| 单词 | spectacles |
| 例句 | “I’ll wear mine,” John told the salesman, a tiny round bald man with spectacles which quickly dropped to the end of his nose as he laced up the skates. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z They were unusual spectacles, being without ear pieces, but shaped rather like scissors or like the antennae of the tarantula wasp. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Morris must go to his room to rest,” Francesca said, adjusting her fake spectacles. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z More than once since arriving in America, I had followed a man in the crowd, drawn by my father’s familiar gait or the wink of sunlight across his gold-rimmed spectacles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Professor McGonagall looked over her square spectacles at him but didn’t say anything. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Professor McGonagall pulled out a lace handkerchief and dabbed at her eyes beneath her spectacles. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They were handsome little things, although rather hard to see without putting on your spectacles. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “I see,” he said, replacing his spectacles and looking quite as though he saw much less than he had a few minutes before. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The magnet was still a few inches short of the spectacles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He closes his eyes and clasps his fingers over the marks left by his spectacles at the sides of his nose. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the bathroom mirror, he saw that even the rims of his nostrils had whitened; they looked like an oddly placed pair of spectacles. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Methuselah squinted over the top of his spectacles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The spectacles are unmistakable, and Maddie recognized him right away and was so immediately suspicious she didn’t step through the door. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He is a fair fellow, not more than thirty years old, with scars and disgusting gold spectacles. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a long pause during which the agent took off his spectacles as though to see her better. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z His slightly bucktoothed grin projected an easy self-confidence; the round spectacles he wore from his schooldays gave him a professorial air even then. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She wore a sleeveless summer dress, a row of white plastic beads, and spectacles on a chain that hung like a swing against her chest. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He was an old man with a long grey beard and brass spectacles large as an owl’s eyes over his nose, and he wore a dirty grey robe whose long sleeves covered his hands altogether. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She reached into her pocket and the spectacles were there, cool and light and comforting. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “So they still don’t know where you go?” asked Harry, hoping for more information on this intriguing subject, but Dumbledore merely smiled over the top of his half-moon spectacles. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Tears were sliding down from behind the half-moon spectacles into the long silver beard, and the pride and the gratitude emanating from him filled Harry with the same balm as phoenix song. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She peered at me over her spectacles, and then she opened a drawer and fumbled among its contents for a long time, so long that my hopes began to falter. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He was a very small doctor, with steel-rimmed spectacles and a bald head. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z We watched him, his stiff crest, the spectacles riding low on his nose. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the people around them donned spectacles with blue lenses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Harry reached out, straightened the half-moon spectacles upon the crooked nose, and wiped a trickle of blood from the mouth with his own sleeve. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A pair of large gold-rimmed spectacles hung from a nail on the wall above his bed. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a white button-down shirt, faded Levi’s with threadbare knees, pliable gold-framed spectacles that wrapped around his ears. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He pulled his spectacles from his pocket and lifted his satchel onto the counter. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There, in plain sight on the floor outside the crate, were his spectacles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z In the next room, a thin man in spectacles lectures in front of a chalkboard while a girl in one corner studiously takes notes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Besides this, at the appropriate times of the year he should keep the populace occupied with festivals and spectacles. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Meriyn’s back was turned again, but his eyes were bright behind his spectacles. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, before retiring, she exchanged her ordinary glasses for a pair of reading spectacles. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A gleam lit Master Hyrrokkin’s faded brown eyes, but when he adjusted his spectacles and looked at the page, the gleam winked out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was as though I had put on a pair of spectacles whose power was that of an x-ray enabling me to see deeper into the lives of men. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He was a large man with a broad face and no hair on his head, and he blinked often behind his spectacles. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z For all his age and his spectacles, Granddaddy’s eyes were a lot keener than mine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He sat there now, wearing his small, black skullcap and pecking at the typewriter with his index fingers, a thin, frail man in his fifties, with gray hair, gaunt cheeks, and spectacles. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z After a moment he removed his spectacles and rubbed them fiercely against his cuff. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He settled his spectacles and began to look around him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “I am not permi—” I slam my palm on the desk in front of him, and he jerks out of his daze, staring at me over his spectacles. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Sticky had put on his spectacles and was peering out the window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She looked as odd as ever, glittering with beads and trailing shawls, her eyes magnified to enormous size by her spectacles. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Bunny took off his gold-rimmed spectacles, unhooking them carefully from behind each ear, and began to polish them with a napkin. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The spectacles women used to make of themselves. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course,” he said agreeably, cool as a priest in his dark suit and ascetic spectacles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I fail to see why you’re amused, ” said the bemused Mr. Peepers, whose missing spectacles were perched on his head. anxious/eager. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Above his ear, beneath the wire stem of his spectacles, I could just make out the powder burn and the dark hole in his right temple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The spectacles fall, hit the edge of the ladder, and topple to the pavement. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The crowd parted, and Phoebe appeared, her spectacles crooked, her face pale. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z His face was expressionless, the eyes behind the square, gunmetal spectacles, completely empty. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The old man performed his usual adjustment of spectacles and peered at the paper. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His tiny wire-rimmed spectacles gave him the distinguished look of a scholar. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The person looking for us wras a small fellow with spectacles in a wizened face. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When the game was over he would shut off the radio and fix his spectacles carefully in place by curling their stems behind his ears. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Not now,” Sticky growled, removing his spectacles and swiping at his eyes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He returns to his chair, removing his spectacles to wipe them with his handkerchief. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was looking at her closely through his half-moon spectacles, his long fingers gently prodding and poking. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He removed his spectacles, studied their mud-spotted lenses, and set them on the desk without bothering to clean them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z These enormous, fleeting voltages made for pretty spectacles but not much else, however. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was reaching for his spectacles when he saw Kate was only teasing him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Ollie had only just started university; he was wearing new spectacles, serious and important. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Junior adjusted his wire-rimmed spectacles and seemed to make a mental calculation. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When I looked back at Balliol he was still leaning against the desk, his shoulders slumped, spectacles pushed back on his head, pinching his nose between his fingers as though he had a migraine. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She had the glummest face Harry had ever seen, half-hidden behind lank hair and thick, pearly spectacles. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z His eyes were amused behind his glinting rimless spectacles. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He sported an infectious grin, wire-rimmed spectacles, and a tweed jacket with patches on the elbows. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I saw my father watching him from behind his steel-rimmed spectacles, the smile still playing around the corners of his lips. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “My spectacles,” said Werfel, “can be used as magnifying lenses. Watch this.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Won’t your Merlyn turned round and looked closely at the boy through his spectacles. “What is the matter now?” he enquired nastily. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z With his characteristic gesture O’Brien resettled his spectacles on his nose. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It is twice my height and four times my width and depicts an attractive woman with watery gray eyes and spectacles—Jeanine. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He tilted the spectacles back and forth to catch the early sunshine. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z As she removed Mafalda’s spectacles and put them on, Harry checked his watch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Lon had been right, of course: years of poring over manuscripts had given the Librarian severe myopia, and he wore thin half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland removed his spectacles and pressed his fingers against his eyelids. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Once more he brought his spectacles from his case. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In almost the old manner he resettled his spectacles on his nose. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And, indeed, though my mother’s eyes are not so good as they were, she can see amazingly well still, thank God! with the help of spectacles. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z His eyes glittered behind the glass of his spectacles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "He is now!" a boy wearing spectacles shouts, and looks at me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Werfel was left wearing only his spectacles and what looked like a giant diaper wound around his legs. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Benedict had replaced his spectacles and lowered himself onto the floor again, was again leaning against the desk, and had taken up a book. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He looked at me, and I saw him blink his eyes behind his steel-rimmed spectacles. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z A jelly-bellied officer with thick spectacles was purchasing a tall stack of books from the man behind the counter. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore old-fashioned spectacles that made him look earnest and completely belied his easygoing charm and juvenile but totally disarming sense of humor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped in front of me and raised his white eyebrows enthusiastically behind the round rings of his spectacles, “Eh?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She put on her spectacles, glanced at the cupboards, and spotted my tea bags. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Instinctively, Harry looked at Dumbledore, who smiled faintly, the firelight glancing off his half-moon spectacles. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z When she looked out, her eyes blurred from her migraine, she did not recognize him because he had shaved his beard and was wearing spectacles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The two scholars breathlessly handed the magnifying spectacles back and forth. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z They had left his spectacles on the crooked nose: He felt amused derision. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Wandering about among his worthless stock, with his long nose and thick spectacles and his bowed shoulders in the velvet jacket, he had always vaguely the air of being a collector rather than a tradesman. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Awkwardly—he was holding the gun in his good hand—Henry reached up and took off his spectacles and rubbed them on the front of his shirt. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His spectacles were askew and he stank of whiskey. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Jean Louise saw the glint of gold-rimmed spectacles slung across a sour face looking out from under a crooked wig, the twitter of a bony finger. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Seated in the Father Abbot’s own chair, Methuselah took his spectacles from a moss-bark case, carefully perching them on the bridge of his nose. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Upstairs in Kenyon’s room, on a shelf above his bed, the lenses of the dead boy’s spectacles gleamed with reflected light. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The spectacles have good lenses that magnify things: when I try them on, even French words look large and easy to read. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing half spectacles and he lowered his massive head and stared over them at her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Professor Dumbledore was now looking down at Harry, who looked right back at him, trying to discern the expression of the eyes behind the half-moon spectacles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hickock removed the spectacles she was wearing, polished the smeared lenses and resettled them on her pudgy, agreeable face. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Comrade Pillai pushed his spectacles up into his hair in order to read aloud the text. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And...readjusted his spectacles, and read it again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Not just any game,” exclaimed the gentleman in the tweed suit and thick spectacles. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When he stopped, he took off his spectacles and wiped his eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z When Reynie returned from brushing his teeth, he found Sticky already asleep on the lower bunk, the lamp still lit, spectacles still on his nose, and slippers still on his feet. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z At every Gregarious Games press conference, Morrow grinned infectiously from behind his unruly beard and wire-rimmed spectacles, using his natural gift for hype and hyperbole. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “You are now entering a most important phase of your magical education!” she told them, her eyes glinting dangerously behind her square spectacles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He’s abandoned the useless spectacles he wore as a member of Erudite in favor of an Abnegation gray shirt and their trademark short haircut. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the addition of spectacles to her only daughter’s not-so-promising features didn’t bear thinking about. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The little red face moved closer, and tiny gray eyes blinked behind thick spectacles. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “As aquatic spectacles go, I am a trifle underwhelmed by your lake. Is this where the swans are?