| 单词 | static |
| 例句 | When she touched my cheek with her open hand we got the shock of static she built up from the carpet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt like I was listening to a recording of her, with a faint static humming in the background. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My body shook in time with the bursts of static, curling in on itself like an old, yellowing piece of paper. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He had learned about static cling from watching those boring women who talked about it on television, but could he really stick to a sock? Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z They pranced up statically, pierced by their dull gilt bars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There’s a footstep, a pause, then a crackling like the kind of static on the radio that my brother says comes from outer space, then another pulse, a gasp of air sucked in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When most people believed in an essentially static and unchanging universe, the question of whether or not it had a beginning was really one of metaphysics or theology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The courtroom was very quiet, and despite the static of the recording and the background din, one could make out Robert’s words very clearly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There's a small burst of static and then nothing more. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Beneath the static, the girls could hear a whisper of sound. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It feels like there’s static inside my brain when I touch Maria’s hand. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Gordon told Melissa, who was wearing wet shoes and carrying her boots, that he was sure static electricity would not hold a mouse to a sock. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, through the noise and static he heard a voice. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The big bang had been spotted; the myth of the static universe was dead. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I punch on the radio, but all I get is country music and static, and I don’t know which is worse. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My ear reached out hundreds of miles through the hissing static. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I saw him glitch into view,” I finish, “during the final moment when we all felt that static shock. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen any data about him.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The pilot’s voice came over the boat’s radio in a fog of static. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The room was indeed tomblike: a quality stale and static and moribund beyond any mere vivid and living cold. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was time for bed, I fired it up and listened to the static. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I cross the carpet, gathering static, I suppose, with my sock feet. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He thinks: It’s hunger, the fever, I’m imagining things, my mind is forcing the static to coalesce . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The noise that bothered Franklin most was the fuzzy static in the DNA pictures. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Egyptian art alternates between conservatism and innovation, but is never static. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The hiss of walkie-talkie static punctured the stillness. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The whine of the engine was earsplitting, and the static charge inside was making everything, including us, glow a neon blue. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I heard a crackle of static, followed by a low hum, as the TV warmed up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For a while the jungle seems almost static, humming, shimmering, but not flaunting its dangers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a burst of static, and then a moment later an answer came back. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But we did stand there for a minute, and I could smell her, and feel the warmth like a static charge coming from her. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She stops reading abruptly and the static roars. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He hangs up and stares at the phone in his hand, as if it should explain the static electricity in the air around him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A good example of this was Einstein, who called the cosmological constant, which he introduced when he was trying to make a static model of the universe, the biggest mistake of his life. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Pet leaned forward, its throat crackling with static. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The blood rushed to my head, and the world turned to static. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Einstein’s gravitational equations didn’t allow for a static, unchanging universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Petey flipped the switch on his control panel, and there was a crackle of static electricity in the air as the trap powered down. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Over the noise of music and static, he said, “Now, this ain’t gonna hurt you much. You liked it before, didn’t you?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Werner puts on the headset and fills his ears with static. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z News from the outside world was like listening to the radio on a drive through the mountains—the distant voices clear for a moment, then warbling, and then washing into static. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The radio is all static—like the sound of the crunching metal of a car, the faint, blurry voice on the airwaves her own, trapped inside a wreck, calling for help. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I had found a Spanish-language channel that, if I angled the antenna just right, I could see through the static. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “Not very well, I’m afraid. I seem to have a touch of static,” she complained. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Alex can feel a buzzing static electricity in London this morning, millions of voices murmuring about him and Henry and what might happen next. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z From the static, I could see their mouths talking. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A static whining came over the telephone line. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was also the problem that if stars had been burning indefinitely in a static universe they’d have made the whole intolerably hot–certainly much too hot for the likes of us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He’s holding a walkie-talkie, which beeps and makes a static sound. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I feel the shock of the contact, like a spark of static. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Frenchman talks about optical illusions, electromagnetism; there’s a pause and a peal of static, as though a record is being flipped, and then he enthuses about coal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But another burst of static, longer this time, quiets her in midsentence. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Out of static came the sweet strains of cocktail hour music from the Empire Room of the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I listen to the static for a while before turning it off. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The dust particles the wind carried generated so much static electricity in the air that barbed-wire fences glowed in the midday darkness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My relationship with Communists reached a static phase. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The top ten rankings had been static for several days now. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A frill minute of static passes before I hear Thomas answer me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z "I did not want to risk two wires for a spark. It would be dangerous to us if we had static while setting up." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And he stared at Robert, who was slumped over in a La-Z-Boy with a can of Bud in one hand and a remote control in the other, just watching the static on his TV screen. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Perhaps she’s the impurity in him, the static in his signal that the bullies can sense. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I try to look away so she won't think I'm spying on her, but as I do that, the walkie-talkie crackles with static. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The air filled with static, making my hairs stand on end. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She'd never raised her voice like that before, and she sent a static shock through the room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I hear some commotion in the background, some static, and then his faint voice along with Commander Jameson’s. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Yeah, yeah,” Philbert said, making the final adjustments to minimize static. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru waited for her perception to change, for magic to prickle on the outside of her vision like television static. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He claimed that space-time had an inbuilt tendency to expand, and this could be made to balance exactly the attraction of all the matter in the universe, so that a static universe would result. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then static for a few beats, like a rest in a piece of music. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Then even the static cuts out, and the silence in the headphones feels like something massive moving through space, a ghostly airship slowly descending. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A burp of static on the radio made it hard to hear the boy’s last name. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The air between them wavered and crackled like static. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z There was a little girl sitting on a swing, kicking her legs, flying back and forth, static electricity for hair, happiness for a face. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z There was the buzz of static, then the announcer telling everyone that the firefighters were making progress. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I was all sprawled out on my stomach, my feet on my pillows, my face so close to the TV screen, I could feel the static electricity pulling my hair toward it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Long minutes passed, then de la O’s radio crackled with static: it was the radio operator reporting back, hysterical. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Jason stood over her, but he was moving in slow motion, his outline blurry, his voice nothing but static. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Big Dub blinked and shook his head, hoping to clear the static from his brain. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I’m about to say, “You were watching me that first day when I moved in. You were watching me through the lobbycam. It buzzes, you know. Like static.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The warders in the guards’ station whack the side of their wireless and tilt it this way and that, but only static comes out of its speaker. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I hit the floor of the boat hard enough to see stars, except they looked more like bits of electric static. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet so strong was the belief in a static universe that it persisted into the early twentieth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In engineering parlance, it embodied little “dead load,” the static weight of immobile masses of brick and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Once, for a second, he thought he heard a break in the noise, some part of a word, but it could have been static. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Faint voices broken by static came through. “.. . final score: New York Giants, twenty-four. Detroit Lions, seventeen . “Lions suck,” Jennifer said, shaking her head. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He looked at the other men, shuffling into position, checking the cords that connected them to the static line. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Like Aristotle, he implicitly assumed that the universe was static, constant, and eternal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She’d gotten a phone call, there was a lot of static, she thought she heard a man say, “Puerto Rico,” and she was certain it was Papi. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z When he switched it on, the radio crackled and popped and was full of static. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Now that my head was static free, I heard my conversation with Morris Ditmer loud and clear. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A wave a static come in with me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I cracked the window, the fall crisp seeping in, the familiar static of air pushing through a tight space. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He said it was calming not to have all those words floating around and “creating static.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z At first there was only static, and then something that sounded like laughter. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z But here, finding themselves in an even more open place, they settled into a kind of static panic, like that which sometimes comes upon inexperienced climbers exposed on a sheer face. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you counting?” she asked, her voice scratchy with static. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Where his silhouette is, I can only see a patch of static. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The piano rills through its finishing measures, and then the static wallops back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Through the filter of Rob’s mind, it sounded like static. