| 单词 | specter |
| 例句 | In the 1850s, however, William Thomson, a British physicist, noticed something odd about Charles’ law: the specter of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the shadows of her house, the solitary widow who at one time had been the confidante of his repressed loves and whose persistence had saved his life was a specter out of the past. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Ghosts are the least of it, boy. Night-ghasts, specters, apparitions—all they can do is say boo and frighten you.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was to escape that specter that their father had headed West. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Autumn was always a fearful time, with the specter of winter looming ahead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the hot parlor, beside the specter of the pianola shrouded in a white sheet, Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not sit down that time inside the chalk circle that his aides had drawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She's a dream specter racing past the naked trees, her red hair a flame against the darkness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Purple light threw horrible, ghostly shadows on the cabin walls, as if the specters were escaping right out of the fountain. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a heady feeling, and every specter wanted more. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Librarians on ladders like specters in gray, and scholars in scarlet hunched at their tables. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His face was haggard and pale, like he’d seen a specter. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Dark, in dark clothing, still and shadowy, he sat at my elbow, the specter at the feast. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Farmer began paying closer attention to Russia, to wherever there was the specter of a possible epidemic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They stood up as the King’s caravan passed, but though some children ran toward the coaches, most remained still, gaunt as specters, knowing that nothing would come their way. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z After all, the specter of colored rebellion, all those angry dark faces surrounding them, had stirred white settlers to leave the south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Standing beside the hackberry shrubs with hundreds of empty desiccated cocoons still clinging to their branches and a carpet of butterfly corpses under her feet, La Llorona did not look anything like a malevolent specter. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It was not enough; I saw the blank windows; and that was more terrible than the specters of memory with their piercing gaze; that absence; those sheets of glass that held no image but transmission. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “I—I must say yes. But the specter—” “Just answer the questions, knave!” the ghost said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I had more money and success and “security” than in the days when specters seemed to go up and down them with me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z From where I sit on the field, he’s a bizarre specter, so frail and ashen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Mom hadn’t let me or Charlie see Nana when she was going through chemotherapy, and we didn’t talk about it after, either, but the specter of death had haunted us for months. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A block away lived another Hasidic sect, Jews from southern Poland, who walked the Brooklyn streets like specters, with their black hats, long black coats, black beards, and earlocks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Her blood went cold at the sight of the shimmering specter of the first Queen of Adarlan. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But the girl looked like a specter, and if she were Ash, then Ash knew she had died as well. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “A confession will remove all doubt. We would all sleep much easier if you’d be so kind as to remove the specter of doubt.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Part of why they loved it was the specter they left behind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was dysentery, the specter of which was raised with every loose stool. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She couldn’t help but remember the waterlogged specter on the trolley car who wouldn’t leave her alone unless she promised to deliver her message. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Then the class captain would blow his whistle and we’d march in a single file to our classrooms, longing for winter already, greeted instead by the specter of yet another long school year. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Don’t forget, he warned his readers, about “the haunting specter of that last mile.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The specter of yellow fever had incited a normally peaceful group of individuals to violence, and Staten Island officials did not want that mob to turn its fury on them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Jones was not one to lie down paralyzed by the specter of danger. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The memory of Scythe Faraday’s unexpected intrusion into their home was still a dark specter haunting them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z His eyes in their bulging sockets ticked up and down, trying to understand the specter of this huge white man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course you have to,” her father said tightly, smiling like a specter from the looney bin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He acted this out, his great shoulders bunching as his hands dragged the specter of lightning and shaped it, and held it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For several days he plodded that way, aimlessly searching for nothing, in no hurry, a minuscule curious specter inching around in that peaceful winter country, absorbing something, taking it in—indelibly—for all time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ammu looked at herself in the long mirror on the bathroom door and the specter of her future appeared in it to mock her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, you start to wonder who’s the specter in the family. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A furrow creased his brow, but he went on. “—who might supply what we lack, and help us to put the last specter of the past where it belongs.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes they receded of their own accord, and the room he lay in grew impossibly large, terrorizing him with the specter of his own insignificance. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The realization thrilled her, but it also raised the specter of her vision. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The specter of busing had started other parents looking into private schools. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There is no other sound, not of traffic or airplanes or trains or radios or the specter of Frau Schwartzenberger rattling the cage of the elevator. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There were fits and starts of normality, but always a specter loomed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Now, she is a specter in running clothes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He appeared no more than a specter, features indistinct, a white face held gently in darkness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The Bloody Baron was the Slytherin ghost, a gaunt and silent specter covered in silver bloodstains. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z In the dim flashlight beam, her face looked like one of Nico’s specters. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z This wholesome holiday is tempered by the specter of political unrest, but Sibel is unfazed: “It’s not politics I am afraid of … but people.” From Blood and Phlegm to Alcohol and Defenestration, Novels of Heartache 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Vera and Leo are both haunted by the specter of death. | '4000 Miles': Young and Old, With No Particular Place to Go 2011-06-21T02:01:26Z It's the specter of a sink full of dirty pans piling up in my tiny, dishwasher-free kitchen that sometimes makes me want to just unwrap a Nutty Buddy and call it a night. Jamie Oliver's genius one-pan cheesecake will change how you do dessert 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z I mean the specter of the current president of the United States, whose incendiary style we are meant to see in Ui’s underhanded politics and populist demagogy. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Directed by Jessica M. Thompson, “The Invitation” makes feeble gestures at issues of class and race, but its efforts are as diffuse as the whooshing specters haunting Walter’s estate. ‘The Invitation’ Review: Bringing Down the Haunted House 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Nigeria’s past, present and future converge in these stories, where the relationships between mothers and daughters often play a central role; many stories linger under the specter of war. Paperback Row 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z As the wildly selfish Kylie and the kinder, gentler Miriam rockily adjust to cohabitation, the specter of a house ghost rears its head. 'Housebound' a satisfying horror-comedy spookfest 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The specter of Nazism stays on the periphery of “Gilgi” like a weather front darkening distant skies. How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Joad becomes a specter who will haunt every scene and setting of injustice. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z When Vivian comes back to the store, she brings to these ladies not just the specter of lost commissions, but a defiant, blazing selfhood. Garry Marshall, 1934–2016: Funny, Friendly, Democratic 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The gruesome fusion of German art and state propaganda steadily unfolded in the 1930s, its specter perhaps explaining why Orwell was so truculent in his 1936 claim that all art is propaganda. Propaganda is here to stay. Is there a museum willing to tackle its complexity? 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z What we have in “Part Nine” then is a series of miscommunications and failed connections, with the specter of grievous physical harm hovering over every missed signal. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 9: Red, Beige and Blue 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The specter of mortality looms larger in “First Person Singular” than in Murakami’s other work. Review | Haruki Murakami’s ‘First Person Singular’ will satisfy fans with its uncanny scenarios 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z And yet the aesthetics of the metaverse, with its ghastly translucent holograms, evoke the specter of death. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The specter of the virus has dictated everything. At fraught Tokyo Olympics, Jill Biden may win just by showing up 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Vanessa and company were haunted by shadowy specters and witch spells and millenia-old prophecies from a possessed monk, and also by the inescapable ghosts of their own mistakes. The damsel in distress trap: How “Penny Dreadful” betrayed Vanessa Ives 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Hollywood and Vine is a specter of the splendid crossroads that went wild on V-J Day. Jon Jerde, Architect of Merging Visions, Dies at 75 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Once you notice that stillborn child, you begin to sense the specter of mortality ranging over Austen’s work — as evocative in her world, perhaps, as mortality itself. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z While the re-enactment material emphasizes how the specter of lynchings reverberates in the 21st century, so too — much more directly — does the case of Lacy, which deserved a movie of its own. ‘Always in Season’ Review: Lynching Is Not Just Part of America’s Past 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The authors pinpoint the cause for all our societal problems, the “specter” haunting America. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z There are times when you watch it with your eyes half-covered, like a horror movie, because the specter of failure pursues Pied Piper as relentlessly as a slasher villain in a hockey mask. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3 Finale: An Empire Built on Quicksand 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z "I saw the huge disconnect in society between the government, the people and the gangs," said Gout, who found it exciting to work amid the specter of violence. 