campaign slogan: “Enough Already!” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z

His flat, however, is sensationally weird – part Mayfair gentleman's club, part Victorian freak show, with every room a freaky spectacle crammed with taxidermy and esoterica, lined with portraits and heavily bound books. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z

It’s as if a clandestine “Top Chef” challenge were in progress, with young-gun chefs goading one another into using the fewest, crudest tools possible to create spectacle and wonder. Hungry City: Box Kite in the East Village 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The show kicks off every year with conferences from the platform holders, and though this year was rather light on announcements, it certainly wasn't on spectacle. Gamescom 2010, Cologne 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

The questions are too big to answer at a time already dense with chatter — the instantaneous eruptions on social media, the daylong spectacle of cable news, the steady drone of talk radio. What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Sometimes all a movie needs to offer is the spectacle of an actor suffering for his art — or at least appearing to. ‘Arctic’ Review: Madness in a Frozen Wasteland 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The trainwreck is a weathervane and moral compass, a public spectacle and sexist scarecrow, that instructs women on how to behave properly. Our trainwrecks, ourselves: Why women hate on hot messes and other toxic female tropes 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Hughes does not limit himself to critiquing art, offering observations about the city’s infrastructure, including Rome’s apparent adoration of fountains, as well as ancient Romans’ tendency toward spectacle. These books lead to Rome 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

It’s standard practice to record the “spectacle” — as the elaborate, decades-old Christmas event is called — to air the following year and cherry-pick each performance’s highlights. Kelli O’Hara, Richard Thomas join Tabernacle Choir Christmas 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

It was there that narrative and music, art and design, science and technology were transformed into cultural spectacle. Review | It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

For centuries, opera has been a tool of power, a spectacle developed and organized by influential Western nations and the elites within them. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Much is also made of Yi’s arcing crane-wing battle formation, but its significance is overshadowed by the sheer spectacle of collisions. ‘Hansan: Rising Dragon’ Review: Naval Gazing 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

She wonderfully synopsises this classic twentieth-century novel as "a spectacle of human deception and weakness, debauchery and love, as cast under the sparkling canopy of the Jazz era". Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-14T08:00:00Z

Of course, plenty of other big-name directors are unashamedly embracing 3D's potential for fantasy spectacle. 3D technology has even sceptical directors embracing another dimension 2011-03-17T10:24:38Z

A bird's-eye view of Lego Gotham is quite a spectacle to behold. Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes first look 2012-05-29T11:10:10Z

The comedy derived from Bulgarian workers hired to build the amphitheater merely positions them as part of a larger, unwieldy spectacle. "Greed," a satire about the filthy rich, is as subtle as Steve Coogan's blindingly white teeth 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Bridle argues that the Enlightenment-era equation of knowledge and power has collapsed under the sheer tonnage of information—data, news, opinion, political spectacle, fact, falsehood—mobilized by contemporary technology. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Despite the spectacle — or maybe because of it — it was hard to tell whether competitive sign spinning is an idiosyncratic sport, or a crafty HR strategy to boost employee retention and productivity. Inside the world of competitive sign spinning 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

The Gheorghiu-Alagna marriage, meanwhile, was played out in public as a grand operatic spectacle that rivalled any of the works in which they regularly appeared together. Angela Gheorghiu's serious claims might not be taken seriously 2013-07-03T17:00:00Z

Almost for certain — not in our lifetimes? — will we see this particular spectacle again. Guns N’Roses scores at CenturyLink Field 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

And it's hard to pinpoint two more prolific pioneers of modern cinematic spectacle than Spielberg and Lucas. Blockbusters rake in summer cash as ruthless targeting bears fruit 2013-07-01T12:49:11Z

The director has a taste for glossy spectacle and an eye for delirious mise-en-scène, matched with a darkly subversive bent and a taste for ambiguity. Paul Verhoeven Has Made a Film About a Lesbian Nun. Jesus Is Next. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The hazard of this anything-goes ethos of storytelling, which orients itself around the spectacle of novelty, is that it can only outdo itself so many times before spinning out of control. How True Blood's supernatural hedonism changed genre television 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Some of his most inspired creations have been stagings of Glass’s operas — especially the ritualistic set pieces of “Satyagraha” and the juggling spectacle of “Akhnaten.” Review: Philip Glass and the Meaning of Life 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Full of spectacle and fun — and some magnificent voices — this abridged, filmed version of the Julie Taymor-directed Mozart favorite is great for families. 4 classical-music events to catch this week 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Oh, we were a spectacle, in our filthy clothes, sample bags of gore piled on the roof of the truck. The Season of the Skulls 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

I did -- well, most of it; a dinner break caused me to miss the unfortunate spectacle of Jon Hamm losing for the fifth time. Did you watch the Emmys? 2012-09-24T16:42:33Z

Baker writes that his inspirations include urban decay and “the spectacle of war.” In the galleries: A photojournalist’s journey 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

It is a mass spectacle, loved by millions of students, and integral to the identity and history of colleges and universities everywhere. Title IX: How a Good Law Went Terribly Wrong 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

The idea is for the spectacle to permeate the visitor’s subconscious. ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ and Other Sleep-Oriented Shows 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

“We saw Warsaw burn and Modlin being bombed. It was a stirring spectacle.” Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

To Ellie, who steps into this capitalist Land of Oz at the other end of a rebellious run across rooftops and down dark, slimy hallways, it's a true spectacle of electric lights and vintage magic. "What is desire?": "The Last of Us" director on the apocalyptic wonder of a trip to the mall 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

Split screens and underwater hallucinations keep the verve content high, as does the spectacle of four men applying — in slo-mo, to the “Blue Danube Waltz” — an unusual viscous topping to a pizza. REVIEW: Wetlands: A Schmutzy Comedy With an Adorable New Star 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Across the world, as food has transitioned from fuel into spectacle and its production from individuals to profit-driven corporations, we have edged toward the extremes of what we can be convinced we want to eat. Burger King’s Mac n' Cheetos: a logical step in America's quest for innovation 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

But despite the enormous scope and visual spectacle, too many key components of the film – including those that have kept die-hard fans guessing and debating – prove unsatisfying. 'Yay, porgs!' – critics' verdicts on Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

As a visual artist, Mr. Fricke said, he was influenced by a cinematic tradition of spectacle, sometimes wordless. ‘Samsara,’ Ron Fricke’s Cinematic Portrait of the Globe 2012-08-17T20:13:02Z

After six days, he finally realized that the entire scenario had spun out of control into a nightmarish spectacle of brutality and abasement, and shut the whole thing down. Inside “The Stanford Prison Experiment”: Six days in a fake prison, and how they changed the world 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of people’s rejoicing in the destruction of their own kind is upsetting, and as the audience absorbs the apes’ shock, we become aware of another, deeper unease. Review: New ‘Planet of the Apes’ Makes You Root Against Your Species 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, when Godzilla does finally show up, "It's a riveting spectacle." 'Godzilla' a solid if not smashing reboot, reviews say 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

After the final curtain, the stagehands who made the show’s elaborate spectacle happen night after night, were invited onstage for a resounding round of applause. With Cheers and Tears, ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Ends Record Broadway Run 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

They found themselves drawn to the toxic hetero spectacle in the same way that some women read murder books to subconsciously deal with anxieties about violence. Turning Reality TV Trash Into Art 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

It is now a constantly changing spectacle, according to the seasons, a haven for warblers and kingfishers, loud with the croaking of frogs in summer. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Where Humankind and Nature Converge 2011-02-24T13:00:04Z

As music, and as a spectacle, it's imposing, sporadically pretty yet also claustrophobically over-orchestrated. Woodkid – review 2013-05-15T17:27:39Z

“Death in this ‘ancient and deathless’ terrain is always too close, where the land is sometimes a resplendent spectacle, more often a callous god,” our reviewer, Chanelle Benz, wrote of this novel. New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Now on Netflix, the fast-paced German drama aspires to the wily satire of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” but the spectacle of greed that it showcases is neither as engrossing nor as demoralizing. ‘Rising High’ Review: From Rags to Riches, Without a Conscience 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

What magic and theater have in common is the wonder, the spectacle that ironically sends you back to your reality with a new outlook. ‘A Simulacrum’ Review: A Magic Show in the Making, and Unmaking 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Cast members said animals of all kinds and some 1,000 extras were involved in making the musical spectacle, which features original songs from the animated film as well as new tunes. Will Smith brings own fun-loving Genie to new "Aladdin" 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

A Stripped-Down Strongman for Our Times Movies like “Riddick,” a satisfyingly primitive spectacle, help explain the unlikely ascendancy of Vin Diesel as a man of cinema. Movie Review: Vin Diesel Returns in Latest Riddick Film 2013-09-05T21:52:59Z

“No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make-believe,” it begins. Dance Review: Vincent Dance Theater in ?If We Go On? 2010-04-16T22:37:00Z

Hollyn and Colie’s experiences impress not as a spectacle but as a memory of a few seasons, with a wistful touch, before each moved on to her next station in life. ‘Bitterbrush’ Review: Alone on the Range 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

He is, especially at this point in his career, a man of total spectacle. Tom Cruise performs death-defying stunt: watching Tenet in a packed cinema 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

The evening’s crowning spectacle, of course, was Bradley Cooper’s and Lady Gaga’s live performance of “Shallow” from “A Star is Born,” which went on to win the Oscar for Best Song. 2019 Oscars: Cringe-worthy "Green Book" Best Picture win marred an otherwise successful night 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

A lot of my colleagues would probably not like the idea of the spectacle, it is a bit of a cheap idea, but I like the notion of spectacle. Artist Richard Wilson hangs out 'Italian Job' bus to teeter on Bexhill pavilion 2012-07-03T17:04:42Z

“There’s something about having such a public spectacle — it’s not fun,” she said. After Scandal and Divorce, Jenny Sanford Learns She Can Love Again 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

They were pop fables, something this slick spectacle doesn’t remotely aspire to be. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Rather, it is the power of spectacle — the symbol made flesh — that has made theatrical performance throughout history so disconcerting to those in authority. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Or our need for spectacle, which, increasingly, seems all that remains of the once-powerful symbols conjured up by our collective imagination to keep darkness at bay. Savage, beautiful and surviving: photos from the wild side 2012-06-26T14:21:42Z

Our agenda is about beauty, spectacle and the motivation for dance. Carol Ann Duffy's Rapunzel lets her hair down 2013-03-15T14:01:01Z

There was no part of me that was like, I want a huge spectacle and costumes and dancers. Tegan and Sara Talk About ‘Love You to Death,’ a Deeper Dive Into the Pop Mainstream 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Some fans lamented Clattenburg’s departure; it was, above all, thrillingly modern to watch a referee who carefully styled his hair and adjudicated with a sense of bravado, eager to be part of the spectacle. What If We Had Perfect Robot Referees? 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Children under ten may gawp at the spectacle with all its primary colours and plasticky sets, but they may not be transported to the kingdom of fantastical delight one finds at the best musicals. Monster reviews 2011-06-15T09:55:53Z

Now Byrd is transforming his hourlong piece into a roving spectacle with live carnival performers and multimedia installations. Spectrum Dance Theater's 'Petruchska': a tough and lurid carnival 2012-04-05T19:28:06Z

His team of dancers, clowns and acrobats taps into the magic of gadgetry in a circus spectacle designed for theatergoers ages 5 and up. Dance Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

There are few places left in the world where bioluminescent phytoplankton are plentiful enough to create this light spectacle. 16 of the Coolest Light Phenomena Around the World 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Billy lived his life quietly, but his death in 1989 became a nationwide spectacle after it became clear during funeral preparations that he was transgender. ‘No Ordinary Man’ Review: The Life and Death of Billy Tipton 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

The arrival of the CBS reality show “Survivor,” which filmed the current season of its adventure spectacle nearby, has brought new hopes. | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z

And you may wonder what these filmmakers, these parents, thought they were doing by turning their son into a cinematic spectacle. ‘American Promise’: 2 boys’ education from parents’ view 2014-01-23T22:37:45Z

The cinema begins with action—with the most banal yet most mysterious of actions, namely, walking, in the Lumière brothers’ 1895 spectacle showing workers leaving their factory. Cinema’s Walking Cure 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

When you take action film genre tropes and graft a political narrative onto them, people often imbibe the ideology along with the spectacle. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

And, with movies imitating the immersive head space of video games, it was only a matter of time before spectacle morphed into LARP-like life. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

He explains, “it was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle.” A must-read list: The enduring contributions of African American women writers 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

The awards ceremony is scheduled in late summer, when little else is generally happening on TV; it’s the perfect time for well-executed trolling or spectacle. Why the VMAs are the best awards show ever created 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Kabuki theatre, a rich and venerable art form dating back to seventeenth-century Japan, has become Washington speak for “empty spectacle.” Respect for Fredo, a Character Who Is So Much More Than a Political Insult 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

One audience member in London decried the presentation of “black bodies presented as spectacle, at their most vulnerable and denigrated.” Bold films negotiate the fine line between voyeurism and bearing witness 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

But the film is not entirely epic spectacle. A Peerless ‘War and Peace’ Film Is Restored to Its Former Glory 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

"The simplest way to put it is to say that the spectacle diminishes over time," he says. Man V Food: Adam Richman spills the beans 2012-06-15T23:05:00Z

"Brave New World" succeeds mostly as a rainbow-colored spectacle one can easily sit with despite the violence and empty sex appeal . . . or perhaps because of it. Peacock's Syfy-quality "Brave New World" dystopia crosses Burning Man and an orgy in an Apple store 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Inside the spectacle, expect a string of hits — from her 2008 breakthrough “I Kissed a Girl” to the recent “Dark Horse” — with a quiet half-time interlude featuring the more serious “By the Grace of God.” Katy Perry's Popsicle-colored 'Prismatic' show to Tacoma Dome | Concert preview 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Like a good film scene, this dance spectacle lingers after the curtain falls. Travis Wall brings a dizzying, sudsy dance spectacle to UCLA 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

The collective’s “loosely narrative spectacle” blends video, backdrops, costumes and props. The Buzz 2011-05-11T21:32:55Z

"Nothing wrong with robust criticism, but laughing at other people's mistakes is never an edifying spectacle." London's Strata tower wins Carbuncle Cup as Britain's ugliest new building 2010-08-12T16:33:00Z

Arrive after 8:30 p.m. on a Friday or Saturday for maximum spectacle. Heads Up: A Street for Adults in Orlando 2010-11-28T04:30:00Z