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Finally, he laid down his quill, moved his spectacles high on his nose, and peered through them at me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z In his last year at Princeton he read too much and took to wearing spectacles. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “My vaccine works,” he says, taking off his spectacles and wiping them with a handkerchief. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Again the judge studied the doorman's battered face: the scars; the bashed-in nose; the hard, blue eyes under those taped spectacles. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Barris takes off his spectacles, wiping the lenses with a handkerchief before he replies, holding them up to the light to check for rogue smudges. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Aha!” she cried, pointing dramatically at Harry as she blinked at him through her magnifying spectacles. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z His head was thrown back a little, and because of the angle at which he was sitting, his spectacles caught the light and presented to Winston two blank discs instead of eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He took out his spectacles and looked at my list. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Crooks stared at Lennie, and he reached behind him and took down the spectacles and adjusted them over his pink ears and stared again. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw a soft, stooped creature of a man whose dandelion-fluff hair, beard, and brows encroached upon his face to such a degree that only his sharp little nose and round spectacles showed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Henry reached behind his spectacles and rubbed an eye. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As he put on his spectacles, he was quite pleased at the prospect of a whole winter of reading travel books, with no work to interrupt him. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa got tangled up in some underbrush, and lost his hat and spectacles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “That old woman hit me with a broom when I came to see you this forenoon, and broke my spectacles. Could you not wait until tomorrow?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked over her spectacles and said, “Don’t you stay out too long, ’Lijah. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z His hands strained unconsciously against the cuffs, wanting to get at his spectacles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Really, Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time,” said Dumbledore, now peering sternly over his half-moon spectacles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Aunt Spiker screeched, glaring at him over the top of her steel spectacles. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “Bang him on the counter,” said the witch, pulling a pair of heavy black spectacles out of her pocket. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Behind a scarred littered table a man with a fierce roach of iron gray hair peered at us over steel spectacles. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s full of screens and light, reflecting off the glass in the Erudites’ spectacles. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z His lips quivered and the spectacles were dimmed with mist. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Blunt’s eyes, magnified by the thick lenses of his spectacles, lasered into his own, and for a moment, Alex felt himself pinned down, like an insect under a microscope. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He went back to his cubicle, sat down, threw the fragment of paper casually among the other papers on the desk, put on his spectacles and hitched the speakwrite toward him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Mrs. Castleman peered through round tortoiseshell spectacles over the glass case containing the breads and pastries, her gaze just barely skimming the top. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Half-moon spectacles were perched on his crooked nose, and he was wearing a long black traveling cloak and a pointed hat. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She took off her spectacles, wiped them, and put them on again. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Then she slipped a suit jacket over her lilac blouse, pinned a hat of imitation lilacs on the top of her head, powdered her nose briefly and adjusted her thick spectacles. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z A man in his early forties, tall like nearly everyone on the boat ramp, he wore horn-rimmed spectacles behind which lurked sharp, penetrating eyes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “He has a good teacher,” Erastis said, returning his spectacles to his face. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He sat down, carefully polished his spectacles and chose a pen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Shivering, Werfel removed his spectacles and handed them over. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Gideon takes off his spectacles and wipes them with his pocket square. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Two orderlies hold my arms fast, but I break loose with one of them and try to crash into the surgeon’s spectacles just as he notices and springs back. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z All the venerable heads were craning forward, their spectacles glinting; only the Master and the Librarian leaned back in their chairs, with their heads close together. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Morning,” said Phoebe, peering through the silk curtains of her bed and fumbling for her spectacles. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z By the third day his eyes ached unbearably and his spectacles needed wiping every few minutes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There was a long silence as Arwyl looked at me, his eyes narrowing slightly behind his spectacles, as if he were trying to see something inside me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland took off his spectacles and rebound a wire around a broken hinge. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Magnifying glasses were known to the ancient Greeks, and spectacles were in use from the thirteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Merlyn took off his spectacles, dashed them on the floor and jumped on them with both feet “Castor and Pollux blow me to Bermuda!” he exclaimed, and immediately vanished with a frightful roar. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She had rusty hair knotted in a schoolmarmish bun, and thin, silver-rimmed spectacles attached to her breast pocket with a black elastic. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “We haven’t got any,” he replies, pushing his spectacles up with one finger. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Master Hyrrokkin unrolled the paper, adjusted his spectacles, and read it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The young mouse was surprised to see that old Brother Methuselah had been watching him, his eyes twinkling behind the curious spectacles he invariably wore. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland laid his spectacles on the table and pressed his shrunken fingers to his eyeballs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In a second he was up again—the Wart was convinced that the spectacles must be broken—and hopping round the white horse with one foot in the stirrup. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Sandy peers at the class over his round, tinted spectacles. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z My father blinked, and his eyes were moist behind the steel-rimmed spectacles. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Colonel Julyan took a pair of spectacles from a case in his pocket and read the note. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z His bald head was speckled with liver spots, and his spectacles sat low on his nose. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z From his shirt pocket Sticky took out a thin piece of cotton cloth and polished his spectacles with it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling light glinted wickedly off her spectacles. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hello,” the boy said, adjusting his spectacles, “is this where I’m supposed to wait?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He resettled his spectacles thoughtfully, and took a pace or two up and down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Sydelle turned to the group, one penciled eyebrow arched high over her red sequined spectacles. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He burst into the living room, his bald patch gleaming with sweat, his spectacles askew, Fred right behind him, both pale but uninjured. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The old lady had been reading her morning portion of Scripture—the Lesson for the day; her Bible lay open before her, and her spectacles were upon it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His eyes seemed red behind his steel-rimmed spectacles, as though he hadn’t slept in a long time. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Frank Churchill, I must tell you my mother’s spectacles have never been in fault since; the rivet never came out again. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “What do you want now?” she asked, looking sharply over her spectacles, while the parrot, sitting on the back of her chair, called out... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland settled his spectacles and pulled his chair up to the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I thought of Giles, and his large moon face, his horn spectacles. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She wears Erudite blue and Erudite spectacles and an Erudite look of superiority that I was taught by my father to hate. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Horace Whaley’s eyes bulged—his thyroid gland was overactive—and swam, too, behind his spectacles. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “The Elf King is coming out of his pavilion. It looks like they’re getting ready for him to go meet Ghohg.”Spurge peered through the spectacles. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Instead, he carefully examined and then purchased a pair of spectacles from the can trader. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore’s face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The light glinted off his spectacles; beneath the dark, glossy hair his face was deadly pale. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I can see him now, as he used to glare at us through his spectacles and say in a moving voice: “Won’t you join up, Comrades?” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He startles as he looks at me, adjusting his spectacles before doffing his hat in a lovely display of manners that I’ve seen men lavish on white ladies, but I sure ain’t used to. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I closed my eyes when you got in,” she said, blinking at him through her thick spectacles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I had seen the stud bulls on my grandfather's ranch during breeding season and witnessed their spectacles among the cows. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He peered over the top of his halfmoon spectacles at Harry, who was gaping at Snape’s face, which was continuing to swirl around the bowl. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He put the spectacles back on and took a deep breath. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Barris puts down the blueprint in his hand and turns, pushing his spectacles up on the bridge of his nose to better regard Marco’s expression. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Her father squeezed her fingers and sighed, his breath fogging his spectacles again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z When the connection is made, and a particular lymphocyte with a particular receptor is brought into the presence of the particular antigen, one of the greatest small spectacles in nature occurs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Merlyn put down his knitting and looked at his pupil over the top of his spectacles. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried straightening his spectacles once more before pulling them off in frustration and shoving them into his shirt pocket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He readjusted his spectacles on his nose, sighed, and drew the next batch of work toward him, with the scrap of paper on top of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I sat down and he looked at me, his eyes somber behind their steel-rimmed spectacles. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He is slight, perhaps five feet six inches tall, with closely cropped hair, wearing wire- rimmed spectacles. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I see,” said Dumbledore eventually, peering at Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles and giving Harry the usual sensation that he was being X-rayed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weasley opened the door to reveal her husband, a thin, balding, red-haired wizard wearing horn-rimmed spectacles and a long and dusty traveling cloak. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Sticky removed his spectacles, polished them, and replaced them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Martin peered at me over her spectacles. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Down in the kitchen Mrs. Brill was reading the paper with her spectacles perched on her nose. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Miss Honey put down her pencil and removed her spectacles and began to polish the lenses with a piece of tissue. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z On one of those walks, I had found a pair of spectacles among the tumbled pebbles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He had several feet of long silver hair and beard, half-moon spectacles, and an extremely crooked nose. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He wore little spectacles, was developing a beard that never quite sprouted, and kept his long hair in a man bun on the top of his head. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “You’re not supposed to be here,” the boy said, adjusting his spectacles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Those spectacles have more glass in them than the telescope at Mount Palomar.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With the curious, disarming friendliness that he always managed to put into the gesture, he resettled his spectacles on his nose. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A little bell rang as she did so, and a gentleman who was seated on a high stool behind a slanting desktop looked up at her over his spectacles. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z His blue eyes were light, bright, and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The light glinted on the man’s spectacles, and on the blade of the knife. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Uncle Claude lifted his tiny steel spectacles with one hand and wiped his bloodshot eyes with the other. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Here is the rivet of your mistress’s spectacles out. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know angels wore spectacles,” he said, tugging on one of Phoebe’s curls. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Sticky reached for his spectacles, checked himself, and thrust his hands into his pockets to still them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Methuselah coughed and cleaned his spectacles on his habit. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Come on,” said the man in the gold-rimmed spectacles to the dog. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Everyone looked back at David, who took off his top hat and round spectacles and shook his head. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He looked up, and his spectacles darted a hostile flash in Winston’s direction. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The tips of Dumbledore’s long, thin fingers were together and he was resting his chin upon them, staring up at the ceiling through his half-moon spectacles as though lost in thought. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Granny’s sharp black eyes looked at him over her spectacles. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know,” said Henry, reaching up behind his spectacles to rub his eyes again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Dumbledore’s long silver hair and beard, the piercingly blue eyes behind half-moon spectacles, the crooked nose: Everything was as he had remembered it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Are we still doing D.A. meetings this year, Harry?” asked Luna,who was detaching a pair of psychedelic spectacles from the middle of The Quibbler. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Up front, the professor, a bald white man with small spectacles and a florid face, has already started delivering his remarks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It’s as if she’s stepped down off the wall, the walls: the same round raw potato face, the hulky big-boned frame, the glittering spectacles and hairpin crown. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Shady pointed to his head, indicating that the spectacles rested above her forehead. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Now she seemed to have on the Professor’s mental or moral spectacles also, for the faults of these poor stories glared at her dreadfully and filled her with dismay. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Grandma swept the spectacles off her nose. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Matt removed a copy of the newspaper, put on his spectacles, and read the headlines. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z My father’s eyes went wide behind their spectacles. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The tutor's cheeks, swelling with anger, almost unhorsed the small spectacles saddling his nose. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He inspected it, both with his spectacles and then without. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Halliday smiled politely, readjusted her spectacles, and said, “I’d be happy to answer that for you...as soon as I’m ready to retire.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He looked up at me, bowing his neck a little to see over the spectacles. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Even his spectacles seemed to wear an ironical gleam. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Even his eyes, which stared from behind the silver rims of his spectacles, did not change their fixed, somber gaze. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Chaplain Shipman was seated in his tent, laboring over his paperwork in his reading spectacles, when his phone rang and news of the mid-air collision was given to him from the field. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The professor turns to me, adjusting his spectacles. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Stuart climbed the bank, went into the bushes, and was back in a few minutes wearing a pepper-and-salt jacket, old striped trousers, a Windsor tie, and spectacles. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Dumpy and muscular in her smudge-fronted uniform, the wall-eyed nurse wore such thick spectacles that four eyes peered out at me from behind the round, twin panes of glass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z James glanced up and saw Aunt Spiker standing over him, grim and tall and bony, glaring at him through her steel-rimmed spectacles. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Ma’s knitting spectacles jumped partway up her forehead and she started hopping up and down and slapping at her skirt like it’s afire! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He had taken off his spectacles and was in the act of resettling them on his nose with his characteristic gesture. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He held a beaker of muddy brown liquid up to the warm, wavering light and put on his spectacles to peer at the thick sediment that settled to the bottom like river sludge. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Cora retrieved his spectacles from the dirt and cleaned them with her sleeve and the three of them waited. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She wore a white blouse and a full skirt gathered at the waist by a wide leather belt, and stylish, crescent-shaped spectacles. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z My father had worn spectacles with rolled-gold rims, while these were tortoiseshell. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When Harry had finished, he merely continued to peer at them through his spectacles. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z As they groped their way past giant boulders, using their stolen pikes as walking sticks, Werfel cranked his spectacles to maximum magnification and looked back down the slope. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He wiped his spectacles upon the seat of his trousers, the only accessible piece of doth about him, while the belling and bloody cry arose all round. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z With a sharp squeak, the wheels whipped about to face the crate, into which Kate, a split second before, had drawn the spectacles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He was a handsome, sophisticated medical doctor with curly dark hair and round Fiorucci spectacles, a brilliant, ambitious man, charming and persuasive, with a quick, flaring temper, who had done extraordinary things in his career. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The light was at an angle that glinted off his tiny spectacles, and I couldn’t see his eyes behind them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She was a sternlooking witch who wore her hair in a tight bun; her sharp eyes were framed with square spectacles. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He smeared the sweat from his cheeks and quickly adjusted the spectacles on his nose. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He took off his spectacles and wiped his eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z His wire spectacles reflected the lantern’s glow, as if the flame burned inside him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Phoebe stood next to them, waving, with the sunlight glinting off her spectacles. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z She wiped her hands on her coveralls and said, “You see I ain’t got my spectacles on. Who it to, who it from?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He had a trick of resettling his spectacles on his nose which was curiously disarming—in some indefinable way, curiously civilized. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There are letters from Confederate soldiers lying on a Federal desk, strategically placed antique spectacles and handkerchiefs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The warden looked down the line of prisoners, and his eyes became glassy and sad behind his spectacles. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Mouth open, his eyes swollen and unfamiliar without their spectacles, he puffed and grumbled in his sleep. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In a flush of embarrassment, Sticky reached for his spectacles. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He takes a pair of small gold spectacles out of his shirt pocket and flicks them open. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The sizable ticket sales showed that moviegoers last year flocked to adult-oriented dramas and not just the action hero spectacles and sequels that dominate modern multiplexes, said Vulture film critic Alison Willmore. No longer niche: Oscar contenders embraced beyond the art house 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z With marriage on the horizon, Ria, through a series of action spectacles, sets out to stop her sister’s wedding. The Best Films of 2023, So Far 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z He seems to be wearing my grandmother’s spectacles, too. Hair-raising stuff! A wig-by-wig analysis of The People vs OJ Simpson 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Though we were not invited & though we r interested in talking re industry, not spectacles, she will be hearing from #DignidadLiteraria,” he wrote. Winfrey holds TV discussion on ‘American Dirt’ in Arizona 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z If The Bible keeps its ratings up, I’d expect more religious spectacles in the future. History Channel’s Bible Is a Hit. Does That Mean TV Will Get Religion? 2013-03-05T15:54:18Z Drawn in a few deft lines, it shows him with head tilted and with squinting eyes framed by oval spectacles in a sweet, quizzical expression. ‘Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts’ at the Morgan Library 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z This “end of the world” does not resemble the ends of religious prophecies or disaster films, in which the human experiment culminates in dramatic final spectacles. Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Bernard and Lenina's tour of Savage Land spectacles such the House of Want and the House of Monogamy prove to be among the most darkly humorous and familiarly Syfy moments in the series. Peacock's Syfy-quality "Brave New World" dystopia crosses Burning Man and an orgy in an Apple store 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Many scenes are unsettling to read and to look at, whether bloodshed, racial slurs or ugly spectacles like a waitress dousing her unwanted customers with cleaning detergent and torrents of water. ‘March’ Graphic Novel Revisits Civil Rights Movement in Rich Detail 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z At the beginning, a lone performer turns in place against a backdrop of pelting rain, ushering in the first of several rhythmic spectacles. Review: In ‘Beyond Time,’ U-Theater Dances and Drums With Precision 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z These spectacles should not be counted on to keep sparking our passions whenever there is a lull in interest and activism around racial issues. The dangerous spectacle of racist violence viral videos: Who are those images for? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z But of course it has always been a habit fed by novelty, and by a steady growth in the size, scale and extravagance of available spectacles. Film: 3-D Abounds, but What?s the Frenzy Really About? 2010-05-08T02:49:00Z He’s known, of course, for feature film productions such as The Day After Tomorrow as well as other big-budget spectacles that play out on cinema screens over a couple of hours. How Sony's free streaming service is trying to take on Netflix and Amazon 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z With this he takes off his spectacles and rubs his eyes, looking like a riled-up border-town newspaperman in a Western, a simile he would no doubt enjoy. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z But that’s because they were all ideas about musicals or arena spectacles. Why J.K. Rowling Endorsed ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ for the Stage 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z In his films of the ’90s — nihilistic spectacles like “The Living End,” “Doom Generation” and “Nowhere” — this attitude was exciting, even shocking. ‘White Bird in a Blizzard,’ a Mystery From Gregg Araki 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z It was a decade of sprawling music-theatre spectacles, operatic or otherwise. Notable Performances of 2019 and of the Decade 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z My spectacles, drawn with clean lines, carry the name: Quotation Marks. Cover Story: Joost Swarte Invents a New Way of Looking 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z A preternaturally wry man with thick spectacles, his early course load included “Optical Collusion,” a build-your-own telescope class; Scents & Sensibility, an introduction to perfume; and “Meat!” which was about different cuts of meat. Brooklyn Brainery Offers Popular Courses 2012-04-04T21:47:16Z He has rosy cheeks, spectacles, and the air of a civilised headmaster. From the Observer archive, 21 July 1968: The Kray twins on trial 2012-07-21T23:05:34Z And Mr. de La Lombana, hunched over in a black bowler and bottle-cap spectacles, fills it to the hilt, his portrayal a cartoon of demonstrative excesses. Review: In ‘Tía Julia y el Escribidor,’ a Student Is Smitten 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Tennyson not only wore thick spectacles but also ill-fitting dentures, eventually growing his famous “dirty monk” facial hair to hide his hollow-cheeked toothlessness. Review | Why Darwin grew that iconic beard and other tales of the Victorian era 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The only one she has done this year is for Vogue spectacles. Eva Mendes: 'I don't care about looking beautiful' 2013-04-04T18:30:01Z These dance spectacles were arresting — their endings were especially striking — but also characterized by what some saw as a dogged aestheticism that could feel heavy-handed and lacking in dynamism or momentum. Shen Wei Revives ‘Map,’ a Work from 2005 2014-04-11T21:47:13Z Should you happen to derive pleasure from any of the show’s carnal spectacles, then you are missing the point. | 'Hello Again': Web of Love, Explicitly Woven in Shades of Anguish 2011-03-21T02:01:03Z The professor provides a tour of the galaxy and shows how to spot and photograph celestial spectacles. Tonight's TV highlights: Stargazing Live 2011-01-03T00:05:02Z Another piece peers in on Chuck Close at work in Bridgehampton, N.Y.; no detail is too trivial, down to the spectacles resting on a desk and the bottle of cleaning fluid by the sink. Art Review: Alternative Worlds Where Even McMansions Are Tiny 2011-06-16T23:06:49Z Mr. Morricone looked professorial in bow ties and spectacles, with wisps of flyaway white hair. Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning Composer of Film Scores, Dies at 91 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Discussing two recent immersive Van Gogh spectacles in New York, the Times critic Jason Farago noted that, in those shows, “sensuous selfie backdrops come well before intellectual engagement.” David Hockney Goes High-Tech 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Insiders will recognize real-world touches: the bookish spectacles one defendant dons for court, the feral dogs that roam gang neighborhoods, the civilian police employee who passes tips to her gang-member nephew. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z But it has also established Tsang as an artist capable of crafting ambitious, provocative spectacles on a cinematic scale. An Artist’s Queer Take on ‘Moby-Dick’ 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Professor Francis Camps, the pathologist, was a kindly looking man with horn-rimmed spectacles, wearing a large red carnation. From the Observer archive, 21 July 1968: The Kray twins on trial 2012-07-21T23:05:34Z Physical spectacles and special effects are virtually obligatory in any major pop concert, and Take That's visual vignettes veered from the fantastical to the futuristic. Take That and Robbie gel on tour 2011-05-28T02:01:01Z Even so, he maintained his freelance career, and was given to occasional spectacles, like the 1988 marathon in London, when he conducted all nine Beethoven symphonies in a single 10-and-a-half-hour concert. Lorin Maazel, an Intense and Enigmatic Conductor, Dies at 84 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z But if the spectacles were stomped in the ordinary course of childish horseplay, as is more likely, I’d let them off the hook and grimly eat the cost of the new glasses myself. Social Q?s: Host Without the Most 2012-01-12T21:21:53Z The thronging crowd scenes are a form of choreographed chaos, while the volume of bodies creates some striking spectacles, like when the umbrellas of a mob surrounding the Ark suddenly become a bobbing sea. Mystery Plays resurrected in York 2012-08-09T09:20:01Z And the sight of a dozen horses thundering down the homestretch remains one of the most thrilling spectacles on the planet. Belmont Awaits Its Annual Return to Glory 2011-06-09T23:00:12Z “The noisy, bloated spectacles of combat were surely the most expensive parts of the movie, but the money seems less like an imaginative tool than a substitute for genuine imagination.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘A Christmas Story’ and ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Rhodes is also currently presenting his own primetime music show, Piano Man, on , in which he plays his favourite composers, all the while peering at sheet music on his iPad through trendy spectacles. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z He peers through spectacles – his myopia is so severe he often has to act without being able to see very much. How Christophe Lambert went from action flops to arthouse acclaim 2010-06-17T21:30:00Z McLain’s descriptive style is occasionally a little pedestrian and generalized for Gellhorn’s unusual life, at times her voice not as searing as the spectacles she witnessed. Paula McLain Returns to ‘The Paris Wife’ Territory 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The actor – who often wore steel-rimmed spectacles in later life – was presented with the Bafta Cymru lifetime achievement award two years ago. Margaret John obituary 2011-02-06T18:19:45Z A series of nighttime spectacles will light up the streets of Singapore on weekend evenings this month. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps perversely, he blames the overwhelming success and technical excellence of the big spectacles that have become Hollywood’s bread and butter. Does Hollywood hate adults? 2012-07-07T22:00:00Z The past two years, the halftime spectacles from Madonna and Beyoncé have drawn bigger ratings than portions of the game. Super Bowl halftime shows: rating the 5 best and worst 2014-01-30T18:50:53Z This can be compared to what happens when you don spectacles that turn everything upside down. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Even spectacles that advertise their all-ages, universal accessibility — child-friendly animation sequels, say — traffic in winking allusions to various canons of cultural arcana. Catch That Reference? There?ll Be a Quiz 2011-06-24T20:21:53Z Put the top down and bring on the summer spectacles, the schlockier the better. Summer Preview: There’s more to the season than box-office marvels 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Some artists emerge fully-formed, perfect, from art school, like David Hockney in the 1960s, glittering in a gold jacket and pop spectacles, painting with an open sensuality. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z Only as I walked back to my bike, ready for the long ride home, did I see that someone had left a pair of spectacles on a ledge of the ruins. Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z These fiery spectacles garnered widespread media coverage, sparking reactions ranging from bemusement to outrage. What do protests about Harry Potter books teach us? 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z But the once mysterious craft is increasingly turning into a high-end reality show — long-running spectacles that appeal to donors who lavish money on makeovers, but trouble some conservators accustomed to quiet and absolute concentration. Showtime at the Musée d’Orsay: Watching Varnish Dry 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Yet while it evokes the old-fashioned spectacles the studios habitually turned out long before Marvel, there is no precedent for this one. ‘The Woman King’ Review: She Slays 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z But it does remind us that Broadway has been chasing hipness for at least 40 years, and that overblown, mortifyingly vulgar spectacles are part of the fun of watching the Tonys. Theater Talkback: Charles Isherwood on His Favorite Tony Performances 2012-06-07T20:15:02Z “It made you aware that storytelling was as important as living,” he said of those spectacles. George Bartenieff, Fixture of Downtown Theater, Dies at 89 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z There is Mole, the benign, quiet provincial peering at life through thick spectacles. The Wind in the Willows ? review 2010-12-08T22:01:00Z A pair of lost spectacles – Charlie’s friend’s, misplaced somewhere on their bar crawl – scuppered any possibility of a one-night stand. How we met: ‘I proposed in the toilet queue at a festival – she said yes’ 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z But such spectacles would hardly have damaged the reputation of a band whose image was based in excess. The Rolling Stones' forbidden documentary 2010-05-22T18:01:00Z This summer, the Banqueting House is capturing the spirit of the Stuart era - celebrating the spectacles which entertained King James I/VI, Charles I and their courts. Magnificent masques - how the Stuart kings were entertained 2013-07-19T07:22:27Z It consists of a tiny Android computer built into the right-hand arm of a spectacles frame. Google Glass? You have to applaud their vision 2013-02-24T00:05:41Z About a decade ago, she left the art world and began collaborating with West — orchestrating his fashion spectacles, which are held in locations like New York’s Madison Square Garden arena. The racially insensitive remarks by Kanye West collaborator Vanessa Beecroft that have the art world talking 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Humans have been acquiring animals to display wealth and get attention for centuries, but often those animals are spectacles, like peacocks or pythons. The Cutest Animal on Instagram Is Possibly in Your Trash Can 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most moving sight of the night comes when I turn around and watch the crowd gazing with wonder and delight behind their cardboard 3D spectacles, like those classic photographs of 1950s cinema audiences. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night five: Computer World 2013-02-12T15:13:31Z Through his signature circular spectacles, Mr. Chow kept darting glances that way. Sky-High Prices? Bad Reviews? No Matter: Mr. Chow Powers On 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Other works illustrated public spectacles and formal events across Europe, in Warsaw, Paris, Madrid and Rome. ‘Eyewitness Views,’ at the Getty in Los Angeles, Illustrates History 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z It did so without comment, except that one of the accompanying illustrations showed Napoleon the dictator wearing the trademark black horn-rimmed spectacles of Zimbabwe's own leader. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z My spectacles are not sunglasses, they’re prescription specs, which I had slightly tinted because I had a cataract operation last year. This Man Is Not Meghan Markle 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The latter never caught on, but spectacles did – so much so that they've gone from medical appliance to fashion statement. Superhuman: are we the greatest design project of the century? 2012-07-17T12:38:33Z There, a “wand master,” an actor in a checkered suit and a tasseled hat, peers down his spectacles at prospective witches and wizards. SAPVoice: Beyond Words: The Magic of the Harry Potter Brand 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z They also were true events, shows that moved along as entertainment spectacles rather than James Lipton-esque chitchats. Why Charlie Sheen's live show was bound to fail 2011-04-04T15:30:00Z At 25, Ferren had already staged rock spectacles for Emerson, Lake and Palmer. A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Do you think of your events more as spectacles to be watched by an audience or as participatory experiences that they should join in? | Matthew Stone 2010-12-01T21:37:00Z In the late 19th century, artists began to look at the world through spectacles tinged absinthe green and suicidal black. Dieter Roth: the video-diary Rembrandt 2012-08-01T17:15:01Z "Babylon" flickers to life during its second episode starting with a fabulous tracking shot through the moviemaking process which includes dozens of spectacles in the foreground and background. Why, Damien Chazelle, why?!: "Babylon" is a busy, bawdy and bad orgy of Hollywood nothingness 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Placebo Before the British alternative rockers Placebo released their debut record and honed their own androgynous glam-rock spectacles, they were Mr. Bowie’s touring band in 1996. All the Young Bands: The Artists David Bowie Championed 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Its date-night crowd goes to party to the mantra “Be there and be square,” projected on screen before each event underneath a line drawing of stylishly geeky spectacles. Secret Science Club, Nerd Nite and Other Barroom Education 2012-01-05T18:20:29Z It felt like madness: oil everywhere, media spectacles of the clean-up, boats and helicopters and planes harassing orcas. Confronting my Exxon Valdez horror 25 years later 2014-03-26T23:00:00Z “Sorry to Bother You” offers moments of offhanded intimacy and also choreographed crowd scenes, public political spectacles, and the wide-reaching mediascape that presents and shapes them. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Oldman steers clear of Guinness’s style in the part, though he does swap his rather natty designer spectacles for a more owlish pair, as though in homage to his distinguished forerunner. Film: Passionate Tales of Lost Identities 2011-09-08T12:30:07Z But then why inflict these strange and depressing spectacles on us? Will Robert De Niro ever make another good movie? 2012-07-11T14:58:00Z Doug Aitken has stepped back from the large video spectacles for which he is known to make a small one, “New Era.” 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Chelsea 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “That creates a lot of opportunity for headliners and production shows to draw people in, to see these spectacles that can’t tour,” Nelson said. Vegas was once where music stars faded away. Now it’s cool enough for Lady Gaga and Cardi B. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z This is truer than ever in an increasingly globalized industry, in which simplistic spectacles are the easiest export of all. Perspective | Scorsese is right about Marvel. Except when he’s wrong. 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Wearing a dark suit and tie, he sat, spectacles in hand, listening intently and jotting notes as prosecutors made their opening remarks. Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial 2012-05-16T10:27:00Z While science fiction can explore galaxies far, far away and offer interstellar spectacles, it is often most challenging when it stays close to home and investigates what makes us human. Five Science-Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Her early concerts were elaborate, highly choreographed spectacles featuring dance, mime, projection and poetry. Kate Bush set for stage comeback 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z They have been offering streaming recommendations all year on an eclectic mix of action movies, horror films, sci-fi spectacles and international selections. The Best Genre Movies of 2021 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z HER spectacles, as round as soup tureens, lend Iris Apfel a startled look. Up Close: At 90, Fashion?s Latest Pop Star 2011-08-23T20:17:18Z So how do you metabolize being a part of big media spectacles like the Golden Globes and, potentially, the Oscars? How an 80-Minute Polish Film in Black and White Became a Breakout Hit 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z In many cases the differences are nonexistent or purely semantic, and one day soon they may evaporate entirely for everything except the biggest Hollywood spectacles and the artiest outer fringe. “Victoria”: This exciting German thriller, shot straight through in one take, is much more than a novelty 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In pursuing a salient truth about our nation, there is danger of reducing these videos into spectacles: performances, strung together, divorced from the concrete reality of the situation. My Screens Are Filled With Black Death, but I Won’t Look Away 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z “Look, I get it,” he says, pushing his black spectacles up the bridge of his nose, hippy beads slack at his wrist. Tom Hanks: ‘I’ve made a lot of movies that didn’t make sense – or money’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z He never says what kinds of movies he does like, but he’s vocal in his disdain for superhero spectacles and “sequels that nobody asked for.” ‘Coming 2 America’ Review: Comedic Royalty 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Times, tastes, fashions and spectacles have changed in the past half-century. Music Center's 50th-anniversary gala amps up energy to a fault 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z There are few more jawdropping pop spectacles than Pink's Funhouse Summer Carnival tour, which marks the edgy American superstar's ascent to stadiums. Pink 2010-06-13T21:46:00Z To me, a tourist visits all the big sights, sees spectacles on stage, and returns home unchanged with a suitcase full of knickknacks. 6 tips for shopping in Europe from Rick Steves 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Neighborhood children called her “bifocals” and would regularly steal her spectacles for sport. Up Close: By Her (Couture) Hair You Shall Know Her 2012-03-19T22:45:36Z What they bring are kitschy spectacles, melodramas told through broad acting and ballet conflated with acrobatics, all underlined by formulaic music, Chinese and Western. Review: ‘Dragon Boat Racing,’ a Sea of Love and Music 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Paris - the last city after New York, London and Milan to host shows - is offering up 95 frenetic catwalk spectacles back-to-back over eight days at opposite ends of the French capital. New, emerging talent kicks off Paris Fashion Week 2012-09-25T19:10:12Z Here’s how five returning shows are making sure some of their signature spectacles are ready for prime time. Bringing Broadway Spectacle Back to Life 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z In between the two spectacles of strenuous scenery chewing, I was on vacation. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Familiar Faces in Two Dimensions 2013-01-10T18:24:54Z Like Wodehouse he is myopic, utterly at a loss without his spectacles, projecting an air of distraction that was probably quite calculated. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z The director, Ken Loach, who started out in British television in the 1960s, is not known for grandiose spectacles. At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Many of the canonical operas are spectacles of female degradation, in which powerless, marginalized women grow ever more powerless and marginalized. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z The economics of Hollywood blockbusters undoubtedly favour spectacles of strength – steroidal heroes battling against apocalypse. Kong: Skull Island – why do Hollywood blockbusters have such Trump-like politics? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z After years of ripping up the standard playbook for releasing new music — eschewing early radio singles and interviews for surprise drops and elaborate multimedia spectacles — Beyoncé spent six weeks beating the promotional drum. Beyoncé’ Unveils ‘Renaissance,’ the First of Three New Projects 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z None of Cruise’s divorces to date have been public spectacles and other top stars have managed to keep their parenting disputes largely out of open courtrooms. Cruise and Holmes avoid court 2012-07-10T06:15:00Z Bellows had no need to measure himself against the wild natural spectacles that earlier painters – Frederick Church at Niagara Falls, Albert Bierstadt in Yosemite – strained to celebrate on widescreen canvases in gaudily iridescent colours. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z As the old studio short-subject departments were shut down and television loomed, big-screen spectacles proved attractive nominees, as well as orchestral recordings of classical standards. Every Film in This Oscar Category Is an Underdog You Can Root for 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z The necklaces — each a meld of imagination and craftsmanship — also will be sold to private clients, who can choose among the different continuing spectacles. 2010-02-03T04:30:00Z And Putner as a karaoke singer waiting, and waiting, for a keyboard solo to end is among the funniest spectacles on the fringe. Inglorious Stereo 2010-08-12T15:22:00Z Correct answers earned them points, which they could trade for images of spectacles or lips to make their own avatars further resemble Michael Gove. Fists full of sausage, Michael Gove declaims his vision of the future 2013-03-24T00:05:37Z The piece is one of several eclectic works that will appear in this festival, which also brings symphony concerts, dance and public outdoor spectacles to this otherwise-sleepy seaside town on the country’s west coast. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z They are revolting spectacles — imagination and talent brutally transformed into naked commerce. Perspective | The Art Basel banana was art, and the peals of outrage were one layer of it 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Barnes is no stranger to such site-specific spectacles: for the Collegiate Chorale, he produced the New York premiere of David Lang’s “battle hymns” at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum last year. Gotham Chamber Opera Names Edward Barnes Executive Director 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z After receiving a gift of magic sand - it falls to 13-year old Alcatraz to save the world from the evil Librarians and restore true knowledge – which 'mostly consists of magic and spectacles'! Reader reviews roundup 2013-05-24T09:16:57Z At the end of the day, audiences who tune in, stream or buy their tickets to these bloody spectacles do so because they want to gawp at the men who turned women into corpses. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, why are dead women’s bodies still being used as entertainment? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z At once thrilling and chilling, the monstrous spectacles are a wickedly funny distillation of modern media mayhem. The media age run amok in 'Federico Solmi: The Brotherhood' at Luis De Jesus Gallery 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z A gatecrasher at the British launch party grabbed Franzen's spectacles off his face and ran off. I loved Jonathan Franzen not wisely but too well 2010-10-07T16:28:00Z Visual arts shows, comedy acts, theater and dance performances, spectacles, film events and more will be announced later this month. Bumbershoot 2011 music lineup announced 2011-06-01T05:04:05Z “I was just a nice little boy, not sophisticated,” says Vollin, 84, who sports a silver mustache, stylish spectacles and a wry smile. A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z “Pardon my glasses,” Marisa Tomei said one morning as she sat down for breakfast in an oversize pair of tinted prescription spectacles. Marisa Tomei on ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Empire’ and Playing Dark and Angry 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Taking a vacation, he could be counted on to lose his spectacles, his luggage and his way. A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The spectacles are currently on display in the British Library, but just in case, don’t get too close. Did Jane Austen die of arsenic poisoning? Maybe. Maybe not. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z While those spectacles drew their share of press attention and loose talk, today’s corporate, almost bloodless entertainment industry seems less tolerant of executives who depart from the script. In the New Hollywood, Sumner Redstone Is a Man Out of Time 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Photos of a man I’d never seen before with round spectacles. I could never understand my grandmother's sadness – until I learned her tragic story 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Beowulf himself is a particular treat, with spectacles and a beer belly hoisted mock-heroically into a leather corset. Beowulf: A Thousand Years Of Baggage - review 2013-03-12T02:06:03Z This whole thing about extravaganza has been pinned to me, that I do spectacles, and I don’t. So Many Shows, So Many Hits: For ‘Prince of Broadway,’ the Challenge Is What to Leave Out 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Belgium was particularly active in organizing degrading human spectacles. Remembering the Racist History of ‘Human Zoos’ 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z We’re simply being allowed to witness, which is enjoyable because spectacles — fires, lightning storms, flesh-eating zombie women — are fascinating to watch. A Poet Who Mesmerizes by Zigs and Zags, Hopping From Idea to Idea 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Summer has wound down, but you have one last weekend to catch the museum’s See It Big! 70mm series, which celebrates a film format once reserved for the biggest of screen spectacles. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Garden historian Christopher Thacker described Villa d’Este as “the most complete water garden in the world, with infinitely varied water spectacles.” ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “Sight” shows a boy peering through spectacles, while the boy in “Hearing” plays a recorder. For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z It takes place in daylight, ending at 7 p.m. — which not only encourages visitors to seek out night life, but also rules out stage spectacles dependent on lights and video, emphasizing old-school musicianship instead. Jazz Fest at 50: The Stubbornness and Joy of New Orleans 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The “Before the Dawn” shows were phantasmagoric spectacles, involving video, choreography, lighting and puppetry. Kate Bush Is Running Up That Concert Stage for a Giant Live Album 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z That was written by David Belasco, who went to become a Broadway colossus who consistently gave the great public the sentimental spectacles they craved. London Theater Journal: Two Wars, With Song and Sentiment 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Photographs uploaded to an Instagram account belonging to Marx's wife, Daisy Fuentes, showed a man with thick-rimmed spectacles being held back by flight attendants on one side and Marx on the other. Pop star Marx helps subdue 'dangerous' airline passenger 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z It is the festering stuff of fear, loathing and deep-seated racism that often erupts into spectacles of spontaneous violence, hate-mongering and implied threats of state repression. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “Hostile Planet” avoids such Gryllsian spectacles—the animals are the stars. “Hostile Planet”: Animals Are Struggling to Adapt, and National Geographic Is, Too 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z At a moment when art is swamped with big-ticket, high-tech spectacles that overwhelm, Mr. Stingel’s effort is the exception that proves the rule. Critic’s Notebook: Rudolf Stingel’s Carpeting Makeover in Venice 2013-08-20T22:13:15Z Zoom movies will never replace spectacles meant to be enjoyed in theaters. Perspective | This is not a ‘Tenet’ review. (Here’s why.) 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The World Cup will be a good party, guaranteed — and the handful of games the Brazilian side plays will be all-out spectacles. Brazil, Where the Beautiful Game Struts 2013-04-12T18:36:34Z Their innovations in perspective opened new dramatic possibilities, and their lavish projects cost vast sums, with single spectacles running budgets of up to $10 million in today’s dollars. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z He made blockbuster comedies, mind-blowing sci-fi spectacles, musicals, you name it. That Time I Built My Own ‘Wonder Park’ 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z That same October, a well-dressed gentleman wearing thick spectacles accosted Louisa Harvey outside the Alhambra Theatre. Review | A true-crime columnist turns his attention to Victorian-era serial killer Thomas Neill Cream 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z London — For all the spectacles that took place on the runways of London Fashion Week, it was at the after-parties where the real fun began. The Ravenous Parties of London Fashion Week 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z It was as if in the lobby of each theater, I had been handed a different set of custom-made spectacles with which to view the evening’s entertainment. Broadway on Race: Still More Likely to Comfort Than Confront 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z But the plot soon shifts to Ho's retirement to a suburb in the Southwest, where he dons Clark Kent spectacles in his guise as a "pen importer." 2010-01-14T04:44:00Z In the Norwegian Henrik Louis Lund’s portrait of a bearded man in a slouch hat and spectacles leaning elbow-wise on a fence, facile draftsmanship and patchy, Cézannesque paint application combine to deadening effect. Art Review: ?Luminous Modernism? at Scandinavia House - Review 2011-12-01T22:55:09Z For him and some of the younger returnee generation, the lavish spectacles of the old guard are starting to chafe. T Magazine: In Lagos, the 1% Takes Stock 2014-04-25T17:00:01Z Goodman’s work is so appealing to design-world outsiders because she doesn’t focus on abstruse brand names or lavish spectacles. The Beautiful Unrelatability of Wendy Goodman’s Book About Élite Homes 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Cooper was hyper-prepared — at one point, he dashed off the population of Denmark, as though his chunky spectacles were Google Glass. In First Debate, Democrats Keep the Drama to a Minimum 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Oscar contenders may not have fared well in the streaming age but bombastic spectacles like this have performed swimmingly, especially as pandemic restrictions have relaxed and people are starting to return to theaters. "Army of the Dead" is what happens when desperation meets a thrilling zombie conflagration 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Her coronation in 1953 began the age of global video spectacles. Her Majesty’s Last Broadcast 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z His trademark horn-rimmed spectacles were in fact a sophisticated hearing aid, enabling him to sense vibrations. Obituary: Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T11:18:49Z The musical numbers are of particular note, an antidote to the the sanitized and overproduced spectacles coughed up every couple of years in Hollywood. The best films of 2017 … that you didn't see 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Her warbling alto cadence shares strong similarities with that of Katy Perry; her suggestive stage spectacles evoke Ms. Perry’s, too. Pop & Rock Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Both are sumptuous, grandiose and profoundly silly spectacles, liable to inspire over-the-top flames from some viewers and impassioned defenses from others. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z For movie fans, summer can only mean one thing: big, loud spectacles. Summer Preview: There’s more to the season than box-office marvels 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Traditional Wagnerian performances tend to be rather silly spectacles, with lots of swords, cloaks and horned helmets. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Bold and sculptural, the limited edition spectacles are being celebrated tonight at Prada’s 57th street store with a launch party and art exhibit ‘’From Drawings to Pictures.” | Prada's New Shades 2011-05-17T16:43:46Z This is exactly what big rock spectacles are supposed to be, rain or shine. 13 reasons why you, too, should see U2 in Seattle 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z This year was better than usual, astronomers said—one of the most glorious celestial spectacles visible with the naked eye. Watching Canada’s Biggest Rock Band Say a Dramatic Goodbye 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z This elaborate pop-up book may be one of the most kid-pleasing spectacles ever to come between two covers. Enticing Books for Every Kid This Holiday Season 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Coogan pushes his spectacles back up the bridge of his nose. Steve Coogan: ‘Maybe I've just got flabby and middle-aged' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Hence the news conferences, which only fuel Allred’s opponents, who deem them vulgar spectacles. Gloria Allred has been endlessly parodied. A new movie aims to celebrate her instead. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Instead of becoming trapped like a fly in amber, it has constantly evolved – from the 18th-century Harlequinades, through the music-hall era to the comic and sometimes magical spectacles of today. Still behind you! 2010-12-23T15:00:04Z Maybe it was Jordan’s spectacles that lent him some gravitas. Date Lab: ‘I was really nervous that he’d wear a gingham shirt’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z In this quirky Spanish-language comedy, a ragtag group of lovable weirdos with a passion for scary movies and goth aesthetics launches a horror-production business to stage spooky spectacles. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z It’s hardly surprising that an industry that often functions as a protection racket for white male mediocrity should specialize in spectacles of white male self-pity. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z In making sense of human cruelty, these films should seek to say something more than simply recalling newsreels, lest docudramas become ghoulish spectacles of suffering. Real-life terror: is it exploitative to use human suffering for cinematic thrills? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z “That means we’re going to have an argument,” Mr. Silver said, bookish in a gray A.P.C. sweater and Cutler and Gross spectacles. New York Fashion Week: New York Fashion Week: Duckie Brown — Daniel Silver and Steven Cox — for Perry Ellis 2012-09-05T18:53:00Z The dish speaks more to comfort than to fashion, and given the many spectacles here, chicken is a nice balancer. Review | Gravitas is a beautiful work in progress that needs a dash more flavor 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z There's a grimy, satisfying popcorn passion about "Predators" that seems positively joyous in a season -- hell, an entire era -- of overcooked and empty CGI spectacles. "Predators": Roast the aliens -- and the popcorn! 2010-07-10T00:20:00Z What really broadcast his power were public spectacles of chivalric glory, in which he jousted with local noblemen and foreign champions in ritualized mock combat, still dangerous despite the staging. 20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z By that time the city’s operatic tastes were shifting toward Meyerbeer’s epic spectacles, which Rossini dismissed as “the big.” The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z “Birdman” exemplifies just the kind of small, experimental movie that the Academy Awards help keep alive despite threats from the special-effects spectacles and comic-book movies that the movie itself harshly critiques. ‘Birdman’ swoops in to take top awards on Oscar night 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z With his snowy white hair, neat moustache and spectacles that sit low on his nose, may look like a kindly shoemaker from a fairytale but don't mistake him for a soft touch. Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery' 2013-05-09T17:30:01Z Faith displays a familiarity with the language of horror with these spectacles and shots of ghostly reflections that effectively play with the notion of a spectral possession. ‘The Power’ Review: Night Terrors During a London Blackout 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z DeMille is often criticized for the campy excess of his biblical spectacles, but at heart he is the most severe of logicians — a Protestant posing as a revivalist preacher. DVDs: Samuel Fuller?s ?Verboten!? Makes It to DVD 2010-07-09T07:35:00Z The notebooks are fascinating: full of story scenarios, often just a line long, and ideas for inventions wise and wacky, from nicotine tablets to help smokers quit to tiny TV screens attached to spectacles. 'Truth is funnier than anything': the life of Preston Sturges told by his son 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z There are touches of Akira Kurosawa’s “The Hidden Fortress” — and perhaps of “Star Wars,” for which George Lucas plundered “Fortress” freely — and also of the wuxia spectacles of King Hu. ‘Kingdom’ Review: Where the Map Is Drawn in Blood 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Still, many reviewers struggled to see past the lush cinematography and Firth’s instantly iconic thick-rimmed spectacles. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Throughout the last century, and notably during the 1940s and ’50s, skating spectacles were opulent, fantastical performances that featured skaters in solos and pairs but also burlesque, comedy and even showgirl-worthy kick lines. Critic’s Notebook: The Glories of Ice Shows Recalled, at Dance on Camera 2014-01-30T23:30:03Z Not that everyone would see the show’s arrival here — a kind of homecoming, given its roots in MTV reality spectacles like “The Hills” and “Jersey Shore” — as a cultural milestone. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Only Way Is Essex,? a British Jersey Shore 2011-11-06T22:38:37Z With its animated graphics and giant puppets, it set a standard for rock spectacles. A Word With: Roger Waters: Rogers Waters Talks About ‘The Wall’ and Pink Floyd 2012-07-05T21:11:55Z The question becomes, what will come next as the stakes to stage increasingly shocking spectacles and embarrass public figures are raised? A look at the bizarre legal documents incident between ex-couple Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Back before Apple and the MP3 eroded the power of wealthy labels, event videos were massive, costly spectacles, helmed by a pricey director wielding pricey new technology. From Lady Gaga to M.I.A., Music Videos Are Back 2010-04-27T21:41:00Z Guards ensure they do not make off with the iconic round-rimmed spectacles placed on the Lennon statue. Cubans rock to once-censored Beatles at Havana tribute concert 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Chanel has the deepest pockets in the business, and its mega-production runway shows are always awesome spectacles - even when the clothes they showcase leave the audience of feeling a tad perplexed. At McQueen, some see clues to Middleton mystery 2011-03-09T02:46:04Z They're alien invasion spectacles and shoot first, don't question action flicks. "Stranger Things" wants to be everybody's memory and nobody's parable 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z That’s predictable, given the high studio stakes and the industry’s faith in spectacles of destruction, but it doesn’t obliterate the movie’s pleasures. Tom Cruise Battles Invaders in ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z In contrast to the poetic congress babbling behind his spectacles and buck-toothed grin, Morgan in company could be reserved to the point of silence, especially among strangers. Edwin Morgan obituary 2010-08-19T17:23:00Z Studios typically flood theaters with spectacles at this time of year because the holidays leave so many people with time on their hands. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Has a Subdued Start at the Box Office 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z While they aren't awe-inspiring spectacles like the set pieces in "Mission: Impossible — Fallout", they are magnificently well-choreographed in a balletic sort of way. "John Wick: Chapter 3" is easy to like, but hard to love 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z But “Dune” will be streaming simultaneously on HBO Max beginning Friday giving audiences a choice in how and where to see one of the year’s most anticipated spectacles. New this week: ‘Dune,’ ‘Invasion’ and an Elton John album 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z And the Chinese government is promoting her shows at Lincoln Center as part of a “soft power” push aimed at building good will overseas with performances and spectacles that showcase China’s rich cultural heritage. Zhang Huoding of Peking Opera Takes a Turn in the United States 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z With his long beard, spectacles and intense gaze, the reclusive competitor cuts an enigmatic figure hunched over his letter tiles. New French Scrabble champion doesn't speak French 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Extravagant, elaborate and expensive, masques were one-off spectacles held in the Banqueting House at Whitehall in London. Magnificent masques - how the Stuart kings were entertained 2013-07-19T07:22:27Z The Met Breuer is going to keep doing sprawling, themed spectacles that pander, thrill and provoke until it gets them right. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “Bitter Lake” proceeds through unnarrated sections that showcase the violent spectacles, subtle ironies, and intimate acts of cruelty from the most recent Afghan war. The Documentary “Bitter Lake” Remixes the BBC 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z While I’m not about to get rid of my mother’s wedding china or my great-grandfather’s spectacles, I’ll think twice before clicking “buy now” after reading this book. Review | Jennifer Howard’s ‘Clutter: An Untidy History’ takes Marie Kondo’s message a step further 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z The more everyday parts of the building are left looking eclipsed by the spectacles, and exhausted by the effort of achieving it. J?rgen Mayer H 2011-03-27T00:04:06Z Not only were film premieres, charity balls and museum galas open to anyone who could afford a ticket, they were also spectacles to which millions more had access via TV and newspapers. Belle of the ballgowns: a guide to the V&A exhibition 2012-05-18T21:52:01Z Grey, apparently, with slightly less hair, but exactly the same pair of spectacles. John Lennon birthday tributes from Google and beyond 2010-10-08T11:56:00Z But not all urbanisms are the same, and there are several differences between Latin America in the middle of the last century and the urban spectacles of today. MoMA and the architects of a Latin American design revolution 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z These big-ticket spectacles hewed to the usual time-tested Hollywood script. ‘Jaws’ Is Still Devouring Us. SOS! 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Lloyd Parry is only 42, but looks uncannily like James did in late middle-age, with huge shoulders crammed into a waistcoat and jacket, thin-rimmed round spectacles and a slicked-down flick of receding mousy hair. In search of a very British, and rural, kind of horror 2013-02-05T11:33:50Z The woman in the foreground is clearly – with her signature lime green spectacles and bob – Perry's wife, psychotherapist and author Philippa Perry. Hogarth revisited: Grayson Perry uses tapestries to tackle taste and class 2012-06-05T23:01:03Z He barely performs tonight: instead he conducts his remarkable musicians, peering over his spectacles like an encouraging teacher, flailing his arms and occasionally dancing along. John Zorn – review 2013-07-14T15:00:01Z Instead, the thick spectacles, immaculate blue blazer, neat military moustache, and persistently unjudgmental and blandly phrased questions, plus a commentary in alliterative tabloidese, gave him a career that outlasted those of many of his rivals. Alan Whicker, globetrotting TV presenter, dies aged 87 2013-07-12T14:56:37Z According to the police, about 100 items, including Lennon’s diaries, spectacles, a cigarette case and a recording of a 1965 Beatles concert, were stolen from Ms. Ono in New York in 2006. Man Arrested in Berlin Over John Lennon’s Stolen Diaries 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z But when righteousness turns into competing spectacles, everything becomes about “optics” and it’s easy to lose track of reality. Perspective | Can artists right the ills of an unjust world by staging museum protests? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z As he works, steel-rimmed spectacles perched on his nose, Jeldha listens to Byzantine prayer music that echoes softly around the studio, creating an atmosphere from another era. Artist works to preserve Christian heritage in Hamas-run Gaza 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Sculptures of the comics' famous spectacles complement films about time's steady trickle, where cups of tea go gold and glasses of champagne go flat. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z Whereas she used to craft dizzying spectacles that were both insightful and emotional, she lays it all out here, bolds the key terms, and highlights the fluff. Madonna's MDNA: The Queen of Pop Wants You to Dance, Not Think 2012-03-26T20:09:57Z Those early ’70s spectacles have since attained near-mythic status; work staged there that Lew felt museums and established galleries either couldn’t, or wouldn’t, show has since been feted in museums and blue-chip galleries. After Half a Century, White Columns Still Surprises 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The models were styled with side curls and wore spectacles to mimic the look of a yeshiva student. What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures Mr. Kelley’s drawings show an intimate side of him that almost completely disappeared when he went on to his immensely influential career as a producer of conceptually and materially extravagant multimedia spectacles. ‘What Nerve!’ at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z However well executed the more muted episodes are, the big, insane spectacles are what make “Community” so special. “Community” botches damage control 2012-05-24T16:00:00Z There’s often a confusing, disjunctive quality to it, especially where contemporary art is concerned, as the museum’s programming lurches from crowd-drawing, performance-art spectacles in the atrium to relatively dry and didactic exhibitions in its galleries. Hold That Obit; MoMA?s Not Dead 2010-12-30T16:49:20Z “The Grand Paradise,” the latest and lushest of the many immersive theater spectacles to set up camp in New York in recent years, traffics in instant nostalgia. Review: ‘The Grand Paradise’ Summons a ’70s Pleasure Palace 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z In 1951 Bevan, by now the labour minister, resigned from the cabinet when it voted to bring in charges for dental care, spectacles and prescriptions. Nye Bevan's dream: a history of the NHS 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The topmost challenge "Kindred" contends with is to incorporate its genre plot within a history that is difficult to witness and so easily transformed into spectacles of Black pain. Butler's "Kindred" features a Black woman doing what most people fear: grappling with ugly history 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z They quickly realized that Lamblin's instruments were such spectacles in themselves that they sometimes distracted from the dance. Music, movement and a little science are all in play in Lelavision's 'Above the Genome' 2010-11-26T05:01:00Z “He does create these powerful spectacles drawing attention to issues that you just can’t ignore but he also makes exquisite, subtle works.” William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Like “Titanic,” “Jurassic Park,” and the rest of the 90s’ most durable cinematic spectacles, “Apollo 13” hasn’t aged a day. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in March 2019 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Bailey called the collection “Classical Bohemian,” and his models wore poets’ spectacles and fringed blankets and scarves knotted over their donkey jackets. London Men’s Wear: Burberry, McQueen and Others Puncture the Fashion Bubble 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z As much as we may be amused or even enthralled by such spectacles, it’s become a point of honor to know that they’re only illusions. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Hilda unwrapped his spectacles box, sat alone at their little dining table, then put her head down and sobbed. My Street life 2010-12-03T07:00:00Z He has the trademark round spectacles and the regulation magic wand. Warner Bros sues over 'Harry Potter condoms' 2010-08-20T13:03:00Z They are easy-to-follow spectacles that include what Afghan movies do not: good production quality, heaving cleavage, and beautiful woman in skimpy saris. Defying the Taliban, one (bad) movie at a time 2010-06-19T16:02:00Z His single accessory: a pair of owlish spectacles he acquired on a recent trip to Japan. New York Fashion Week’s Under-the-Radar Talents 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Scene by scene, the fights are cinematic spectacles, spellbinding blurs of violence set to the sounds of clanging swords and tearing tendons. Review | ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ is the fantasy epic everyone will be talking about 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Are these conjoined spectacles an invitation or an obstacle? All is full of love: Listening for Bjork’s radical humanity 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Some of the directors of the biggest films of the season, including “F9,” “The Suicide Squad” and “In the Heights,” share a few of their favorite stories from the making of their big screen spectacles. Summer movie highlights from the directors who made them 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Salt Horse's surreal spectacles skirt rather than embrace conventional narrative, providing full immersions in the dream dimensions of the mind. You can watch dance this weekend til you drop 2011-05-10T00:53:04Z They make for agreeably watchable, sometimes amusing spectacles, even though there’s no disguising that their characters are the usual dreary family-circle causalities. Movie Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm,’ With Geoffrey Rush 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z He once had a line of reading glasses, based on his own round spectacles, called the Zimm; proceeds funded his “second chances” scholarship through the James Beard Foundation. Andrew Zimmern’s Nonstop Road (and Food) Show 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Thus concludes what may end up being the most fabulously dumb legal spectacles we've enjoyed in a long while and one of the best things to ever happen to the recently resurrected Court TV. Gwyneth gets a dollar: A Utah jury concludes Paltrow is not liable, ending skiing collision trial 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z I don't understand this "trademark" thing – Larkin didn't wear spectacles for effect; he was as blind as a bat – and I think he would have found this irredeemably gruesome. The real Larkin 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z But it also recalls the Technicolor biblical pageants of the 1950s and early ’60s, bland and solemn spectacles that invited moviegoers to marvel at their favorite stars in sandals and robes. Movie Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z A return to circuses without wild animals would see the clock wound back to 1768 and the creation of the first modern circus which featured horses and their riders performing thrilling spectacles to sellout crowds. Circuses remove last of the big cats from UK's big tops 2013-02-10T00:05:47Z That’s less the case now, and day after day at Toronto, you could watch all manner of female-driven pictures, from spectacles to chamber pieces. In Toronto, Films by Women About Women, but That’s Where the Similarities End 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z His explosion of anger in the Broadway production of Christopher Hampton's translation of Yasmina Reza's play The God of Carnage remains one of the most terrifying spectacles I have ever seen on stage. How James Gandolfini reinvented the gangster for The Sopranos 2013-06-20T16:07:49Z There's an early pair of spectacles and some tortoise-shell ear trumpets, like a pair of gramophone earmuffs. Superhuman: are we the greatest design project of the century? 2012-07-17T12:38:33Z The Hollywood of 1966 was bland and besieged, studios throwing vast sums at puffed up spectacles that found audiences ever more prone to washing their hair. Bored of blockbusters? Why Hollywood needs another Bonnie and Clyde moment 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Call them “expectancy spectacles” if you’d like, because wearing them causes us to raise our standards and expectations, often unrealistically, of everything from potential mates to job prospects. The Trick to Finding Your Soul Mate? Change Your Expectations 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The topmost challenge "Kindred" contends with is to incorporate its genre plot within a history that is so easily transformed into spectacles of Black pain. Butler's "Kindred" features a Black woman doing what most people fear: grappling with ugly history 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z I’m still the raggedy girl in spectacles, the drill team manager who hits the wrong buttons, dreaming of elsewhere. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z While Carlos' purported ideology was noxious and stupid on several levels, it's fair to note that he saw no strategic value in civilian casualties, and preferred media spectacles to mass carnage. "Carlos": International terror, Sopranos-style 2010-10-15T00:01:00Z The spectacles the doctor wears are strangely opaque. “Burlap” 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The noisy, bloated spectacles of combat were surely the most expensive parts of the movie, but the money seems less like an imaginative tool than a substitute for genuine imagination. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z One ritual that’s distinct to this region is cow fighting — “combats de reines” or “battle of queens” — bloodless, surprisingly watchable spectacles in which pairs of bovines push against each other’s heads. ‘Vedette’ Review: A Cow’s Trouble in Paradise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians In this world, the people are constantly fooled by the librarians and restricted from real knowledge, mostly consisting of magic and spectacles. Alcatras Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson - review 2013-05-02T14:00:00Z Such sensational and transgressive spectacles are why Thom Browne so quickly garnered a reputation since moving from New York to Paris in 2017 as one of the most exciting tickets of the fashion week calendar. Secret gardens and co-ed styles hit Paris men’s collections 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z The format, recently adopted by Paul Thomas Anderson for “The Master,” was ideal for wide-screen westerns, historical extravaganzas and musical spectacles that exploited the ooh-and-ah mystique of Hollywood’s grandest roadshow attractions. The Week Ahead: Dec. 23 — 29 2012-12-23T08:10:04Z The gray look suggests the view through the thick spectacles worn by one of Petter’s colleagues; shots are partly obscured or all too faithful to the cramped environment of oil workers. ‘Pioneer,’ a Norwegian Oil Thriller 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z And presiding over it all, a few seats away from Queen Sofia, wearing a dark suit and spectacles and squinting as he grinned, was Gerard Mortier, the artistic director of the Teatro Real. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z It felt as if I had spent the last five years watching accounts of sexual violence get spun into tabloid spectacles, stripped for contrarian essay fodder and slowly strangled in the courts. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The spectacles are so important that tap-dancing shoes have been among the clandestine cargos intercepted en route to North Korea. North Korea's Kim Jong-un gets new official theme song 2012-07-06T15:41:46Z Long before the contemporary spectacles of crooked televangelists and holier-than-thou politicians, Molière was all over the subject in one of his best known comic plays, "Tartuffe." Taproot's 'Tartuffe' has 17th-century setting but a story that resonates today 2012-02-16T21:40:06Z This process gets a three-dimensional effect by using two projectors with Polaroid filters and giving the spectators Polaroid spectacles to wear. LIFE at the Movies: When 3-D Was New 2012-11-28T19:30:51Z Kirkbride’s character — renowned for her oversized spectacles and romantic travails — was at the heart of some of the soap’s most dramatic story lines for decades. 'Coronation Street' Star Anne Kirkbride Dies at 60 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z “Play” here designates by turns novelty, delight, sport, games, prettiness, music of any kind, gambling, magic shows, spectacles, illusions and fashion. Steven Johnson on How Play Shaped the World 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Everything about Bernard, including the way he pauses to collect himself as he delicately wipes his spectacles, is modelled on Arnold. “Westworld,” Episode 9: Brother, Can You Spare a Time Line? 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Two types of films tend to win the best visual effects Oscar these days: lavishly expensive blockbuster spectacles or best-picture contenders looking to add another trophy to their haul. Swag, charm and birthday party invites: how to win an Oscar in 2020 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z In England, writers tend to be pale, unworldly creatures, with hunched shoulders, a lump on their noses where their spectacles sit, and a tendency to feel the cold. David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z All those Open University professors, for instance, with wide brown ties and spectacles made of Bakelite. So long overnight TV. And thanks for all the late night poker and big brown ties 2011-03-27T21:15:00Z Their complex live shows are spectacles worthy of full gawping. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 8-14 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z His eyes behind spectacles were sandy and his voice was pale and colourless to match. From the Observer archive, 21 July 1968: The Kray twins on trial 2012-07-21T23:05:34Z “The artists that were painting this scenery were painting opera, World’s Fair midway exhibits, grand circus spectacles for Ringling Brothers, the Wild West show by Buffalo Bill,” Waszut-Barrett said. A Hidden Trove Gives a Glimpse of Opera in the Wild West 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z These ritualized spectacles are not only economically vital but culturally compelling. Gender, Lockdown and Really Good Outerwear 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Other ensembles, including the Boston Pops and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, which typically perform the overture before large audiences on live television spectacles, are planning to proceed with the piece this year. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Indeed, Flaming Lips shows are famed for their outlandish spectacles: people dancing in animal costumes, glitter, smoke, and Coyne rolling out across the crowd inside a giant inflatable ball he has christened the Space Bubble. Glastonbury 2010: How Dizzee and the performers psyched up 2010-06-28T07:59:00Z Female flesh is always up for grabs, the having of it and the losing of it are considered are newsworthy spectacles. Suzanne Moore: 'I've joined the gym!' 