'Days of Grace' director Everardo Gout shines light on violence in Mexico 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Vietnam itself plays a very small part, the specter of terror and yearning belittling the rest of Robert’s life. Robert Olen Butler’s ‘Perfume River’ is haunted by the Vietnam War 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Playwright Dotson Rader’s “God Looked Away” captures the life of Tennessee Williams in his later years, struggling with drug addiction and the specter of his success. Essential Arts & Culture: Pacino as Tennessee Williams, Diego Rivera at LACMA, suspended Iranian art, 'Mr. Gaga' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Each time the specter of bird flu arises, so too do grim references to the global pandemic that killed tens of millions of people in 1918. Three Books That Track Diseases, Drugs and the World They Made 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z But the specter of mortality tiptoes ever closer to the family of friends in “The Days of Anna Madrigal.” Books of The Times: ‘The Days of Anna Madrigal,’ Concluding ‘Tales of the City’ 2014-01-30T22:02:15Z The threat of them was an infuriating and exhilarating specter throughout the weekend, a symbol of the oppression facing the men’s rights activists who had gathered to meet for their inaugural conference. Men’s rights activists, gathering to discuss all the ways society has done them wrong As a product of the Soviet Union, Chernobyl is also the specter of another ruined collective imagining. 'Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination' at LACMA stuns the senses 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z He would never again listen to “Abbey Road” without the specter of Abbot’s mocky-mocky face of meanness. Trust Me on This: “Abbey Road” 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z In the last case, it’s as though the specter of a Relationship That Could Have Been is peeping over your shoulder, keeping tabs without having to commit to any real-world interactions. Orbiting, Another Thing for Online Daters to Worry About 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Hovering over all of the weekend’s performances was the specter that the Met was in trouble. A Look Back at a Year of Top Voices 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z She is haunted by an “insidious insomnia,” the martial ticking of the clock and the specter of climate change. Review | Patti Smith looks back at a heartbreaking year 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Here we are again, with the amorphous specter of public morals used to stifle free expression. Kansas and the right to free expression 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z On their own, these pieces are charming, but the specter of Mr. Gordon-Levitt hovers possessively over them all: is he a magnanimous spirit or a ham looking for a platform to prove he’s a polymath? Television Review: ‘HitRECord on TV,’ Based on the Artistic Crowdsourcing Site 2014-01-17T22:40:41Z “You talk to other writers and they’re sort of dogged by this specter of ‘I’m not making anything,’” she said, “but for most of us, that’s the reality of making art, is not making it.” Raven Leilani, a Flâneur Who Is Going Places 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The silicated paint flows gracefully, coaxed by gravity, suggesting biology and geology, specters floating, deltas bifurcating, amoebas swimming in frozen motion. Artist Jesse Higman: From rock 'n' roll merchandise to first gallery show 2011-01-06T22:26:37Z The specter of a “deep state” has served as a useful scapegoat in Donald Trump’s presidency, the alleged locus of resistance to his reign. Who Is Really Running the Government? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Whether references to the dark specter of President Donald J. Trump will surface is unknown, but according to past statements by Murphy, it’s an easy bet that it will. The terrifying Lena Dunham joins the cast of “American Horror Story” season 7 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Women find themselves in uncanny, unsettling situations throughout this collection, complete with drugged seltzer, family rivalries and the lingering specter of past traumas. 16 Books to Watch For in July 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z From the moment Jojo holds that rabbit in his small hands, we never forget that the specter of death is everywhere, waiting to pluck any character at any moment. The uneasy farce of "Jojo Rabbit": Is there ever a good time for "wacky Nazi" satire? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z A specter of the accused man, Tom Robinson, now returns at the end. As Broadway Returns, Shows Rethink and Restage Depictions of Race 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z On countless street corners squats the shabby specter of these once vibrant places. Faith must fight capitalism: Forget theological purity — the church needs a revolutionary spirit 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Most importantly, McCartney was confronting the specter of wife Linda's mortality. Paul McCartney's "Flaming Pie" burns ever brighter in this new reissue, a completist's dream 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z “If we were competing with anything, we were competing with the specter of the original.” Television: Rose, Fetch Her Ladyship a Sequel 2011-04-01T21:46:41Z You cannot really escape the abiding specter of the region’s chief agricultural product while in Beaune, and I’m not sure why anyone would want to. Seduced by Beaune in Burgundy 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Among those shadowy specters are lower DVD and television revenues, lack of funds for film production and jittery financial markets. Cannes film market enthusiasm tempered by caution 2010-05-18T10:36:00Z Until then, the 90-minute drive over Teton Pass to the ’Ghee wasn’t nearly so harrowing as the specter of a friend getting injured skiing Jackson. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: The summit of scary has one luxurious landing There’s potential in this sad showbiz story and some pretty songs, particularly in Act II, when Olive makes her peace with the specters of her past. Critic?s Notebook: New York Musical Theater Festival Is Under Way 2011-10-03T22:31:10Z In the fugal passages, where the specter of Bach flickers through, he showed a patient eye for the overarching structure. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Let’s put aside the trip to Greece and the specter of your cheating ex. My Daughter’s Married Boyfriend Shouldn’t Join Us on Vacation, Right? 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The specter of an ill-fated, unfinished 1937 movie version starring Charles Laughton loomed large. ‘I, Claudius’ Returns in a 35th-Anniversary DVD Set 2012-11-25T01:10:06Z She spent downtime marching around stage and posing, banishing the specter of her disastrous 2007 MTV performance, which also took place in Las Vegas and was a career low point. Britney Spears' Las Vegas residency a departure 2013-12-30T14:37:19Z Thornton Wilder’s haunted little worlds seem so comfortable and familiar that it’s easy to ignore their ghosts and the specter of death that is never far away. In ‘A Wilder Christmas,’ Darkness Laced With Sentiment 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z It gets people worried about their favorite characters and educational TV for their kids; it conjures the specter of heartless politicians killing Big Bird. Why is Mitt Romney Picking a Fight With Big Bird? 2012-10-05T14:57:05Z If that doesn’t work then the specter of heart attacks and strokes is unleashed upon us, along with a dash of fire and brimstone for good measure. Is salt really so bad for you? 2013-05-27T18:00:00Z A specter is haunting Europe today, and it is not the one these comrades foresaw. The Jews Who Dreamed of Utopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The specter of Harvey Weinstein looms over every frame of “The Assistant,” though we never see the face of the anonymous New York film-company executive whose toxic behavior drives the story. ‘The Assistant’ Review: Screaming on the Inside 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Like something from a Charles M. Schulz “Peanuts” comic strip, it’s a playful specter of suburban anxiety. 'The Gildless Age': A different tale of the '1 percent' at the Torrance Art Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The original novel has achieved immortality, and Winterson’s Mary can never shake off the specter of her creation and the inventions it inspires. A Novel That Riffs on Sex Dolls, Mary Shelley and Brexit 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Even gritty BBC crime drama Happy Valley features a village detective tormented by gothic specters of her dead child. Do we need a Twin Peaks revival when TV is so much weirder now? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The specter of police abuse, however, still loomed in the background. A film about the police and the ‘policed’ in Baltimore makes a run for the Oscars 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The biggest problems with California are the state’s fiscal mess, which raises the specter of more tax hikes, and its high cost of living, which translates into stratospheric real estate costs. Why Florida Is Losing Its Grip on Retirees 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z What is it like now to be a comic and to have this specter hanging over you all the time? "We're going to be canceled for a joke": Judy Gold on how "safe spaces" in comedy ignore reality 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z In truth, the damage that can be done by a viral video clip is scarier than any specter in a mask wielding a knife. Review: A TV ‘Scream,’ With Fresh Carnage and Winking Nods to the Genre 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, the specter of domestic right-wing terrorism haunts the movie, an unseen and unnamed evil tearing at the bright fabric of American optimism. ‘Richard Jewell’ Review: The Wrong Man 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z She stifles her cries after Christian and his friends subtly pressure her into taking shrooms, as specters of her dead sister haunt her. Crying! Pole-Dancing! Heroin! The best movie moments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Despite being warned that the isolation of caring for the remote building could lead to madness, Jack stays anyway and is drawn to the evil specters that haunt both the estate and his own soul. Why "The Shining" is a hopeful film 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The specter of zero polar bears, of complete extinction like dinosaurs and dodo birds, is the extremist fantasy that thrills every television producer looking for a heartstring-tugging top story. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z Speaking of haughty — audiences may or may not catch the specter of another work within “Epiphany,” James Joyce’s “The Dead,” from his collection “Dubliners.” ‘Epiphany’ Review: A Holiday Party, but What Are We Celebrating? 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The specter of court testimony often shapes the thinking of “captive” forensic scientists, she writes. What Really Happens Inside a Crime Lab? 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z I wanted to cloak it not in the specter of death — the grim reaper, this thing that is feared and that is doomed — but in more of the contemplative version. | Colin Stetson feat. Justin Vernon 2013-06-21T13:02:03Z The case brought the issue of tainted art in private collections to the fore, raising the specter that thousands of plundered artworks might be lurking in attics and cellars. German Art Collectors Face a Painful Past: Do I Own Nazi Loot? 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Procedurals traffic in visceral thrills while the action in “This Is Us” resembles the day-to-day conundrums the average person contends with, the specter of loss being chief among them. “This Is Us” ends a moving season full of loss with an episode that’s catching grief 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The specter of mortality hangs over some of her late work. Rei Kawakubo, the Nearly Silent Oracle of Fashion 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But for members of the cast, his specter lingers. What if the Guy With the Red Pencil Is Nuts? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Gardeners in California live with the constant specter of drought. Perspective | How to turn the wet, soggy areas of a garden from a problem to an asset 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Tara Hutton, 21, a senior at Butler University in Indianapolis who is studying dance, said the specter of eating disorders haunts many of her classmates. For Dancers, ?Black Swan? Is a Cautionary Tale 2011-01-07T21:13:52Z Using nonlinear storytelling and French New Wave techniques, Boorman crafts Walker into a haunting specter driven single-handedly by vengeance; he doesn’t seem to eat, drink or be capable of love any more. Burning desire: John Wick and the undying appeal of the revenge thriller 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Today, when tweets from the White House once again raise the specter of nuclear war, Bernstein’s text has new relevance. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Not just by the ghosts of Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker but by specters from my past, too. My Dorothy Parker years 2012-06-09T00:00:00Z And while the specter of war looms over Longley’s documentary, its shadow is subtle. ‘Angels Are Made of Light’ Review: Despair Meets Hope in Kabul 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Easy for him to shudder at the specter of receiving accolades. Why the Tonys Need an Award for Best Ensemble 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z “I’m very much a fatalist,” he told the New York Times in 2016, when asked about the hereditary specter of Alzheimer’s disease, which afflicted his father. ‘It doesn’t matter.’ ‘We’ll see.’ The Trump Doctrine is sounding more fatalistic every day. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z King skillfully juggles history and everyday life, all the while keeping the specter of that fateful day looming in the background. What our writers love this week 2011-12-09T18:25:46Z It has captured people’s attention precisely because of its frivolity, harking back to a more innocent time when one could roam unencumbered by the crushing specter of death. The Strawberry Dress That Ate TikTok 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z His breakthrough hit "Old Town Road," received as a crossover between country and rap, unleashed the specter of racism within the institutions of country music. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z There's also the specter of censorship and infringement on artistic freedom, something that raises hackles instantly in the entertainment industry. Have Aurora, Newtown affected screen violence? 2013-07-16T22:27:49Z In this taut, elegantly assembled production, which opened on Sunday night at the Public Theater, a magnificent specter stalks this planet, contaminating the lives of everyone he encounters. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Yet inspiration here comes not from peaceful dreaming, as Brancusi hoped, but from the specter of violent death. Jimmie Durham's art throws some well-aimed stones 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Since the first episode, when the Solloways’ son committed a mock suicide and the specter of dying children pervaded the whole mood, I’ve been wondering about this question. 