TV trucks from other news organizations soon pulled up nearby, creating a traffic-stopping spectacle in which the news media covered one of its own. CNN finds itself at the center of the news as a mail bomb forces evacuation of its New York office 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Each January, the Professional Bull Riders circuit takes over Madison Square Garden for a three-night spectacle that brings swarms of cowboy hats, Wrangler jeans, gold buckles and leather boots to the heart of Manhattan. Western State of Mind 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Most people are fairly familiar with the case of Terri Schiavo, a case that eventually turned into a political spectacle, to the detriment of her family and everyone else involved. Where’s our right to die? 2012-07-03T14:30:00Z

Friday: The opening ceremony, including massive spectacle plus the parade of nations. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Little Prince’ and the Olympics 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

After 69 days underground, they were lifted one by one to the surface in a spectacle that entranced viewers around the globe. Chile's rescued miners to surface again in Hollywood movie 'The 33' 2014-01-31T23:04:36Z

It was staggeringly beautiful, and the spectacle was over in a few minutes. ‘The Place Where Shamans Dream’: Safeguarding Spirit Mountain 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

“Eat the River” will be less of an architectural spectacle and more environmentally focused. French artist to spend two months 'excavating' L.A. River for 'Eat the River' project 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

That the media is ready to add weight to anything attached to Cannes was evident at another DreamWorks spectacle, a news conference last week for “Kung Fu Panda 2.” Party Love at Cirque de Cannes 2011-05-16T22:16:49Z

DS Last year Cutting Edge was allowed a rare peek inside the traveller community with My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, which focused on the celebratory spectacle of Gypsy marriage ceremonies. Tonight's TV highlights: No Ordinary Family 2011-01-18T00:05:03Z

It was a sorry spectacle of nepotism and greed reminiscent of some of the most corrupt regimes of the developing world in our own day. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

For the actors, it was more than a science fiction spectacle: It was a cerebral and emotional experience. ‘Dune’ is a dream for Villeneuve, Chalamet, sequel or no 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Silverman wasn’t worried about how such spectacle would play against the broader cultural moment. They’re Some of Hollywood’s Top Publicists. Just Don’t Ask Them Why. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

No planets, cities or galaxies are in peril, and you can enjoy the spectacle without any of the usual action-movie queasiness about invisible and extensive civilian casualties. Review: In ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ Super-Bro Against Super-Bro 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Electronic dance music has mastered the eye-popping arena spectacle. The Week Ahead: Feb. 19 ? 25 2012-02-17T15:52:59Z

Then she pivoted, happily owning up to the concert’s deluxe spectacle: “What’s your granny doing tonight?” Cher is still a survivor at Staples Center 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

The company's emotionally intense fusion of dance, theatre, mime and spectacle took Jack around the world on a wave of popularity from the 1960s to the 1980s. Jack Birkett obituary 2010-05-28T15:44:00Z

So when they kill, they kill theatrically, with elaborate mechanisms, as if presenting a magnificent spectacle. Exhibition Review: ‘Exquisitely Evil,’ Bond Villains at International Spy Museum 2012-11-15T23:35:07Z

In that vein, it’s important to note that audience members searching for large-scale spectacle won’t find it here. Theater Review: ‘Cirkopolis,’ by Cirque Éloize of Montreal, at Skirball 2013-12-23T19:52:44Z

The Greatest Showman, argues Shearer, triumphs because from its opening number on, it tells audiences to sit back and enjoy the spectacle. How The Sound of Music led the way for the critic-proof hit musical 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

“American Horror Story” is prone to spectacle but never more than this season. “He wants to be god”: “American Horror Story”s Finn Wittrock on playing a psychopath 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

In its less satisfying second act, a tavern spectacle suffers stylistic and structural oddities more typically found in Broadway hokum. New twists and turns enliven 'Don Quixote' 2011-04-22T15:34:23Z

Critics mostly hated the costumes and music around the movement, but young audiences adored the spectacle. ‘Everything Crossed Over’: Michael Clark’s Cheeky World of Dance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

The fact that Snyder makes that point with a spectacle of uninhibited bombast is a self-critique as strong as any reproach that a critic can levy. “Batman v Superman” Is Democrats vs. Republicans 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

In this week’s episode, Maeve wakes up to an instrumental version “Fake Plastic Trees,” which continues as she walks to work, unfazed by the mundane spectacle of a bloody shootout on the streets behind her. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Tipping Point 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

His work in this passage, from the roller-coaster moves of the cameras to the loud incidental noise that muffles the lyrics, undermines his actors and begins to push the musical from spectacle toward bloat. Movie Review: ‘Les Misérables’ Stars Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman 2012-12-24T22:48:43Z

Continuing along the Gold Coast, as the commuter corridor that stretches to Fairfield is known, the scenery remains a spectacle. Overnighter: On Connecticut’s Quiet Coast 2012-07-19T19:52:28Z

Video games have now displaced television with even greater spectacle, immersing people in the very fantasy worlds they turned to pulp for a century earlier. New pulp fictioneers are ready to rock'n'roll 2012-05-29T13:14:20Z

He was kept alive by a white doctor until a crowd of ten thousand people could assemble to witness the spectacle of his lynching. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

The reuniting of the two Virgins of the Rocks will be a mighty spectacle within this pageant. Leonardo swap will make for the greatest gathering of his work to date 2011-07-28T10:39:30Z

The result: A man with a powerful voice amid a bizarre spectacle. Blinking skirts, fake tans: It must be Eurovision 2013-05-17T17:21:13Z

I expected something more like the action movies I’m used to reviewing: a violent, overblown spectacle of aggression. Who’s Your Wingman Now? Pushing the Envelope With ‘Top Gun’ 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

But comic book fans were treated to action-movie-like spectacle in The Ultimates, a 2002 comic book series that reintroduced the Avengers to a modern audience. Up for Sale: Pop Culture Mementos 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

I found myself less awed than some of my colleagues by the spectacle of so much prodigious acting.  And the winner is ... the ensemble cast: How Broadway's best acting was a group effort 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The libretto was further tailored to Hamburg taste and style with the addition of extras and spectacle: dances, processions and the like. Music Review: ‘Almira’ Ageless at Boston Early Music Festival 2013-06-13T21:05:28Z

Done complete, spoken text and all, it can be an elating spectacle. The Fairy Queen ? review 2011-02-14T22:15:00Z

But for sheer spectacle, we did even better by car. Discovering the Douro 2010-05-28T14:25:00Z

It is a spectacle that all but one of the women observe with their eyes closed. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

In its Soviet years and after, the Bolshoi Ballet earned a reputation for valuing spectacle over substance, offering heroic force in place of refined artistry. Review: ‘Bolshoi Babylon,’ Russia’s Famed Ballet Troupe in a Scandal’s Glare 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Making resourceful use of miniatures, and what seems to be footage borrowed without credit from the German film, Baker creates a sense of teeming spectacle on a relatively tiny budget. DVD: Titanic Film ?A Night to Remember? From Criterion 2012-04-01T03:45:43Z

Macbeth's twitchy reaction is often eclipsed onstage by the spectacle of the ghastly witches. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Taking shape and losing it would become an unpleasant spectacle, with horror-film moments. Elena Ferrante: ‘Beauty triumphs in childhood photos, along with charm, joy, happy laughter’ 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

Raitt has never depended on hit singles or spectacle; instead, she relies on the quiet power of a voice that draws on blues, country, soul and rock to speak plainly about complicated emotions. Bonnie Raitt Heads to the Grammys, Recognized as a Songwriter at Last 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Although the show may "never be a classic musical ... in this superb production it's a hypnotic spectacle that packs an emotional wallop." 'Side Show' revision on Broadway earns praise from critics 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

Colourful spectacle taking in workshops, giant puppets, music, dance and acrobatics. This week's new events 2011-07-22T23:08:27Z

The movie serves up the dodgiest have-your-cake-and-eat-it menu: you get to see the women brutalised and assaulted,and also the men, the second spectacle presumably justified by the first. The Equalizer review – ugly, crass film smothers Denzel Washington’s charm 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a drama crafted with robotic insularity for the consumption of viewers being rendered robotic at each moment of the soullessly uniform spectacle. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

We're politely requested to believe that the ninth series of a television programme about some singing teenagers is a spectacle akin to the literal resurrection of Jesus. The X Factor 2012: could Mel B set it back on track? 2012-08-20T11:19:31Z

As a director, Mr Luhrmann is more interested in melodrama and spectacle than drawing the audience in. All beat, no heart 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The show, which blends the spectacle of drag with the sadness of clowns, explores Dickie Beau’s fascination with female icons like Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland. Artistic Director Moves from Abrons to Skirball Center 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The arduous, rebellious, absurdist spectacle was the largest group performance orchestrated by Mr. Pope.L, the Chicago-based veteran of more than 30 international “crawls” over the last four decades. Pope.L’s Group Crawl: Protest, Pathos, Provocation 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

Their appetite for spectacle is sated through heart-stopping acrobatics and, for Cirque’s first time ever, extreme street sports. Riding high on BMX bikes in Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Volta’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

It wonders, in other words, if in this TMZ era, ambiguity and secrecy may be the most watchable spectacle of all. Michael Fassbender gets big head in 'Frank' to make point about TMZ era 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

As long as emotion and spectacle remain our preferences, be braced for the next extravaganza, the next mesmerizing unicorn who will razzle-dazzle some sort of unpredictable path to 270. Notes on political theater: The perils of spectacle 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Avoiding the theatrics, spectacle and glamour of traditional concert dance, the postmodernists believed in the sanctity of movement itself, emphasized simplicity and focused on form as opposed to style. Sally Gross, Choreographer of Minimalist Dances, Dies at 81 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Poetry can be written to take advantage of the latent possibilities of delivery and performance and spectacle and music and everything else we can think of doing with it. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Fast-forward to Act II, through the construction of a paper-towel gown for one enthroned dancer, through that “labor spectacle” with its rearrangement of seats and exposure of theatrical trappings. ‘Court/Garden,’ an Interactive Work From Yanira Castro 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

When we finally made it to the awards that night, the disparity between the spectacle I had imagined and the scaled-back reality only widened. David West Read Visits Vegas for ‘The Performers’ 2012-10-21T03:07:23Z

It sits right at the sweet spot between emotion and spectacle. My favourite film when I was 12: Jurassic Park 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

She will not, for example, list examples of atrocities — “feminism is not served by turning violence into a litany” — or add to the spectacle. A New Book Thinks Clearly and Creatively About Violence Against Women 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

“It reads all together as, among other things, an anarchic reflection on a society of spectacle and waste,” Ken Johnson said in a review of the show for The New York Times. Phyllida Barlow, British Sculptor of Playful, Scale-Defying Works, Dies at 78 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

Where the show transforms skill into spectacle is with those lasso-like weights attached to ropes. Adding Razzle-Dazzle to a Gaucho Dance Style 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Not only does my body thank me but I’m thankful as an activist and an African-American artist to see the spectacle of black intellect communicated by five black men in this way. ArtsBeat Blog: Under the Radar: 5 Questions About 'Word Becomes Flesh' 2012-01-06T19:39:12Z

The case was closely watched not only because Ms. Love’s celebrity arises partly from having made a public spectacle of herself during the last two decades. ArtsBeat: Courtney Love Settles Twitter Case 2011-03-04T22:53:02Z

Already, the place seemed like a tourist attraction, where spectacle could be had, with two kids in tow, for the cost of a David Burke dry-aged burger. A Partisan Crowd Watches the Debate at the New Trump Hotel 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

A gloriously populated spectacle, Pacific Northwest Ballet's "Don Quixote" seems to practically jump off the stage into the audience. PNB's 'Don Quixote' provide spectacle and story 2012-02-06T22:50:04Z

On streets like Monument Avenue, it created an appealing spectacle of controlled rooflines and setbacks. Perspective | On Richmond’s evolving Monument Avenue, myth and ugly lies run deep 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Amid the flurry of new operas recently, including the avant-garde Louis Andriessen spectacle across the street at Walt Disney Concert Hall last week, “Bohème” serves as a kind of comfort food. L.A. Opera delivers some Parisian déjà vu in 'La Bohème' 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Constellation has always specialized in spectacle, artfully writ small. Review | Keegan and Constellation shine on their historic D.C. stages 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Bee bearding is a spectacle that traces its origins to country fairs, Mr. Hiemstra said. By the Bees on My Chinny Chin Chin 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

This annual spectacle of street bands returns with five days of free performances at parks, schools and other public spaces around New York. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, guest co-host Tara Setmayer describes the trial as a "stupid celebrity trial" and adds that the social media treatment it has garnered ultimately turned it into a "celebrity spectacle." #TheView: Relax, #MeToo is fine after the Depp verdict 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

As for superhero films, I hugely enjoy them as melodrama, spectacle, craziness and fantasy: for me, in these terms, they really are cinema. Martin Scorsese isn't wrong about Marvel movies – but neither is he quite right | Peter Bradshaw 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Speaking of the Peas, the lightweight foursome won few raves for its futuristic spectacle. Super Bowl halftime shows: rating the 5 best and worst 2014-01-30T18:50:53Z

Jackman gives an excellent performance, though, and in any other year, he would be an odds-on favourite, and the film itself is a unique and in its way remarkable spectacle. Lincoln sets stage for celebration of US history 2013-01-09T10:53:59Z

Yet not only is this a real scene in the French movie “Jumbo,” it’s also a gorgeous cinematic spectacle of grease, metal and skin, directed with punkish imagination by Zoé Wittock. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

The lawmakers draped themselves in kente cloth stoles for the public spectacle of presenting their reform handiwork to their constituents — and to the cameras. Perspective | Congress’s kente cloth spectacle was a mess of contradictions 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Like Get Out, the movie promises to combine race politics and entertainment spectacle. Cinema got woke in 2017, but it's only the beginning 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

But are there any plays that present a more depressing spectacle of American capitalism in action than Glengarry Glen Ross? The Root of All Evil: Glengarry Glen Ross and Golden Boy on Broadway 2012-12-11T16:00:50Z

The meal was sophisticated, the setting both bizarre and fascinating, but it was hard to escape the sense that Pyongyang is mostly spectacle, a gimmick with good food. Bites: Restaurant Report: Pyongyang in Amsterdam 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z

All the contradictions of the High Line, spurred by democratic idealism yet now a catalyst for the great spectacle of wealth and inequity, are embodied in the building. At the Whitney, a new structure forges a different relationship with the city 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

Soon enough Fauna heads to L.A. hoping to meet her grandfather George, unaware of his libertine hobbies and fondness of Grand Guignol-style spectacle. Ted Bundy, "I Am the Night" and our secret obsession with psychos 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

She was in her element this weekend, wrapping up the kind of signature spectacle she has become known for: a 12-concert marathon of 150 biblical psalms set to music by 150 different composers. Lincoln Center to End Its Namesake Summer Festival 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Without scenic spectacle, small events — like Hunding’s hut moving slowly upstage — register as almost thrilling. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