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z We're reminded that these are power fantasies, even the ones based on actual events – histories that are chosen by producers and studios for their potential as inspiring spectacles. "The Woman King" poses the conundrum of making a great action movie about exceptional killers 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z “World War Z” often feels smaller and quieter than it is, because your attention is drawn to details and moments rather than to showstopping spectacles or self-important themes. Movie Review: ‘World War Z’ Stars Brad Pitt Battling Zombies 2013-06-20T22:55:53Z Both writers, in telling their different life stories, provide us with extreme spectacles of women in capitalism—instructive and cautionary in equal measure. Memoirs of Addiction and Ambition by Cat Marnell and Julia Phillips 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In fusing two cultures, Mr. Ninagawa injected modern music, Buddhist imagery, indigenous Japanese flora and teeming spectacles into classic plays. Yukio Ninagawa, 80, Who Directed Avant-Garde Productions of Classics, Dies 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z This weekend vibrant spectacles will keep the sounds and colors of the season alive at celebrations in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Spare Times for Aug. 29-Sept. 4 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z But because they're spectacles created on a human scale, not by some unseen digital manipulation. Revenge of the Muppets 2012-02-12T20:00:19Z The greater attraction here, though, is Busby Berkeley, the dance director and creator of sui generis spectacles. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z At the end, Pierre sings of himself, “He felt tears begin to trickle underneath his spectacles/And hoped no one would see.” Theater Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,’ at Ars Nova 2012-10-17T21:45:22Z An early, instinctive master of wide-screen filmmaking, Ray turns 20th Century Fox’s proprietary CinemaScope process away from the spectacles and travelogues for which it was intended. DVDs: New on DVD: ?The African Queen? 2010-03-20T04:51:00Z François Truffaut is said to have observed that there’s no such thing as an antiwar movie because all war movies make combat look fun, which isn’t true even if many turn death into easy-to-consume spectacles. ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Weinstein’s Oscar campaigns could get brutal, but they gave Hollywood a potentially lucrative alternative to the comic-book spectacles it had pinned its future on. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein and the dark side of Hollywood’s talent-worship 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z “Technicolor,” she says in her book, “brought to life the water, the spectacles and even my own movie persona in a way that simply didn’t work in black-and-white.” Bathing Beauty: The Wet and Wild Life of Esther Williams 2013-06-13T15:28:43Z The linguist used spectacles, Ms. Evers said, to symbolize scholarship and insights into the heated debate. Antiques: Museum Resurrects Tiffany?s Laurelton Hall 2010-08-05T20:35:00Z The spectacles of our culture wars can certainly feel laborious, so Badu’s theory makes for an enticing metaphor. Erykah Badu Delivers 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Those were the days when Hollywood enticed folks into movie theaters with spectacles that beggared the small screen of a black-and-white TV. Review | Just in time for an updated ‘West Side Story,’ a look back at the 1961 classic 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Both boy-kings loved watching pain and torture, and both staged elaborate spectacles while their people starved. Here are the Real-Life Queens that may have Inspired Game of Thrones 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z After a summer full of bloated, sluggish, so-called "spectacles," this weekend we get a real action movie for a change. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Drive" 2011-09-15T12:55:07Z Episodes begin with chaotic spectacles — the aftermath of a shooting, a car rolling and exploding during a high-speed chase — and then become long flashbacks. Television Review | 'Southland': Patrolling for Felons and Kudos on Sun-Blinded Streets 2010-03-01T23:21:00Z Just something that has that sticker on it as an excuse for CGI spectacles. The All-Stars of ‘Star Wars’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The Met has slowly been phasing out the lavish spectacles of Italian operas directed by Mr. Zeffirelli, which have been around for decades, to the outrage of his supporters and other traditional opera fans. At Met, Less Zeffirelli and More for Tickets 2010-02-22T20:30:00Z Compared to the flashiness and giddiness of some past Latin Grammy spectacles, this year’s edition was closer to the levelheaded side. At the Latin Grammys, Youth and Age Were Both Welcome 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The figures are loosely worked, their spectacles and Rolexes and signet rings glimmering like the jewels in society portraits. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Die-hard fans wanted the floating spaceship of their nightmares, one stocked with mutilated zombies, improvised blowtorches and zero-gravity spectacles. Scare Me Once? Great Game. Scare Me Twice? Great Remake. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z These spectacles are environmentally, politically and economically ruinous. Ai Weiwei: A retrospective of his works It was images of the warrior emperor, and public spectacles of chivalric glory, that made Maximilian a legend. At the Met, Heavy Metal on a Continental Scale 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z And as CNN explains, it is the massive franchise spectacles and superhero films — the types of movies that do well at the box office — that seem to be trending longer these days. The 50 best 3-hour-or-longer movies, according to Rotten Tomatoes 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z A world where only spectacles like "Avatar" and "Gravity" get theatrical engagements and everything else plays at home is not one I am looking forward to. Hollywood's hedgehog mentality threatens its survival 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z These are vital for Charcot’s legitimacy, and his financing, but they are also theatrical spectacles involving the hypnosis of a naked woman for an audience of men. Movie Review: ‘Augustine,’ by Alice Winocour, Featuring Soko 2013-05-16T21:08:34Z Holofcener arrives at the restaurant at Shutters on the Beach first, takes glass cleaner out of her purse and cleans her brown-rimmed spectacles. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nicole Holofcener on the Absurdity of Everyday Life 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z If you’re bringing your kids, there are still some fun, family-friendly things to do, including movies, a dance contest and “spectacles.” 5 family-friendly things to do at Bumbershoot 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Another chance to ooh and ahh over the enchanting live spectacles created by the Montreal-based circus troupe that has become a worldwide sensation. Top 5 DVD gifts: cute animals, Cirque, ‘Oz’ 2013-12-13T20:58:29Z Bands of players and commedia dell’arte companies surely set up their spectacles in these same village squares hundreds of years ago. | 'Around a Small Mountain': A Village Circus From Jacques Rivette 2010-07-08T21:39:00Z In time he obtained a job with Mercedes-Benz — his employee ID card is here, with his assumed name, Ricardo Klement, beneath his chillingly recognizable photograph in thick spectacles. A Mossad Show Heavy on Spycraft Recounts Eichmann’s Capture 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z In a year when moviegoers returned en masse to big-budget spectacles — and skipped nearly everything else — Oscar voters on Tuesday were poised to spread best picture nominations remarkably far and wide. The Oscar nominations are expected to be spread around. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Knight, a large man, lumbered in, sporting spectacles and a well-trimmed beard, never mind his orange jump suit and sheriff’s guard. Suge Knight's Motion to Reduce Bail Is Denied 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z About 80 objects definitely or probably made by Phyfe’s workers are arranged chronologically, along with his snuffbox, spectacles, price book and tools. Antiques: A Portraitist Considered the ?Titian of Louisiana? 2011-12-15T21:47:17Z In charge of the beast is Sonny Tilders, responsible for the arena spectacles Walking With Dinosaurs and How To Train Your Dragon. King Kong stomps on to stage in Melbourne 2013-05-27T04:32:00Z Kani I was 51 when I voted for the first time in 1994, and I look at South Africa through those spectacles. Stage Royalty Joined, and Separated, by Apartheid 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Chow adjusts his round spectacles and considers his new salon-commune project. Mr Chow restaurant opens in Las Vegas: 'The only thing Chinese is my name' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z These intended spectacles have had mixed success, with some suffering live drubbings on social media. ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in a Live TV Revival 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z So are the big-stage rock spectacles that the Stones helped pioneer, with inflatable appendages, pyrotechnics or perhaps a cherry-picker lifting Mr. Jagger over the crowd. Pop: The Rolling Stones at 50 Prepare to Tour 2012-11-08T16:00:00Z None of Cruise's divorces to date have been public spectacles and other top stars have managed to keep their parenting disputes largely out of open courtrooms. Settlement highlights Cruise-Holmes privacy wishes 2012-07-10T06:04:08Z How Americans are drawn to epic dreams, fantasies and spectacles. Washington Post bestsellers: September 17, 2017 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z As the season of CGI spectacles gets underway in earnest, one blockbuster after another will set upon the task of wooing, wowing and otherwise jangling the ganglia of millions of moviegoers. ‘First Reformed’ will shock you. Thank God for that. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z But comedy has become a bigger part of other types of movies, with Marvel superhero spectacles as the obvious example. ‘M3gan’ Beats Box Office Predictions, Sailing Into Second Place 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z David, having spent the previous decade producing spectacles of radical equality, would end up as Napoleon’s official court painter, and glorify the new emperor with a 32-foot-long panorama of his coronation. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z They are adorned with elaborate tattoos and wear scholarly spectacles. Perspective | The protesters are dressed as their unique selves — and that’s part of their power 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z But in the swirl of spectacles and craft cocktails, it grew difficult to keep track. A Mystery Ball Where the Illuminati Have Cloven Hooves 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z With spectacles perched on the bridge of his nose, his hair a spiky, unkempt tangle, he thumbs through a sheaf of yellow pages on a stand before him, immersed in study. Theater Review | 'The Tempest': Air Sprite, Feral Creature, Rapturous Love and Other Sorcery 2010-02-26T03:15:00Z “It’s essentially glorified panto,” wrote Dominic Cavendish wrote in The Daily Telegraph, referring to the campy British theater spectacles that popular around Christmastime. ‘& Juliet,’ a Jukebox Musical, Leads Olivier Award Nominations 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Since helming a number of “Sopranos” episodes, Taylor moved on to shows like “Game of Thrones” and the big-budget spectacles “Thor: The Dark World” and “Terminator Genisys.” Don’t Stop Believing: David Chase returns to ‘The Sopranos’ 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z He is a maker of feverish fables, of spectacles that aim for the logic-defying intensity of pop ballads. Xavier Dolan’s ‘Mommy’ Depicts a Clashing Mother and Son 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Zanotti, 57, silver-haired and with black spectacles, said his theme was nature. Milan Fashion Week: Valextra, Giuseppi Zanotti, Furla and Others 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Outdoor spectacles work best of all in dense urban centers, where skyscrapers provide scores of spectacular viewing areas. REVIEW: Great Chicago Fire Festival by Redmoon 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Today, the reverse can seem true, with these stylized spectacles coming across as a bit remote, recondite and sturdy next to the naturalistic emotional urgency of the Italian operas. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Now the gap is being made up by spectacles featuring Britney Spears and cabana rentals and bottle service at debaucherous daytime pool parties. The sweet scent of the suburban American casino 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z In his prime DMX would lead whole arenas in prayer, one of the great live spectacles of the day. Music Review: The Rapper DMX Performs at S.O.B.?s 2012-02-25T00:09:39Z Elon Musk, the rare sort of billionaire who has multiple fandoms, has proved an able promoter for SpaceX, and some of its launches have made for tense international viewing events and memorable spectacles. Bezos Reaches for a Star 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Providence’s past would be odder, wilder and more intriguing without being seen through such modern spectacles. Pirates, Runaways, Smugglers and the Occasional Aristocrat 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z On Monday night his spectacles were seized off his nose by gatecrashers to his swanky book launch. In praise of ? Jonathan Franzen 2010-10-06T23:05:00Z In this rollicking study, Johnson — using an elastic definition of “play,” which includes beauty, spectacles and mere novelty — makes a case for entertainment’s role in history. Paperback Row 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Jackson's a master of action spectacles himself, so he's not going to knock superhero flicks. Jackson confesses: he's no superhero comic fan 2012-07-18T17:02:10Z Night photography coincided with the rise of nighttime urban spectacles. Art Review: What Photographers Saw After Sunset 2011-04-29T05:30:10Z Harris arrives with her dignified silver hair twisted into a bun and a pair of half-moon spectacles sliding down her nose. Emmylou Harris: 'I looked down on country' 2013-03-04T18:22:38Z At their worst these documentaries exploit the suffering of others, turning their pain into consumable spectacles. | 'The Interrupters': Confronting a Plague of Violence 2011-07-28T22:26:47Z “Harry and Meghan,” the Netflix series released Thursday, has been one of the most anticipated television spectacles of the year — more media event than documentary. What We Learned From ‘Harry and Meghan,’ the Netflix Series 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z In my defence, I would argue that my Doctor is the Doctor of novels and sunset-tinted nostalgia spectacles, so be gentle. Writing my very own Doctor Who 2013-01-13T00:16:01Z Eager to be considered, Winslet dispatched her husband, Ned Rock n Roll, to buy her brown-haired wigs – then later donned one, with spectacles, and sent a selfie to the producer, Scott Rudin. Danny Boyle on Steve Jobs: movies must be made about powerful men 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z With the nation sending soldiers to Europe to fight in World War I, spectacles like the “Ziegfeld Follies” wrapped themselves in patriotism. ‘Gotham Refuses to Get Scared’: In 1918, Theaters Stayed Open 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Tiny people are often shown in the foregrounds, awed by natural and artificial spectacles that the artists have clearly idealized. Antiques: Paper Mills, Toscanini and Panoramic Art and Photographs 2013-01-24T22:46:54Z But the long, live spectacles — like the Bang on a Can Marathon, streamed over six hours on Sunday — are what’s gotten us through. The Bang on a Can Marathon, Still Lovably Scruffy Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z In her marvellously insouciant self-portrait, the artist appears in spectacles, wicker chair and nothing else but her own defiant intelligence. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Trends in spectacles are notoriously difficult to trace in fashion. Goodbye, geek glasses: why aviators are this season’s biggest eyewear trend 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z "I grew up right round the corner from here," says Leon, a giddy talker in black-rimmed spectacles. Adam Leon on his New York graffiti 'epic' Gimme the Loot 2013-05-02T16:00:00Z The youthful looks were accessorized with newsboy caps or Harry Potter-style spectacles. Powerhouses Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein cap New York Fashion Week 2013-09-12T21:20:53Z In my grandparent's dark antique-cramped living room, I sat across from a wrinkly-faced doctor, his spectacles sliding down his pronounced nose. I was born in Iran, and misogyny pushed me away from my culture. Now I have hope for Iranian girls 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z These new gallerists want experiences, spectacles even, that expand and connect the audience for art. Hong Kong’s New Kids on the Block 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z But “Contagion,” despite disconcerting glimpses of body bags piling up, avoids the familiar fiery spectacles of disaster movies. Arts & Leisure: All-Star Cast for Steven Soderbergh?s ?Contagion? 