'The Affair' Recap: The Shamed Parent, and the Shameless 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Wildfires sweeping through southeast Australia are carrying with them the specter of a silent killer for grapes growing in the nearby Adelaide Hills wine region. Australian wildfires threaten to produce ashtray wine vintage 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The specter of imminent mortality, it seems, brings out the sweetheart in Mr. Finn, a songwriter who is best when spiky. Review: ‘A New Brain’ Gambols Tunefully Through a Vale of Death 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Is Hesse identifying with the bride, or the specter? Art Review: ?Eva Hesse Spectres 1960? at the Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-10-06T22:49:44Z The specter of death is nearly always present, framed by ontological discussions wrought in dizzying spirals of words. Review: An ‘Angels in America’ That Soars on the Breath of Life 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Jackson is an expatriate who seems to be fleeing the specter of his father, a scientist with theories about mankind and nature that caused him to be branded a crackpot. Review: ‘Zoo’ Is a James Patterson Novel Brought to TV 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z It is investing heavily in mass transit and trying to repair its public spaces while facing the specter of climate change. The Garcetti Decade* 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Faced with the specter of Lokita’s deportation, the two are intensely focused on finding a way for her to stay in the country. ‘Tori and Lokita’ Review: Precarious Lives in Exile 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Is he bothered by the specter of nepotism while working at Intiman? Lauded Broadway actor Daniel Breaker joins Intiman cast of 'A Doctor in Spite of Himself' 2010-09-01T20:42:00Z In other words, if you've experienced genocide, slavery, colonizing, patriarchy or the explosion of an atomic bomb, you don't need the specter of imminent destruction to focus your attention. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Suffering from chills, aches, seizures and nosebleeds, he senses his own approaching death, as noxious as the “air of quiet catastrophe” on his street, where the specter of Chernobyl lingers. Tear Down That Will: An East German Guide to Breaking the Spirit 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Matheson explains that, unlike every other character we've met in the American version of this franchise, he isn't scared of the ghoulish specters. "The Grudge" sequel is cursed by mediocrity 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Kogonada distinctly remembers the first time the specter of nonexistence dawned upon him. With His Sci-Fi Android, a Filmmaker Considers What It Means to Be Alive 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The book focuses on the forces that forged the Ramones, particularly the grim specter of New York City in the 1970s. Part Ramones Biography, Part Dreamscape 2013-08-08T12:00:13Z Two more stories ran on successive days, each raising the specter of a serial killer — but police said there was no evidence to link the killings. D.C.’s last serial killer: The Princeton Place murders, 20 years later Elisabeth was unnerved by the beggars and the unemployed Communists who gathered at protests, raising the specter of “civil disorder.” A Sobering Look at How Quickly Hitler Transformed Germany 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The specter of a second “urban renewal” was raised again and again. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Alec Baldwin plays the older architect — a ghost? a specter of the younger man’s self? — who witnesses the ordeal. What’s on TV Thursday 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Teams first solve each ghost’s puzzle; after trapping eight specters this way, players advance to finding the one that actually haunts the museum. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Looming over them all is the specter of the Golden Fang, which may be a boat, an Indochinese heroin cartel, a rehab center, a syndicate of dentists — or something even more vast. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z His Gen X friends, struggling with parenthood and the specter of middle age, look corny and compromised in her millennial eyes. ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Oslo, Her Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z All that is left is the empty but dangerous performance of misguided fury wrapped up in the fog of ignorance, the haze of political and moral indifference, and the looming specter of violence. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z In “Bethlehem,” that specter never flickers; it’s always there. Movie Review: Yuval Adler and Ali Waked Breathe Life Into ‘Bethlehem’ 2014-03-07T00:45:56Z Falling back repeatedly on in-your-face symbolism — especially with regard to the specter of decline — Mr. Salvadori seems content to idle in neutral. Review: In ‘In the Courtyard,’ a Neurotic Retiree Bonds With the Janitor 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The exhibition was thoughtful about racial politics, the specter of climate change and the perils of urbanization. For architecture in 2015, the world's 'soft targets' prompt a reevaluation 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z The specter of Charles Ives, the grandfather of American modernist eclecticism, hovers over the proceedings. Orpheus to Play Kahane’s ‘Gabriel’s Guide to 48 States’ 2013-04-19T18:57:59Z The specter is just another passenger, imperfectly mirrored in a large window — so close, and yet in a discrete bubble. Review | In the galleries: A satire on images of women and the objects they advertise 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The specter of his admired dead father hovers here, a twin perhaps to the images of Jesus seen everywhere else. | 'Octubre': The Difference a Baby Can Make 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z But there is plenty of magic here, too, not just daemons and startling prophecies but witches and specters, forays into Faerie, and Malcolm’s eerie, migraine-like visions of the aurora borealis. Philip Pullman’s ‘The Book of Dust’ is an enthralling prequel to His Dark Materials 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The film is haunted by the specter of death while moving through the joys of life. 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' a fresh start for director 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Whether dispelling specters for Stephen King or bringing commentary to the four corners of the globe, he’s staying on his beat without taking his eyes off the big picture. Tim Robbins: 'With the exception of America’s native tribes, we're all new here' 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Conservatives often use “single mothers” as code for the more noxious term “welfare queen,” to evoke the specter of young, uneducated black women dependent on handouts from their “Uncle Sugar.” The right’s single-mom mistake: Why their latest attacks are clueless and doomed 2014-01-28T12:44:00Z Anticipate fears of mortality as a running theme of the season, as Paul confronts concerns about his health, and Frances deals with the specter of breast cancer in her family. The Week Ahead: Oct. 24-30 2010-10-24T01:00:00Z Harambe’s fatal encounter, caught on tape, has raised the specter of animal cruelty over images of human-animal alliances that were previously widely consumed as inoffensive delights. 2 TV Shows, 4 Books and 7 Viral Videos for Your Long Weekend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z And, of course, there’s the specter of actually getting infected by the coronavirus — a very real possibility in a pandemic. America’s germaphobes were ready for this — and have been for too long 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Johnson also captures the sense of threat that ripples through youth, the looming specter of a shadowy adult world full of unanswered questions. A Bloody Crime, a Mysterious Disappearance and the Long After 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Did you know that there are distinctions among specters? Michael Dirda: Ghosts and ghouls to put a chill in your Christmas reading 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z And what does the specter of Suki want — if that is indeed what rattles the door frames and carves squiggles in the wainscoting. Review: In ‘The Little Stranger,’ a Haunted House and a Fading Way of Life 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But the specter hanging over that evening of Schumann, Mahler and Dvorak was death and dying. Music Review: Bernarda Fink at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-18T22:23:06Z For far too long has the anti-choice movement vilified those who seek abortions, raising the specter of "bad motherhood" over women like me. A love letter to Roe and my first pregnancy 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Later the climactic crisis raises the specter either of Samantha going to jail or the friends having to fly home in coach, and it’s not altogether clear which prospect they regard as more dreadful. | 'Sex and the City 2': Sarah Jessica Parker, Flying Down to Abu Dhabi 2010-05-26T20:10:00Z The specter of Jacobinism — of the guillotine and the mobs at the Bastille — haunts Britain’s rulers, from the prince regent to the owners of Manchester’s factories. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z As a 43-year-old mother of three wrung out from three years of panic attacks triggered by the specter of financial ruin, I needed a solid period of quiet to recombobulate. Personal Journeys: In Pennsylvania, a Quick Shot of Peace, on a Budget 2011-12-29T18:59:14Z Her death-obsessed character functions in the film as a kind of perversely adorable memento mori, deflecting the looming specter of sentimentality and providing a constant reminder that not all change is for the good. DVD: ?Meet Me in St. Louis,? on Blu-Ray 2011-12-09T21:48:05Z There is one other specter Spielberg must confront: the National Theatre’s production of War Horse, an award-winner in London and New York. War Horse: Spielberg's Searing, Splendid Christmas Gift 2011-12-22T21:17:44Z Regardless of your position on global warming, the specter of species’ extinctions, loss of sea ice and encroaching civilization lend some urgency to wanting to see remote parts of the world right now. Kayak, bushwhack and get to know scat on an adventure cruise to Alaska 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z She used etching and dry-point to draw line after line, to forge shadow and depth, or to illustrate a victimized specter or a menacing little bee. Issues of today echo in BAM exhibit ‘Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z It’s the specter of school closure, a brutal process with a clinical name: consolidation. Loss and Hope: A Documentary Presents the Flip Side of Hoosiers 2013-04-19T09:45:43Z Indeed, the recent resort collections featured more calico than an alley of cats, and a chic Elaine specter hovered over lines as diverse as Prada and Rebecca Taylor, each with a multitude of prim prints. The Elaine Benes Look Re-appears as New York Style 2010-08-18T20:40:00Z More recently, though, another specter — artificial intelligence — has by turns captivated and alarmed the world, onscreen and off. Do Studios Dream of Android Stars? 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Foster’s slyly commanding Stanley — a performance that makes the specter of Marlon Brando, who created the part, temporarily retreat into the dusk — is obviously the younger, stronger and more confident of the two. Review: A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Why would a school or a gymnastics team kick out a child with no sign of disease but a specter of a once-scary virus? 'My HIV Child Is Playing with Your Child, and You Don't Know It' 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Today, all that’s left of the shoe industry is a rowboat-sized wooden shoe sculpture hovering like a specter above the roundabout entrance to town. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The F.B.I. circles and, soon, the specter of One Last Job looms. An Elegant, Ice-Cold Thriller Served Straight Up With a Twist 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “Losing some money is not nearly as frightening as being on trial with the specter of a lot of time,” Norman says. Inside an eccentric mogul’s quest to save D.C.’s most distinctive buildings 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, though, he threaded the reel into his projector, threw a switch and sent black-and-white specters dancing across a white wall. Comedy’s Sweet Weapon: The Cream Pie 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “They say he doesn’t even ask about you anymore,” her mother taunts her, and the specter of a faraway Billy brings tears to Jed’s carefully made-up eyes. ‘The Night Manager’ Season 1, Episode 2: The Mistress, Unveiled 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Images of lost and murdered children haunt the narrative, specters of snuffed lives and broken hopes. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The director of the production here, Richard Brunel, brought back this specter of civil action by setting the opera in a bustling law office. Critic’s Notebook: Very Old and Brand-New Operas at French Festival 2012-07-23T21:53:26Z That’s the name I prefer for him, this benevolent specter she has contributed to the canon of stage ghosts. A Ghostly Father Sets Off a Cascade of Memories 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z I’m scared that, at best, I’d end up being a specter in someone’s life: appearing fleetingly every now and again when my symptoms ebb. I’m a high-functioning man with autism coping with health issues – do I bother dating? 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z And when the specter of Hamlet’s father starts talking, that isn’t Elizabethan English in which he wails; it’s Persian. A ‘Hamlet’ Poised Between Cultures (and Languages) 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The specter of Auschwitz hovers over the film. Movie Review: ‘The Jewish Cardinal’ Portrays Jean-Marie Lustiger 2014-04-10T23:52:54Z Ms. Roitfeld was doubtless aware that in raising the specter of human decline, Mr. Klein had taken a pickax to fashion’s most fearsome taboo. The Photographer and Auteur Steven Klein Loves to Shock, but Surreptitiously 2011-11-24T10:45:04Z Anti-immigrant politics and the specter of Russian meddling in a Western election flicker across the screen. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z In the McCarthy era, the specter of Reds — which is to say Communists — lurking in the studio commissaries and writers’ bungalows and smuggling their subversive messages onto the screen was a source of considerable alarm. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z However, the specter of an impending DOUBLE-ELIMINATION round now looms over the tent. Following chocolate week, a "Bake Off" double-elimination looms 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z An erotic charge runs though her work, and alongside it, the specter of encroaching ruin. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The specter of post-civil war Algeria asserts itself, with its uneasy mix of the secular and the devout. 'The Meursault Investigation' re-imagines Camus' 'Stranger' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z A third set of problems with “Die Zauberflöte” seems more and more glaring: the specters of racism and misogyny. In Germany, a New ‘Magic Flute’ Is a Deadly Serious Game 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z But now, Hollywood itself may have to confront this dreadful specter, in the form of the first ever robot movie star. Lights, camera, automation: should robots replace human actors? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Allan is sometimes visited by the specter of Humphrey Bogart, in trench coat and fedora. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The artist distorts these formal portraits, whether transforming them into flickering video specters or adapting them for viewing through retro 3-D glasses. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z How do you think these Oscars reflect on the specter that haunts Hollywood — the specter of streaming? This Year, a Plain Old Ordinary Oscars Was Something to Savor 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z There’s the tyranny of clean and, atop that, the specter of reproach. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The same argument for decades, but on this they agree: No therapy 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z “Weird Fantasy” is stalked by the specter of nuclear war, and it bursts with disembodied brains, perilous space exploration and alien rockets homing in on the White House. ArtsBeat: Old Nightmares Revisited in “Weird Fantasy” 2014-05-05T17:16:47Z The main character, with his tired collapse and resigned love, evokes the specter of Juan Carlos Onetti’s character Díaz Grey. Andrés Neuman crosses boundaries across the Americas in 'How to Travel Without Seeing' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Yet in Eilish’s hands, Moriarty’s taunt takes on even darker hues, as the singer contemplates the specter of an encroaching death: “Tell me which one is worse / Living or dying first / Sleeping inside a hearse?” Billie Eilish is the new pop intelligentsia 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z In “Götterdämmerung,” just concluded, Mr. Owens was a withered, petulant specter, barking desperate orders to a resentful son. Eric Owens as Alberich in Wagner?s ?Ring? at the Met 2012-02-18T05:03:04Z Despite the specter of the death penalty, abolitionists held their ground. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z And on “FML,” there was the specter of psychological instability, a possible foreshadowing of troubles to come: “You ain’t never seen nothing crazier,” he rapped, than him when he’s “off his Lexapro.” Kanye West’s Year of Breaking Bad 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The trip starts really with Bert Cooper's death and this windfall of money and the compromises that go with it and Don seeing that specter and realizing that this is not all there is. 'Mad Men's' Matthew Weiner greets the end with exhilaration, woe 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z That’s how Toni Morrison writes in “Beloved” about the spiteful specter that haunts an old house in Cincinnati. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Roy Thomas, who was a writer and assistant editor at Marvel in the 1960s and, later, its editor-in-chief from 1972-1974, said that since comics try to mirror real life, death is always a specter. After half century, it's 1 Fantastic's farewell 2011-01-25T09:16:04Z These teen spirits haunt their school in the same way Woodstone's specters are bound to its building and the land around it. Between "Ghosts" to "Not Dead Yet," it's starting to look like TV is having a season full of spirits 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Yet after spending my entire adult life under the specter of her celebrity, I can also cop to at least three decades of fierce protectiveness about Madonna as well. Madonna at 60: From Material Girl to Golden Girl, on her own terms 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z From the beginning, the specter of Nirvana hung over Grohl’s new endeavor. Foo Fighters Wanted to Rule Rock. 25 Years Later, They’re Still Roaring. 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z A specter is haunting America: the specter of narcissism. Review: ‘The Selfishness of Others,’ or I’m O.K. — You’re a Narcissist 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z That raises the specter of a global currency war: At a time of dismal economic growth, every country would prefer a weak currency to make its exports cheaper abroad. Stocks take a beating worldwide 2011-08-05T02:12:00Z Guides escort you through hallways, up and down stairwells, and into various rooms, pausing as members of the ensemble enact brief narratives — tales of haunted locales, supernatural romance, a corpse-eating specter and more. Japanese ghost stories take the stage in ‘Kwaidan,’ a Spooky Action Theater show Or perhaps it’s the specter of age, and the connection to the old country. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Time to celebrate 2010-10-18T05:01:00Z Many of the strongest works incorporate violence latently, as a suggestion or ever-present specter. The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z In 2019, as annual visitor numbers topped 3 million for the first time, locals loudly lamented crowding, traffic and the specter of paradise lost. A Maui vacation in three acts 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z And yet a specter of mortality hung over the show. David Crosby, still helplessly hoping at age 77, reprises a lifetime of anthems at the Birchmere 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Read the dialogue the way it is delivered, drily, thoughtfully, as the dialogue of two specters who might have just met in an antechamber of Hell: Jacqueline: Mind if I join you? Life During Wartime: The Year's Best Indie Film 2010-07-25T21:45:00Z In this one look, the specter of Jack Bauer is all but erased. ‘Designated Survivor’ Series Premiere: Glasses Off 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z They don’t distract from the specter of suffering; they insist upon — and help in — its contemplation. A Widower and His Son Find Kindness and Cruelty on the Road in ‘Census’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z In the novel, Naomi, the narrator — the specter of a dead slave — watches over her child as she grows amid the turmoil surrounding the Civil War. Natashia Deón may be the hardest-working debut novelist in Los Angeles 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The reaction video phenomenon provides a way to consider such specters through someone else’s eyes. Let’s watch a murder 2012-06-10T01:00:00Z When Josh poured Rita’s ashes into the ocean in the finale, it was as though he were liberating the entire family from the specter of death. ‘Transparent’ Season 3: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But with the specter of a legal battle looming, it decided to cancel the play. Legal Threats From Broadway’s ‘Mockingbird’ Sink Productions Around the Country 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Now, almost a year later, I’m back to my version of normal and no longer feel the specter of death looming over me. For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Slide show: www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/06/arts/design/03062011_Gorey.html?ref=design News bulletin from the spirit world: The specter of Edward Gorey, who died in 2000 at the age of 75, is haunting our collective unconscious. Edward Gorey's sensibility is growing like nightshade 2011-03-05T03:09:56Z People who weren’t raised with the specter of an all-seeing God looking over their shoulder, meaningfully clearing his throat when you’re about to make a mistake, are more confident. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z And that reliable small-town specter, the awkward ache between those who leave and grow and those who don’t, hangs over everything. Review: In ‘Lone Star Spirits,’ Haunting High School Memories 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Removing the specter of blame would let a broader spectrum of people see how environmentalism could buoy their interests, not hurt them. How to debate climate change deniers (without scaring them off) 2014-03-02T14:30:00Z In the foreground, the disembodied head of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty hovers like a specter, a nod to a 16th-century painting by Hans Holbein which also explored the negotiating power of symbolic objects and personal appearance. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z The specter of the reunion is an awful thing created by nostalgia and propagated by the internet entertainment complex to transform that nostalgia into clickable stories for your Facebook feeds. Friends reunion: let it go, it's never going to happen 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Despite its gentleness, however, the series is also undercut with a wistful melancholy for people missing loved ones and the encroaching specter of World War II. "All Creatures Great and Small" star on animals, slow-burn romance & what makes a Scottish Christmas 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Frank throws in too many distracting references to the perceived threat of the looming Y2K, yet the shrieking headlines do suggest a climate of fear and the specter of another, graver threat to come. ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Adapts Lawrence Block’s Novel 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The scariest specter of all, though, which runs throughout the series, is the likelihood that all of these miraculous advances will be available to some people — i.e., rich ones — but not to others. Television Review: ‘Futurescape With James Woods’ on Science Channel 2013-12-23T20:43:34Z Off limits to the filmmakers, Mr. Hamdan is the specter who haunts “The Oath.” Film: ?The Oath, a Documentary by Laura Poitras, Looks at Foreign Policy 2010-05-08T02:48:00Z I hover over homework and obsess about grade point averages as the specter of college admission looms large on the horizon. Parents, stop hovering! It’s not your job to remove every obstacle from your kids’ paths 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z A recent change in publishers had failed to raise his earnings and, as he supported his large extended family, the “specter of Sir Walter Scott, dying bankrupt, haunted him.” Notes From the Book Review Archives 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z As the popularity of "Don't Look Up" demonstrates, the specter of instant apocalypse can be galvanizing and focusing on a large scale. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Several of the stories in “Honeydew” feature characters facing their end, and the specter of death has long loomed over her work. Edith Pearlman’s New Book Is ‘Honeydew’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Glints of that lost world haunt the poetry Schubert set in the shimmering of the moon on desolate nights, the beauty of sun-filled landscapes, or the specters of dead girls and other Gothic phantasms. CD reviews: A modern symphonic master 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z With the Manchester bombing, the multibillion-dollar music touring industry is once again confronting the specter of violence. Despite Security, Concerts Provide ‘Target-Rich’ Environments 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Who knows if it's ghosts, but something terrible is lingering: the specter of the past that never really went away. Academia is dark and full of terrors in “Master” 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z The unresolved labor contract — and the specter of a strike — has caused a rift between Strathmore and its founding partner, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. How a dispute with a handful of Strathmore ticket-sellers led to impasse with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, canceled concerts 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z In one composition, the spindly bones of a ruptured house lie collapsed, like a ghastly specter. Seattle’s SOIL Gallery, run by local artists, speaks to the issues of our time 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The specter of, say, Emma Bovary, doesn’t loom over Hazel Grace Lancaster from “The Fault in Our Stars,” booming in a French accent: “Read me, I am more important than she is!” A Not-So-Young Audience for Young Adult Books 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Critics have raised the specter of a military so interested in burnishing its image that it strong-arms studios. ?Act of Valor,? Film With Active-Duty Members of Navy Seals 2012-02-18T22:55:30Z As he enters his twilight years, Sheeran comes face to face with the cold specter of his own eventual death, and loses the staring contest. The Irishman: the murder, the women, the ending – discuss with spoilers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It would undermine him heading into Super Tuesday, raising the specter of a nominating race that would not produce a candidate with a clear delegate advantage before the party's August convention. Mich. primary is a must-win for Romney 2012-02-28T17:47:00Z Dr. Blackwell was shadowed by the lurid specter of another female “physician,” known as Madame Restell, who peddled herbal remedies and surgical intervention for the oldest problem women faced. The Determined Siblings Who Became America’s First Women Doctors 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z “Revival Season” is haunted by two shadows: Samuel’s vicious handling of a pregnant teenager brought to him for healing during a previous revival, and the specter of Samuel and Joanne’s stillborn child, Isaiah. Review | The spellbinding ‘Revival Season’ makes Monica West an author to watch 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “Redneck Vacation,” the more contrived setup, may prove to have more oomph over the long run, perhaps because the specter of returning to how life always has been never looms very far away. | 'Bayou Billionaires' and 'My Big Redneck Vacation': 2 Families Face a Gust of Fortune 2012-01-21T00:37:32Z Until his specter is finally vanquished, it inconveniently appears every time she tries to kiss her new admirer. Review: Echoes of Flamenco From Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Una, who tracked him down after spotting him in a trade magazine photo, appears to him as a specter from his secret past. Jeff Daniels makes a powerful return to 'Blackbird' alongside a captivating Michelle Williams 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Muckrakers raised the specter of poisoning, but the coroner ruled it a natural death. Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z And we forced ourselves to, and face the specter of Nat’s volatile behavior year after year. Motherlode: Grandfather Knows Best 2011-06-22T20:22:53Z But sitting like a specter on the sidelines are issues of violence and intolerance — which intersect with a seemingly blissful night. Essential Arts & Culture: Chicago architecture biennial, 'The Red Shoes' hits L.A. and more PST: LA/LA 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Media planners are preaching caution in the face of a surge in early voting, high anxiety levels overall and a president who raises the specter of another disputed election. Media election planners prepare for a night of mystery 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The boy’s uncle, who published a volume of verses before drifting into bitterness and penury as a journalist, is a grim specter of literary failure. Review: From Israel, ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ a Drama About Poetry and Obsession 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In the full work the sugar of the allegorical lovers is offset by the specter of an allegorical Death. Dance Review: Ballet NY Performs New Works by Medhi Bahiri 2012-08-10T23:17:57Z But if the rush of wire-walking is the specter of imminent death, what happens when that specter lurks in the far distance, beyond a chasm of weakness, arthritis or cancer? At 73, ‘Man on Wire’ Philippe Petit still dances high above the void 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z There is a specter haunting America — the specter of the pumpkin spice latte, henceforth referred to as the PSL. 16 Drinks That Would Be Better Than a Pumpkin Spice Latte 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z I’m not sure a Girl Scout selling cookies door to door being chased by male specters with tongues hanging out is quite the knee-slapper it is intended to be. Review | The new ‘Beetlejuice’ musical is overcaffeinated, overstuffed and virtually charmless 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z No other Clinton surrogate is speaking so bluntly and publicly about the specter of unhappy liberal voters threatening to stay at home or cast a ballot for a third-party candidate. How Michelle Obama talks to voters in a way Hillary Clinton can’t 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Those dialect-coached Boston inflections predominate in “Shutter Island,” but are not the only voices heard on the grounds of the asylum, where the patients perambulate like zombies and the orderlies lurk like vengeful specters. Movie Review | 'Shutter Island': All at Sea, Surrounded by Red Herrings 2010-02-18T15:49:00Z Paloma has spent years trying to convince herself Mohini isn’t real even though girls in the orphanage swore they saw the specter roaming at night. Review | ‘My Sweet Girl’ pushes the boundaries of what a thriller can do 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z The results evoke both the wonder and the starkness, even harshness, of the natural world — as well as suggest, inevitably, the specter of the climate crisis. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z But Locke’s figures are not just specters of history. Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke’s Unsettling Pageant 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z If I have one complaint about “Unforgettable,” it’s that the specter of Alzheimer’s is present throughout the book. Review | ‘Unforgettable’ pays tribute to ‘the most influential cookbook author you’ve never heard of’ 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z For others, it summons the specter of ExxonMobil and is a rallying cry for restructuring the global economy. How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The specter of proletarian dependency haunted the lives of the country’s self-reliant handicraftsmen who watched apprehensively as shops employing wage labor began popping up across the country. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z O’Toole dissects a number of myths peddled over the years by Britain’s most extreme Euroskeptics, including the specter of an overweening continent determined to outlaw prawn cocktail-flavored potato chips. Fear and Fumbling: Brexit, Trump and the Nationalist Surge 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Then it’s back to respectful distance, as their rivalry begins to falter when Mr. Bird begins having back problems and the specter of Mr. Johnson’s discovery of his H.I.V. status looms. Theater Review: ?Magic/Bird? at the Longacre Theater 2012-04-12T02:00:00Z The problem is that simply making the claim automatically raises the specter that you're lying. Does Sugar Ray Leonard's sex abuse story hold up? 2011-06-13T22:01:00Z Lurking in those shadowy corners is a specter that drives whole segments of the television, film and literary industries: dead little girls. Women’s anger is not to be ignored: Lessons from HBO’s “Sharp Objects” 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Certainly, even putting specters aside, there’s potential for high-fever sensationalism here. Review: ‘Shining City’ Is Brighter With Matthew Broderick 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In his own estimation, his sweating made him look like Samara, the well-dwelling stringy-haired specter of the horror movie “The Ring.” Date Lab: He was feeling the heat. She was eager to break the ice. 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z He wrote it while living in the United States and Canada but affected by the looming specter of war in Europe. National Youth Orchestra Flexes Its Muscles at Carnegie Hall 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z The house is also America itself, as relentlessly haunted by the obdurate, divisive specter of race as Warren is. ‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z There’s always the specter of the absent parent who looms very large in the kid’s imagination. Motherlode: Not About Charlie Sheen 2011-03-03T21:08:49Z AI can raise the specter of technology run amok: a post-singularity future with robots in command. Food for thought: will an era of hyper-personalized meals leave a sour taste? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Like the narrator in Daphne du Maurier’s novel “Rebecca,” the specter of Chloe becomes a fixation whose reality, it turns out, Becky knew nothing about. Erin Doherty Shape Shifts in ‘Chloe’ 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z There are traces of his religious mother in Hannah and in the specter of Joseph’s dead wife, who was overweight and diabetic. Paddy Considine Directs ?Tyrannosaur,? Starring Peter Mullan 2011-11-12T22:00:05Z We will drift through the rest of our days on earth not as human beings, but as specters.” Theater Review: ‘Red Dog Howls,’ by Alexander Dinelaris 2012-09-25T02:30:05Z The specter of insurrection is embedded in the word “robot” itself. Why Do We Hurt Robots? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Getting Flora to rest in peace will be harder than any sale Tookie has ever made, and that exorcism soon runs into other old spirits haunting this novel, along with new specters rising up. Review | ‘The Sentence’ is among Louise Erdrich’s most magical novels 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Years later, Henry grapples with the specter of his father’s alcoholism and other demons. New in Paperback: ‘Somebody With a Little Hammer,’ ‘The Leavers’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Nowadays, it’s true, we’ve corralled our spooks and specters within the confines of Halloween, but for centuries the long, dark nights of winter inspired tales of supernatural visitors. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z As quaint as the specters it works to expunge, “Another Evil” is an ultra-low-budget ghost story with an off-kilter sensibility that initially intrigues but ultimately fizzles. Review: Hiring an Exorcist? Get References First in ‘Another Evil’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z If the suspects were brown or black, this would bring to life the conservative specter of cities being destroyed by black-on-black crime. What if TV told the truth about Chicago? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z A few weeks later, I was beached on my bed at home, watching a screener on my laptop for Andrew Semans’s “Resurrection,” when I was again confronted by the specter of a menacing pregnant man. Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The drawing was created during one of the séances Blake held with artist friends, in which they would conjure the specters of historical figures. Art Review: ?A Passion for Drawings,? Charles Ryskamp?s Bequest, at Frick 2012-02-23T23:27:54Z And he has here rendered the Beast as a series of gauzy but scary fairy-tale specters, manipulated by the show’s corps de ballet. Review: Dirty Dancing to Henry James in ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z They often broach matters of life or death, and it is hard to think dispassionately — in terms of abstract cost-benefit analyses — when confronted with the specter of our own mortality or of those we love. Steven Brill's 'America's Bitter Pill' tackles healthcare mess 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The specter of Michael keeps showing up in Luke’s waking dreams, interrupting his work and everyday social encounters. Review: In ‘Kid Victory,’ Rescued but Not Free 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The specter of the privileged preening among poverty no longer seems to haunt a country with a fast-growing middle class, although the disparity between rich and poor is still evident. IHT Luxury Conference: Brazil and the Fashionable Life 2011-11-09T12:11:45Z It’s all the more so because Mr. Johnson has even found ways to lament his newfound success, or the specter thereof. Back in Black: A Country Outsider 2010-09-26T03:00:00Z Three years later, with Trump out of office but the specter of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Carrie Mae Weems Sets the Stage and Urges Action 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Barker set his story in a British council estate; Rose changed the location to Chicago's most notorious housing projects and breathed the specter of American racism into the story. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z It was a large, white-winged specter hovering by the hedgerow some six feet in the air. Owls are natural-born killers. So why do we adore them so much? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Hesse herself is both a ubiquitous presence in the film and something of a specter — an animating spirit and a ghost haunting the frames. Review: ‘Eva Hesse’ Offers a Moving Portrait of an Artist’s Brief Life 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z In “Lovers,” a multimedia installation, life-size images of Mr. Furuhashi and other members of his Kyoto-based artist collective are projected onto the walls of a darkened room, moving like specters around the perimeter. MoMA Galleries to Change Their Focus 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The ghost, who in the libretto physically appears only in passing, is now a recurring, forlorn specter. ‘Euryanthe,’ Rarely Heard, Is Mounted at Bard 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Clean, Anders is a specter of his former self, visiting old haunts without being fully there. Movie Review: ‘Oslo, August 31st,’ Directed by Joachim Trier 2012-05-25T00:41:58Z One key relationship raises the specter of fetishization in an early conversation, for example, and while it is batted away, other problematic power imbalances ensure that danger lingers in our minds. HBO Max's "The Sex Lives of College Girls" is less erotic and more awkward than its alluring title 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z American servicemen became so squeamish about the specter of being eaten during long oceanic campaigns that U.S. Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z In a haunting passage near the end of “Sugar Mountain,” Peabody explicitly summons this very specter. ‘The Richard Peabody Reader’ 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Even as he enjoyed unusually quick success, he remained obsessed with the specter of failure. David Chang Bets Big, Using Silicon Valley Money 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The specter of the wrecking ball provides the most far-reaching dramatic tension. Review: August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ Magnifies Marginalized Souls 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The writer character, too, becomes almost feverish with the need to lay to rest the specters he’s raised. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z The cultural phenomenon of “Nanette” haunts her follow-up, “Douglas,” now on Netflix, and in typical self-awareness, she acknowledges that specter at the start. Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Douglas’ Doubles Down on the Comedy of Contradiction 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Everyone gasps as the specter of the gruesome two-on-one date rears it’s ugly head. The Bachelor Watch: Sean Lowe Kissed The Girls — and Made Them Cry 2013-01-22T14:19:55Z A startlingly original debut feature about the specters that haunt Dakar, and everywhere else. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Both marriages are loving but strained by the specter of encroaching illness. Theater Review: ?The Realistic Joneses,? at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-05-01T22:14:22Z The specter of Greece’s economic and political failures looms over “Attenberg,” not least in the figure of the dying Spiros, who remarks on his country’s painful transition from an agrarian economy to full-blown capitalism. Athina Rachel Tsangari Directs ?Attenberg? 2012-03-02T19:13:03Z The specter of even more economic decline has contributed to campaign promises of more protectionism. | Made in France 2012-04-24T17:30:07Z She shows that the specter of armed Blacks was so alarming that white authorities revisited their fears obsessively, enacting statute after statute with alterations that invariably broadened prohibitions and intensified punishments. Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Her work has always grappled with the vulnerability of life, but now the specter of mortality hangs low, and the poignancy of these pictures feels more acute. Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch, Leaning Into Pain 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z The financial situation raises the specter of selling WBAI’s broadcast license, its greatest asset. Democracy May Prove the Doom of WBAI 2013-08-20T22:18:03Z But the specter of getting ripped off still looms. Travel Scams To Beware Of 2010-12-06T15:00:00Z She deploys the tools of her trade — spooky music and fluid editing, subtle camera movements and suggestive compositions — to try to coax a specter into view. ‘Citizenfour,’ a Documentary About Edward J. Snowden 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z There is another generational specter haunting them, Josh in particular. Review: In ‘While We’re Young,’ a Coupling of Gen X and Y 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Like so many now, I loved her without ever seeing her live; this holographic specter was weirdly tantalizing, even if it hardly made up for that. What a Hologram of Maria Callas Can Teach Us About Opera 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z And because this particular spike in usage involves the specter of Gamergate, it turns out that some people are irritated by the usage of Milkshake Duck. How a Joke Becomes a Meme: The Birth of ‘Milkshake Duck’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The film’s unnerving railway station scenes — panoramic views of frustrated crowds surging forward, barely contained by nervous police officers with truncheons — underscore these changes and the growing specter of civil war. Film: Following Workers? Trails of Tears in China 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z He was known for ruminative, melancholic, often eccentric movies about grand subjects like the nature of love and the ever-present specter of death. Manoel de Oliveira, Pensive Filmmaker Who Made Up for Lost Time, Is Dead 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z These chamber-pop specters bested that effort with the dissonant experimentations of “Adventures in Your Own Backyard,” and they explore bucolic acoustic- and electro-folk pathways on their shimmering latest album, “Love Songs for Robots.” Pop & Rock Listings for Dec. 11-17 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Ominous because they seem haunted by the specters of enforced “feminine” aesthetics. Gallery Walk: Postcards from a trip through Pioneer Square’s galleries and graffiti 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Inertia kept us hooked to our television IV, but when we moved, the specter of a cable company drilling holes in our nice new walls was more than we could stomach. Cut the cord: A guide to free TV 2010-08-26T14:30:00Z Circular marks made of human hair and red stitches bring a specter of violence to the surface. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Is it too dreamy to imagine Emil battling a specter on the big screen? In Hollywood, Stories About People of Color Are Still Rare. These Y.A. Fantasy Novels Pick Up the Slack. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The specter of politics and of Hollywood’s harassment scandals hung over the evening. Award Season Kicks Off at Gotham Awards Ceremony 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z A maximalist, Mr. Mann crams a great deal into the movie’s fleet two-hour running time, including the nuclear mishap, a commodities run-up, some cyber-slapstick with the National Security Agency and the specter of 9/11. ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z That specter of conflict in turn brought up the Civil War, and then the black American experience, which seemed to spark the thought of Walt Whitman settings. Review: Thomas Hampson’s Conflict Resolutions 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z So if this production really related to today, it was in the still too-rare specter, in this field, of having women unobtrusively take the lead. Review | Strong women take the lead in Washington National Opera’s ‘Alcina’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z The specter of the first of the spirits, Scrooge’s dead partner Jacob Marley, is played with the requisite clanking chains by Chris Hoch. ‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: God Rest Ye Merry, Plutocrats 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The specter of a Romanov survivor has inspired numerous books and several films, animated and otherwise, not to mention a memorable line in “Sympathy for the Devil.” Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z And out-of-focus specters who sneak up behind people or disappear and reappear with light-switch flicks are not the stuff of primal terror. ‘The Grudge’ Review: A Curse That Can’t Be Lifted 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The specter of public indifference was carved in stone by reporting in The New York Times that said dozens of witnesses ignored the victim’s calls for help. Documentary Retries Kitty Genovese’s Neighbors 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The specter that it might be something entirely different and more was stunning. The Innocence Project's Deirdre Enright Tells Serial Fans What's Next for Adnan's Case 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The last time this specter worked her mojo onscreen, in the “Conjuring” horror franchise, she terrified a Los Angeles family. ‘La Llorona’ Review: The General in His Horrific Labyrinth 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z The specter of 1930s Germany hangs over modern society, particularly when we ask how everyday citizens did little to arrest the evil in their midst. Review | In ‘The Berlin Girl,’ a British journalist uncovers terrible secrets in 1937 Germany 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z The darkness at the close of “You & Me,” like the darkness at the close of everything, is the specter of death. Books of The Times: Padgett Powell’s New Novel, ‘You & Me’ 2012-08-14T12:00:00Z To see a body like this — a congregation of angles kinked in opposition — is to recognize Bob Fosse’s slinky specter. ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Has Magic to Do. And Undo. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z In a single line about the “heaped-up dead,” they raised the specter of the Holocaust as a reminder that it’s a short step from private cruelty to political violence. Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z For much of it, he is effectively a ghostly figure, a beautiful specter on a laptop screen whose open face hides very little, including Hae Sung’s vulnerability and yearning. ‘Past Lives’ Review: Longing for a Future 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z He points to Taissa's being haunted by a man with no eyes and that specter's connection to the memory of her grandmother's death, as we saw in the third episode. "Yellowjackets" boss on the killer ending revelation "that will blow a lot of people's minds" 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z While the specter of the wall looms large in politics, in Tijuana, it’s been a fact of life since the 1990s. Through a Tijuana Turnstile and Into Tacos and Tortas 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Half a century after Takemitsu’s aesthetic crisis and two decades after the founding of Yo-Yo Ma’s transcultural Silk Road Ensemble, composers seem more comfortable using non-Western instruments — less anxious, perhaps, about the specter of exoticism. Hundreds of New Concertos Bring the World to the Concert Hall 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Faced with the specter of these lawsuits — and the logistical challenge of producing separate products just for California — many manufacturers began using flame retardant foam across their product lines. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z Court of Appeals — and then having your hearings haunted by the specter of a man who already has the job? Perspective | Indelible in the hippocampus is Brett Kavanaugh 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Of these, Mr. West’s path is the most radical in terms of how it engages with the specter of obsolescence. Hip-Hop Is Evolving. Just Ask Its Superstars. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z For some, “cancel culture” is the specter of online mobs advocating for someone to get fired over anything from an old tweet to an innocuous statement that doesn’t conform to some emerging progressive ethos. The Harper’s ‘Letter,’ cancel culture and the summer that drove a lot of smart people mad 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z It embodies the paradox, inertia, specter, bargain and cost of nuclear weapons, especially at a moment like this. Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, waiting to not be used 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The specter of Bill Cosby lingered over a tense and uncomfortable season premier of “Celebrity Apprentice,” which aired on Sunday night. Keshia Knight Pulliam fired from “Celebrity Apprentice” for not reaching out to Bill Cosby 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The specter of armed and untrained civilians enforcing the law fans the kind of anxieties that surfaced following the Martin killing. ‘Your dad’s in jail’ 2012-06-26T16:33:00Z The specter at our banquet, slinking between reflection and foresight, as we turn now to examine a long list of threats to our existence. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z The motets were full of strange, insistent anxieties: narrators paranoid about being spied on, the specter of envy and gossip. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church 2013-05-13T21:59:59Z Whether with a gun, a mastermind or a monster, most thrillers thrill by invoking the specter of death: Who’s going to die and how? Review: Holding Hands With the Homeless, in ‘Love’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z These chamber-pop specters bested that effort with the keening, dissonant experimentations of “Adventures in Your Own Backyard” and explore bucolic acoustic- and electro-folk pathways on their lovely new album, “Love Songs for Robots.” Pop & Rock Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The sequence is a reminder that other specters were at work in Washington in 1973, as the Watergate scandal increasingly haunted the government. DVDs: The Devil Inside and the Demon in Disguise 2010-10-23T05:00:00Z As for Mr. Potato Head, the toymaker Hasbro had announced that it would drop the “Mr.” and “Mrs.” from its famous potato dolls, prompting a backlash that included some specters of its own. The strange journey of ‘cancel,’ from a Black-culture punchline to a White-grievance watchword 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z We slip back into a world where post-Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy tries and fails to make a presidential bid, and freewheeling nightlife has not yet been ravaged by the specter of AIDS. Review | A portrait of the start of the 1980s — with a John Lennon cameo 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The specters of unemployment and poverty stalk the play, inspiring both Darwinian struggle and existential crises. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z But the specter of white supremacy has to be on filmmakers’ minds. Diversity Waits on a Green Light 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z And, obliquely, she alludes to the difference between being titillated by the specter of a murderous psychopath and actually knowing one. You still have time to catch some daring, funny, touching solo performances 2010-03-17T18:53:00Z This black-robed presence is a haunting specter, there to tell, remind and maybe even accuse. Seeking slice-of-life authenticity in Italy’s most touristy cities 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z And while he draws attention to anti-Muslim sentiments, it is never clear how Sen would like viewers to connect these terrifying threats with the grim specter of species extinction. Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z But her specter hangs over the entire novel. "My editors were just egging me on": "Yellowface" author on depicting the cutthroat publishing world 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Recognizing that the concept of romance “is blindness beyond all conceiving,” she settles on the specter of death, whose “road” is always “leaving and falling back / like a rope gone slack.” The enigmatic genius of Joanna Newsom 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z He is haunted by the specter of his cruel family, even as he tries to be better than they were. Best science fiction and fantasy books to read this month 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The specter of Ms. Alley’s and Ms. Wilson’s failure on these diet programs has done nothing to deter Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig from gathering a slew of other celebrities to represent them. Skin Deep: When Dieting Becomes a Role to Play 2011-08-02T22:12:55Z That a figure like Fine carefully navigated Neo-Classicism and serialism, the twin specters of European modernism, is no indictment of American composers’ originality. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The specter of Bluebeard has also inspired operas by Bela Bartok and Jacques Offenbach and turns up in an untitled 1917 sonnet from the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Film: ?Bluebeard? Director?s Take on Dark Folk Tale 2010-03-24T22:31:00Z Not only that, but ‘movement,’ today, also contains the specters of Mao and Mussolini. David Brooks has lost his mind, again: Everything he doesn’t understand about the GOP and Donald Trump’s new “movement” 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Though the president is not explicitly portrayed in this chapter, his bloated specter looms large over the season, as does the ghost of Hillary Clinton along with the noxious wraith known as Jill Stein. "American Horror Story: Cult" is FX's way of saying, "Tag, America — you're 'It'!" 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z “For me, the essential thing that clinches the drama is of course the apparition of the specter,” he said. A Decidedly French “Hamlet” Returns to Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Both children learn that mockingbirds come in many forms and that Boo, the specter of the shuttered Radley place, is, in fact, one of them. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z “Is This a Room” — a verbatim transcript of the FBI interrogation of the intelligence specialist Reality Winner — raises the specter of a coming police state. Off Broadway’s Season Shook Up Norms of Life and Theater 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The threat of a seizure hovers over the movie, as does the specter of an outburst of pent-up, half-understood feeling. Movie Review | 'The Exploding Girl': Zoe Kazan and Mark Rendall in a Minefield of Emotions 2010-03-12T00:03:00Z Still, it is shocking to learn that many American libraries, the main customers for children’s books, banned and often discarded Mr. Ungerer’s contributions to the genre, raising the specter of his European experiences. Review: Tomi Ungerer, Bad Boy of Art, in a Reappraisal 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Her dream is simply to chart a future for her family that would allow them to live without the looming specter of displacement. Who Can Actually Afford to Live in Portland? 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Today’s Europe, thankfully, is not haunted by the specter of nuclear war. Europe’s Glorious Years of Peace and Prosperity 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Peña’s sympathetic performance and likable character help keep the movie from coming across as a kind of freakout over the specter of a Latino Nation. Movie Review: ‘End of Watch,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña 2012-09-20T22:09:14Z Socialites, artists, writers and expats lodged in rented villas and hotel rooms, apparently undaunted by the economic collapse of 1929 and the looming specter of Hitler. It Was ‘Chanel’s Riviera’ in the 1930s. Then Came World War II. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s a picture book about a duck and the specter of death, having a conversation. Raina Telgemeier Can’t Wait to Break Bread With Her Friends Again 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z But at the Bronx Zoo, a fearsome specter does hover over the proceedings, one that endangers lives and thwarts scientists, not just at this time but all year. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “I get the creeps when looking at the earliest Triassic tracks. I can sense the long-distant specter of death.” When the Dinosaurs Reigned 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z They ruminate on the film historian's uncanny ability to access Hollywood's past, its specters, the things that haunt the industry, leaving orb like traces on our current entertainment landscape. Sex and the cinema girl: Karina Longworth dives into '80s and '90s erotic films, revealing herself 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z Their work is not exactly edifying, but if you can forget the specter of North American gun carnage for a moment, you will acknowledge the movie’s violent artistry even as Viggo admires Wick’s. Review: In John Wick, Keanu Reeves is Back Up to Speed 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z It is a ghost, a shade, the specter that drives us all. Review: Wolfgang Tillmans, a Photographer Showing His Life as an Open Book 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z He is not afraid to confront the specter of his own death head-on, and to use literature to do so. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z But the specter of what Espinoza called “true cruising,” which “allows people to set the terms of their own desire and both leave satisfied,” eludes Sycamore. Review | ‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Washington, a two-time Oscar winner, has his own personal specter to wrestle with in this production, directed by Kenny Leon and featuring a magnificent performance by Viola Davis as Troy’s wife, Rose. | 'Fences': Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in August Wilson?s Classic 2010-04-27T02:03:00Z For television drama to actually be venturing into the specter of Appalachian social issues is something I certainly didn't see coming. "True Blood" finale: The big showdown 2010-09-13T12:30:00Z If the specter of death haunted this wistful, articulate swan song, prospects of preservation and renewal were also at hand. Critic’s Notebook: Robert Ashley’s Work Lives On at the Whitney Biennial 2014-04-14T21:19:51Z Somerset Berkley Regional High in Massachusetts had already cast its spring musical, “Miss Saigon,” when the February shooting in Parkland, Fla., renewed the specter of gun violence in American schools. When the Actors Are Students, and They’re Armed 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The characters, haunted by abstract specters, speak in a stylized dialogue about such great human concerns as existentialism and despair. Review: Tipping the Scales in ‘A Delicate Balance’ 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Once the specter of that pressure is raised, you almost share Robyn’s best friend’s concern that things are moving too fast with Fallon, that their romance is a Band-Aid for her problems. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z And it’s the specter of loneliness, as much as anything, that haunts this movie. ‘Broker’ Review: It Takes a Village to Sell a Child 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z But for a man who was always a “specter, a see-through,” she added, getting at who he really was is much more difficult, as he probably intended it to be. Gysin, In-Depth, at New Museum of Contemporary Art 2010-06-23T22:28:00Z Cities thrive on fantasies of possibility, but the specter of suffering looms behind every door. ‘Happy Life’ Review: Ghosts in the Studio 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France — Ghosts, girls and growing up: These were the specters hanging over a weekend of opera here. Review: ‘Il Trionfo’ and ‘Pelléas’ at the Aix-en-Provence Festival 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z The specter of calamity is especially worrisome for open-air events in urban environments — including the Austin City Limits music festival, which begins Friday in a Texas park and is now undergoing renewed security assessments. In Las Vegas, Concert Security Met a New Threat: Aerial Assault 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z In “Beloved,” the specter of a murdered child takes up residence in the house of her murderer. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z That line becomes the unstated mantra of season two, in which Penny Dreadful streamlines into a surprisingly heartfelt meditation on remorse, solitude, personal demons and the remote, hazy specter of deliverance. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z With its unflinching exploration of the effects of imprisonment and physical abjection on prisoners and guards alike, the film invokes the specters of Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, but also of political ideology run amok. 2010-01-29T20:06:00Z As “Cost of Living” begins, Eddie is certainly looking for connection — and redemption, and a way out from under the specter of loneliness since his wife’s death. ‘Cost of Living’ Review: Worth Its Weight in Gold 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z False information need not be coherent to be effective, and the specters of vanished liberty and tyrannical government regulation are easy enough to conjure. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The specter at the heart of Hugh Leonard’s semi-autobiographical play “Da,” revived by the Irish Repertory Theater, pours piping cups of tea and proffers packs of cigarettes. ‘Da,’ Hugh Leonard’s 1978 Tony Winner, Via Irish Rep 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z In the specific case of Foucault, this involved locating the “ubiquitous specter” known as “power” everywhere, and conceding that we are without agency in its presence. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Without the specter of a public shaming, corruption is freer to flourish. Yes, Fake News Is a Problem. But There’s a Real News Problem, Too. 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The specter hanging over both versions of “Heart of a Soldier” is this challenge of transforming life into art. Music Review: ?Heart of a Soldier? at San Francisco Opera - Review 2011-09-11T17:17:57Z But if I’m going to pay attention to celebrities at a time like this, their contribution better be charming or deranged enough to distract me from the specter of mass suffering and death. Celebrity Culture Is Burning 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z That loss and the specter of death are overwhelming. Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z The specter of future generations hangs over all of these issues: the moral question of whether to bring children into such a bleak and foundering world. Sigrid Nunez’s New Book Asks a Timely Question, Right in the Title 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Also some bad ones: Amonasro, Aida’s father, here seems to be a specter, already dead, at the start of Act III, which makes the plot incomprehensible. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z In five multilayered collages, the artist depicts such specters in near-abstract form, but with eyes peering from the artworks’ lower depths. Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z That raises the specter, joked Terry Gross, the show’s host, of 7-year-olds toting photo releases to birthday parties. Motherlode Blog: Posting Photos of Other People's Children 2011-11-04T20:55:06Z This particular specter is made of flesh and blood. Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s ‘Train Driver,’ From Signature Theater 2012-09-10T02:17:30Z But the specter of this year’s polarizing election was never far off. Pride and Pain on Opening Day at a Museum of African-American History 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Literary figures of the 1920s like Ezra Pound and Sylvia Beach pop up fleetingly, while the scowling specter of a priest who disapproves of Joyce’s writing and behavior is more prevalent. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Himself and Nora,’ at Hamilton Stage 2013-05-03T23:55:01Z And, then there was the specter that one of the other guests might be a vegetarian. What to make when you're having Michael Pollan over for dinner: white lasagna with roasted vegetable 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Today, the specter of artificial intelligence may rouse anxiety in the minds of the bookish sorts who pack the fair. The Antiquarian Book Fair: From 1750s True Crime to Warhol’s Cats 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z As to this specter, well, I think that the academy by not giving Netflix what it wants so badly — a best picture win — once again delivered a conspicuous message to the streaming giant. This Year, a Plain Old Ordinary Oscars Was Something to Savor 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z That didn’t stop the specter of that performance from feeling as real, and as elusive, to me as his murdered father’s was for the young prince. A Battle of the Hamlets 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Lawrence, famously, had painted the abolitionist in 1941, as a haggard visionary, an emaciated specter. In His Own Words: Jacob Lawrence at the Met and MoMA 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Henceforth, it will just be specters thanking him for “We Have a Ghost,” a cheery kids comedy heavily syruped with pro-ghoul propaganda. ‘We Have a Ghost’ Review: Me and My Boo 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Some threw fits, crying out that they saw terrifying specters. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z But it is a staple of such colleges’ English curriculums, Virginia Woolf, whose guiding specter still hovers over the enterprise. The Wing, a Chic Women’s Club, Is Going Wide 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z AIDS, that gruesome specter that had dominated the conversation for nearly a decade, and the battle against it, was put back in the closet. Can AIDS activism battle the Tea Party? 