How best to appreciate the spectacle was also not necessarily obvious, at least for those who assembled for one of its opening-night “sessions.” An Avant-Garde Director Sets the Stage for Hermès 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Miller’s masterpiece fits into the summer blockbuster canon in a less literal capacity as well, striking its ideal balance of dazzling technical spectacle and massively-scaled emotional catharsis. 'A total blast': our writers pick their favorite summer blockbusters ever 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

We felt underdressed, but there were papier-mâché masks for sale, so we bought a couple and put them on while drinking cans of Sol beer as we watched the spectacle. Xilitla, Mexico: where Day of the Dead meets carnival 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

I’m one of the millions who enjoy this spectacle of wealthy womanhood held up to a fun-house mirror. ‘Real Housewives’ Invited Me In. How Could I Say No? 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

In their latest, “The One Moment,” which was posted to the group’s Facebook page on Nov. 23, they’re firmly grounded — but the video is still a spectacle. Watch OK Go's Utterly Spellbinding New Music Video 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Not that it matters: “iLuminate” is more spectacle than story, with technology its most dazzling star. Theater Review: ‘iLuminate,’ a Light Show With Actors, at New World Stages 2014-02-25T22:42:41Z

I should add that the spectacle, despite its absurdities, doesn’t appear nearly as farcical as the current prelude to the 2012 presidential election in the United States. | 'The Conquest': ?The Conquest? Sarkozy Made - Review 2011-11-10T23:13:46Z

The choice invests this breathtaking spectacle with urgency. Review: ‘Watchmen’ Is an Audacious Rorschach Test 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

One of the best spots to watch this annual spectacle is from atop Petrin hill on the city’s left bank. In Transit Blog: Where to Count Down Till Midnight in Prague 2011-12-30T22:56:25Z

It was the decision of Ms. Schutz and the Whitney to keep the painting on the walls after an artist, Parker Bright, called it a “black death spectacle.” After the Quake, Dana Schutz Gets Back to Work 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

It isn’t, however, a meaningful response, but a collective spectacle enacted to keep despair at bay. Essay: Refusing to say a killer’s name is no more than symbolic empowerment 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

This Swan Lake is a big, entertaining spectacle. Swan Lake 2010-06-13T21:00:00Z

Some people weep when they see this spectacle. Butterflies were symbols of rebirth. Then they started disappearing. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

No doubt, such worldwide behemoths as “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Fate of the Furious” count as big movies, if only in deference to their budgets, spectacle and wide-ranging appeal. Fewer indie films are opening in theaters. And filmmakers are fine with that. 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Many sane citizens will deem the spectacle of the spectacles ridiculous. The Spectacle of the Spectacles 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

You want dazzling colors and stirring spectacle from works like these, a sunniness that verges on wildness, and not the suavity that is the Boston Symphony’s stock in trade. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

For me, the dance was mainly just a part of the considerable spectacle, and an enjoyable one, especially the ebullient excerpt from Vasily Vainonen’s “Flames of Paris.” Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Theater Gala on Live HD Broadcast 2011-10-29T00:57:28Z

We are in an era of spectacle and ostentation, so going back to something simple was, I felt, absolutely refreshing. | YSL Manifesto 2011-02-28T19:30:33Z

The one has always required the other — from the Baroque spectacle of 17th-century operas, with their deus-ex-machina gimmickry, to the stagecraft required to mount any contemporary production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

European solidarity with Ukraine was clear throughout Saturday’s spectacle in Liverpool. Sweden Wins a Eurovision Song Contest That Showed Solidarity With Ukraine 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

They are posting signs to their front doors or tapping unusual delivery instructions into the Amazon app in the hopes of capturing a spectacle on their surveillance feeds. Dance, I Said — Dance! And Leave the Package on the Porch. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Monroe's then-husband Joe DiMaggio, violently jealous and physically abusive according to various accounts, couldn't handle the wolf-whistle spectacle of the location filming and turned his rage against Monroe in their hotel room later that night. Monroe statue carries a spectacle across the decades 2011-07-15T17:23:00Z

The spectacle was bright and often charming, but the choreography fell short, with a rushed, slapdash effect. What the Washington Ballet needs in a new director 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Spielberg pulled off a similar double recently when he shot political drama The Post in the midst of post-production for blockbuster spectacle Ready Player One. Schindler's List at 25: looking back on Spielberg's defining Holocaust drama 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Every song needs a routine in order to show you mean business, to create a seductive spectacle for a post-Fosse/Madonna /Jackson audience that sees its pop music as much as it hears it. Paul Morley introduces Showing Off ... Dance 2010-04-23T16:07:00Z

In 1975, the year Michael Bennett and Bob Fosse’s brilliant spectacle of dance and confession first appeared on Broadway, I was 9 years old and just becoming aware that I was different from other boys. The high school musical that might have saved me: Watching a high school production of “A Chorus Line” in middle age showed me how much I missed 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

The Tournament of Books — an annual, bracket-based competition for literary fiction hosted by the Morning News website — would not be the fascinating spectacle it is without the occasional upset or scandal. Stephin Merritt, “mean” book judge: Why his merciless reviews ruffled so many literary feathers 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

It is a tall and austere spectacle, like Lincoln, who penned the first drafts of the Emancipation Proclamation here as the evening sky crackled with cannon fire. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

All that that stretch of Atlantic coast had, as far as I knew, was Daytona Beach, home to the drunken spectacle known as spring break. Frugal Traveler: A Post-Spring Break Jaunt to Florida's Beaches 2011-04-19T21:52:22Z

Anniversaries can be distinctly bittersweet occasions, and even the most lavish family gathering or corporate spectacle never wholly dissipates a certain melancholy: Where have the years gone? Review | Something to celebrate: Four literary gems that have survived the vagaries of publishing 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

But it is a dead certainty that the visual spectacle will be dull. With These Cards, Every Hand’s a Winner 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

“The successful application of any art is a delightful spectacle, but the theory, too, is interesting,” he wrote. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

They scrambled across the rocks and those of us in the audience followed — as much participants in the spectacle as viewers of it. Cultured Traveler: Drawing Yourself Into the Scene 2013-12-12T16:43:08Z

It was all a bit of movie trickery, courtesy of director Danny Boyle, who oversaw the Friday night spectacle. Olympics inspire list of Queen Elizabeth II movies 2012-07-30T19:46:04Z

At the same time, the movies started to court the young with noisy spectacle, gross-out comedy and simple-minded homilies. Before Midnight rages against film's dying of the light 2013-06-24T15:50:20Z

With any justice the result of one of these races will top the conversations on Monday morning, proving the power of down-to-Earth dramatic grit and talent over the effects-assisted spectacle of dragonfire and blood. 2019 Emmys: One last great battle for "Game of Thrones" 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

But the best picture designation has been an odd stain on Gladiator’s reputation over the years: a film that might have been remembered as a satisfying revenge spectacle instead looks like a second-rate prestige picture. Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of the great fighting pit of Meereen proves one well worth waiting for, even if the action inside it didn’t quite match up to come of the show’s previous instances of hand-to-hand combat. Game of Thrones Recap: Season 5, Episode 9 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

In design and rhetoric, the spectacle was the closest the United States would come in those years to the Nazi rallies that had swept Germany. Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

These lackluster episodes tend to be the ones that rely the most on exoticism or spectacle. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,’ the Final Season 2012-09-02T21:59:41Z

But opera is meant to have spectacle, and so I did listen very carefully to the music without knowing too much about it in a technical sense. The Rake's Progress: when Hockney met Hogarth 2010-08-02T20:30:00Z

By building on the films multicultural base to help market it globally and amping up the spectacle and stunts, the franchise just keeps getting bigger. 'Fast and Furious' strives to be more than a fast-cars, hot-people flick 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The civilization of the spectacle has struck again. Mario Vargas Llosa on Love, Spectacle and Becoming a Legend 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

But make no mistake, while its footprint here may be small, there is nothing modest about this spectacle. | 'Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame': ?Detective Dee? With Andy Lau - Review 2011-09-01T21:38:44Z

The audience, knowing more than Sugar does, is rendered dizzy by the vertiginous spectacle of one movie star so shamelessly “doing” another. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z

The Parisian situationist Guy Debord once wrote: “All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. All real activity has been channelled into the global construction of the spectacle.” London Has Fallen: can city siege movies survive the age of terror? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Producers know that we're lining up to watch a dazzling spectacle and to hear our favorite songs, and that it would be unwise to provide any less. Ariel version 2.0: 'The Little Mermaid' splashes into La Mirada Theatre with an updated story 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

When the spectacle is done, both the people and the streets are covered with tomato guts. Like cheese, mud or monkeys? There’s a celebration for all those. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Gilliam's sense of spectacle and of the extraordinary surely bodes well; he is an "operatic" film director. Terry Gilliam, Mike Figgis make opera debuts at ENO 2010-04-15T15:39:00Z

The third day was a spectacle of underground colors. Ancient History Along the Nile 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

In Act 3, we get the whole over-the-top spectacle, complete with a rowdy and partisan audience taking sides like sports fans, led by a trio of stage parents taking photos and booing one another’s offspring. Tastes change, but backstage behavior is as bad as ever 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

The 360 Degree tour is the single biggest moneymaking tour in rock history because the circuslike spectacle of it is without peer. Review: U2 brings 'Beautiful Day' to Qwest 2011-06-05T18:27:04Z

The critics at the screening I went to seem to agree that summer movies aren’t about story, but about spectacle. Will The Bourne Legacy Usher in the Story-Less Movie? 2012-08-15T12:00:17Z

To help you navigate the spectacle and understand why the show matters, we offer this guide from the “Bachelor” obsessives of The New York Times and one newcomer to the franchise. A ‘Bachelorette’ Bible 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

This can be kind of touching — the spectacle of old guys muttering and wheezing can have that effect — and kind of fun, too. ‘The Highwaymen’ Review: Grumpy Old Men on the Trail of Glamorous Killers 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

This summer, in Paris, Ms. Dion, while staying at the Royal Monceau hotel during her sold-out European tour, made a regular spectacle by exiting through the front entrance as if were a one-woman fashion show. Celine Dion Loves You. And You. And You. 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

Times have changed, but the human appetite for violence and spectacle remain intact. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

He had told me ahead of time what I was likely to see, but the spectacle was still something to behold. Scandals usually end political careers. Not Joe Morrissey’s. 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

And yet, under “the dreck and distractions of overloaded tourism and coarsened spectacle,” Mr. Hughes says, “the glories of the remoter past remain, somewhat diminished but obstinately indelible” — remnants of Rome’s splendiferous earlier lives. Books of The Times: ?Rome,? a Personal History by Robert Hughes - Review 2011-11-21T23:26:49Z

As the troupe of musicians moved through the Javits Center, the audience of health care workers followed them, clapping to the beat and recording the spectacle on their phones. New York’s Pop-Up Concerts Kick Off With Jazz at a Vaccination Site 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

The later work in the exhibition shows contemporary artists using the medium to explore inner visions rather than outer spectacle. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

I'm sure if anyone bothered to look in my direction, the spectacle was slightly animalistic, but it felt natural. The healing power of the peach 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

And don’t forget the joyous spectacle of a network TV show with a pointed parody of vintage Soviet Bloc animation. 'The Simpsons': Which Episode Should Everyone Watch? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

In one memorable scene, he stages a grave for one of his victims, and when Laurie discovers it, two other corpses pop out at her, a jury-rigged spectacle. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Cregger isn’t as concerned with making bold political points as he is with orchestrating a snappy spectacle that goes a mile a minute. ‘Barbarian’ Review: This Rental is Hell 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Maybe they are, but not because they are shocked at the spectacle of an incompetent leader. Tale of a traitor: Is the famous betrayal of Benedict Arnold echoed in Michael Flynn? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

“Funny Girl” begins with the spectacle of Barbara Parker, an aspiring comic actress who realizes that being elected Miss Blackpool is a terrible career move. Nick Hornby’s ‘Funny Girl,’ About a 1960s BBC Sitcom Star 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

“I’m using elements with a little spectacle attached as bait on the hook,” Gibson said. What Would Ben Franklin Say? Artists Weigh the Dream of Democracy 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

For viewers, this means that “Game of Thrones” — always an awe-inspiring spectacle but sometimes plodding and frustrating — can become its own thing. ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Although a gifted technician, he never let any showmanship or spectacle get in the way of the story which, by modern standards, is a rarity. Hollywood pays tribute to Lumet 2011-04-10T10:38:11Z

Implicit in the invitation is the need for spectacle. Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke’s Unsettling Pageant 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

In many ways, true crime podcasts have made violence and horrific killings a spectacle — for the "Only Murders" crew, a whole theatrical production with a financial sponsor. “Only Murders” makes us question the ethically murky joy we derive from true crime 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Similarly, “Seven Deadly Sins,” performed in empty storefronts in the meatpacking district, was an eye-catching spectacle but didn’t fully connect the text to the environs. When Theater Installations Aim to Make Room for Drama 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Both directors have followings, but Mr. Park’s art-house pedigree might have been expected to carry his cinema of spectacle further. For Foreign-Language Oscar, a Robust Race With Germany and France Setting the Pace 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

There was no spectacle that day; but that did not mean there was no public obsession. This courthouse is the closest you can get to Mueller’s probe, one wall away from its secrets 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

This would be admirable if it wasn’t an end in itself; instead the varied legato, marcato and staccato are the main spectacle. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Joyce Theater 2012-06-28T21:07:57Z

The first screen version, released in 1951, is an amazing mess that featured Wright, who was more than twice Bigger’s age in the book, as the centerpiece of a sensational spectacle. A New Adaptation of “Native Son” Reaches the Limits of What the Text Has to Offer 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

But as far as I know, Elevator Repair Service is the first theater company to transform everything that’s said, thought and done in “April Seventh, 1928” into a sustained theatrical spectacle. Review: ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ Elevator Repair Service’s Take on Faulkner 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Lord March smiled at the spectacle and turned to meet the next group of people, including me, a guest of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, at a suite in the Hillside Pavilion overlooking the course. Tales from the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012-07-09T18:43:04Z

Ms. Salcedo’s dislike of the art market’s thirst for spectacle and its cult of celebrity clearly play a role as well. Doris Salcedo, Whose Art Honors Lives Lost, Gets a Retrospective in Chicago 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Thanks to Richards, it's become such a convoluted public spectacle, we can expect a docuseries about everything that went down in the next year. Mayim Bialik fills in as “Jeopardy!” host, while celebs speak out about kerfuffle 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

The river's dystopian expanse allows cinematographers to get creative and infuse the action with swooping aerial shots to accompany the spectacle of an automobile revving up its slanted walls. Clip joint: The Los Angeles river 2011-08-03T17:39:00Z

Besides the suspense, he said, "Downfall" is also an "amazing spectacle." Wrestler Jericho plays it safe on `Downfall' show 2010-06-21T14:08:00Z