2011-08-26T21:36:34Z It’s easy to bemoan a film business dominated by “Jurassic World”- and “Star Wars”- size spectacles. The best movies of 2015: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Love & Mercy,’ ‘Creed’ make the top 10 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The long-brewing concern that superhero sequels and other fantasy spectacles are pushing more modest films out of theaters gained another proof point over the weekend. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Ensnares Audiences and Refills Studio Coffers 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Rodeos and dog- and cockfighting make spectacles of animals through overt violence. Are zoo animals happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z In photographs, surrounded by icons of long hair and cool demeanour, he is the ingenuously grinning one with side-parting and thick-framed spectacles. Barry Miles: 'I think of the 60s as a supermarket of ideas. We were looking for new ways to live' 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z But it is purely and wonderfully theatrical in the way that it tells its story, without elaborate props or scenery, but more imagination and innovation than you'll find in a host of Hollywood spectacles. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions 2012-12-05T20:15:08Z In it he claimed Marvel movies aren't "true" movies but rather entertainment spectacles. Nicolas Cage defends Marvel movies, defying Coppola's and Scorsese's cinema snobbery 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z As a result the American 19th century is primarily seen through the spectacles of European Romanticism. Exhibition Review: The World as America Dreamed It 2011-07-27T22:13:47Z Quote from you: “Women who have succeed too well at becoming visible have always been penalized vigilantly and forcefully in public spectacles.” What Hillary and Britney have in common: “There is no way you can actually do ‘being a woman’ correctly in the public eye” 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The effect was like that of a séance, and the sinister edge was only augmented by Lustmord's appearance in a cosy fleece and avuncular spectacles – the outward ordinariness of the truly evil. Unsound of the underground ? the festival that feels like a s?ance 2010-10-27T15:33:00Z Here is the writer, but also the woman people knew—thick spectacles, bad teeth, slipping hairpiece and all. Woman of substance 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z At the centre of Pianomania is a fair-haired, mild-mannered man wearing rimless spectacles who tunes concert pianos in Vienna for Steinway. Pianomania 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z Those three movies were released in 3-D, and the surcharge for spectacles considerably hiked their grosses. Catching Fire Scorches the World With $307M Opening 2013-11-24T21:29:04Z His partner of many years, Lady Annunziata Asquith, loaned personal possessions including his spectacles and a large box of bubble baths. Lord Lichfield's photographs to go on display at Shugborough Hall 2011-03-18T21:07:03Z She signed on to develop and produce the major stage shows, parades and spectacles in that company’s parks all over the world. For Big Outdoor Site Specific Stuff, Location, Location and Good Weather 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Better still, the dramatic tension doesn't fall apart during its inevitable sorcery battles which, in lesser film and TV, burst into empty, dragging spectacles with adversaries lamely hurling balls of fake light at each other. We scouted "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" and can confirm that it's a true treasure 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z I can visualise the painful dilemma between the pink NHS spectacles and the baby blue ones. Choppers, Muffin the Mule, The Famous Five … icons of the great British childhood 2012-10-07T18:00:00Z Many sane citizens will deem the spectacle of the spectacles ridiculous. The Spectacle of the Spectacles 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z This has been the problem for 20 years, since he transformed traditional Irish dance into souped-up spectacles. Review: Michael Flatley’s New Show Has Unicorns, Rainbows and Some Footwork, Too 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z As he was led out of the courtroom, Barr smiled to his supporters and beamed out from behind blocky spectacles. Convictions vacated in '91 rape, slaying 2011-11-03T15:47:00Z They were just two more spectacles in a bizarre kaleidoscope. 125 years after gold was discovered in the Yukon, we ventured up to Dawson City. Here’s what it looks like now 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z She drank too much, spent too much, put on weight, skinny-dipped, hung out at communes, made spectacles. Review | Before Harry and Meghan, the Windsor sisters stirred the pot. A new book delves into their story. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z As shows become bigger spectacles and ticket prices soar ever higher, an incident like that can put millions of dollars at risk. Less Cocaine, More Vegetables: Concert Tour Cooking Goes Healthy 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Hockney said that he hadn’t seen any of those spectacles based on other artists’ work but that he knew his was different. David Hockney Goes High-Tech 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Barry Wilkinson, the property master, bore responsibility for Harry’s iconic spectacles. The Sorcerers of Stagecraft 2011-07-08T16:09:28Z They were executives from Stage Entertainment, the leading European presenter of musical spectacles like “The Lion King” “Mamma Mia!” and “Tarzan.” A Hit in Germany, a ‘Rocky’ Musical Aims at Broadway 2012-12-05T17:01:32Z Peering over black-framed spectacles under a wisp of white hair, Godard said: Godard injects anarchic spirit at Cannes with small screen cameo 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z The films are astonishing Hollywood spectacles, and for those of us who grew up reading the books and playing elves in Dungeons & Dragons, it was a thrill seeing those characters realized on screen. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Hookey often focuses on popular spectacles, and the sinister hooded figures appear as audience members and occasional stars of his paintings. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z One of the most central figures, A. J. Jaeger, wears — and, most memorably, adjusts — spectacles. Review: Sarasota Ballet Blends Oddity and Englishness in a Double Bill 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z In particular, operas known as pasticcios staged in the 17th and 18th centuries were freewheeling hodgepodges, offering fast-paced spectacles of music by several composers, with plot, action and libretto altered at whim. Music Review: Variety Show, With Arias Thrown In 2010-10-25T22:48:00Z Bay, for the most part, dispenses with the hiding right under our noses thing and gets the big, metal giants out in the open as spectacles for gawking humans as soon as possible. The new “Transformers” trailer shows us Optimus Prime’s face — and I wish it didn’t 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z We raved over these spectacles and thought a lot more about individual characters and less about the system in which they operated. On the Iron Anniversary of "Game of Thrones," here's hoping Joe Biden doesn't go Ned Stark on us 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Both are mightily impressive spectacles that will maybe, kinda, blow your mind, en route to a hip-deep swamp of pseudo-Christian religiosity. “Prometheus”: Ridley Scott’s dazzling, sci-fi spectacle 2012-06-06T20:09:00Z The seating debates over who will have pride of place in the front row of a grand fashion spectacle are moot because there will be no big spectacles for the foreseeable future. Perspective | What André Leon Talley says about fashion says a lot about how fashion has changed 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z His list of credits includes several of the defining hits of the late 20th century: Big budget, lavishly staged spectacles including “Cats,” “Les Misérables” and “Miss Saigon.” ‘The World Has Changed’: Cameron Mackintosh on Closing ‘Phantom’ 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z The mass games — propaganda spectacles that feature thousands of gymnasts, dancers and flip card-holding spectators moving in coordinated perfection — were once routine in North Korea. Travel agencies say N. Korea planning to suspend mass games 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z A couple of sequences—a bachelor party on a barge, a shopping spree on an Indonesian island—prove that even excess can be excessive; these shrill, antic spectacles are less eye-popping than eye-glazing. ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Review: Conspicuously Consuming Fun 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z There are few spectacles more embarrassing than a failed attempt at dark urban realism – but most do fail, often spectacularly, so I want to know how exactly Drew got it right. Plan B: 'I love directing. But does my art change lives? I don't think it does' 2012-06-07T19:00:08Z They look astounding, hovering above the big halls that museums increasingly design to house such spectacles, and suggest a playful generosity of spirit, but they also resemble big, pillowy, transparent trampolines. Art Review: Tomás Saraceno’s ‘Cloud City,’ on the Met’s Roof 2012-05-25T23:00:40Z Those spectacles had enormous influence on public and private life, as much, perhaps, as Hollywood does today. Review | It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z While performers ready themselves for Edinburgh's fringe, international and home-grown companies will be taking over Stockton for a fiesta of large-scale spectacles, street theatre and small shows. Stockton International Riverside Festival, Liolà, King Lear: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z Woolf impulsively purchased a train ticket and arrived at the Lelant station, near St. Ives, at 10:30 p.m., without “spectacles, cheque book, looking glass, or coat.” In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z He wrote of the power of sport to cut across social and national lines with spectacles that bring communities together. Why is this architecture firm dealing with the NFL and Dan Snyder? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z But not one stitch of clothing had vanished with him; not even his spectacles, which his nearsightedness made absolutely indispensable. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Jackson’s a master of action spectacles himself, so he’s not going to knock superhero flicks. Jackson confesses: 2012-07-18T17:16:00Z This is where this show endeavors to do something beyond plying the audience with spectacles of violence. Forget "The Stand" – "Alice in Borderland" is the wild dystopian ride we've been waiting for 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z In this world, the people are constantly fooled by the librarians and restricted from real knowledge, mostly consisting of magic and spectacles. Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson - review 2013-05-14T08:00:00Z Views of the country are largely limited to satellite images and footage of showpiece spectacles like the “mass games,” stadium-filling pageants of synchronized acrobatics. Film: Filmmakers on North Korea: Restricted, but Not Deterred 2010-03-27T01:07:00Z Long before grand Metropolitan Opera productions represented the first, last and final word about opera onscreen, thanks to its public-television broadcasts, audiences could find their way to sprightly, comedic musical spectacles. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Q. Which was the second ugliest of the spectacles at the first presidential debate? Style Invitational Week 1408: Re-Organization — tweak the name of a charity 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z As Trump entered the White House, experts suggested that he’d have to shift gears from creating spectacles to the inglamorous work of governing. Master of celebrity: How Trump uses — and bashes — the famous to boost himself 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z All they will miss are the random encounters, spectacles, and social comedy of the fair. $1m artworks up for sale at online fair 2011-01-21T15:02:45Z A prominent avatar of what’s sometimes called the New French Extremity, he has specialized in immersive spectacles of shock, cruelty and disorientation. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z He was a paradox in spectacles, an exacting presence who helped to produce inexact outcomes. Perspective | ‘Nothing ever ends’: Sorting through Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z But they also suit cinematic forms that are focused on realistic spectacles as opposed to masterful narratives. The Silent Film Returns — on Social Media 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z After demolishing some printers and scanners, he donned his signature Bruno Chaussignand half-moon spectacles and a car coat by Clothsurgeon, a label that retrofits vintage sportswear brands like Champion. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z For instance, Louis XIV grew up in the 17th century hearing fairy tales and also acted in spectacles and operas that were performed at court ... Now it can be (re)told 2011-08-20T14:01:00Z Ms. Dunham’s critics are likely to see these highly produced spectacles as an over-the-top marketing stunt or yet another example of her inflated sense of self as an artist. Turning a Book Tour Into a Literary Circus (and a Hot Ticket) 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Let the spectacles air dry or gently dry with a tissue before putting them back on. ‘Remember to smile with your eyes’: how to stay safe and look great in a face mask 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Today, my daughter's main sartorial concern is to get hold of a huge beard and half-moon spectacles so she can go to school as Professor Dumbledore on World Book Day. Sex, lies and teenage girls 2013-03-11T11:00:01Z Even Barneys, which has long turned up its nose at such commercial ploys, has done windows promoting celluloid spectacles like “The Last Samurai.” Film and Fashion: Just Friends 2010-03-04T16:34:00Z From this point in his career onward, Nolan would limit his output to massive spectacles dwarfing The Prestige in terms of scale. From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Behind his long, gloomy face and spectacles this man could never be mistaken for a boudoir mechanic. Woody Allen Reviews a Graphic Tale of a Scandalous Starlet 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The tremendous expansion of the art market over the past half-century has been naturally accompanied by countless Moses-type critics, denouncing its spectacles of conspicuous consumption and calling for moral and political corrections. Art Review: Hyman Bloom’s Rabbi Paintings at White Box 2013-08-29T22:07:24Z The show follows her decades of arena spectacles by scaling the same kind of razzle-dazzle — dancers! costumes! video! choir! — for a theater stage. Madonna Is Still Taking Chances 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Some Supes traditionalists may bemoan the absence of Clark's trademark spectacles, but we don't expect him to switch to contacts anytime soon. Henry Cavill teases Clark Kent look in 'Batman v. Superman' set photo 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The prevailing fashion in mainstream American comics at the time Morrison's "Doom Patrol" began was grim post-"Dark Knight Returns" realism; by the time his run ended, the biggest superhero comics were incoherent muscles-and-pouches spectacles. 'Doom Patrol Omnibus' shows Grant Morrison's master plan 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The allusive character names and the absurdist spectacles of the depicted auditions suggest that the proceedings constitute an elaborate inside joke, which they do. Review: A Godard Film About Making Movies Arrives in New York 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Some of the country's earlier exports were large-scale, nationalistic spectacles modeled after similar Communist pageantry in the Soviet Union. China breaks into Las Vegas show business 2014-04-29T12:57:39Z Piles of spectacles with cracked lenses and mountains of clothes succeed it. The horror of genocide needs to be shown: UK film director 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Quick, name one of the top spectacles in recent memory. Here’s why the Hamilton is one of the nation’s busiest restaurants 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z It may sound like a backhanded compliment to praise this sometimes cheesy movie for never taking itself too seriously, but in a summer of bloated spectacles, this modesty should not be underestimated. Review: ‘Hercules’ is schlocky but entertaining 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Women die, but without becoming cinematic spectacles, a relief given how often their dead bodies are used as ornaments elsewhere. ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Adapts Lawrence Block’s Novel 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Even at 75 he looks pretty much as he's always looked, the spectacles in place, his eyebrows a cartoon question mark. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z |
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