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Newton, and others, should have realized that a static universe would soon start to contract under the influence of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have to get in touch with my mom,” I said as the radio whizzed through varieties of static. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There is static with no station but pops as well. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z A voice on the cop’s radio cut through the static. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z A little time jump, a little static on the screen, probably jet lag: up too late at night, drugged in the morning. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Without her voice, the slight static hum that constantly played beneath her words sounds louder. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z A whirring began that snapped and cracked with static, and suddenly I seemed to be crushed between the floor and ceiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the intensity in his eyes; all I heard was "he went down," and then static. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Brian could barely hear him now, heard mostly noise and static. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Loose strands of hair sprang from her head like she’d pulled a wool hat off and the static electricity still hung in the air around her. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He felt spooky and luminous, felt as though he were wrapped in cool fur that was full of static electricity. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to be the one to start it up—and the one to fumble with the volume knob when it just about blew our eardrums out with static. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The static crackled, then a voice, very taken with itself, proclaimed, “Condemn me, it does not matter. History will absolve me!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The transmission is full of static, apparently caused by the makeshift connection. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The war filters in over the radio, remote and crackly, the voices from London fading through the static. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For billions of years they would have heard only weak and intermittent radio static caused by lightning and the trapped electrons and protons whistling within the Earth’s magnetic field. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the idea of air as a static, material but invisible substance was unimagined. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The discussion came to an end when Mrs. Seeger offered to look up information on static electricity for the class. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The hard drive whines to a stop, the screen gives a static crackle and goes dark, and it hits me that it's so early. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If Martians attacked and carried out that much destruction, she reasoned, they’d create “so much static that a radio program could not even be heard.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I mean, everybody can give static shocks in the winter, but when Thalia does, it hurts. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Ralph began to worry lest Miss K think up a project to find out if a sock with static cling would adhere to a mouse. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “Wait for my word—no one’s to be harmed—” I start to say, but the static cuts off. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The air swarms with it day and night, a great, sad, sinister Ukrainian static that seems to have been here long before humans figured out how to hear it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I hung up the phone and turned off the TV, my scalp tingling like the static inside the blackened television. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This static quality does not serve your evident talent well. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A radioman from K Company had set up against the seawall and was railing loudly about interference; every time battleship guns were fired offshore even the static died out, he complained. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Its streets are empty, its pavements static; to her fingers, it serves as little more than a tiny and insufficient facsimile. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A static universe, as should have been obvious to Newton and every thinking astronomer since, would collapse in upon itself. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Fifty Neanderthals cooperating in traditional and static patterns were no match for 500 versatile and innovative Sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And there it is, as if he is eight years old again, crouched beside his sister on the floor of Children’s House: static. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I knew that there were ways to improve the sound by bringing up the volume on the good parts and cutting out the static in other parts. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was too dark to make out their expressions, but the tension in the air was like the hot static buzz you feel before that first clap of thunder. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Even those who realized that Newton’s theory of gravity showed that the universe could not be static did not think to suggest that it might be expanding. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s actually smiling, coquettishly even; there’s a hint of her former small-screen mannequin’s allure, flickering over her face like momentary static. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned the squelch control down and listened for the hiss of static, but there was nothing. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I squint at the static silhouette in my 3-D screenshot. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The static in the headphones gets louder so I turn it back down. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Not an hour later, he snares something winging in out of the static: a simple broadcast in Swiss German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The static was covering everything and so when we went somewhere, I couldn’t even see where we were going. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The only difference was that the boys were violently animated while the donkeys were as static as possible. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Shine light on a million moving cubes and you only get a hazy, moving shadow, a molecular version of television static. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And then we were just standing there, and the rain was still drizzling like static, and I didn’t know what to do next. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z There was a background hiss of microwave noise—like static on a radio program—that they could not get rid of. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As the observation train drew back upriver again for the start of the varsity race, the atmosphere grew electric, the dusky sky crackling with static. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He tried the radio and got only static. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was this static view of nature that Darwin found troubling. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I heard a brief screech of static on the comm channel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A steady current of heated air rose all day from the mountain and was thrust to ten thousand feet; revolving masses of gas piled up the static until the air was ready to explode. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Other scientists thought that static electricity would cause whatever dust there was to cling to the windows of the spacecraft, blocking the astronauts’ view and causing them to crash on landing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the buzz of static, then the announcer telling everyone that the firefighters were making progress. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I want time to pass, but time is always here, around us, not flowing, but static as thickening concrete. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Oliver heard static; then Jimmy L’s voice came through the device. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The spectrum is all static and then it is not. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The rain came down hard, sounded like television static. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z What is the point of this static punishment?’ Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She presses the power button, and the television hums to life in a blur of static. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Everyone had theories, of course, but the Jade Key still remained unfound, and top rankings on the Scoreboard remained static. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Etienne’s huge study colonizes the entire fifth floor, alternately deeply quiet or else full of voices or music or static. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I lie down on the cot, the paper pillowcase crackling in my ears like radio static. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z And now it was as though everything had come to a sudden, static halt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “You didn’t bring your earpiece with you. I tried calling you but just got static.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z His lips were soft and he smelled so good and my mind had filled with static. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We now know it is impossible to have an infinite static model of the universe in which gravity is always attractive. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never heard a sound like the one sputtering through the speakers—a low growl of static pierced by what sounded like a tub of broken glass being tossed around. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Pressing his cheek against the radio set, grimacing in anger at the static that always intercepted the words, Father cursed, saying that we were living in the middle of a daily war. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z At first, a moderate static rustles through the air. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I guess I could've just said it like that, but I didn't want no static. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Every now and then a burst of static would come over my walkie-talkie: “I’ve hit a mother lode down here by the creek” or “Where the hell are you guys?” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Never mind that James Hutton had shown long before that any such static arrangement would eventually result in a featureless spheroid as erosion leveled the bumps and filled in the divots. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In the static rests, I started echoing the pings in my head. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Yet no one is asking about the messenger whose blood has been replaced by static. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Through all that static and squawking, I heard your mama telling me you'd come. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Almost every other word was lost, and then there was static again. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z There was a lot of static from her chat breaking through. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even a small static discharge would have led to my own private Hindenburg. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The only time the television showed anything but static was when the suspected, instigators were hanged in the square. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Papi put his battery-operated radio on a shelf and kept it tuned the whole time the hurricane blew, even though all we heard was static. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We can hear the faint static emanating from the trunk, and the spooky, distant voices speaking French and English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Few voices come shearing out of the static, and the ones he does hear are German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Before I can answer, the static cuts off. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “The presentation of self in everyday life. This guy Goffman had the idea that in different situations, you perform yourself differently. Your character isn’t static. It’s an adaptation.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The ringing had stopped, and the static coming from the other end got louder. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Mai Duff s Sherpas had anchored a static line of rope that extended from the bottom of the Icefall to its top. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He put on rubber gloves, to prevent static electricity from jumping from his skin to the fuses. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The difficulty is that in an infinite static universe nearly every line of sight would end on the surface of a star. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The static blipped and focused as the stations turned. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind hums this kind of static, and I just know the buzz is gonna come. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The battery will give them one more day of static. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At first, we heard fuzz, static like on Mr. Patterson’s police scanner. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z There, with the radio off so its static would not disturb his concentration, he gazed out the open window at the town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The PA speaker came back to life with a loud static pop that made everyone jump. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The reception had little static, as if the radio waves understood the importance of the speech. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I reach for the dial and change it to static, and my dad snaps out of it. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The stars themselves destroyed Einstein’s vision of a static, eternal cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And that meant that the universe could not be static, as everyone previously had thought, but is in fact expanding; the distance between the different galaxies is growing all the time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The radio answered in static and loud hisses, like a radiator coming to life on the first cold day of fall. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Her voice got kind of crackly, like there was a secret code in the static underneath it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z They weren’t static like in pictures taken from impossibly far away—they breathed, they glowed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It made strange noises, not static but a combination of shrieking and wailing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Accordingly, the music is static and subdued, based on a simple melody and its organic growth into a more complex form. Music Review: Orchestral Extremes: From a Pizza Shop to Carnegie 2011-02-06T22:41:17Z For centuries that static has clogged the American air, but in Mr. Galanin’s image, it is receding and dispersing. As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The musical is almost entirely sung through, and many scenes don’t offer much blocking variety, tending to fall into static tableaux. At East West Players, the gut-wrenching emotion of 'Next to Normal' transcends race 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z As a low-budget indie or experimental foreign film, "American" could enjoy a festival-circuit ride where cineastes could ponder the profundities of its blank stares and static situations. George Clooney off-target in "The American" 2010-09-01T00:04:00Z Other paintings depict static sunbathers, tepid lovers or an outdoor showing of Andy Warhol’s “screen tests.” New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Throughout the production, Mr. Maliphant offers a cursory view of Rodin’s way of giving static forms a sense of movement. Dance Review: Russell Maliphant’s ‘Rodin Project’ at the Joyce 2012-12-07T20:43:01Z But the electricity is still flowing — we can hear the static — and the tremors start again. Review: The Inescapable Vibrations of ‘Violet’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Instead of melodies there are buzzes, thuds, creaks, high-pitched electronic hums or crackles of static. Music Review: Knocking, Twitching, Buzzing, Rasping 2011-06-09T21:45:27Z Their static eyes trained on a middle distance, save for one pair, set in an Angelina Jolie-lookalike face, that seemed to be staring right at me. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Best known for his grid paintings that use a limited palette of primary colors, Mondrian is often regarded as static, rigid, depthless and unemotional. Want to Understand Mondrian’s Paintings? Try Dancing to Them. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z This wasn't my parents' Africa, the past, that static site of hurt and home. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z Actually, characterization is beside the point. Tintin is a film from a comic book: its challenge is to give a kinetic kick to static images, and find a grand visual equivalent to Hergé’s world. Spielberg's 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It's Tintinastic! 2011-12-21T18:03:02Z One glitch in Pappas' clear, affecting in-the-round staging: It's a bit static early on, and you may miss some key facial expressions. Review: 'The Trip to Bountiful' is a poignant journey 2010-05-14T20:54:00Z Maybe it’s a bit naïve, but this is a constant transformation of voice, of costumes, of languages, of genres — it’s also why I find it interesting that the people aren’t static. He Sings. He Dances. He Creates a Sense of the Otherworldly. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Its devices and developments — the guys returning as Graces, a periodic freezing under a work light to rearrange bodies like museum pieces — are static or recursive, perhaps intentionally frustrating. Review: Dance That Playfully Brings Art History to Life 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Green and static, they wait for us to find them. These larger-than-life sculptures elevate the timeless fern, with obsessive botanical accuracy 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z At heart it is a fantasy of aesthetic authenticity secured by static and hierarchical social distinctions. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z So I try not to rush, but I also try not to relax and become static. Beat the winter blahs with 2 nights of Tchaikovsky, at SSO 2014-01-09T21:08:07Z On Monday Pilobolus opened its four-week season at the Joyce Theater with the New York premieres of two more experimental collaborations, with similarly static results. Dance Review: Pilobolus Dance Theater at Joyce Theater 2012-07-17T22:04:05Z This image, while perfect and uncommonly large, is a shade too conventional and static. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z Zephyrs sounds like Naomi Punk sometimes, and also a little like No Age, its essentially pop/punk songs destroyed in a watercolor way, with static and feedback swirling for atmosphere. Concert alert: Naomi Punk and Zephyrs at Cairo Friday, 6/03 2011-05-31T17:02:06Z After a gig in Doncaster, she saw a pink light in the sky: "Everything I touched felt like static electricity." Poly Styrene: The Spex factor 2011-03-23T21:46:00Z But if Morgan's speculative and essentially static high-class political gossip – what you might call Pepys behind the scenes – acquires emotional resonance, it is largely thanks to the naturally majestic Mirren. The Audience – review 2013-03-05T23:02:01Z In the film, it requires a long static shot – and an absurd moment where Redford does indeed move his hand in a weird way. The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view 2013-05-14T14:21:41Z “Baal,” Brecht’s first play, is the work of a young playwright, a sprawling yet static portrait of a dissolute poet who corrupts everything in his path. Theater Review: Brecht’s ‘Baal,’ Hoi Polloi, at Jack in Brooklyn 2012-07-22T22:04:47Z In terms of character development and artistic presentation, corporate superhero properties tend to stay fairly static over the years. Nick Fury’s journey from World War II hero, to ’60s spy, to black movie star 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z "We heard a commentator say '…further evidence that there is life on Mars . . .' and then it went back to static," the witness reported. 11 strange stories from the national UFO reporting center 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z They’re just as static as the tree ones, yet strongly imply action. Review | In the galleries: Juried competition puts regional artists at center stage 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “Immobility does not exist. Don’t be subject to the influence of out-of-date concepts. Forget hours, seconds, and minutes. Accept instability. Live in time. Be static — with movement.” Jean Tinguely’s Clamor Still Echoes Today 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z One thing remains static regardless of flavor, size, or color: the "hook" shape of the cane itself. A rundown of the most absurdist candy cane flavors 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z What caused the disaster is still a mystery, though there has been no shortage of theories; a static electric charge, sabotage and a design flaw have all been proposed. TV highlights 07/03/2013 2013-03-07T07:00:15Z We’d walk up to eight hours between campsites with static tents resembling Anderson shelters or wooden huts, spacious enough for bunkbeds with comfortable mattresses. Mountains of the moon: climbing Uganda's highest peak 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The motor gurgles as we back out of the Kirkland Marina, and the muffled static of the PA system comes on. Cocktails and cruising on Lake Washington 2013-07-03T22:58:21Z For the most part the film was shot in long takes with hand-held tracking shots or with static cameras, using available light. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-17T00:05:37Z I find Boyette's static, over-rendered and somewhat ugly style interesting as a change of pace, but too much of it is like swallowing sand — which is the case here. Comics: Archie reprints off to a rocky start 2011-05-17T21:48:04Z Or will the voices of the women who marched on Washington fade to static? Many find solidarity — and catharsis — at the Women’s March on Washington 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z “Loveless” resonated as a guitar-driven album in which the guitars were disguised as radio static. Album review: My Bloody Valentine, 'm b v' 2013-02-04T16:43:00Z “They believe static things have inner lives and want to be worshiped as gods.” Film: Animators Amok in a Curiosity Cabinet 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z No plant exists in isolation; nothing is static. Critic’s Notebook: New Native Plant Garden at the New York Botanical Garden 2013-05-02T22:27:06Z Exotic dancers, vibrant music and the smell of Caribbean food livened up the streets, which feature 40 static sound systems and scores of colourful floats. Hundreds party as Carnival starts 2012-08-26T16:05:22Z In the winter, I also use a Japanese wood comb to help cut down on winter static. Isabel Toledo’s Beauty and Fitness Regimen 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The script, by Tom Dugan, who also stars, is straightforward and frequently static. ‘Wiesenthal,’ a One-Man Show by Tom Dugan 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z This is music made for the radio, where detail gets swallowed up by the static of the FM dial. Toeing the Florida Georgia Line at the state fair | Concert preview 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z When the voice of a newscaster cut through the static, we fell silent, waiting, it seemed, for news from another land entirely. Young Democrats in love 2012-11-02T23:30:00Z For decades magazine editors, developers and architects themselves favored a static style of photography that framed buildings as pristine objects. 2010-01-23T04:33:00Z Making its European premiere as part of the Brighton festival, the hour-long static show is delivered by two actors – Irving Gregory and Yana Taylor, both superb – who sit facing the audience. The Disappearances Project – review 2013-05-05T14:18:07Z The women reappear on stage, interspersing short movement phrases with long static pauses. Dance Review: ?The Work The Work? by Fitzgerald & Stapleton 2010-05-24T21:26:00Z So cinematic and these big wide shots, a lot of static shots. He slept with a lesbian: Summer’s hottest rom-com 2012-06-13T00:05:00Z A review of “Turandot” in the Financial Times in May made note of the myriad distractions, like flash photography and the static of the security guards’ walkie-talkies. Arts Playground Sprouts in China 2010-08-03T14:27:00Z As William Goldman once wrote: "Nobody knows anything, except that a film based on a single static photograph of a cat's face will be guaranteed megabucks hyperlolz." Internet memes that most deserve their own movie 2013-05-30T15:29:10Z Opening with a jazz-rock song and lyrical, static imagery of attractive Western figures in watercolor, it features narration telling of Jean and Jeanne, young French provincial marrieds “smiled upon by God.” Review: ‘Belladonna of Sadness,’ a Bewitching Masterpiece 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z So many of us see awkwardness as a static, permanent thing, but people are built to become accustomed to virtually everything, given time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to handle awkward feelings for a co-parent 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Following them through long takes and static shots accompanied by abundant silence and sparse dialogue and music, the viewer feels the weight of time. Review: ‘Jauja,’ a Desperate Odyssey in the Argentine Desert 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z By contrast, the Strokes' static performance on Saturday still stole the day with a classics-only set including virtually all of their incendiary debut Is This It. Isle of Wight festival 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z Still, setting aside any minor cavils, you will certainly enjoy “Presto and Zesto in Limboland” and, if it doesn’t seem too static or just plain weird, so will your children. Review | What’s surprising — and familiar — in Maurice Sendak’s newly discovered book 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z “The Missing Picture” is a poetic and highly original film in which the starring roles are played by static clay figures. Cambodia Vies for 1st Oscar With Missing Picture 2014-02-27T08:24:29Z I believe that sculpture is made out of static, immovable material. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z He wants uncomfortable static in these scenes, a movie full of social disconnects — something offhand and offbeat but with underlying depth. ‘Let Them All Talk’ Review: That Ship Has Sailed 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Some tunes are withdrawn, almost static; one, “Get Dressed,” is discursive and funky, as if Grant Green were playing for dancers against a James Brown groove in a small club. Chicago and Jazz at Play, Ideally 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The tone of the dialogue—delivered in something akin to Mamet-speak—is static, a feeling of deadened sensation compounded by the stale office atmosphere. Margin Call: A Financial Crisis Film Collides With The Zeitgeist 2011-10-20T20:18:09Z Multiple layers of sound were almost always in play, spanning a continuum from abrasive static to sine-wave clarity. Review | With analog Music Easels, Eternal Now paints a serendipitous aural landscape 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z They drove on, their car radio a talk-soup of scientific chatter and static, full of sound bites on closings and quarantines, empty trains and supermarket shelves. They Eloped on the Way to Their Wedding 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z There is no credited set designer, though there is a four-person “environment/properties team,” the environment consisting of disparate, static locales around the stage. Two Tales of Disconnection, With One Cicada Cameo 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Given the static nature of real-life therapy sessions, these types of scenes are difficult to realize in fiction. ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’: A Literary Tale of Love and Obsession 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z But the most obvious reading is also the most troubling: The thin, feathery lines of text read like static on a screen, creating a kind of fuzziness or blur. It’s written all over their faces 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z “Aline” is no prank, even though the cinematography is as static as a Saturday Night Live skit. ‘Aline’ Review: Tale as Odd as Time 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Yet for all the inventive and personal elements of Mr. Muhly’s music, whole portions of the score are static and thin. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z The film’s pacing often matches that static sensation, to a frustrating degree. ‘The Pink Cloud’ Review: Love in Lockdown 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z In these scenes, Anderson makes expert use of static, white noise, vibrations and even the thick sound of air, all for unsettling effect. Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z One photograph in “En Una Situación Dada” shows a boy, his head tilted back, with a plastic spoon held to his nose by static electricity. Art Review: Ephemeral Events, Annotated 2011-05-06T06:00:07Z Yet that movie — a three-hour travelogue chockablock with cameos by stars of stage and screen — consists largely of a succession of relatively static episodes and old-timey sight gags. Review | ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ — about to get a reboot — is the perfect Christmas tale 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z People who say it mean to indicate that classical music is static and dusty, a reliquary of the past. Perspective | How do you get to Carnegie Hall and Met Opera museums? Practice isn’t the problem. 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z While acerbic and consistently amusing, “The Revolt of Man” nonetheless bristles with tendentiousness in its second half: Let women rule, Besant argues, and they will just squabble endlessly while society grows static and decadent. Review | What if women ruled the world? A Victorian writer gave it some thought. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z But this emphasis on apps and services only exposes the novel’s static plot and increasingly hectoring thesis. Review | You won’t find Dave Eggers’s new book on Amazon. That’s the most interesting thing about it. 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z In the second act of "Ovo," far more exciting than the more static first, the knockout centerpiece is the sheer side of a rock, viewed, "Ka"-like, as if from above. Cirque bugs out extravagantly with 'Ovo' 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z Still later, as a member of the studio’s scene planning department, she devised exacting ways for its film cameras to bring those flat, static drawings to vivid animated life. Ruthie Tompson Dies at 111; Breathed Animated Life Into Disney Films 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z With Teenage Jesus, she subverted the common purpose of rhythm — to create a groove that moves the music forward — to instead favor a static series of hellacious thuds. Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z A few years earlier she had been there, producing sketches in which, say, a cedar branch was not a static thing, but a moving wave of foliage. Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z This truncation generates lengthy, static sequences of information-heavy dialogue with the pace only accelerating at the end of each act. Opera Review: A Review of Julian Anderson’s ‘Thebans’ for the English National Opera 2014-05-05T12:53:03Z Her short hair, charged with static, is riding up on itself at the back. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Statistics indeed remain static; pay hikes are rare and involve a bellyache. American hustle: how Hollywood rips off women 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z She twists and flinches from Korsuntsev's touch, the emotional static sparking between them, yet, when he threatens to leave, clutches at him with a helpless yearning that's almost too naked to watch. Mariinsky Ballet: Balanchine/Robbins triple bill ? review 2011-08-05T15:12:21Z Givenchy suspended its formal couture shows in 2012, first holding static presentations of the collection instead, and more recently incorporating some couture looks into its men’s wear shows in January and June. Clare Waight Keller Is Named First Female Designer of Givenchy 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z For extended passages the piece uses elements that sound static on the surface, like spiraling strands of 16th notes. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble at MoMA’s Summergarden 2012-07-09T22:28:41Z Fearful of being typecast, the label became increasingly “broad-minded,” Poneman says, after grunge fans threw out their last pairs of ripped jeans, helping Sub Pop never stay static. Sub Pop at 30: How a Seattle record label’s storied past prepared it for the future 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Any longer than that, the microphones started searching for noise, and the whole factory would hear static!” Cracker factory records: the surprising story of United Biscuits' radio station 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z He films mainly in static, fixed-focus shots, in which two characters are together, talking deliberately, weighing their words with the gravity of the life-and-death situations that they’re confronting. “Dragged Across Concrete,” Reviewed: A Stylish, Repugnant Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z In time the unnatural static seemed not an intrusion into the acoustic instruments, but an organic complement. Review: The Composer Tristan Perich’s Proudly Lo-Fi Electronic Sounds 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The others are mostly static, until you look closely. 'The Gildless Age': A different tale of the '1 percent' at the Torrance Art Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z That led me to adapt mainly static camera positions to reflect that. Tom Hooper Narrates a Scene From ‘The Danish Girl’ 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Atop the landscape of Shorter’s often jagged and halting score, they lent a silken texture; and deployed in a staging that was often too static, they brought welcome movement. Review | ‘. . . (Iphigenia)’ is an opera in the form of a question 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Even in relatively static positions, the implication of movement is the transfiguring achievement of these classical figures. The Body Beautiful: The Classical Ideal in Ancient Greek Art 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z There are untold things that static sheet music can’t capture: tone, feel and intensity or texture, all of which are as important to modern songwriting as the notes, and probably more so. What’s Wrong With the ‘Blurred Lines’ Copyright Ruling 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z It's also a very self-contained, static shape, so it is quite limiting. The story of O in design 2010-03-16T22:00:00Z The programme began with a rush of this spooky sound, all pings and static and creepy growling. Radio review: The Wire 2011-01-03T08:00:00Z “Foxcatcher” runs on static—it’s the story of extraordinary interference by emotional factors that get in the way of the smooth flow of philanthropic financing to a beneficiary who can make good use of it. What’s Missing from “Foxcatcher” 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Radio antennas may spin on turntables, generating static sounds as they pass dangling light-bulbs. Artist of the week 130: Haroon Mirza 2011-03-18T15:30:49Z Both M.I.A. and Mr. Williams are now finding success in multiple arenas, and these books, while static, exist to capture it all, flatteringly. Critic’s Notebook: M.I.A. and Pharrell Williams Each Have Books by Rizzoli 2012-11-27T23:19:57Z Their glitchy images complement the aural static, but the latter seems paramount. Review | In the galleries: ‘Time Capsule’ retrospective highlights jazz’s influence on Frank Stewart 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z It is static, predictable and unexciting, adjectives that would kill most programs but work in "PHC's" favor. The news from Puget Sound? Keillor and 'Companion' broadcast live from Seattle 2010-03-25T23:41:00Z “It was more static,” Sher recalled, “and harder to release what was in the music.” The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z It is inspired by the case of Ashley X, a girl from Seattle who has a brain disorder known as static encephalopathy. Girl X: An actor? In a wheelchair? 2011-04-11T20:59:01Z The arguments about whether he meets every point in some static fascism matrix show a misunderstanding of what that ideology involves. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z This was Grade's inventive solution to the puzzle of how to build a piece for permanent static display — something his current work rebels against — yet stay true to his artistic vision. Art of decay: John Grade's fascinating sculptures crave disintegration 2011-05-29T01:58:15Z It’s useful, then, to ask why the movie is such a non-experience—why its mightily morphing computer graphics amount to little more than visual static. "Jupiter Ascending": Wachowskis in Outer Space 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Where Lamb switches up her patterns with melodic ascents, the players savored the opportunity to make this often static music sing out. Long Play Rises to the Top of New York Classical Music Festivals 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z It was by turns decorous and processional, while at times interrupted by interjections of stereo-traveling static or a bass tone that had escaped a dance club: juxtapositions that didn’t quite make sense. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z It might not have much in the way of competition, but The Haunting is almost definitely the film with the most unsettling static shot of masonry in all of cinema history. The Haunting: No 13 best horror film of all time 2010-10-22T10:42:00Z The motif of videotape static has been with the show since the beginning thanks to the opening credits, but it’s being deployed more and more in the narrative. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Destructive Secrets 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z “Does any publishing company want to bring forth static around something so fresh?” Where Fiction and Reality Collide: Books and Black Lives Matter 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z If shooting a static car, always turn the engine off once positioned. Top tips: cars 2011-01-28T18:06:33Z As the cost of the event climbs and ticket revenue remains static, the association faces the prospect of losing money. How the White House correspondents’ dinner got too big for its own good 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Under most circumstances, his canny asides, imitations and bits of pantomime would help enliven a fairly static evening. Spoleto Festival USA Offers Tension and Balance 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Not because it is particularly accurate – its lead character is neither a warrior nor a nun – but because it is grabby enough to cut through the static of the Netflix menu screen. 'Kickass girls killing monsters': is Warrior Nun the next Stranger Things? 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The static visions of old dioramas, creating the illusion of a prehuman, idealized nature, are displaced. Exhibition Review: Giants on Tiptoe at a Los Angeles Museum 2011-07-19T16:30:28Z This is about the only band trait that has remained static. Sleater-Kinney continues the conversation in 'No Cities to Love' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z But if there's anything I stand by, it's that culture cannot be left static. I’m Jewish and vegan — here’s how I celebrate Rosh Hashanah 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z “London” depicts with static or slow-moving compositions a decaying city beset by I.R.A. attacks and successive Tory governments. | 'Robinson in Ruins': ?Robinson in Ruins? From Patrick Keiller ? Review? 2012-01-11T22:49:41Z As Barthes remarks of La Rochefoucauld’s somewhat glib and static phrases, the subjects of the aphorism appear to be solid and stable, to exist eternally. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “He’s a treasure. We’re very proud of ourselves,” says National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet, adding that the corporeal verve of dancers is a perfect remedy for the typically static environment of museums. How a choreographer sees art in a new way, through dance 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z With the economic recovery still sluggish and essential contributions by individuals, corporations and government sources either cut back or static, there's often no choice but to adjust the full-price tariff upward. How to save money on tickets to arts events 2012-09-05T22:40:05Z The action here might best be described as inaction: This is a decisively static picture, more a series of Helmut Newton-style tableaus tacked together. Review: 'The Neon Demon' Is Its Own Sleek, Glitter-Eyeshadow-Dusted Creature 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Talking to Deller you come to think of him as a sort of aerial for those concerns, constantly tuning out static. Jeremy Deller's visions of England 2013-06-01T22:00:01Z That effect is established through slow, static, long-distance shots and a sound design that treats human speech as no more significant than bird song, dripping water or rustling leaves. ‘Il Buco’ Review: Notes From Underground 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Even the battle sequences have a kind of static, shrunken quality, like dioramas in a provincial museum. DVDs: Italian Passion, Hollywood Hooey 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z Some people have no issue with it and love who they are off the bat, but there are a lot of people for whom it's been background noise, sort of static self-consciousness. Is there a 'gay voice'? Director David Thorpe on his Outfest documentary 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z When Grace Bonney, the creator of Design Sponge, decided to stop publishing, she thought she would leave the website online indefinitely as a static archive for anyone who still wanted to read it. Meet Your Meme Lords 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Digital effects add a kind of bioluminescent static electricity sparking beneath the character’s glowing ice-blue skin. Jamie Foxx joins ‘Spider-Man’ family as good guy gone bad 2014-04-29T21:53:22Z At first you wonder how long Feldman can keep this static mass of harmonic waves going. Music Review: I?m Playing With the Orchestra. Leave a Message After the Beep. 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z It’s an image of a television screen filled with a blizzard of visual white noise: static. As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Yet “Wild Window” is more than a static documentation of subjects. | A Haunting Display of Specimens Large and Small 2014-05-01T21:07:34Z Wearing a pale yellow unitard and point shoes, she guided her body through a sequence of static positions, creating an oddly mesmerizing movement meditation. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-11-03T01:15:46Z “In a way,” Serrand says, “it’s more like a filming approach, where the light helps us frame in a cinematic way. It can be a static scene, but the entire look of it is changing.” A dark ‘Tartuffe’s’ light touch 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z To say that marriage is work is to insist, above all, that it is not static. Cross Cuts: The Hard Work in ‘Before Midnight,’ Amour’ and Other Films and Shows 2013-06-19T15:15:49Z It’s a diagram of a series of pulse waves, stacked in white, over a background, and centered, as if in a box held static in space. How Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ image went from underground album cover to a piece of cultural ubiquity 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z However anyone who downloads the music file illegally would receive only a static file which would not receive any updates. 2010-01-22T17:40:00Z At a moment when looking at a static art object is often dismissed unnecessarily by advocates of performance, participatory or social-practice art for encouraging only “passive contemplation,” Mr. Whitney’s paintings are opulently interactive and engaging. Review: Stanley Whitney’s Paintings Reinvent the Grid 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Intro is an appropriately condensed version of what's in store, with torrents of words interspersed by the sound of amplified static. New band of the day: Clipping (No 1,448) 2013-02-08T11:20:36Z It's a murky and somewhat static production, with sets by Benoit Dugardyn consisting of fake stone walls and doors that open and slide apart to reveal glimpses of the changing locales. Nina Stemme ignites Houston's 'Tristan' 2013-04-28T15:11:09Z Mr. Eno’s voice, which teases out the poetry in the pedestrian and finds glinting humor in the static that infuses our faltering efforts to communicate, is as distinctive as any American playwright’s today. Theater Review: ?The Realistic Joneses,? at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-05-01T22:14:22Z Even when you fixate on a central static point, that peripheral observation continues. Second Sight 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The earlier of the 10 works are black-and-white drawings of elaborate but static geometric patterns generated by a plotter run by punch cards. Review | In the galleries: Artists, too, might someday be replaced by machines 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The climber achieves a faultless fluency in which instinct absorbs the role of conscious choice, holds leap to hand, and static rock and shifting body appear to flow together. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z But with a static instrumental accompaniment and slow-moving vocal line, the piece nonetheless outstayed its welcome, offering little insight into the question. James Baker Leads the Talea Ensemble at Roulette 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Hogg works with a series of static "tableau" camera positions. Archipelago ? review 2011-03-03T15:01:00Z For those of you who are visiting the World Wide Web for the first time ever, a GIF is a static or animated, looped image that’s been compressed for quick loading. GIF porn: The new gonzo? 2012-12-09T00:50:00Z It’s very eerie; it’s also quite hefty and static for long stretches. Review | Fans of Tana French are in for a surprise with ‘The Witch Elm’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The names of the women Sutcliffe killed and attacked are printed frequently on the screen in big, blocky font next to static images of their faces. "The Ripper" is just another example of how true and scripted crime shows fail sex workers 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Rather, it played elegantly on the balance between emotional stillness and the bristling static implicit in the atmosphere. Vale of Glamorgan festival – review 2013-05-16T14:54:15Z This leads to some matrimonial static that draws the series closer to the kind of deadly dull domestic comedy that the “Fockers” franchise previously managed to avoid becoming. | 'Little Fockers': Patriarch Faces Future: Who to Lead Nutty Clan When He Is Gone? 2010-12-21T23:34:26Z For another, it can be hard to hear U2 through the static that its singer’s campaigning sometimes creates. U2 and Apple Are Working On A New Digital Music Format 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z This got me thinking about eulogies—someone ascribing a single, static identity to you, posthumously. This Week in Fiction: Karen Russell on Balancing Humor and Horror 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Then get a load of this fiendish creation: what appears to be a static boiler with some arms on it. Frankenstein's Army trailer: a treat for you reanimated killer Nazi fans 2013-07-16T16:55:48Z I do not expect any language to remain static. The war against clich? has failed 2011-01-07T12:51:33Z But Adams, adept and powerful a composer as he is, often follows Sellars’s lead and writes similarly evocative, slightly oblique music — creating works that are dramatically static. Review | Noseda, NSO prove to have ‘Gospel’ truth 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z “We see enough static talking heads in the media.” Cultural Studies: Missed the Author?s Tour? See the Video 2010-07-09T18:01:00Z I’d liken it to a fingerprint, but it’s something less static and more intimate than that. Perspective | With ‘Roots,’ violinist Randall Goosby makes a first impression with lasting impact 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z How projection designer Clint Allen and lighting designer York Kennedy transform that static frame into something that at various times shimmers colorfully or is disrupted by disturbing images proves a cool bonus. Summoning those better ‘Angels’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z For an artist known for his off-kilter tableaus, this book has a static look, especially in its rendering of boldfaced names from the past. Can You Illustrate Emotional Absence? These Graphic Novels Do 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z A techno study of the fall of man, R.I.P. shifts through rooms of uniquely realised sound, full of squirming electricity, thudding bass and wisps of static. The best albums of 2012 (so far) 2012-06-14T19:00:06Z The late-night talk format, invented in the mid-20th century and perfected on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, was static for decades; now it’s undergoing a seismic shift in tone and style. Late-night tales: how a new crop of TV hosts is reinventing an old format 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But “Cosmopolis,” which some critics in Cannes faulted for being too static, is an almost perversely faithful rendition of the book. Film: ‘Cosmopolis,’ Cronenberg’s Take on Don DeLillo 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z You could call it contemplative and formal, or slow and static; you could also speculate about whether it’s an aesthetic or a budgetary choice. Japan Cuts Features Melancholy Films at Japan Society 2013-07-13T00:01:00Z Barrecore “integrates the fat-burning format of interval training, to exhaust each major muscle group, with static stretches which lengthen your muscles and offer relief”. The slow, steady rise of 'conscious movement' 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Halford was supposedly outraged by Freddie's disgraceful employment of a static motorbike in Queen's video for the Crazy Little Thing Called Love single. How Judas Priest invented heavy metal 2010-05-20T20:59:00Z What is seldom mentioned is how static the celebrity population is in Long Island’s coveted summer towns. Where to Show Off Your $5 Million Horse 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Loud bursts of static competed with airplanes flying overhead as the last components of the sound system were plugged in. Pop: For Mumford & Sons, the Road Is Like Home 2012-09-23T03:03:11Z The soundscape, by Hahn Rowe, charges the action with bursts of static, industrial hums, the accelerating bounce of dropped objects, a tinkling between breaking glass and fire. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z MTI, the other track on the single, comes complete with static, but don't be dissuaded because Maria is lovely MacBook blues with only a patina of fizz and fuzz. New band of the day ? No 972: Koreless 2011-02-22T15:02:58Z Ms. Gosfield’s choice of sounds — which on this occasion also included radio static, the signals transmitted by the Soviet satellite Sputnik I, and recordings of Hurricane Sandy — are never a mere gimmick. Review: Annie Gosfield Makes Machines Hum in ‘Electric Sweepers and Vacuum Creepers’ 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The humans, too, are highly stylized: static, simplified. Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z She hears some confusion and a LOT of sudden static. 'The Americans' Recap: A Most Painful Extraction 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Making it work: The crew traveled in four-wheel-drive vehicles to a remote windmill in England, having already decided to shoot a simple, static scene as the sun set. Cinematographers of four of the year's top films describe key scenes 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In others, characters are static and muted, wading through the silence. Review: A ‘Crucible’ for the Modern Mob 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z “This is why we thought our concept of a restaurant that’s constantly evolving instead of being static would work here.” A Restaurant Marks a Newly Creative City in Southern France 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z This gives his dancing definition but also contributes to a static quality and a preening suggestion of body worship. Dance Review: ‘Dancing the Gods,’ a Festival of Indian Movement 2014-04-29T20:20:23Z The work remains harmonically static as it gradually beefs up in both volume and timbral complexity until it crests in a giant tsunami of sound. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Take On Travel and Folk 2014-04-28T20:16:46Z “There’s a strand of cinema that plays around with this, that form doesn’t have to be a formal, static camera of seriousness but a way of accessing human emotions in a musical way,” says Trier. Life in chapters in ‘The Worst Person in the World’ 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Just like he finds architecture’s fixed nature frustrating, he intends this new piece to escape the static condition of most artworks. Street party will welcome SAM installation 2013-03-22T22:39:05Z They all include a few patches of brownish-gray unpainted linen, making the complicated patterns seem even more evanescent, like static washing across a screen. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z I say "arguably", because we do not live in a static or self-contained society, and it's almost impossible to view local and amateur sport as an analogue of the social process. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The downside is a lack of movement over three hours, as Delétang’s static posture in “Our Need for Consolation Is Insatiable” is replicated here by every performer. This Theater Brings Nature Right Into the Drama 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z In later works, his surfaces often fill with the static of repeating semilegible words and images that conjure the visual and aural deluge of the world today, including advertising and neon signs. ‘Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic’ and ‘Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Emotionally, Mr. Ocean finds loneliness instead of redemption, expressed in spare guitars, keyboards, static, noise and outsourced exasperation. The Lonely Toil of Frank Ocean: Is It Art, or Denial? 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Then she was simply absent, reduced to a kind of shimmering nostalgic image, an essentially static, mythical being: always ‘improving,’ yet always staying the same and never actually getting anywhere.” Books of The Times: Twin Alone, Disconnected but Not Lost 2011-01-09T22:53:24Z I think the main reason for this is that there is a sense of real imagination and intelligence being brought to the dilemma of how to refresh an essentially static format. The Apprentice is the most watchable it's been in years 2013-06-25T10:14:10Z If one desire is to create a static, rooted image of perfection, another is to migrate, colonise and adapt different places, to make a home out of a city or a landscape. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z Unless you’re abnormally keyed in to the television industry, your decision whether or not to watch a series is often based on your reaction to a static thumbnail image on a Netflix homepage. How celebrity childhood sitcoms are taking over TV 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z With the static nature of the looping, I was hoping it would become an environment. Write Me a Concerto: Yo-Yo Ma and Esa-Pekka Salonen on Their New Work 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The key to success is knowing which components are proportionally static and which ones are variable. The science behind the scoop: Four key factors to consider when making ice cream 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Anyone who has seen the play can testify to the extraordinary currents of empathy that run between the two actors — an honesty, a vulnerability and an electricity that is never static. At 77, He Gets to Woo Mary-Louise Parker 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Exhibitions of clothing from films are particularly challenging because “movies are kinetic art while museums are static and frozen,” she said. Adding Technology to Museum Costume Displays 2012-03-15T00:21:11Z “It’s an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe.” A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Aged contemporaries of the artist tend to see him through the static of their own regrets and resentments. A Life of Cy Twombly Brings a Poet’s Eye to the Artist’s Mythic Work 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “It’s just overwhelming. It’s wild that it’s a static thing, it doesn’t change.” How Did Steve Keene Make 300,000 Paintings? Lots of Room for Easels. 