Where its subjects’ appearance, movement and life cycles are concerned, “Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo” delivers solid science as well as an extraordinary spectacle. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 18-24 2013-01-17T23:15:26Z

He was praying for me now very loudly and enjoying the fabulous spectacle that he was creating. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

Bravura is standard for the festival but what the troupe also delivered were patterns of epic movement and rhythmic complexity that displayed flamenco as spectacle. Nuanced footwork from Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

Berlioz's Requiem offers a mighty visual spectacle as well as an aural one. Prom 39 & Matinee 3: BBCNOW/Fischer; Britten Sinfonia/Rundell – review 2012-08-12T15:00:01Z

Salonen's orchestral writing prepared for the instrumental spectacle of the coming Berlioz symphony. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

At once a martial-arts spectacle and an intricate chamber drama, “Dragon Inn” is a landmark of Taiwanese cinema. ‘Goodbye, Dragon Inn’: The Last Picture Show in Taipei 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

As an event and spectacle, it’s of a piece with the kind of roadshow presentations that Dietz is resurrecting at the Parkway, where filmmakers will regularly appear as part of the films’ runs. Perspective | An Oscar-winning director goes virtual reality, and it’s utterly thrilling. But is it cinema? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

That may be true, though movies have long employed spectacle — pyrotechnics, lavish set pieces — to bait, hook and bludgeon the audience so it keeps begging for more. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Wood’s death at 43 was a public spectacle – a vibrant, famous life cut short, compounded by mysterious circumstances ripe for speculation: a night-time drowning, no witnesses. 'A short but vibrant life': revisiting the life and death of Natalie Wood 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t even the ludicrous spectacle of a hyper-militarized police response. It’s not just the South and Fox News: Liberals have a white privilege problem too 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

This ongoing spectacle of the entertainment industry censuring certain artists over their private misdeeds while ignoring or rehabilitating equally troublesome characters is pathetic. "The Hangover 2's" Mel Gibson hypocrisy 2010-10-22T20:30:00Z

This spectacle of “light, music and ideas” includes concerts, outdoor light shows and a series of lectures by prominent speakers. Hot Chip in Liverpool and Cindy Sherman in Brisbane: Global Arts Guide 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Yet here again, as the city burns, Honda positions the destruction as less shocking than sullen, a spectacle that leads several characters to remember the darkest days of the war. ?Godzilla? the Great: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie 2012-01-25T16:20:11Z

“You still don’t understand that if I were more independent, I wouldn’t be making the spectacle I’m making now,” he told her in a 1970 letter. In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

He comes to see a spectacle, which will neither provoke nor disturb, whose worth cannot be questioned. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z

In recent years, however, the Super Bowl has eased back toward the spectacle of pop stars and flashy special guests. How Coldplay became cool: Haters keep saying they’re too soft, too earnest, too dorky — and they still don’t care 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

The world fair was an international spectacle in honor of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s “discovery” of America. Perspective | On Richmond’s evolving Monument Avenue, myth and ugly lies run deep 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Ukraine’s public broadcaster issued plans to host the spectacle in the west of the country, out of reach of Russian missiles, while politicians, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, said the nation would make it work. How Liverpool Put on a Song Contest for Ukraine 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

The Matrix Revolutions’ reliance on spectacle dulled the electricity of the original, and The Dark Knight Rises took a step away from the more grounded tone that characterised Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Furred time's a charm? How Paddington can escape the curse of the threequel 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Why, he asked, did he still involve himself in this "sorry spectacle"? Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z

Including long-running hits, short-lived holdovers from the previous season, and new shows, there were 72 productions on Broadway last season — 41 musicals, 28 plays, two magic shows and one dance spectacle. Broadway Defies the Odds With Another Record-Breaking Season 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Most of the first half is taken up with the story of Charlie's impoverished family, relieved by inserts of a garish TV spectacle showing the winners of the golden tickets. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review 2013-06-25T22:00:01Z

As with much of Mr. Ferver’s work, darker currents coursed beneath a surface of spectacle and humor, here in the form of Mr. Whiteside’s almost maniacal allegiance to the song. Review: Dancing Their Friends and Heroes (and My Little Pony) 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

In quick flashes, there are references to the work of female choreographers like Martha Graham, Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, but this is Ms. Li’s brand of spectacle. A Ballerina and Choreographer Team Up to Be Goddesses 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of seeing her sing, he says, is “unforgivable”, not just because it risks her humiliation but because it mocks music itself. Simon Helberg: from Big Bang nerd to Meryl Streep’s cartoonish pianist 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

It may have ended in a crash, but like other partisans, he sees “Frankenstein” as a forerunner of the kind of spectacle common on Broadway today. A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

At the end you may be impressed at the skill on display, but you may also wish that you were more fully moved by the spectacle of a soul laid bare and transformed. Review: ‘The Lesson’ Is a Test of Conscience and Patience 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

While they may dampen the sense of spectacle, guarantees are now considered a staple of the auction market, as they enable sellers to hedge their risk should consignments go unsold. The S.I. Newhouse Auction: 16 Paintings, $177.8 Million 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

One could describe "Mysteries of Lisbon" as splitting the difference between the opulent spectacle of "Time Regained" and the lower-budget TV dramas Ruiz made early in his career. Pick of the week: Rapturous 19th-century soap "Mysteries of Lisbon" 2011-08-05T01:01:00Z

Tonight, no-one takes their clothes off, but it's still a compelling spectacle. The Hidden Cameras | Pop review 2010-03-18T21:30:00Z

Except for being a mildly entertaining spectacle, not much of any interest is going on in this bland tempest. 'Rain Room,' technology's hot-ticket riff on Mother Nature 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Because the identity of each famous participant is kept secret until the contestant is voted off the show, “The Masked Singer” can’t rely on the spectacle of their star power. Those Wild ‘Masked Singer’ Costumes? She Designed Them 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Every time we come over a pass into a new valley, it presents some new trick or spectacle. Peru: take the high road to Inca glory 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

But even as spectacle, Thursday night’s effort failed. Dance Review: Out of the DVR and Onto the Stage 2010-10-08T22:00:00Z

Of particular note, with hindsight, was the spectacle to the far right of the picture, which featured Bruce Jenner quite literally trapped in a … a what? Marina Hyde's Lost in showbiz: high fives all round as Val Kilmer whoops about his new Top Gun mission 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Pop stardom is a high-wire act on the continuum between fantasy and reality, spectacle and authenticity, escaping and relating. How Honest Can Demi Lovato Be? 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Seven months after the whole spectacle went down, Herman Cain has continued his career as a political eccentric — writing books, landing speaking engagements and hosting his own Web TV network. Life after Herman Cain 2012-07-06T17:35:00Z

The Guardian's Michael Billington called it "a fine immersive spectacle", but said he was left "craving more" about the former Philippine first lady. Marcos musical launches new theatre 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

The scenes described in the ads—the props, the costumes, the dialogue—capture the drama and spectacle of white male homosociality. Straight white dude seeks same: Race, power and the secret world of straight guy-on-guy action 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Presumably Mr. Muntadas would favor a more humane, participatory democracy, but he proposes no practical — or visionary — alternatives to what the French philosopher and social critic Guy Debord famously called “the society of the spectacle.” Art Review: ?Muntadas: Information Space Control? in Bronx ? Review 2011-12-08T21:11:01Z

I booked a reservation at the Orangery — “the only royal palace in London where you can enjoy a traditional afternoon tea,” with a spectacle of jam coloring my imagination. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Those who fell in love with the love story, with Jake and Neytiri and their blooming emotional connection, will get a lot more out of this than moviegoers who were just wowed by the spectacle. Avatar on DVD Review: Pandora's Skimpy Box 2010-04-24T04:50:00Z

The marriage became a public spectacle and ended in divorce in 2007. Whitney daughter's condition unknown 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Surreal, exhausting and exhilarating, it was a spectacle. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z

The Opera Orchestra of New York offers concert versions of more esoteric grand operas and the spectacle of star singers stretching their comfort zones. Critic's Notebook: With City Opera?s Woes, Other Small Companies Step Up 2012-01-04T14:47:57Z

With just a minimal break between each title, contestants will be challenged to keeping watching a marathon of the space opera spectacle and stay awake, presumably for days. You Can Now Apply to Compete in the Ultimate 'Star Wars' Movie Marathon 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

But it isn't loved in the way that Rio loves its yearly spectacle. The importance of the Notting Hill carnival 2011-08-25T18:59:03Z

This co-production with the English National Opera makes wondrous use of aerialists, gargantuan puppets and spectacle. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

A combination of intellectual gravitas with cinematic spectacle and gut-wrenching entertainment is also evident in 2001: A Space Odyssey, with the Hal sequence being one of the most powerful cinematic experiences in my life. My hero: Stanley Kubrick by Tom Rob Smith 2011-07-15T21:55:12Z

When I moved to Cape Town from New York in April 2013, at the beginning of its soggiest season, bypassing summer altogether in my transhemispheric migration, I daydreamed about the floral spectacle. Pursuits: Chasing Elusive Flowers in South Africa 2014-04-23T16:27:31Z

It’s still a heart-rending tale, but is it as much of a spectacle? Can ‘Miss Saigon’ Be Saved? Two British Shows Disagree. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Stravinsky’s Mass is modest and elegant, in lucid colors, while “King David” is a sprawling Technicolor spectacle. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z

But it wasn’t just the spectacle that people were cheering. Review: With ‘Dougla,’ Dance Theater of Harlem Recalls Past Glory 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

His life was a public spectacle whether he wanted it to be or not. The Lives of Four Andover Grads Cut Short 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

In the annals of Barnum, the most ethically bankrupt spectacle of all was the exploitation of Joice Heth, a blind, toothless and emaciated black woman presented to gawkers as the 161-year-old nursemaid of George Washington. A Huckster for the Ages 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

A Gesamtkunstwerk is a synthesis, an artistic spectacle that combines multiple forms — say, music, theater, lights, video — into something wholly new. "Kentucky Route Zero," a magical realism masterpiece, is proof art can thrive in trying times 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

After the light spectacle, I circled back to the rally. Is it safe to travel to Hong Kong? I went to find out. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

We can persuade ourselves that we are watching the spectacle of enacted justice rather than the sentimentalization of a homicidal sociopath. Denzel Washington Exacts Vengeance in ‘The Equalizer’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

On its 15th anniversary, it remains a unique feat in the world of pop — a commercial success built on a foundation of melodrama and spectacle that simultaneously satirized and celebrated it. Panic! at the Disco’s Flourishes Weren’t Just Dramatic. They Were Theater. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

But fans in the arena for the Feb. 3 wedding of Penelope Ford and Kip Sabian on TNT’s “All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite” didn’t seem disturbed by the spectacle. A Bad Guy Jumped Out of Their Wedding Cake 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

But we are interested in the spectacle itself, which is ruined when there’s harm done. Twister tales: stormchasing in Tornado Alley, Oklahoma 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The fresco depicts the ancient Battle of Pharsalus as a naked struggle of men and horses, a swarm of bodies in sepia monochrome – a strange and disturbing spectacle, in short. Leonardo's nightmare of war still haunts France 2010-07-19T11:11:00Z

It was old-fashioned spectacle, in the best way. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

That period-piece gang-war epic was television at its most cinematic, a blend of operatically high dramatic stakes and equally operatic visual and sonic spectacle. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 4: Mind Games 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

This spectacle, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote, helps you understand how the company “has so successfully straddled art and business all these years.” 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

It is all part of "Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Human and Horse," a beguiling spectacle of acrobatic and equestrian prowess, and phantasmagorical optics. 'Cavalia': Humans and horses do dazzling work 2012-01-24T00:12:18Z

And in both Tom O’Horgan’s original Broadway staging and Gale Edwards’s 2000 revival the show became an occasion for postmodern spectacle that evoked celebrity worship as a frenzied, hypnotic electric circus. Spring Performance: On Broadway, a Penchant for Celebrity Biographies in Song 2012-02-23T22:15:24Z

Like his biggest mainland hit “Aftershock,” a 2010 earthquake saga, “Back to 1942” shows the director’s mastery of chaotic spectacle, massed human motion and elegant camera movements. ‘Back to 1942’: a grim tale of famine, war in China | Movie review 2012-12-06T22:02:31Z

When Game of Thrones began in 2011, the focus was as much on the sharp one-liners and the cunning political machinations as it was on the big twists and even bigger spectacle. Game of Thrones: how it dominated the decade – then lost its way 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

The spectacle is handmade, infused with breath and light. ‘The Woodsman’ Tells the Tin Man’s Tale 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

She changed media history and lingers on in afterlife as a permanent asterisk every time someone else re-enacts a new iteration of the gruesome spectacle she inaugurated. In search of Christine Chubbuck: The mystery of TV’s first on-air suicide 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Celebrated for audacious public works and his sense of spectacle, he has also been perfecting an instantly identifiable, dense yet meticulously fine-lined style of drawing since he could hold a pen. Duke Riley: Grand Master Trash 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

She's won her beloved and, indeed, the opera, and does a star turn to present, in the words of the opera's subtitle, the aural spectacle of "Virtue Triumphant". La Cenerentola - a musical guide 2012-06-19T12:21:43Z

Elle McPherson will host the series, which NBC promises to be a "true spectacle" taped in front of a studio audience and featuring music, dancers and models along with weekly challenges for the contestants. Jessica Simpson joins NBC's `Fashion Star" 2011-06-13T17:05:10Z

The focus tends to be on rubble, blood and suffering — the spectacle. ‘In the Same Breath’ Review: Wuhan 2019, or When Normalcy Ended 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

The site-specific spectacle, conceived by Mara Lieberman of Bated Breath Theatre Company, turns the life of the French artist into an impressionistic tale told in vignettes from storefronts and public spaces. Looking from the outside in, ‘Voyeur’ reimagines the life of Toulouse-Lautrec 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Officials expect roughly 20,000 people to be aboard various craft, with many more lining the river banks and an international audience watching the spectacle on TV and online. Plans for Diamond Jubilee river pageant unveiled 2012-01-18T12:20:09Z

That provides a good public spectacle, but it doesn't further public understanding. Has Newsnight lost its way? 2011-08-20T23:06:06Z

But, unlike those dances, which enjoy their own levels of ubiquity, it’s videos of a well-executed Swag Surf that get thousands of retweets, a spectacle every time, no matter how common. Ten Years of Swag Surfin’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

One saving grace of Game of Thrones is that, for all its increasing spectacle, it gets its greatest power from certain characters and combinations of characters, who charge the screen whenever they appear. RECAP: Game of Thrones Watch: The Irony Throne 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Lights flashing in time with the beats, it was as seductive and accessible a spectacle as the marathon itself. The Bang on a Can Marathon, With Steroidal Energy 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