2012-07-24T15:15:00Z But the specter of that case highlights a potential continuing concern: that 21 Savage’s public persona — his art, his social media, his prior public statements — could be leveraged against him. 21 Savage’s Still-Bumpy Path to Freedom 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z It’s a high-risk mission made more suspenseful by technical challenges, the looming specter of Watergate and a need for secrecy in the face of scrutiny from Russia and the press. ‘Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ Review: Exhumation at Sea 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The song itself is a specter, a translucent breath hanging in the air, being channeled through a man who’s singing like a ghost. Review: The Conjuring 2 Stirs Up Some Chills, Just Not Where You'd Expect 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z We will drift through the rest of our days on earth not as human beings, but as specters. How to Craft an Opening Line to Electrify a Theater Audience 2012-10-28T04:10:05Z There’s a ghostly, expectant feel to it all, as if we’ve entered an alternate plane where specters might be summoned. Screen Time: A Film Star Captivates, and a Writer Is Surveilled 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Family traditions; an insular world; romances with outsiders; yawning differences of age; music and silence; the vague and persistent specter of violent conflict. Review: An Operatic Locavore Consumes the English Countryside 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Nothing stresses out a modern dad more than the specter of a 1970s-’80s rerun of this dynamic — the fear that he will be remembered mostly for his relentless commitment to being out of town. Perspective | ‘Running With Beto’ catches the candidate at his most golden, before his mojo ran off the road 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Set in Athens and visibly haunted by the specter of Greece’s economic crisis, the film follows a charismatic ensemble of misfits who make their living — at least nominally — as street performers. ‘Broadway’ Review: Life on the Margins 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The new surge has added energy, diversity, and fresh money to the city’s mix, as well as the familiar specter of boomtown growth: gentrification. Go to Boise for its arts scene? Yep! The booming city is undergoing a cultural renaissance. 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z And federal COVID-era funding for transit systems is running out, raising the specter of an urban death spiral of fewer riders, higher fares, less revenue and worse service. For Most, Commuting Is Inevitable. But It Has Changed. 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Although another wet winter would help stave off drought, it raises the specter of fresh disaster, according to experts. California's extreme weather whiplash: So long, drought. Hello, El Niño 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z The specter of bankruptcy has hovered over WeWork for some time. WeWork stock halted as rumors swirl about bankruptcy preparations for the office sharing company 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z The specter of terrorism is returning to Europe. Giorgia Meloni Tells Italy She Is Dumping Her Longtime Partner 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z They do not stir the air, sparing you the torment of airborne specters like dust and dander. 7 scary-good tips for keeping your home warm on Halloween and beyond | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z The outlook conjures the specter of another soggy season for the Golden State, which was pummeled by 31 atmospheric river storms, deadly floods and record-setting snow last winter. A warm, wet El Niño winter is in store for California and much of the U.S. 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z But just raising the specter of an embargo conjured up memories of the ban on oil shipments initiated 50 years ago during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Iran’s Call for Oil Embargo on Israel Roils Markets 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z But the specter of a ferocious ground invasion that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to launch to destroy Hamas threatens to tie Biden’s presidential legacy to the disaster that could unfold. Biden crisis-diplomacy mission to Mideast rattled by killings of hundreds in blast at Gaza hospital 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z All that family is enough to make you contemplate mortality — a situation he faces with more equanimity than the specter of another four years of President Trump. Years after presidency, Donald Trump is still living rent-free in Robert De Niro's head 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Pragmatic members in both parties want to avoid the recurring specter of freezing the government and jeopardizing US international financial standing. House speaker debacle hold promise for democracy: The Jeffries Compromise 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Conflict in the Middle East often raises the specter of higher oil prices given the risk of disruptions to supplies. Stock market today: Markets steady in Asia after Israel declares war following Hamas attack in Gaza 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z By Sunday afternoon, more than 1,100 Israelis and Palestinians were reported dead as Israel mounted a relentless counterattack to the surprise assault by Hamas militants, raising the specter of a protracted war. A world away from Israel, L.A.'s Jewish community reels under vast sense of loss 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z That raises the specter of inflation, which has slowed recently after hitting 40-year highs last year. Strikes send shock waves through the U.S. economy, tempt inflation and recession 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z There is a relentless drive to be fast, to win, laced with the specter of death. At the New York Film Festival, a sluggish fall movie season seeks a higher gear 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z The bus plowed through dust on the road winding through the Hanford Site, the horizon dotted with specters of reactors that had been dismantled or “cocooned.” Our nuclear legacy and the weight of history | Op-Ed 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The Senate has already expressed skepticism about its rising costs, and raised the specter of cancellation. Mars Sample Return got a new price tag. It’s big 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Seattle also faces the specter that after a home game next Sunday against Carolina it then has two more road games against 2022 playoff games — Oct. Seahawks, moving on from Week 1 loss, ready for ‘freaking madhouse’ in Detroit 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z The specter of little green men visited Mexico City as lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday from individuals suggesting the possibility that extraterrestrials might exist. UFOs, little green men: Mexican lawmakers hear testimony on possible existence of extraterrestrials 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Smith raised the specter of a hostile foreign government, such as China or Russia, exploiting a system without such safeguards. Fear of fraud vs. disenfranchising voters: WA court to hear case about ballot signatures 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z “Divisions are growing, tensions are flaring up, and trust is eroding — which together raise the specter of fragmentation, and ultimately, confrontation,” he said. UN secretary-general has urged the Group of 20 leaders to send a strong message on climate change 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The specter of additional evidence and possibly even additional charges could add to the pressure on the first-term congressman to plead. Santos talks to prosecutors about ‘paths forward’ as new evidence looms 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z “The terrifying specter of reincarceration has hung over Mr. Syed’s head every day for the past ten months,” his attorneys wrote in a recent appellate brief. Exonerees support Adnan Syed in recent court filing as appeal drags on 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z As Trump's legal woes increase, so does mainstream media alarm about the specter of violent response. Trump fans are ready for political violence. Why are the backers of endless war so shocked? 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z For many of us, the specter of climate change can feel overwhelming. Worried about climate change? You can make a difference — here's how 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z As if these challenges weren't daunting enough, the specter of climate change looms large. Orangutans are being pushed to the brink of extinction. Can we save them in time? 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Igunnubole said this case — the third such action in Britain this year — raises the specter of “thought crime” prosecutions in other areas. November trial set for British man accused of ‘thought crime’ in silent prayer 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z To what extent will the specter of extinction loom over the stadiums across 13 Saturdays? Pac-12 collapse: Winners and losers from the 2023 realignment cycle 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z But even in cities, higher temperatures are straining the power grid, raising the specter of brownouts and blackouts if residents don’t manage their electricity use well. Are you ready for a blackout? How Californians can keep their lights on 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Russia and Ukraine both invoke the specter of nuclear disaster. Russia’s war with Ukraine has generated its own fog, and mis- and disinformation are everywhere 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z The question would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, but the Trump case raises the kind of specter more familiar in countries with histories of coups and juntas and dictators. Trump’s Case Has Broad Implications for American Democracy 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The hand becomes her vice, and with it comes a specter that appears in the form of her mother. 'Talk to Me' directors Danny and Michael Philippou spill the secrets of their horror hit 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z But if the specter of injury and bodily impermanence hovers over the tournament, the older players defuse it with dark humor. The mind is willing, so the body doesn’t have much choice 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z The specter of felony charges and losing a medical license has led to futile exercises. In Wisconsin, women’s health care is constricted by an 1849 law. These doctors are aghast 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z Without legacy admissions, he added, “I could share these stories without this looming specter of, ‘Well, you didn’t earn your place here.’” The Legacy Dilemma: What to Do About Privileges for the Privileged? 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z And in her latest single, “Not a Monster,” she righteously defends herself against the specter of an eating disorder, which she’s now in recovery from. Diaspora Baby: L.A. folk singer Raye Zaragoza says, 'We were cowboys too' 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z But the result has raised a specter in machine-learning engineers’ minds. AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Anything other than a nonzero prospect of hauling viable extraterrestrial organisms to Earth and introducing them to our biosphere raises the specter of what “planetary protection” specialists call “backward contamination.” This Is How the First-Ever U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Will Unfold 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z But the incident raised the specter of future campaign mudslinging — especially targeting Sheinbaum, who would be both Mexico’s first female president and the country’s first leader of Jewish ancestry. A ranting former Mexican president manages to offend retirees, Jews and the French 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z In recent decades, researchers have both raised and downplayed the specter of Atlantic current collapse. Ocean currents vital for distributing heat could collapse by midcentury, study says 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Depending on where the ride stops, you might have a decent view of the translucent green specters chasing each other around the dining room. Review: 'Boo!'-benheimer? Disney's 'Haunted Mansion' is just a so-so comedy of manors 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z With the specter of fascism all around us again, the bellowing confrontation in Judith Bernstein’s work, a combination of wit and outrage, is nothing if not timely. Review: In Glenn Kaino's VR installation, transformational loss ushers in new forms of beauty 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z The specter of hotter and more frequent heat waves raises enormous concerns about public health. This Summer’s Record-Breaking Heat Waves Would Not Have Happened without Climate Change 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Israel is now hurtling into uncharted territory against the specter of further social and political unrest. Israeli doctors walk off the job and more strikes are threatened after law weakening courts passes 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Mr. McCarthy also invoked the specter of the first, and to date only, U.S. president to resign from office under a cloud of corruption and abuse of power. McCarthy: Biden bribery accusations ‘rising to the level of impeachment inquiry’ 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z The specter of them demanding an independence referendum for Catalonia as their price would open up a Pandora’s box for both Spain and Sánchez. Election leaves Spain in political disarray with no party having an easy path to form a government 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z The specter of a sweeping defeat has put Mr. Sunak under pressure from Tory backbenchers to offer voters relief in the form of tax cuts or help in paying their mortgages. As Sunak Makes His Case to Britons, the Economy Undermines It 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z On Truth Social, the ex-president fumed against Mr. Smith and said the specter of a criminal indictment amounts to election interference, pointing to his wide lead in early 2024 polling. Trump defiant as special counsel moves toward indictment for Capitol riot 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z The ex-president fumed against Mr. Smith and said the specter of a criminal indictment amounts to election interference, pointing to his wide lead in early 2024 polling. Trump says he received a target letter from Jack Smith probe into Jan. 6 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z New evidence backs their claims, lawyers say, and again raises the specter that the story behind the murders — and the Menendez family itself — may be more complicated. New evidence may back Menendez brothers' sexual abuse claims. But can it free them? 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z |
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