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The Wii U’s brains are part of the set-top itself, a static processing nexus beholden to a clunky power brick that plugs into a wall outlet, making dragging it around unwieldy. Switch Is the Dream Console Nintendo's Been Working Toward for Years 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z And the parade did turn the static loveliness of Irving Penn into the breathing, heaving sensuality of Georgia O’Keefe. Special Report: Haute Couture: Dior Blooms Brightly 2010-07-05T17:53:00Z “Suspiria” is full of disconnected, static, but attention-getting, details of vast historical import, and these adornments’ function is far more insidious than mere virtue-signalling or pride. Review: Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a Designer Che T-shirt 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The world seems unstable, even when the camera is static. A Restored ‘Passion of Joan of Arc’ Still a Transcendent Masterpiece 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z When they resumed their journey, the radio played static before cutting out completely. 11 strange stories from the national UFO reporting center 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Barnes places static images within narrative contexts that enliven and animate them. ‘Keeping an Eye Open’: Julian Barnes’s enchanting essays on art 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z As the other seven assemble for their final static position, Noelle is lying on the ground before them, a victim maybe of her own search. Barak Ballet at the Wallis: Like sculpture come to life onstage 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z But in this staging, Sowerby’s unsentimental drama, which the Mint first produced in 2001, remains a static and slightly musty affair. Theater Review: ?Rutherford & Son? at Mint Theater 2012-02-29T00:18:13Z Chekhov did an extraordinary thing in making the static life of a writer dramatic, examining loneliness and failure alongside self-aggrandisement and celebrity. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z The fantasy is too on the nose, ending crudely with Escobar living like a sad bachelor, accepting a garbled “Happy Birthday” through ham radio static. ‘Narcos’ Season 2 Finale: The Last Stand 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z The center section between them is a static orchestral color field. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z They wait in the house, trying to decipher radio announcements over the static while their bodies rattle with each explosion cracking in the distance. Searching for Saboun Nabulsi, the olive oil soap that connects Palestinian-Americans like me to home 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z Sound designer Hope Villanueva’s minimalist audio track nails the changing moods throughout, though with a distracting static in the sound system. ‘No Exit’: Ready for your close-up 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Gray also has an austere streak, doling out starkly realistic stories that chart romantic disintegration or static grief. Review | Amelia Gray captures the mind of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z One downloadable track, High Beams, all found sounds and static, takes you forward into the past – it's like Cabaret Voltaire doing chillwave. New band of the day ? No 823: Hype Williams 2010-07-12T16:19:00Z And the guide said to me: ‘Don’t wish the static upon anyone. It will kill them.’ Meryl Streep and Sean Penn push India's Daughter into awards race 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The standard format in painting early on was the profile, which, however beautifully realized in works by Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Pisanello and others, appears static, like an image on a shop sign. Art Review: ?Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini? - Review 2011-12-22T23:31:48Z And with its new space and exhibition, it is also clear that the museum’s long-term ambition is to avoid becoming a static or still image of its subject. Exhibition Review: When Pictures Leap to Other Screens 2011-01-13T21:55:50Z Instead, the dreadfully static nature of it made you long for the energy and pace of the commercial break. Rewind TV: Vicious; The Job Lot; Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian; The Repo Man – review 2013-05-04T09:45:01Z The image, tinted jaundice-yellow in some places and seasickness-green in others, was striped with thorny lines of static that made you feel as though you were watching the movie through barbed wire. My favourite film aged 12 ... Conan the Barbarian 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z At Fleet Feet Sports, shoppers undergo a static posture evaluation. How to pick a better running shoe 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z There's a chance that it all gelled, but after sitting thorough the director's last two intellectual but static Brecht stagings, I have my doubts. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The state of the country, and the world, is static and categorical. Communicator-in-chief: Where Obama’s rhetoric illuminated a complex world, Trump’s deceptive dialect dumbs down 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z He pauses — another of Moroni’s innovations is the portrait subject shown in suspended motion rather than in a static pose — and looks at us intently, leaving no doubt that he’ll soon return to his work. A Cult Favorite Enters the Art Canon 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z And there is little in his static pageantry to suggest the violence of revolution, or much more than a caricature of the things that caused it. Artists helped make the Mexican revolution an international phenomenon 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z These recorded bits were well shot but terribly static. The Passion review – Jesus Christ turns superstar in live broadcast 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Mostly, though “Nat Turner in Jerusalem” is a static work, as iconography tends to be. Review: ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ an Avatar of Divine Vengeance 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z This is a valid, if depressing, philosophical outlook but rather static as theater. Review: A ‘Ship of Fools,’ Each Stuck in Isolation 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Certainly, it doesn’t come across as a self-conscious revisionist western, an often meaningless category that implies that genres remain static or, worse, that latter-day westerns are more complex than earlier ones. Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The black American flags in a 1980 print seem to be obscured by static. Art in Review: ?AMERICANANA? 2010-12-02T22:08:00Z “The institution is not static, but changing to the demographics of the changing neighborhood,” Ms. Stein-Milford said. Spare Times for June 7-13 2013-06-06T22:38:49Z Shutter speed will also be important, there may only be sufficient light to capture correctly exposed images of static subjects. Northern exposures: how to take a perfect winter wildlife photograph 2010-12-02T10:52:00Z Mr. Mamoulian uses the wide screen and a generally static camera to frame Mr. Astaire’s agile footwork and Ms. Charisse’s majestic leg extensions. On DVD, an American in Paris (and in the Soviet Union) 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z But Stromae’s character doesn’t move; he’s static, literally like a mannequin. Watch Belgian Superstar Stromae Decode His Most Eccentric Music Videos 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Although the brandy market is static in the Western world, it's booming in Asia, where people drink more than half the global supply. Yo, Sippin' on Korbel: Californian Brandy 2011-12-08T15:05:00Z This is the kind of magic that architects always wish that they could work, but their buildings are static, and they can't impose their viewpoints on the people who experience their buildings. Building an audience for architecture 2011-01-20T21:45:01Z At the highest levels, amateur and pro, dancers must integrate several compulsory moves into their routines, making use of two poles, one static and one spinning. Pole Dancing Without Nudity or G-Strings. Just Express Yourself. 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z In doing so, “Compass” reminds us that these are not static places, but in fact dynamic combinations of cultures and traditions. ‘Compass’: Mathias Énard’s brilliant dark night of the soul 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z “It takes time and a concerted effort with a static stretching programme.” Five ways to improve flexibility 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z “We didn’t want something static with mannequins; we wanted a new energy,” Mr. Toledano said. Karlie Kloss, Ruth Bell and Rebecca Hall Celebrate Dior at Saks Fifth Avenue 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s one of the most theatrical moments in this generally static yet smartly acted show, directed by Bill Largess with a keen ear for the thrust of Shavian arguments. Review | George Bernard Shaw’s science fiction ‘Methuselah’ reaches its final frontier 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Aron, Danny, Christian, Simon and I were in a hotel room in LA watching this rough footage with a weird static line through it. On the set of 127 Hours, the first big film of 2011 2011-01-01T00:04:00Z The result is a static, lifeless picture with a bad case of montage-itis. 2009-12-10T01:10:00Z Her voice adapts to different situations from track to track: floating in isolation or layered in counterpoint within halos of hiss and static, among twinkling harpsichord, electric piano and found-sound ambience. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Julia Holter at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-03-08T00:17:18Z “It’s not a static position. It’s been reflective of what’s going on with society.” These guys could offer Bill Clinton advice if he gets the ‘first spouse’ gig 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z I met her the night I accidentally pulled out the headphone cord from the radio and she heard the static from the little built-in speaker. Work, pray, fear: my life in the Family cult 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z “I’m only happy when it’s static in the air ’cause the fair weather fake to me,” he raps on “Off Top,” “Living in the scope, hairs crossed like adjacent streets.” Review: Earl Sweatshirt’s Latest Album Goes to Dark Places 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s an opera that can seem static because there’s relatively little dramatic action — but in the hands of director Blin, this show was a consistent visual delight. Imaginative ‘Orphée’ melds period authenticy, innovation 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z In the two movies the vision of opera is the same: lush, static, stale. Critic’s Notebook: How Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera 2012-08-16T21:49:50Z "In the midst of all the static, a voice of true feeling arises," he said. Leonard Cohen to release new album 2010-06-21T08:42:00Z Being open to the thoughts and feelings of others — that is, being empathic — signals that Woolfalk's concept of identity is neither monolithic nor static. Identity transformed in the Fowler's 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z And the drama, which sometimes felt static, could have benefited from the presence of witnesses onstage. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z “I sometimes feel more interactivity in a static painting, interpreting it the way I want based on my own life,” he said. Delay Tests Video Game Developer 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z My criticism is not that these characterizations don’t ring true to me, but that they are givens enacted with such fidelity that they render the world static. ‘Why Was It So Hard?’: How the Pandemic Changed Our Children 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Somehow it manages to feel fast-paced and static at the same time. Review: This ‘Wheel of Time’ Goes Nowhere Fast 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Some periods of time are so eventful, while others feel static. This Week in Fiction: Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Departing from the usual static setup of musical theater, Grease: Live will film across multiple sound stages. Kether Donohue on Why 'Grease: Live' Will Be 'Epic' 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Both, to be sure, project a strong rhythmic impulse, paradoxically combined with a certain static quality. Critic’s Notebook: Philip Glass’s ‘Spuren der Verirrten’ Has Debut in Linz 2013-04-17T21:39:00Z “For a story that has also inspired hit action movies, it is remarkably static in this telling,” Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times. A Broadway Superlative for All the Wrong Reasons 2011-03-13T23:28:26Z Backed by a full band, he skips between instruments and is nobody's idea of a static troubadour. David Ford 2010-07-13T20:45:00Z The moniker evokes a colorless and static scene, frozen in the past. 36 Hours in Marseille 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Female directors, meanwhile, made no headway: Caucasian females directed 12% of all episodes, the same as a year ago; while the percentage of minority female directors remained static at 2% of all episodes. Directors Guild report highlights lack of progress on diversity hiring 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The last few moments, when Holly Golightly finds her cat and gets kissed in the rain, were entirely static. "Blockbuster" and missing the community of video stores 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z The Ligeti work, used in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” develops something of a paradox, a sort of static polyphony. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z The static crackling that had been present since the electrode had been inserted was dying down. 'You think I'm mad?' – the truth about psychosomatic illness 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Similarly, as she turned the dial of the TV to find nothing but static, the sadness of the moment was self-reflexive. At River to River Festival, Dancing Amid the Mundane and Majestic 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Having closely examined Cubist paintings and sculptures, he understood that human vision is not static. 