A ship will be appearing in Victoria Square, Birmingham, at 10pm nightly from next Thursday 21 June as the outdoor spectacle The Voyage sets sail. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-06-15T10:58:30Z

While there’s scant spectacle — voices rarely rise beyond conversational level — Mr. Horton remains transfixing as he morphs from introspective to lively to frustrated. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

But the band most likely to repeat Blur's emotional spectacle are the Libertines. Is live music being ruined by endless reunions? 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z

The scene attracted a steady stream of college students and school children, who gathered to witness the spectacle. In the Studio With an Artist Who Paints in a ‘Color Trance’ 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

For folks unfamiliar with what a color guard does, it involves rifles, sabers and flags being tossed and twirled in a giant synchronized spectacle. David Byrne discusses his new documentary “Contemporary Color”: “Whoever decided what culture is, has kind of overlooked this” 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

It’s a musical revamp, a real-time test, a spectacle, a pop-up community, perhaps a dance party or an incipient riot — and, even in the YouTube era, an ephemeral, site-specific experience. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z

Why does Fall for Dance, created as an inexpensive platform to spread the wealth of dance, prize spectacle over all else? Misty Copeland Leads the Charge at Fall for Dance 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

"Nope" also ends on a strange note, in that it's unclear whether any of what the protagonists go through for a piece of the spectacle was worth the bloody trouble. From "Gladiator" to "Nope": How Jordan Peele maps our decline into spectacular denial 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

As the parade crowds increased each year, Sarg eventually developed the technology for the huge balloons that float overhead and allow all watchers to enjoy the spectacle. Award-winning nonfiction books for young readers 2012-02-21T05:12:14Z

But it absolutely drowns out what is important about the art and fabricates it into a spectacle — the very thing Doja Cat is afraid of becoming. Doja Cat's new polarizing, dark side cashes in on how controversy always sells 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z

When he first saw the encampment after stumbling on the island in 2002, Mr. Miners was horrified by the spectacle of this beautiful lagoon littered with half-dead and rotting carcasses of finless sharks. Favorite Place: Sharing Paradise With the Barracuda 2012-09-07T17:12:11Z

You cannot avoid being drawn into the contest and becoming complicit – even guiltily enjoying the spectacle of the kill. Bull – review 2013-02-13T17:52:47Z

Both display a level of spectacle and design worthy of the neighborhood. A Broadway Marathon Survival Guide 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

That the first film in question was “Black Panther” didn’t hurt, but that Duke still managed to stand out as rival Wakandan leader M’Baku amid such star power and spectacle is all the more impressive. With ‘Black Panther’ and now ‘Us,’ Winston Duke is on a roll 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

He’s also a showman, and as such an avatar of the film’s ambivalence about the business of spectacle. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Weinstein has a proven track record with documentaries, having brought more than a touch of spectacle to the marketing of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “Bully,” “Sicko,” and “Madonna: Truth or Dare.” ‘Salinger,’ a Documentary Film 2013-05-08T21:24:06Z

The spectacle was lovable, but the singing was pretty rotten and the whole operation felt tired. Review: The Met Opera’s Grand Old ‘Aida’ Isn’t Dead Yet 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

But some wonder if such spectacle isn’t a cheap and quick way to generate buzz. Dance Finds a Home in Museums 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

It will no doubt have a huge audience at Tate Modern, one that might see it as no more than an entertaining spectacle and treat it like a day at the beach. Tate Modern's sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand 2010-10-11T13:08:00Z

During the pre-game or breaks, you can ramble on about that Pepsi ad or absurd spectacle that is the halftime show. A Guide For Looking Smart About the Super Bowl 2011-02-04T06:00:00Z

The Royal Albert Hall doesn't lend itself to intimacy, and many of the ballet's more nuanced moments are lost in its vastness, but Deane's production is all about spectacle, with rock'n'roll-scale servings of dry ice. Swan Lake – review 2013-06-15T23:05:23Z

"Tonight was definitely a spectacle -- and for the most part in a good way." Whitney Houston returns to stage, critics divided 2010-04-14T10:43:00Z

The band is the latest in a line of mostly boomer-oriented A-list rock stars to play the spectacle, among them Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Prince, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney. 2010-02-06T02:39:00Z

On a more timeless front, these plays often dwell on the spectacle of humans building their own reality. Review | Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

I love a spectacle, but I saw it as social commentary. 2010-02-04T01:56:00Z

He succeeds, as does the labor-intensive spectacle itself. ‘Gods of Egypt’ and ‘Alexander the Great’: Let Me Polish That Breastplate 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of a talent so hamstrung inspires both morbid fascination and acute embarrassment. On Video: Buster Keaton’s Talkie ‘Free and Easy’ Comes to DVD 2014-03-23T19:49:40Z

So, I sniffled and succumbed while also wondering at the epic durability of the spectacle of male sacrifice. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Still, it produced a wonderful season on its outdoor stage, and a highlight was the soaring spectacle of Streb Extreme Action, a company known for performing daring feats with sly humor on bespoke contraptions. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Nevertheless, she persisted” has become a rallying cry, and the spectacle of Kamala Harris being repeatedly interrupted during Senate hearings prompted passionate conversations about how men talk over and belittle female colleagues. From Ancient Myths to Modern Day, Women and the Struggle for Power 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, those of us who formed the audience for the show are left to contend with our participation in an extra-legal spectacle that, against all odds, transformed the unsympathetic Durst into a pitiable quarry. Robert Durst’s Grotesque Confession 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

In an era when the spectacle is both craved and critiqued, Kusama’s art engages us in immediate, bodily, sensory experiences, allowing us to escape from and return to self-consciousness. Review: At Seattle Art Museum, ‘Infinity Mirrors’ is spectacular, surreal — and, yes, reflective 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Here’s a look at some of what goes in to putting together annual spectacle outside Dallas and others like it nationwide. 5 Things to Know: The fireworks at ‘Kaboom Town’ 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

This is a grand spectacle, not an empty one, a rare example of the Hollywood blockbuster dollar well spent. Christopher Nolan’s 'Dunkirk' Is a Masterpiece 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

I loved the spectacle of the game, not only because of the coach, but also because I could sit on the front row wildly cheering for my niece. My sister’s perfect life 2012-07-04T00:00:00Z

No, she says, she never worries that the spectacle of the latter detracts from the former. From Yoko Ono to Lady Gaga: how pop embraced performance art 2011-07-07T21:00:03Z

They have decisively conquered our screens and our box offices, with ever grander and more improbable forms of spectacle, to the extent that we’re now beginning to question how much more of them we need. Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

The conductor, Donald Nally, urged the singers to handle the scissors with care as they took them out of their sheaths and held them aloft, observing that the spectacle looked like “Sweeney Todd.” Arming a Chorus of Women with Scissors 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Elis is peddling the match as a spectacle, a Finnish benchmark. Review: In ‘The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki,’ Love and Life on the Ropes 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

There is, for example, Pelham Crescent, a Regency curve poised before an unruly cascade of rock, which faces the spectacle of the sea like a theatre balcony. The tragic battle for Hastings 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z

The ultimate proof of sight’s marginality is sex itself, which, unlike the spectacle of sex, invalidates seeing as a means of transformation. 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

She's fine with being viewed as a spectacle, which we see when one of her white friends takes a video of her speaking Hindi. "It Lives Inside": When a horror movie defangs its demon with poor metaphors 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

It's quite the spectacle, even for downtown Seattle on a busy Friday night. Seattle's Sandra Jackson-Dumont makes art a party 2011-05-26T18:46:02Z

Director Matthew Gardiner adeptly turns his eye for onstage spectacle to the screen. Review | Digital theater productions highlight the power of art without an audience 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

I found an immersive performance — really, a spectacle — at a place I never would have expected it: a basketball game. The Biggest Dance Show in Town? At a Basketball Game. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

One challenge, though, is that TV can sometimes turn theater spectacle into something puny: “She Loves Me” is set in a twinkling perfumery that sadly seemed wan and scanty on the screen. Broadway Comes to a Laptop Near You 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

The spectacle, depicted in archival footage, is both heartening and headbanging. ‘White Riot’ Review: When Punk’s Stars Banded Against Racism 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

The worst offenders are whipped into submission by a couple of tribunes repulsed by the spectacle. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z

“Toruk” is a far more assured work than the most recent Cirque spectacle, the fabulously inept Broadway musical “Paramour.” Identity Crisis: Theater Productions That Refuse to Be Theater 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

But the film’s enduring hook is the spectacle of a self-proclaimed revolutionary government that can’t abide the rebellion of rock without bureaucratic oversight. ‘Los Últimos Frikis’ Review: Keep On Rocking in Cuba 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The spectacle provided by the incomparably rich birdlife of South America is easily outclassed by the magnificent extravaganza that is the Rio carnival in 3D CGI. Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z

“It’s the spectacle, and the sense of belonging to a tribe. No one knows if there’s a story to follow. It’s silly, but it’s fun to look at.” Just Say ‘Cats,’ and Watch the Fur Fly 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

In both plot and music, the opera combines the public and private, spectacle and intimacy, huge choral set pieces and quiet, heartbreaking duets. The Met's Don Carlo: Verdi's Masterpiece, for Everyone 2010-12-10T21:50:00Z

But it gets waylaid in spectacle and lurid melodrama. Review: ‘Ratched’ Flies Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest and Into the Mire 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

One long sequence is reminiscent of a Robert Wilson stage spectacle. Japan Cuts Film Festival at Japan Society Emphasizes the Eccentric 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Do I imagine that one well-heeled local raises her eyebrow in evident displeasure, as if we are the most unexpected spectacle of the weekend? 'I feared I'd be left with prejudiced children​ ​who didn't love me': life as a stepmother 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s been the spectacle of broadcast television nervously, and a little desperately, dancing on its own grave. Review: ‘Fleabag’ 4, Emmys 0 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Anderson and her brothers saw a huge opportunity to bolster their future fan base and extend the spectacle of Cowboys football beyond game days. Keeping the Cowboys Cool, as N.F.L. Takes the Heat 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

There's no denying Feng knows how to lay on a big, populist spectacle. Back to 1942 – review 2012-11-11T16:11:02Z

In a monologue, Cher claimed she was the envy of Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, latter-day practitioners of the pop spectacle. Music Review: In Las Vegas-Style Spectacle, Cher Flaunts Strength, Staying Power and Physique 2014-05-11T04:01:26Z

But she finds the spectacle of women arguing over their rights and their bodies newly relevant. ‘The Town Hall Affair’ Recreates a Feminist Firestorm 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

“Swirl it to reveal a color-changing spectacle of purple and pink. It’s finished with whipped cream-sprinkled pink and blue fairy powders.” Staring into the glittery heart of Starbucks darkness 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

“Hundreds of items from a number of museums and private collections, including foreign ones, create a spectacle that is at some points even excessive, more than covering the curiosity of the ‘average viewer,”’ he wrote. 2010-01-26T04:38:00Z

A onetime big-city hotshot exiled to a sleepy paper in the Southwest, Chuck stumbles across a mishap — a guy trapped in a cave — and turns it into a media spectacle. Film: The Newspaper Picture: A Genre Explored at Film Forum 2010-04-08T21:41:00Z

But the secret of 3-D—its central irony, let’s say—is that it isn’t any good for spectacle. The Misunderstanding of 3-D 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

You could call its brand of experimental dance everyday spectacle. An Artist-Run Dance Space That’s ‘All Presentation, Baby’ 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

Do they leave viewers better informed — or merely entertained by the gladiatorial spectacle? ‘Stop doing that, or this interview will end’: How the smackdown took over cable news in 2020 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

It made every other recent arena tour that traffics in spectacle look rather puny in comparison. Concert review: Madonna at the United Center 2012-09-20T07:42:00Z

All around the city, people prepared for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, the continent-wide pop spectacle being hosted in town last spring. Vienna is cited as the world’s most livable city. Most exciting? Not so much. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Lady Gaga practically invented the current era of pop music as spectacle, one that’s become an escalating arms race of self-conscious oddity. Lady Gaga's Performance at the Oscars Could Redefine Her Career 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

These are details, to be sure, but the grand spectacle of opera is an accumulation of such tiny, crucial moments, as well as a hearty helping of the passion that this “Otello” sorely lacked. Music Review: Renée Fleming in ‘Otello’ Revival at the Met 2012-10-10T21:37:14Z

I love the spectacle and the feeling of church that theater brings. Katori Hall on creating "P-Valley," demystifying sex work and the art of filming a pole dance 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

Nate Chinen The cybernetic surge in contemporary pop has yielded a lot of stoic posturing and empty spectacle, but there’s still room for human feelings within the circuitry. Week Ahead: Aug. 1-7 2010-07-29T14:33:00Z

The long, pathetic spectacle brought joy only to the jackals of the British tabloids, which sneered in big headlines at each new downturn. An Appraisal: Breakout Album Became Winehouse?s Only Song 2011-07-24T03:34:27Z

It’s a risky form, particularly in an age that worships spectacle. | 'Molly Sweeney': Does One Need Sight to Grasp the World? 2011-01-31T22:37:45Z

Several reports from the time presented a duality for the project – science or spectacle? – as if the project couldn’t be both, or a harbinger of future scientific attention grabs such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX. 'It's useful for viewers today': the film about a two-year voluntary isolation 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Elton’s known for his spectacle and his theatricality, and bringing the music to the big screen, was a challenge but also exciting,” said director Dexter Fletcher. Paramount brings ‘Rocketman,’ new ‘Terminator’ to CinemaCon 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the film’s tallest monument today is how Burton and Furst created a visual spectacle that “had no specific precedent,” Levitz says. How Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ radically changed the superhero-movie landscape 30 years ago 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

It was the first time I'd ever cried watching a film, and the teacher laughed at the spectacle. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

I was taken by my parents, and it was such an incredible spectacle. Barbra Streisand, James Corden and More on Their Favorite Sondheim Song 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

It is people like Clary who put the spectacle on the street and make carnival happen. The importance of the Notting Hill carnival 2011-08-25T18:59:03Z

That spectacle has become so vast that this time, she and Mr. Daughs don’t plan to do their puppet theater production, “St. George & the Friendly Dragon.” Spare Times for Children for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

It's hard to remember it was only six weeks ago; the spectacle of it already seemed unreal. 12-12-12 concert for hurricane Sandy – review 2012-12-13T08:05:15Z

There’s a suggestion of Catholicism in the spectacle of tormented male flesh, of course. Review: Tough Guys Tough It Out in ‘Papillon’ (Again!) 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

“Some people think it’s great,” Kjartansdottir said of the group, but others think they’re less about the music and more about creating a spectacle. Feminist Rap Group in Iceland Looks Abroad After Making a Stir at Home 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

The spectacle was beautiful, as fireworks tend to be. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

He was correct to be proud of what he had achieved: an imposing operatic spectacle that avoids Meyerbeer’s bloated heroics and Massenet’s often fussy decorations, not to mention the grand-opera overkill that smothers Wagner’s “Rienzi.” ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z

But still, the dollar menu millionaire spectacle broke new ground even in Trump's White house, an people on social media had a field day with the visuals. Cold Whoppers in the White House: A visual metaphor for the Trump presidency 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

And the media attention is an incredible spectacle. Critic?s Notebook: Stephen Colbert Stirs Up Political Campaign and Media 2012-01-14T02:23:24Z

That is, until the stage transforms speedily into a grim spectacle of neon lights and exaggerated embellishments, reflecting everything Usher refuses to produce in his own art. ‘A Strange Loop’ Review: A Dazzling Ride on a Mental Merry-Go-Round 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

I'm sure that the play is a fine night of entertainment for those who find Broadway spectacle appealing, but having read the script, I felt that the story was uninspired and dull. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

Davis is a longtime regular at the festival and says that for him it conveys "a sense of spectacle, a sense of wonder and awe, a sense of generosity and shared experience." T Magazine: Bright Idea 2012-11-29T22:30:55Z

Snarling digital monsters, a glowering Matt Damon and battalions of unfaltering Chinese warriors mix it up in “The Great Wall,” a painless, overstuffed spectacle that works overtime as a testament to China’s might. Review: Matt Damon Battles Clusters of Monsters in ‘The Great Wall’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

It’s a philosophical opera in four scenes; an anti-symphonic ultra-symphony; a theatrical spectacle; a piece blithely combining text, dance and singing; or all of the above. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

But “Phantom” is always put down as a spectacle — it’s a black enameled box with things put in it mostly. So Many Shows, So Many Hits: For ‘Prince of Broadway,’ the Challenge Is What to Leave Out 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Still: quite a spectacle, and a nice family outing. One Life ? review 2011-07-21T21:24:01Z

During the pregame or breaks, you can ramble on about that Pepsi ad or the absurd spectacle that is the halftime show. Super Bowl Sunday: What You Should Know About Steelers, Packers 2011-02-25T10:45:00Z

The promised “spectacle of raw shame” comes off more like a faded reproduction. | 'Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now': ?Hypnotik? at Theater for the New City - Review 2012-01-01T22:18:00Z

Toning down the images of conflict, however, results in the banalisation of bloodshed, making it into an easily consumed spectacle. Shooting Syria: documentaries from the most dangerous place on earth 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Scenes followed one another without much connection, and the shift to the graver spectacle of the Living Nativity was abrupt, though the donkey and camels enchanted us. Big Critic, Little Critic? Me, My Daughter and the Rockettes 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

Once upon a time — say two or three years ago — high-concept spectacle was the default mode for a live television event like the Grammy Awards. Grammys 2015 was a low-wattage affair 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

During the Victorian period, however, many of these lectures and demonstrations at other institutions were more spectacle than scholarship. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Borgias’ political machinations provide an undoubtedly grotesque spectacle, a fine subject for the dell’arte all’improvviso, which has long been a creative touchstone of Fo’s. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Jeff doesn’t expect anyone else to live in a dumpster and he’s the first to admit there’s a clear element of spectacle that comes with converting a trash can into a mini domicile. My boyfriend lives in a dumpster 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

It’s the post-apocalypse on wheels in “Mortal Engines,” a heavily stylized sci-fi spectacle based on a young adult series by the British author Philip Reeve. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘The House’ 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding. The Twitter Watch Party Is Over 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

In Kasanka, game drives will witness the spectacle of up to 10 million fruit bats flying from their roost at dusk and returning at dawn in what is considered the world’s largest mammal migration. From Botswana to Zambia, New Lodges, Resorts and Tours 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, ‘‘Him,’’ a trompe l’oeil portrait of Hitler as a penitent child, has been widely hailed as an unnerving spectacle — an untouchable subject treated with singular tact. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z

Even before the advent of what is known as "the society of the spectacle" the cogito was incomplete, but the exteriorization of memory in the information age makes that fundamental error all the more evident. In "Blade Runner," who are the androids and what do they dream of? 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

“I was a little kid, running into the theater like, What is this? The spectacle of it, the largeness of it, was always really inspiring.” ‘Not Understanding Is Really Satisfying’: A Director Keeps You Thinking 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

To film it properly would require a Robert Altman, a director with an unorthodox sense of spectacle. ‘There There’ is an Energetic Revelation of a Corner of American Life 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

The greater portion of art at the fair, at Piers 92 and 94 at 12th Avenue, in Clinton, explores new permutations of well-established genres, which can make for entertaining spectacle. Art Review | 'The Armory Show': Ahoy From Nudes, a Pirate and Scrooge McDuck 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z

“Exposure” showed that it was possible to turn the technical, obsessive process of recording jazz into a public spectacle. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

"Joe DiMaggio, you know, he was watching it, and he didn't like it very much, his wife making a spectacle of herself," Wilder told Summers. The 6 most heartbreaking Marilyn Monroe moments from Netflix’s “The Unheard Tapes" documentary 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

The player hunches over the bass, fingers scrawling out harmonics beyond the fingerboard: It’s a visual spectacle as much as an aural one. Review: Skittering, Creeping Music That Had Me Seeing Things 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

It’s a spectacle that continues to occur there every day. Cats, Monsters and Detonations at the Park Avenue Armory’s Print Fair 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

I sat on my bed and waited for a bit of a spectacle. Roddy Doyle on Ex-Hurricane Ophelia and the Wild Atlantic Way 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

This is a full-blown spectacle with classy West End production values and a considerable wow factor, particularly in the second-half ballet inspired by Uncle Tom's Cabin, which is staged with real beauty and panache. The King and I ? review 2010-12-10T21:30:00Z

Cannily employing slow motion and replay, the filmmakers turn a territorial dispute between two giraffes into a brutal, balletic spectacle more hypnotic than anything in “Raging Bull.” Television Review: ‘Africa,’ on the Discovery Channel 2013-01-08T00:19:52Z

Crook mines every sliver of believable humanity from the spectacle of a haunted man's psychic torment. 'The Bells' at Strawshop: haunting landscape, haunting secret 2012-02-03T00:18:04Z

Bringing the franchise in to the 21st century, Miller was determined to deliver the kind of nonstop action and eye-popping visual spectacle that today's summer moviegoers demand. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' rules: Keep it real and really wild 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The whole day was a postmodern spectacle in search of a focal point. In Search of a “Viral Moment” at the Robert Mueller Hearings 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

It's a spectacle that satisfies on many different sensory elements - audio, visually, emotionally. 'Lion King' is Broadway's all-time box office king 2012-04-09T16:24:11Z

The spectacle, managed by the National Park Service, is so popular the tickets are distributed by lottery. Humans love fireflies, but we haven’t made life easy for them 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Collins and Kressley did a fine job translating proceedings for a bewildered audience, but they couldn’t compete with the intrinsically European spectacle. Why the US embrace of Eurovision is good news for planet Earth 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Inside, a group of about two dozen teens on a school trip from Cambridge, England, tried getting in on the spectacle but were turned away because the courtroom was at capacity. Week 1 of Weinstein trial: Vile allegations, X-rated gifts 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

It looks more workmanlike than dazzling the second time around — hardly deserving of the disparaging label that some have stuck on the show: a Vegas spectacle. Spider-Man, Finally: On Scene at Opening Night 2011-06-15T08:00:00Z

“What happened is, it’s a cinema of spectacle.” Lenny Lipton, ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist and 3-D Film Pioneer, Dies at 82 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Even just the public spectacle of an accusation can be enough. Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S. 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

It's never really clear and theoretically it doesn't really matter; gawking at the ensuing spectacle is the reason we're all here. Review: `Battleship' loud, dumb but stays afloat 2012-05-16T01:31:06Z

And while the Lumières were still hung up on cinema as a technological spectacle – “Look! A train!” Why was pioneering director Alice Guy-Blaché erased from history? 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

This is the cosmology of Amazon Prime Video’s new fantasy spectacle, “The Wheel of Time,” hence the title. Review: This ‘Wheel of Time’ Goes Nowhere Fast 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

It was the spectacle of a person forcing herself to talk about anything other than the news. Megyn Kelly Fails to Connect With the Audience During Her 'Today' Debut 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

We are all familiar in our own lives with the spectacle of the sports fanatic, or the compulsive games player, whose engagement with the wider world is mediated through the lens of their pursuit. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Her video represents the apotheosis of coronavirus trolling: a global crisis is filtered through the influencer machine and emerges as a purely self-serving spectacle. The Unending Anxiety of Coronavirus Content 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Rippling, roaring, flashing — it's a thrilling, enveloping spectacle. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

“This Bridge” is an intimate spectacle: a mix of the untamed and the tactile, the sensorial and the formal. A Choreographer Gives In to His Ambition of Recklessness 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Paul David Hewson's rise to fame also coincides with the postmodern decline of politics into spectacle. The Frontman: Bono (In The Name of Power) by Harry Browne – review 2013-06-26T11:00:03Z

“Nothing was taken seriously, except putting on an absolute epic spectacle,” he recalled. Fake blood and real meat: GWARbar gets ready to open in Richmond

Near a screen at midday, when the celestial spectacle begins? What’s on TV Monday: The Great American Eclipse and ‘The Good Karma Hospital’ 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

After Ukraine won last year’s edition of the beloved, campy singing competition, the country won the right to host this year’s spectacle. Sweden Wins a Eurovision Song Contest That Showed Solidarity With Ukraine 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

Highlights: A skateboarding party, historic displays, walking tours and -- at 4:30 p.m. -- a massive "chair spectacle" arranged by choreographer Pat Graney. What to do this weekend, rain or shine 2012-04-20T18:36:22Z

Patti’s funeral, held in St. Sabina Church, is an artistic spectacle of music and dance, but, above all, it’s the spark for a vast political vision, by means of Father Mike’s sermon. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

But while the 9/11 attacks were in part a media spectacle, that’s a different thing from a deliberately filmed murder, a grisly performance meant explicitly to be shared for effect. Don't Look: Beheadings, Stolen Nudes and Choosing to Be Decent 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

At the same time, it’s even more of a challenge to give a great performance in a home for professional sports and pop spectacle. Aziz Ansari Plays Madison Square Garden 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

What’s telling here is that at a spectacle so potent and on a stage so crowded, the eye would be so naturally drawn to the goofball understudy. A Biden Moment 2013-01-26T01:36:39Z

We still want to see the spectacle of her. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z

I understand the distinction he was trying to draw between a war movie that draws on actual events and a violent spectacle in the Tarantino mode, drenched with irony and cinematic allusion. Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z

It's gone way beyond this in terms of storytelling and spectacle. Tintin brings out Steven Spielberg's motional side 2011-07-25T11:20:28Z

The spectacle of a show is so needless. The Making of Carolina Herrera’s Fashion Show 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Kanye West has defined most of his career with smash hits and a healthy dose of spectacle and theatrics, helping to redefine the modern concept of celebrity along the way. Kanye West Faces Costly Fallout: A Timeline 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

“The police came immediately, so it was only a few minutes and I left with the dancers, but that was a spectacle.” Now Arriving: Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith’s Grand Central Madison Mosaics 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

But such issues are submerged in the thrilling spectacle of the dancing. Mariinsky Ballet: Homage to Fokine ? review 2011-08-02T17:37:05Z

Even in the writing, I’ve helped craft set pieces that are built for him to be the spectacle. In ‘Unstable,’ the Sins of the Father Are Comedy Gold 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

The price of spectacle, apparently, is the sacrifice of profundity. As "Game of Thrones" ends, we have to ask: What do we expect from a series finale? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Crowd scenes and spectacle were requisite for opera in Paris, and Verdi supplied them. Opera Review: A Winning, Cautious, ?Don Carlo? at the Met 2010-11-23T12:39:00Z

Viewers raised on the more baroque, digitally enabled forms of blockbuster spectacle are likely to admire the relative simplicity of “Fury Road,” while aficionados of the traditional slam-bang methods will revel in its coherence. Review: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Still Angry After All These Years 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

By attracting attention to the fascinating spectacle of her self-denial, Anna forces the spectator to confront the reality of exploitation and abuse that has been erased from the public narrative. "The Wonder": Netflix’s story of "fasting girls" shows us starving bodies remain a public spectacle 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Perhaps a fashion gala, with women in the audience themselves a special spectacle, is the perfect occasion to believe in a realm of such one-way chivalry. City Ballet Features Works by Christopher Wheeldon and Troy Schumacher 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

He gets to make a spectacle of himself on the world stage while belittling other countries. Eurovision 2018: why America needs to join the Super Bowl of camp immediately 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The Victorian theatre of spectacle is alive and well, and residing at the London Palladium. The Wizard of Oz - review 2011-03-02T00:53:18Z

How did you achieve such moments within the scale and spectacle of “The Woman King”? ‘The Woman King’ and Intimate Moments Amid Epic Action 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Despite the magnitude posed by its phalanxes of players, “Gruppen” begins less as a spectacle than as an insinuation. Stockhausen’s ‘Gruppen’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-06-24T01:23:03Z

It may be a complicated transition for those used to absorbing the theater and spectacle of the runway, or eyeing fit and fabric up close. London, Fashion and the Importance of Being … Something 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

The experience is closer to peering at a collage hanging in a gallery than watching a cinematic spectacle. ‘Circumstantial Pleasures’ Review: The Lyrical Junkman Cometh 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

“The piano competition as a spectacle was turned around by the last International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2011, where every stage was viewable online and Daniil Trifonov emerged as a world star,” he added. Texas Monthly: In Texas, Van Cliburn Piano Contest Goes On Without Him 2013-05-19T02:09:31Z

Far from being an underdog genre defended by a scrappy band of cultural renegades, the superhero spectacle represents a staggering concentration of commercial, corporate power. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and the Modern Comic Book Movie 2012-06-27T16:13:49Z

The dawn of rock and roll helps a bit: a Richard Lester-like chase sequence set to “Long Tall Sally,” the amusing spectacle of Geordie railing against Teddy boys. The Unholy Pleasures of “Grantchester,” The Original Hot-Priest Show 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

What distinguishes the adaptation of “The Bartered Bride” is the florid, flamboyant realization of its comedic spectacle. What to Stream This Weekend: “The Bartered Bride,” A Brilliant, Rarely Seen Max Ophüls Opera-Based Musical 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

The last act of "X" is wonderful spectacle. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z

It accomplishes this nifty trick by paring down the spectacle to its most essential elements. How audiences can triumph in the battle for superhero movie supremacy 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Johnson presented La Cage not as the ersatz, mainstream-ready spectacle of the 2004 Broadway revival, but as an intimate and homey portrait of a gay couple in an adorably seedy Riviera drag club. The Tonys' battle for Broadway 2010-06-14T21:00:00Z

For all the spectacle on show, this was a poor episode for a season closer. Doctor Who's Finale Throws In Cybermen, UNIT, The Afterlife, Matt Smith, And Still Deflates Like Soufflé 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

American Idol kicks off its two-part finale Wednesday night—a long spectacle whose least important part will be choosing the 15th winner of the show. Without 'American Idol 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

It’s a wonderful spectacle to watch, and, for beginning dancers, informative too. A Latin Dance Scene Spreads Across New York 2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Norman’s music is best heard live: He’s a composer who thinks as much about the physical spectacle of playing as about the resulting sound. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Expect some unusual dance, sound and visual spectacle on at least two fronts this weekend. Fantastical dance antics ahead with Lelavision, ‘Next Fest NW’ 2013-12-12T20:50:34Z

But the next minute she’s “teary-eyed at the spectacle and promise of so many beautiful children of so many different hues and hair types walking down the hall together.” Can a parent’s liberal values pass the public school test? 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

Everyone knows I’m quiet and reserved, so the only way to really surprise her was to make it a spectacle — which for me, was really stepping out of character.” Field Notes: Interesting Marriage Proposals of 2011 2011-12-21T19:15:50Z

I recently heard an academic at a conference describing such theatre as a kind of plundering, in which the place is used as a resource for a spectacle. Walking theatre must look where it's going 2010-09-20T16:21:00Z

Because of the timing, most people who view the plant won’t smell much, but the sight alone is spectacle enough. Corpse flowers are invading the East Coast: Here’s how to see (and smell) one 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Before its official launch, it has already unveiled Speed of Light, a vast community-created spectacle that crossbreeds hi-tech digital light show with land art. Edinburgh festival turns back clock 50 years to literary debates of 1962 2012-08-10T15:45:44Z

On top of one of the towers is a new swimming pool with an “infinity” edge that looks out on the tarmac and its petroleum-fueled spectacle of takeoffs and landings. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Gomez strutted through an arena spectacle with spiky sets and a busy video backdrop. Review: Selena Gomez, a Disney Graduate, Majors in Angst Onstage 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

The video is conceptually simple — a copper pipe slowly leaks water, drop by drop, onto an amplified drum, while a video monitor shows the spectacle blown up large and in real time. Perspective | Bill Viola’s videos show what art can do and expose what the Barnes Collection lacks 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Without that vision, it winds up as nothing more than spectacle, a novelty that cashes in on a better movie without having anything meaningful to offer on its own. Disney's live-action "Aladdin": Wish for it to be over 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

The Mule emerges from the thicket to the spectacle of a man riding a mower up and down a grassy airstrip next to some cottages and outbuildings on the opposite end of Sinclair. The ‘other’ San Juan islanders go their own way 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

This is a movie based on a Hasbro toy, after all - it's all spectacle and bombast. Capsule reviews of `G.I. Joe' and other new movies 2013-03-27T21:27:34Z

Lloyd Webber loathed what he describes as the “vulgar” spectacle that Stigwood and director Tom O’Horgan made of “Superstar” on Broadway. With a recent Tony nod, Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber looks back, and forward 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

“As a result, C.S.C. has never really been about spectacle but rather about performance. “Some theaters are writers’ theaters,” he continued. Classic Stage Company, Downtown Celebrity Magnet 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

The show was a 3 p.m. matinee of the touring pantomime spectacle “Mr. Bluebeard,” and many of the dead were children and their mothers. ‘Burning Bluebeard' Becomes a Holiday Tradition in Chicago 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

His best work elicits a sense of childlike wonder and delight at the grand spectacle, as if you were taking in the lights from the center of an emptied-out Times Square. After Decades, Steve Reich and Philip Glass Reunite at BAM 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

The spectacle of a vulgar, aggressively silly, otherwise disposable comedy such as “The Interview” being taken so seriously reminded Hollywood that, as the United States’ chief export, all movies have meaning in the international marketplace. When you were at the movies this year, reality wasn’t too far away 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Through stylized re-enactments of period interview shows, the film also turns the camera’s unblinking gaze back on Garfinkel and other interrogators who have made a study or a spectacle of transness over the years. A Trans Icon of the 20th Century Revived by Trans Stars of the 21st Century 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

On one side, in a spare, slick show of work by Mr. Parreno, a French post-Conceptualist, art objects are kept to a minimum and spectacle prevails. Art Review: ?Philippe Parreno? and ?At Home/Not at Home,? at Bard 2010-07-01T22:39:00Z

Kylie Jenner’s mistake was that she made a gaudy spectacle of treating violence toward women as entertainment. Perspective | America already binge-watches violence against women. Kylie Jenner just took a selfie while doing it. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

The broadcast trained very many of us in gorging on TV and submitting to spectacle—a mass-mediated semblance of community. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Adapts to the Eye of the Times 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

But on a winter evening, the spectacle of this dockside trattoria with its lights on was more than enough. An Adriatic Feast on the Italian Coast 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Do we get to grieve it without it being a spectacle? A Choreographer Diving Into Grief Looks to Whales 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

The bigger the spectacle, the bigger the distraction, the more audiences will accept in the name of entertainment. How the Fast and Furious franchise used cars to symbolize the American dream 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

When it does, the media often seem to have a ringside seat at the spectacle. Pop neuroscience is bunk! 2013-06-08T15:30:00Z

The history of American folk art is rife with vernacular traditions that began as chores, but, when perfected, became sublime expressions, worthy of spectacle and celebration: rodeo competitions, quilting contests, and so on. The Hypnotizing Chants of Champion Livestock Auctioneers 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

Based on early ticket sales, the audience appears to be sending a message: It is hungry for spectacle, but it also wants something to talk about. ‘Great Gatsby’ Is Poised for a Strong Opening, No Thanks to Critics 2013-05-10T18:53:08Z

“We are specialists in spectacle, but not in health,” he explained. La Scala plans 4 July concerts in post-lockdown reopening 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

For 10 years, The Village Voice ran her monthly “On the Street” photographs of people in our spectator culture who wanted to be the spectacle — and dressed for the part. Art In Review: Amy Arbus: ‘On the Street 1980-1990’ 2014-03-21T00:02:22Z

In other words, the drama of the Bush presidency, with its fetish for secrecy, has given way to the open spectacle of the first Obama term. Arts & Leisure Preview: ?Green Zone,? ?The Ghost Writer? and Conspiracy Comforts 2010-03-31T20:54:00Z

That production, from the mid-1990s, was terrific fun, and a spectacle; as I recall, in one number, the ladies balanced champagne glasses on their hips. A grand duo in Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater and Attacca Quartet 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Max Doolittle’s flashy lighting and Patrick W. Lord’s projections — memorably featuring anarchist imagery on “Tear Me Down” and pop-up-book illustrations on “The Origin of Love” — further fuel the high-octane spectacle. Review | Mason Alexander Park brings star power to Olney’s ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

For one more year, we got the weird spectacle of broadcast TV nervously proclaiming its relevance as if it wouldn’t have the chance to do so much longer. Review: The Emmys Keep it Light and Forgettable 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

And Stoke Newington would get a nice, colourful spectacle on a Sunday afternoon. TV Review: Who Do You Think You Are? Brooke Shields and Urban Fox Attack 2010-07-05T05:45:00Z

The story, too, mixes moods: It’s an espionage thriller set during the Russo-Japanese War, yet there are elements of romantic comedy and show-tune spectacle. The Last Operetta of the Weimar Republic Returns to Berlin 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Making their New York debut as part of the Just Kidding series, the performers will offer a 70-minute show that’s part circus, part rock concert, part slapstick spectacle. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

But “Cats” is loved for all the same things, plus the moonlit spectacle — and most especially for those seriously bendy bodies in their skintight catsuits. Review | Love it or hate it, ‘Cats’ the musical has way more than nine lives 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Pressley, who has been on a media campaign defending Mr. Cosby, has said she did not want to create a public spectacle, and that “lawyers representing clients resolve matters in court, not debates.” Two New Cosby Accusers Step Forward in New York 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Along the way, it made campy spectacle into a mainstream vehicle for telling personal truths, and fashioned drag queens into, as my colleague Shane O’Neill has put it, the cultural avatars of being yourself. How Lip-Syncing Got Real 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Scott's specialty is spectacle; he dreams in wide screen, and it wasn't so long ago he resurrected the sword and sandals genre to best picture acclaim with 2000's "Gladiator." Ridley Scott's 'Exodus' casts a wide net of spectacle and family 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Most people in the audience won't be entirely sure what it is that they've seen either – it's such an extraordinary whirl of cunningly stage-managed spectacle that it leaves you dazed and dizzy. You Me Bum Bum Train 2010-07-06T20:31:00Z

The BBC said that a microphone had been attached to each team's cox for a number of years to add "context and passion to the spectacle". BBC told to take action after 'inappropriate' Boat Race swearing 2013-06-17T13:21:53Z

Sure, the actual awards are pretty secondary to onstage spectacle. MTV Video Music Awards 2014: Best and worst moments 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Because a musical costs a lot to put on – singers, actors, orchestras, sets – the seats cost a lot to sit in; the paying customer, therefore, wants value for his money and translates value as spectacle. Why are we snooty about musicals? 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

“Everyone out there is there to see the art and the spectacle,” Mr. French said. After Decades of Searching, 1898 Film of New Orleans Mardi Gras Is Found 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

With a glance at candidates’ itineraries on their Web sites and some quick mapping, it’s easy to get immersed in the spectacle. Heads Up: Candidate-Peeping in New Hampshire 2011-12-22T19:19:03Z

The scandal no longer lies in beatings and burnings but in the spectacle of an aristocratic woman falling in love with a lower-class man. DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z

The spectacle resembles something dreamed up by Magritte, a vision of fish swimming in the air during a heavy rain produced by the fish themselves. Art In Review: BRUCE NAUMAN: ‘One Hundred Fish Fountain’ 2012-08-09T20:22:12Z

With her red hair flying, she’s both beautiful and upsetting — she’s locked into her own vortex — and the spectacle is wholly extraordinary. Dance Review: Rachid Ouramdane?s ?Ordinary Witnesses? - Review 2011-10-12T21:30:36Z

Twist on original: Reports suggest a “unique family story” will parallel the cute big-eared elephant’s journey from laughing stock to soaring spectacle of the circus ring. Back for the future: rating Disney's slate of live-action fantasy remakes 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

The spectacle has been videotaped by the victim’s twin brother, who quickly threatens to call the cops. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: In the Premiere, Plenty Of Nods to 'Breaking Bad' 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Haunting music, a remote, aerial view and lens flares that tint the image blue and red turn the film’s shepherding sequences into a grand spectacle straight out of a horror or science fiction movie. ‘The Last Autumn’ Review: The Majesty of Shepherds 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

However, Wednesday night’s spectacle, like Thursday's, is the best shot the also-rans have to make their mark. Hot mics, yikes: NBC's first Democratic debate became a reality TV audition round gone sideways 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

The first can come across as an idealization of death, and yet another example of Black tragedy being made into a beautiful spectacle. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

In recent years, the genre has managed to reconcile fame with ruffled discomfort — when Arcade Fire can win a Grammy, these are strange times indeed — but it’s never been truly capable of spectacle. T Magazine: The Many Mutations of Beck 2011-12-05T19:07:03Z

"These are reactions to how we see the presidency. It's nothing new. The presidency in general is America's royalty and spectacle. And we're all fascinated by it." TV's presidential portrayals go from salute to 'Hail to the Creep' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Through the scintillating and deliciously ribald prose of his letters and conversation, and the endearing spectacle of his devotion, Clemenceau emerges as a more engaging and entertaining man than Monet, who was famously reticent. Monet’s last, desperate effort to create the world’s most beautiful paintings 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

In 2013, the French troupe Groupe F staged a large-scale outdoor spectacle here, complete with fireworks, dancers clad in electric lights, and performers rigged to float through the air. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The Super Bowl is drama, emotion, identity, catharsis, spectacle, skill, power: It’s nearly impossible to find a viewer beyond its scope. The Super Bowl Is Problematic. Why Can’t We Look Away? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

But the reason reveals how Mr. Lepage’s production provides little more than thin spectacle and leaves singers stranded like actors performing against a green screen. The Met Opera’s ‘Ring’ Works Best From the Cheap Seats 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

By the time the iPad comes along, Jobs has created a singular spectacle by bringing tablets down into the valley and demonstrating their miracles to the faithful. Steve Jobs: the afterlife 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

After all, unbridled spectacle, melodrama, and ornate design elements are inherent to the genre. How audiences can triumph in the battle for superhero movie supremacy 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

The zombie is ambrosia for the mind of the horror-media buff: it possesses the visual and visceral spectacle of necrosis, the ever-present symbology of death, the excitement of the interminably strange. How did the zombie become so white? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

Reinking revived the Fosse choreography as the production’s central spectacle and anchored it with her own bubbly, fluid style. The killer-dillers of ‘Chicago’ have been slaying audiences for decades 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

But Tom isn't so much a Donald Trump character; he doesn't really have the same unhinged ability to find the spectacle of a rally. "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

Yet while watching the rainbow and glitter-decked spectacle, I found myself wondering what we expect of cooking shows these days, anyway? Not just Paris: How did the "celebrity who can't cook" become food TV's fastest growing genre? 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

Small screen sex has shifted from mere spectacle or punchline to thoughtful facet of a more three-dimensional character: from being "sassy" and sometimes self-indulgent, to being knowing and self-reflexive. Sex and the City: the reboot needs to look beyond its narrow view of white wealthy heterosexual sex 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

Twitter users were also impressed by the rope-jumping spectacle, and of course, the comments weren’t without their fair share of humor. Video of students jumping massive rope in schoolyard stuns the Internet 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

But it is at the winter solstice that Maeshowe consummates its mystery with the astronomical spectacle of the sun piercing its dark sanctum of death. Winter solstice: See the light on the darkest day 2010-12-21T11:46:02Z

As we headed back toward Punta Arenas, one more avian spectacle awaited us. In Chilean Patagonia, Following a Track to the End of the World 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Gray uses the spectacle of the stars and the isolation of extraterrestrial travel to explore the mind inside the space helmet and a complicated, only superficially space-related father-son relationship. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ and ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Pacific Rim is entirely in keeping with much expensively-made effects-heavy cinema of the present time: it's put together with such artistry and such devotion that it can't help but be impressive as a visual spectacle. Pacific Rim – review 2013-07-08T07:00:12Z

Flags and royal emblems are already adorning the streets of London as it prepares to celebrate Britain’s first coronation in 70 years with great pomp and spectacle. London’s Coronation Countdown: Travelers Arrive, Others Flee 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

Sam Bompas says you need a narrative and a spectacle with food. Inside the opulence and decadence of "Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles" 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

They each balance their comedy with well-founded frustration at the political circus and the media spectacle that feeds off of it. Samantha Bee is Jon Stewart’s real heir: Finally, the 2016 campaign has the satirist we so desperately need 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

The spectacle of a multimillionaire comic milking his victim role played no better on the big screen. Cars 2 at the Box Office: Pixcar or Ishcar? 2011-06-26T05:55:00Z

She manages to avoid shrillness in what she aptly calls the “Wagnerian coloratura spectacle” that is her final “Exterminating Angel” aria, a flood of sustained superhigh sound up to F. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Tourists flock to New York’s neon heart for the flashing lights, Broadway shows, megastores, and sheer spectacle—including costumed characters eager to pose for photo ops. These Are the Most Visited Tourist Attractions in the World 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

And complimenting Helena Bonham Carter for not, for once, making a spectacle of herself, he elicited a stunning response. Fashion: Plain Jane Glamour Rules the Red Carpet 2011-02-28T03:01:52Z

“Nope” starts with a cautionary text, drawn from the Old Testament Book of Nahum, which describes God’s threatened punishment on the wicked city of Nineveh: “I will make a spectacle of you.” ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

He told me that he was interested in critiquing the ways in which the physicality of young people today continues to be a source of spectacle. Forgotten Victories 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

But the story of the Weston family — Beverly and Violet’s three daughters and their various menfolk, as well as Violet’s sister and brother-in-law — is secondary to the spectacle the actors make of themselves. Movie Review: ‘August: Osage County,’ With Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts 2013-12-26T15:07:50Z

What will be the spectacle at the MTV Video Music Awards this year? MTV VMAs to feature Kanye West, Rihanna, Britney Spears 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

Las Vegas police, including several on horseback, diverted traffic on the busy casino corridor for about 30 minutes for the spectacle. Shania Twain makes horseback arrival for Vegas gig 2012-11-15T02:31:06Z

It was about that moment, and anybody who happened to be there got to witness a spectacle that will never happen again. Saturday interview: Dynamo, the magician who walks on water 2012-07-06T23:05:33Z

All of us focus on the spectacle of a horrific event, and then also the people who’ve committed a crime. Jake Gyllenhaal on Ambivalent Heroes and, Um, Perms 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

In one indelible review, the conservative critic Hilton Kramer lamented the “spectacle of mandarin sensibilities masquerading as unlettered but lyrical stumblebums.” Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Irwin Feinberg, a Los Angeles trust and probate lawyer who spoke to the AP before Nelson's filing, said wealthy people usually create trusts to avoid the public spectacle of probate court. Prince's sister believes the superstar musician didn't have a will and is asking a Minnesota court to appoint a corporate trust to oversee his multimillion-dollar estate 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

There’s something fantastic about the beauty of youth — the spectacle of a new person suddenly arriving at their physical peak. | Laws of Attraction 2013-08-21T17:15:57Z

But for the “twenty minutes of dancing,” he wrote, “it is made up of the dullest kind of realistic pantomime on juvenile subjects, and some bright and ingenious moments of scenic spectacle.” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Trump, who is a showman, is an expert at exploiting the spectacle of their fear and manipulating their anger for cynical political opportunity. A Modest Video Artwork About White-Male Rage Filmed at Yale’s DKE Chapter 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

However, this dystopian drama isn't about the spectacle of chaos but how that chaos brings out the best and worst of those enduring it. "Y: The Last Man" presents a fascinating dystopia that probes the artifacts of our gendered world 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

I can’t pick a favorite, but I can break them down as far as spectacle, emotion, comedy in that kind of way. The Visionaries: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own 2012-12-19T13:00:00Z

It can be a spectacle of watery sorcery. On stage: myths by the pool, and Chekhov's 'The Wood Demon' 2011-06-09T20:16:19Z

“They come for the spectacle and stay for the sport” — a ratio Hoppe now puts at “80 percent sport and 20 percent spectacle.” The best kind of growing pains for Rat City Rollergirls 2013-01-17T21:37:32Z

The overall architectural strategy brings to mind some of the ideas that inspired Baron Haussmann’s 19th-century vision of Paris: tear new channels through the urban fabric, unclog blocked arteries, create new sites for public spectacle. Architecture Review: The Greening of Lincoln Center 2010-05-20T22:17:00Z

The show is funny and alert to the silliness of the spectacle, but maybe not quite funny or alert enough for its two-hour length. The Cardinals – review 2013-01-15T18:17:53Z

The spectacle was awesome in its execution, six months in the making. Edun, Opening Ceremony, Versus Versace and More Showed at Fashion Week 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Will it change the way movies are made, ushering in a new era of 3-D, motion-capture, hybrid spectacle? 2010-02-06T02:29:00Z

What perhaps is not surprising is how “Antebellum” presents the lurid spectacle of a woman’s humiliation as if it were a fable of empowerment. ‘Antebellum’ Review: Look Away, Dixie Land 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Reports differ on whether Barnum “bought” or “rented” her, but on tour he appeased skeptical abolitionists with a lie, claiming all proceeds from the spectacle would be used to buy her great-grandchildren’s freedom. A Huckster for the Ages 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Zeffirelli’s productions often had a way of diminishing the operas themselves; their emphasis on scale and spectacle could trivialize the musical dramas they were meant to showcase. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z

The whole spectacle seemed extreme and bizarre and silly. Addicted to my cycling class 2014-02-20T00:00:00Z

This exhibition has the structure of a circus, complete with side shows, 19th-century optical devices, and illusions that reveal the tragicomic spectacle of our recent and not so recent past. Carrie Mae Weems Sets the Stage and Urges Action 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

And so washerwomen do their laundry indifferent to the beauty around them, people ply their trade and sell their wares and, occasionally, well-dressed tourists are seen admiring the spectacle. Hubert Robert, the painter for the ‘don’t go there, live there’ crowd 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Down below an audience of about 400 people are laughing at the free spectacle, part of Berlin's version of Shakespeare in the Park. Shakespeare finds a summer backdrop in Berlin 2012-08-15T06:00:02Z

It's also so athletically demanding of its performers that it sometimes shades into acrobatic spectacle. Spectrum's triumphant 'Love' is all you need 2012-06-22T17:14:04Z

The centenarian Manoel de Oliveira directed this exquisite yet anguished spectacle, a grand piece of cinematic chamber music for a cast of mighty soloists. Movies 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

It was Baudelaire, from after he saw Wagner’s “Tannhaüser”: “I’ve witnessed a spectacle of time, space and light that I have never experienced before.” The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

The 1896 Games were different from the worldwide sports spectacle of today. Perspective | First modern Olympics, 125 years ago, was nothing like today’s huge spectacle 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Everest,” a hair-raising 3-D spectacle with a blue-chip cast and some dazzling action sequences, is about grappling with logistical disasters in extremely cold high-altitude conditions. Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Disrupting the spectacle is a valid artistic aim; it can be enjoyed by writers and audiences. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

The Steampunk parade, organized like the outing itself by a company called Whodunit Productions, was not a show — at least not in the sense of a spectacle meant for others. Steampunks at Sea 2014-03-14T15:50:39Z

The city can certainly be a place to find spectacle, and Mr. Pacino is working overtime to provide it. 10 Movies That Capture the Essence of New York 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

This “Swan Lake,” which fuses the original’s two lakeside acts into one, preserves the medievalism of its music’s drama and even the spectacle of swans crossing the lake. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at Koch Theater 2013-01-18T23:37:16Z

Niehoff has said the idea behind all these events is to "create a more tangible intimacy" between audience and artist that will climax in a show that's both a "spectacle" and deeply personal. Lingo dance company's 'Glimmer' takes journey from street to stage 2010-04-14T21:46:00Z

The fascinating thing about the actual story, though, is that the entire spectacle was Crawford’s idea. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Episode 5: Taking the Stage 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

The famed Fountains at Bellagio in Las Vegas will be relegated to opener status for “Fight With a Carp,” a Kabuki-theater-inspired spectacle from Aug. 14 to 16. Tuesday’s Travel News: Faster Border Crossing to Canada; Kabuki Shows in Las Vegas 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

The spectacle was indeed thrilling, but the drama suffered. Revisiting Emmett Till tragedy, in jazz 2011-03-28T23:50:00Z

It was an uncomfortable, sad spectacle that seemed to paint the party as cranky old white men yelling at ghosts. Battle of the Network Stars: Trump vs. Clinton 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Cirque du Soleil’s first Broadway venture, “Paramour,” is off to an unusually strong start at the box office, drawing large crowds to see this musical-theater-meets-acrobatics spectacle at the cavernous Lyric Theater. Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Paramour’ Has Strong Start in Broadway Grosses 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

But the scene in the marketplace is probably the production’s best, because it cools the spectacle and trusts the language and the men who speak it. Review: In ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ the Political Thrill Is Gone 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

All of which sounds like a pretty contrived plan to get Damon robo-ed to the max in the name of ass-kicking spectacle. Field of dreams 2013-04-10T15:33:00Z

Shipping the weighty works to a far-flung locale would have presented challenges, so Ms. Kwon thought they were more appropriate as a hometown spectacle. Frieze Debuts in Seoul, With Big-Name Galleries and a Hometown Spectacle 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Late in his career he was a sad spectacle. Books of The Times: Daring the Devil and Mastering His Tricks 2011-05-03T16:36:34Z

The HFPA, which consists of 90 correspondents from 55 countries that report on the American entertainment industry, is an organization that above all enjoys spectacle. The Golden Globe Awards: How outrageous could things possibly get? 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Yes, superheroes bring with them high concepts and flashy spectacle, but they also allow us to believe that life contains more than pointless chaos. Why the "Glass" prequel "Unbreakable" holds up, nearly 20 years later 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The strangely uplifting spectacle was part of ParisOffFestival, an annual event that began two years ago, but which already occupies a special niche in the Paris theater calendar. A Last Taste of Summer Theater, as Paris Heads Back to Work 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

What Struth's photographs demonstrate is range, unending curiosity about the medium and his subjects: Struth's art is about the nature of looking itself, and not just the thing seen, the spectacle or the view. Thomas Struth ? review 2011-07-06T17:42:12Z

The visually-arresting spectacle is no less modern in terms of the music, which combines brutal noise, screaming and heavy drums with traditional operatic arias to express the discrimination the Creature faces among people. Futuristic 'Frankenstein' opera poses timely questions about human... 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

“Inception,” “Dunkirk” and the Dark Knight installments all aimed for new heights in tightly coordinated suspense and spectacle. The Technical Stars Who Help Pull Off a Christopher Nolan Narrative 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

“The Phantom of the Opera” musical theater spectacle will be finishing next year, the production said. ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ Broadway’s longest-running show, to end after 35 years 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

Morris describes it at the start as an “illustrated reverie,” and she writes as one enchanted by this grand spectacle. The Sinking of the Most Powerful Warship in History 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Yet, for all the fabulous spectacle, this programme does underline Petit's limitations. Roland Petit ? review 2011-07-22T17:34:48Z

Twitter and the connected audience felt like a relief last night, if only because it made watching the Cleveland spectacle so much more endurable, to crack jokes with another community of amateurs. The R.N.C. on TV: Another Unbelievable Evening 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The spectacle will be broadcast as usual from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern time on NBC and will include both live and recorded elements, Macy’s officials said. Macy’s plans smaller but camera-ready Thanksgiving parade 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Day four of the frantic nine days of the Paris fashion calendar was also colored by the celebrity-filled, energetic spectacle offered by Lanvin. Dior hems plunge, Lanvin celebrates at Paris shows 2012-03-03T02:46:04Z

“The Bassarids” is precisely the sort of large-scale operatic spectacle in the grand tradition that would flourish at the Met. Christoph von Dohnanyi Conducts Hans Werner Henze 2012-03-16T16:11:31Z

About 55% of millennials surveyed said they consider the Super Bowl to be a social or entertaining spectacle as opposed to a sporting event. Why are Super Bowl ads posted online early? 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

The drum, in common with most variations of the revolving stage, has been used mainly to permit narrative pace and visual spectacle matching the ambition of cinema. A 360-degree history of the theatre revolve 2012-05-29T09:09:20Z

Upon its opening last April, it was already a plush and thrilling production, befitting Lincoln Center Theater’s tradition of treating classic musicals as both spectacle and living text. Review: ‘My Fair Lady,’ Illuminated With New Stars 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

I love the spectacle of skill, whether it’s an expert gardener at work, or a good carpenter chopping dovetails, or someone tying a Bimini hitch that won’t slip. Review: In Robert Hughes’s ‘The Spectacle of Skill,’ an Aesthete’s Unsparing Eye 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The spectacle around the show was born on the Fourth of July, when Baron Cohen posted a video, titled “A Message from Donald J. Trump,” based on old video of Trump wishing violence upon him. Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” Reviewed 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

It veers from bad to cheesy to generous spirited, and ends – not totally intentionally – in the most eye-popping spectacle I've seen all festival. An Evening with David Hasselhoff Live – Edinburgh review 2012-08-22T11:18:27Z

Friday’s headliner was the Flaming Lips, a band that stages its neo-psychedelic anthems with photo-ready spectacle; its strobe lights were so overwhelming that one fan needed medical attention, and the set stopped until help arrived. The Hudson Project, Cut Short by a (Real) Tempest 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

“What a frantically dull spectacle this vanity project is.” Here Are the Worst Things Critics Had to Say About Mortdecai 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

"In my head, for these circus performers to die in such a spectacle, and then disappear and never be known again, I found that so achingly beautiful." A circus tragedy lost to history 2011-05-02T21:49:00Z

Anyone watching cable news around noon Eastern time Monday witnessed a strange television spectacle, even by the standards of a reality-TV administration. Vanity Cabinet: Trump Throws Himself a TV Pep Talk 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

As wrenching as the women’s tearful declarations is the spectacle of grown men crying. The Invisible War: When Soldiers Rape Soldiers 2012-06-20T15:00:57Z

There they were, the falls, right where I had left them, quite a spectacle for the eyes of a 7- and 4-year-old. In Undiscovered Paterson, Falls, Food and Fetty Wap 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

War was still raging overseas when the 15th spectacle took place at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles. From assassinations to 9/11: How the Oscars respond to political turmoil 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Ours is but to marvel at the spectacle of a production that does to 15th century Italy what The Tudors did to the Tudors. The Borgias: epic silliness 2011-08-12T13:29:17Z

“For years, I kept all of my intellectual pursuits private. I was afraid of letting my ideas speak, without the window dressing of melody or flash and spectacle.” A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z