'Paintings of Moholy-Nagy' gives only a taste of the artist's eclectic body of work 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Bolster’s camera remains static, at a respectful distance, as it watches people at work: a man with flowers, a woman tending to the deceased’s makeup, pallbearers bringing the casket to the hearse. A Documentary of Funeral Care for Abandoned AIDS Patients 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Decades ago, viewers would see a slide show of American imagery, perhaps a mountain range or frothy shoreline and then — hours of static. Local TV Revives a Bygone Tradition: Airing the National Anthem 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The reason, he says, is "to create a static field in which to share the Truth". Noises off: Actors bust a gut (and a bed bug or two) to make ends meet 2010-11-24T16:08:00Z “All Mine” sounds like it’s being delivered through a shower of static, and “Price of Fame” rests on a bed of resonant plinks that feel bulbous and slippery. R&B That Sweats, Emotionally and Physically 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Thus the image of idealised woodland as a static, stately place, fixed by ranks of mature trees is completely modern and only the result of neglect. Monty Don: 'Why we must save our woodlands' 2011-01-30T00:06:27Z A sense of what we’re doing to the planet accompanies me all the time, but mostly as a distraction, a morbid static in the air. Inventing Climate-Change Literature 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Another, bigger lift a moment later is entirely different: She’s static but upside-down, and the way her face and arms address the floor reveal her complete trust. Review: ‘Cinderella’ Returns to the American Ballet Theater Stable 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Keyboards, woodwinds, clinking percussion, static, bits of beatboxing and peculiar samples all come and go. The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Some loops cast shadows on others, and some are subtly graded to suggest a twisting motion, though the pictures overall are as static as candy apples. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s that “static suffering” that Bradbury, in her small way, is trying to combat — not just through art-making, but through knitting. Art becomes way to help Syrian refugees 2013-08-26T02:49:38Z The tapes include the distortions of a do-it-yourself recording project, with its prickly static and wandering amplification. Review: ‘Dana H.’ Maps a Harrowing Journey Into Hell 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The verse proceeds over the same static harmony, with a new bass riff introduced halfway through, effecting a shift to a higher dynamic level. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z That You Know, is just danceable enough to be called "house" and just jerky enough, with its hiss and static, to be considered dubstep. New band of the day ? No 1,057: Disclosure 2011-07-07T16:27:19Z It was tempting to look for clues in the music because the dance was frustratingly cryptic: patently spiritual in its tone and arms reaching upward, but static in its repetitions. Review: At Fall for Dance Festival, Stepping Out in All Directions 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z With Glad to Be Gay you couldn't leave the lyric static, because year by year the situation changed. Martin Carthy and Tom Robinson's notes on a revolution 2010-06-13T20:29:00Z And “Oboe Concerto,” adagio and solemn with an old punk-song chord progression, deals with the subject of aging and death, with flurries of synthesizer static around the tune like a radar alert. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The outside world is audible through the static heard on a portable radio whose antenna Lung Neaw constantly adjusts to get better reception. | 'Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors': Review: ‘Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors’ 2012-07-15T21:14:48Z But the downside of the now-ness, the resistance against static definition, is lack of resolution. Review: Arca Keeps Moving With ‘Mutant’ 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z It keeps us in an enchanted cocoon – a static world that suits the modern system of power. Adam Curtis and Massive Attack: what is reality? 2013-07-08T17:33:38Z Not incomprehensible viral videos full of static and chanting. The Dark Knight Rises trailer: Batman's best bits, but what else? 2011-07-19T16:53:09Z Mr. Zürcher shoots the entire film in static shots, frequently showing us a character other than the person we hear. ‘The Strange Little Cat,’ on a Day in a Berlin Apartment 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Philosophers would say that a museum exhibition with its static displays of venerable objects is about “being”; here the focus is on “becoming.” Critic’s Notebook: New Native Plant Garden at the New York Botanical Garden 2013-05-02T22:27:06Z Glacial, spectral, static yet constantly in motion, the sprawling works of the late mid-20th century composer have always been an acquired taste, despite their strange, luminous beauty and unparalleled scale. Perspective | As time loses its meaning, the music of Morton Feldman gains new resonance 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The too-earthy show’s design of colored sand below and tattered fabric above creates a smudged, static look that glumly announces ruin and sticks with it. Review | ‘King Lear’ with Rick Foucheux is a family meltdown 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Even more than “The Beauty in Gray,” “Half Life” is a single-note dance, static even as it’s sustained. Review: Paul Taylor Classics Outshine New Dances (His and Others’) 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z TV’s dominant format continues to be the static season, in which episodes are served up in a set progression. Streaming Changed TV. Is TV Changing Streaming Back? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The beat is absorbed by the static, to be replaced by one that’s slower and even less supportive. The Playlist: Burial and Laura Marling Slip Deeper Into the Void 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z True listening is like spinning a radio dial: it’s part static, part bliss. Books: Meditations on Noise in 3 Books About Silence 2010-05-17T22:17:00Z Nearby a small monitor flashes and scrolls horizontal bands of intense color, from thick to thin to static, recalling Joan Jonas’s early experiments with vertical roll and Paul Sharits’s intensely chromatic flicker films. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z Blake is probably not going to be as popular — his music is more art gallery static, less movement-oriented pop — but who knows. James Blake, king of silence 2011 2011-05-19T20:01:04Z That static stage means that - except for the period costumes - the evening resembled a concert performance. Mozart opera in Vienna is a mixed bag 2011-02-22T13:30:08Z The weak radioactive field disrupts static electricity, which would otherwise attract more dust. What I remember about the dust 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z The first act maintains an exciting momentum, but Act 2, which should hurtle us toward the catastrophic meeting with the great white whale, bogs down in static exchanges. SF Opera: A whale, a swan and 2 lovers 2012-10-21T20:33:09Z Florida’s loss — announced amid the static and darkness — breached the purple Nissan’s defenses. Young Democrats in love 2012-11-02T23:30:00Z “I think for a while there was that idea that the permanent collection was hung in a chronological way,” Ms. Throckmorton said, “and that it’s pretty static, and really it pretty much stopped at 1950.” Seeing the Past from the Future 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to. A Minute With: Ethan Hawke on acting, Selena Gomez and Shakespeare 2013-08-28T12:05:18Z But much of the score otherwise tires as its pounding chords and thumping cross-rhythms alternate and overlap with more static, suspended passages. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The dance music on the radio turns to static, there is a rumble of ominous thunder, and the couple's bright smiles are stretched to breaking point with anxiety. Imperial Fizz 2010-08-13T14:46:00Z Suicide performed a set of assaultive and static electronic music, and the unhappy audience demonstrated its distaste by throwing ashtrays, some of which hit the singer Alan Vega. Alan Vega Left a Robust Vault. The Excavation Begins With a New Album. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Now, in The Machine, he turns an essentially static, six-match chess series, staged in New York in 1997, into lively theatre by dwelling on the obsessive nature of the participants. The Machine/The Masque of Anarchy – review 2013-07-14T15:30:00Z Like the drama, the pianos are never static — energetically pushed and pulled around the set as giant props. Music Review | Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy: Updating a Schubert Cycle, at Ontological-Hysteric Theater 2010-03-17T22:50:00Z Worse, I began to notice the same thing in myself – a current of distraction, like static in the brain. Getting off (line): I’m giving up online porn, and so should you 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Each episode opens with a static shot of the show’s title filling the screen, in place of a more complex sequence. Graphic design’s role in “Girls” 2012-07-05T00:00:00Z While the institution of marriage is often caricatured as being static and "traditional," what it means to individuals continues to evolve in surprising ways. Sally Rooney’s "Conversations with Friends" – how British attitudes have become tougher on adultery 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z In Classic Stage Company’s current “Three Sisters,” Mr. Pendleton’s direction elicits the kind of fine-grained characterizations and deep-probe textual understanding needed to invigorate a static drama. | 'Small Craft Warnings': Barroom Dirges of the Working Class 2011-02-22T22:02:02Z He croons velvet wraithvocals in Romance languages and crafts resistance symphonies of fuzz and static. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z And while static reports provide only broad conclusions, Hopper also provides customizable tools that are as powerful as they are simple to use. Frugal Traveler: Crunching the Numbers to Find the Best Airfare 2014-04-29T17:40:37Z “It sold more than any other Davis album, and fully launched jazz-rock with its multiple keyboards, electronic guitars, static beats and clutter. Davis’s music became progressively trendy and dismal.” 53 Years After Miles Davis’s Album, a Fresh Spin as ‘London Brew’ 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z “It was very static for many years,” he continues. Can a high-end boutique prosper in Detroit? John Varvatos has a vision. 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z “Tortoises and turtles were ‘static’ in concept,” Mr. Young wrote in 2000. The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z For a story that has also inspired hit action movies, it is remarkably static in this telling. | 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark': Good vs. Evil, Hanging by a Thread 2011-02-08T03:01:17Z It concludes with a static 12-minute shot of Mr. Lee and his distraught partner gazing off into space as a single tear trickles down her expressionless face. ‘Stray Dogs,’ by Tsai Ming-liang, a Tale of Alienation 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s more static than a Beckett play, less menacing than Pinter and not as probing as latter-day Ibsen. Jealousy and dread in ultra slo-mo in ‘Someone Is Going to Come’ 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z In one discarded version, the Stranger Things logo emerged through static from a television screen. The 'Stranger Things' Opening Credits Could Have Looked Really Different 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Projected wall-size here is the nearly static image of a young woman named Robin, who sat for her film portrait in 1965. Art Review: Everyone?s 15 Minutes In a Culture of Celebrity 2011-01-13T22:44:50Z Ms. Schaal’s performance is single note and static, and no one else even tries to act. Review: The Bitter Tears of Dean Moss & Co. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Though Roth heartily acknowledged him as a peer, Stern’s reputation was static and nearly invisible. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Finding ways to thrive in a more static economy is a vital project for the earth, and for us as a nation. Letters to the Editor 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Born in America, Fuller was a Folies-Bergère star and avant-garde darling who inspired artists to think of drawing not as static and finite but as action in space and lines as points in motion. Art Review: Squiggly, Tangly and Angular 2010-12-01T22:55:00Z The stolen bag of moola moves briskly from one grasping hand to another, yet the movie’s images are often strangely static. Review: In ‘Have a Nice Day,’ a Follow-the-Money Tale in China 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Movement and pulse are ingredients missing from some avant-garde music, whose arbitrary array of sounds can seem frustratingly static. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z The sound of that bumper — the static, the choir — remains Pavlovian in its promise. ‘Tinderbox,’ an Oral History of HBO From Modest Beginnings to TV Revolution 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Besides, too many of the scenes were static set pieces, revealing little and moving the episode nowhere you could see. Don Draper: Stuck in place as 'Mad Men' drifts? 2013-04-08T03:03:08Z The projection that designer Charles A. Duncombe provides as a backdrop is a static image of a theater in the midst of either renovation or decay. Modern life is a fragmented place in 'Carmen Disruption' at City Garage 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z But the world he depicted is languid, comfortable and static. William Merritt Chase, modernist in moderation 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z That palpable sense of connection freed the Mapplethorpe works from the static confines of a gallery retrospective, just as Mr. Simons’s own archive, unpedestaled, peopled the crowd. Raf Simons Salutes Robert Mapplethorpe, a Fellow Provocateur 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Racial and gender stereotypes were explored in images static and moving, among them a film of Ms. Masilo walking bent over, a prostrate Mr. Kentridge on her back. Review: In ‘Refuse the Hour,’ Exploring Temporal Extremes 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z “You can’t stay static so innovation is really important,” Young says. Chai latte: the all-conquering beverage causing a storm in a coffee cup 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z There is a tension, though, between the book’s argument and its world-building, a kind of background static distorting its otherwise clear lines. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z No interminable static shots of kitchens that do nothing whatsoever until a saucepan falls off a counter-top five minutes from the end. Paranormal Activity recap: reliving a phenomenon 2013-07-26T10:00:00Z "All the hidden factors which make a static unmovable finished painting often only understandable to the trained observer become clear to any observer," he wrote. Oskar Fischinger: the wizard who angered Disney 2013-01-09T17:39:00Z The sound design is striking, too, a sonic collage of percussive booms and deafening static roars that are often more unsettling than the film’s relatively mild visual shocks. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z But if so, it’s buried under a mountain of static. Movie Review: ‘Joker,’ a Bollywood Comedy by Shirish Kunder 2012-09-02T21:59:49Z If the somewhat static rewards of this literary approach are your cup of tea, along with the requisite obsessive attention to details of period production design, all may be fine. ‘The Crown’ Review: Tempus Horribilis 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z She forges an exquisite collaboration between entropic energy and formal unity -- not a balance, for there is nothing static nor necessarily harmonious here. Iva Gueorguieva's paintings exude simultaneity and sensuality at ACME 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z And when the action is so overstated and static, it makes the show’s inherent weak points stand out. Season 3 of ‘House of Cards’ Starts With More Policy Than Chicanery 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z For Herzog, walking is an act of opposition, not just to the static culture of the towns through which he passes, but indeed to death itself. Werner Herzog's walking blues 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z “His style was not static and it was constantly evolving, so the way his art looks in 1640 is very different from how he was painting in 1650,” she said. Disputed Painting Is Declared an Authentic Rembrandt After Decades 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The color is muddy, the brushwork scratchily dutiful, the images static and postcard-ish. Art in Review: BOB DYLAN: ?The Asia Series? 2011-10-13T22:00:35Z Goldstein made particular mention of the tour's fairly static setlist in lieu of the sense of spontaneity associated with previous tours. There's nothing like seeing Bruce Springsteen perform in his home state 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Local television channels are shut off, and the radio offers only static. In Tel Aviv, a Holy Day Is a Biking Day 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Wipe faux-wood blinds down with dryer sheets to reduce static cling and dust buildup. How to clean five tricky household items that you might be avoiding 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The somewhat static, scene-based character of the action also hints at what is only disclosed in an afterword — that the novel began life as a play. ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z These minimalist, dancelike moves infuse the piece with an odd, frolicsome energy that keeps it from growing too static. Review: A Woman Grows Up in ‘Employee of the Year’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z A garden overstuffed with conifers seems to me to be static and lifeless, ironically, and the surfeit of pointed shapes against the sky is unsettling in some indefinable way. Winter wonders: Conifers revive the sleeping garden. But remember, less is more. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Her voice, too, is high and childish, floating above fuzzing guitars, shivers of static and flickering electric drums. Sea of Bees: Song for the Ravens ? review 2011-02-03T22:40:01Z It shows the frail but poised Cunningham seated in a chair in a dance rehearsal space, performing static interpretations of Cage's famously silent work. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z “His demolition of a static order, the loss of harmony.” Old Patina Encircles Fresh Art in Venice 2011-06-05T21:15:27Z After one particularly effusive passage from Chow, the electronics devolved into a hum of feedback-like static, as if suddenly speechless, offering sound stripped of content. Art or music? The National Gallery of Art provokes ears and thoughts. 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z As a result, the film—despite Akhavan’s admirable intentions and noteworthy observations—is hermetic, static, and closed-in; it offers neither a clear political critique nor a clear path of progress. “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” Reviewed: An Empathetic But Unimaginative Tale of Gay Conversion Therapy 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The clips are interrupted by segments of static, evoking the experience — for those of us old enough to remember — of changing television channels. In L.A. galleries now: A celebration of black women, a cheeky take on living with disability 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z There was a deceptive simplicity to these early pieces that was different from the engagement with static, perfect forms pursued by artists now thought of as minimalist. Review | Hans Haacke makes that banana on the wall look ridiculous 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z McQueen's cousin Marcus, talking about how he accidentally shot and killed his own brother, the camera's view fixed on the back of Marcus's static head, as if he himself were laying on the slab. Steve McQueen's city of cinemas makes voyeurs of us all 2013-03-21T17:50:37Z But throughout this exhibition there is a persistent tension between the static textual content — the religious core — and the varying meanings of the illumination. Exhibition Review: ?Journey Through Jewish Worlds,? at Yeshiva University Museum 2010-06-25T23:36:00Z The space remains historic without being static, and there’s more coexistence than fighting between the house and the collection. Cooper Hewitt design museum’s artful renovation matches mansion to mission For Mormon women who work, she said, there is still “static” and “stigma” over it. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z “So it wasn’t just static, but not too far advanced or unrecognizable from where we left off.” 5 Lessons the ‘Downton Abbey’ TV Team Learned About Filmmaking 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s a tasteful and static enterprise that deserves attention because it comes to life whenever Danes is onscreen. ‘The Essex Serpent’ Review: Claire Danes, the Disrupter 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z And, despite moving as a unit, then remaining static for long stretches, the Met’s chorus was compelling as the chattering, destructive residents of the Borough. Review: A Tenor Claims His Place Among the Met Opera’s Stars 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z While they can look back at a past of extreme poverty and vicious racism, now they live in a static country, permanently broken, devoid even of the promise of progress. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z If no art on earth is less static than Africa’s, neither is any art more intellectually stimulating and spiritually challenging. Art Review: ?African Innovations? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-09-01T12:00:00Z On Wednesday afternoon the artist Barbara Bloom was “on trial,” sitting in an interrogation cell with her back to the audience and facing a television tuned to static. Opera Review: Robert Ashley’s Shape-Shifting 1968 Work, Revived 2014-04-24T22:41:01Z All the dialogue is improvised, which gives the film a raw, honest feeling of actors digging into their shared creations but inevitably engenders a static, theatrical air. Late September – review 2012-06-16T23:09:01Z The Act I love scene was utterly static, ending with the two principals standing by the window out of view of a good part of the audience before simply strolling off stage, anticlimactically. At WNO, a ‘La Bohème’ that gets the job done Before the year was out, Feldman had done so: the austerely beautiful, daringly static and pervasively quiet “Rothko Chapel,” scored simply for viola, celesta, percussion, two solo singers and wordless chorus. Music Review: Abstract Expressionism in Aural Mixed Media 2011-02-25T23:55:36Z Saariaho’s music is characterized by surging, luminous tones and textures, large masses of sound that move and change, more static meditations than dramatic journeys. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The flags are always static, like you’re frozen in the moment. Paolo Ventura Designs a ‘Carousel’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s static, no matter what else is going on around them. I was an abstinence teacher — until I got fired for getting pregnant 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z In the dead of winter, the robins provided their own form of vital entertainment but also a sense that nothing is static in the garden, that one season is always foreshadowing the next. Perspective | Bird populations have crashed. Here’s what you can do to help. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Fortunately, as an artist Anderson is just as good at rendering static shots as he is at depicting action, and his gift for warm, uncluttered portraiture lionizes familiar figures. Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z In “the horror,” also created in collaboration with Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty, Ms. Best slowly walked in front of the video, gazing into its static abyss. Dance Review: The Inspiration Found in Silence and Brando 2010-12-06T21:38:00Z Mr. Calarco’s staging is fluid and sensitive throughout, with just enough physical action to keep at bay the feeling that this show is inherently static. Theater Review: ‘The Memory Show,’ at the Duke Theater 2013-05-10T17:35:52Z This field tends to be, even by Emmy’s own standards, static. These Are the Shows and Stars That Emmy Shouldn’t Ignore 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The performances are each calibrated to a static frequency — the forceful and pitiless apparition, the relentlessly placid new occupant — curtailing the potential for more dynamic shifts in character. ‘Happy Life’ Review: Ghosts in the Studio 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Music bleeds from “3 Epitaphs,” a jazzy dance work for Paul Taylor; and a later metal assemblage includes radios that bristle with static. From Silence to Noise: Rauschenberg’s Influence on Music 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z I myself have taken off for the hills when the static started to seem insurmountable—when a deadline was bearing down, and I could no longer discern the signal from the noise. Why Artists Need Oddball Residencies 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Ballet is less a dance of continuous bodily motion than of static, extreme physical poses linked by fluid movement. First full Edgar Degas retrospective in nearly 30 years shows an artist who liked to be in control 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z At once stately and unassuming, austere and raunchy, “The Woman Who Left” is largely composed of impressively long takes that are most often static medium shots. Lav Diaz and Pedro Costa: Slow Cinema on the Cutting Edge 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Wiggly lines indicate the tingling of spider senses, while electronic bursts signal the presence of interdimensional static. ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Review: A Fresh Take on a Venerable Hero 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z "You could hardly hear it for the static," he added, "but it was, nevertheless, thrilling." Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 2012-12-26T18:24:33Z Here is a lavishly flawed opera — a lush, static, lengthy musical layer cake — that achieves levity, and even demonic delight, through Mr. Carsen’s interventions. Review: ‘Mefistofele’ at the Met Opera Is a Devil That Dances 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z There is compelling history in “Freed,” but the play, as directed by Joe Brancato, is too static to be exciting as theater. | 'Freed': In ?Freed,? Being the First, Expectations Attached 2010-06-21T22:40:00Z The music was built from loops, many with old analog synthesizer sounds: deep throbs, bell-toned pings with their pitches bending, drones, chirps, static, and speedy burbles, all welling up and circling the space. Music Review: The Trippy ?60s in a Guggenheim Time Machine 2010-03-06T08:06:00Z His work is therefore a sort of ultra-tourism, a consummation of the secret affinity between static architecture and travel, where both are about place and escape. John Pawson: Plain Space 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Baryshnikov says that by capturing layers of movements in a single frame, instead of stopping the motion in a static image, he's trying to show something that's missing from most dance photography. Baryshnikov shows his dance photography in Miami 2012-02-23T17:42:09Z One thing I like about the new stand-alone episodes is that they’re not entirely static; they carry the weight of history between these characters. As ‘The X-Files’ Returns, Do We Still Want to Believe? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Ivy was invaluable when gardens were more static, tidy and architectural, but it was eclipsed by more interesting ground covers by the end of the 20th century. Revered, then reviled: Tracking the rise and fall of ivy 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It strips the music of rebellion and modernity and repackages it as static and safe. The Art of Classic Rock by Paul Grushkin 2010-05-14T23:29:00Z We are static and unchanging, and people of color rarely figure into these narratives at all. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z It gives us the peculiar atmospheres, the unearthly light over the Breton landscape, the static silences and frozen gestures, the strangeness and sadness, the melancholy and yearnings in his art. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z Your hair a microphone cover to help keep the static down. Scorching, Sophisticated New Work From Two of America’s Leading Poets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z “I was paying attention to that,” she said, “and I was paying attention to my grandfather’s crystal radio, where he was trying to tune in the programs and would get all this static.” The Composer Pauline Oliveros Stays Busy at 80 2012-08-11T22:02:08Z To these eyes, "Badlands Rumble" looks cheap, like the TV series, with countless shots that remain static, barely animated at all, while the frantic action appears jerky and occasionally disorienting. 'Trigun: Badlands Rumble': chaotic, colorful anime action for fanboys 2011-07-28T19:30:07Z “Wanting” is not a static quality, but a fluid reality that shifts with our movements. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z For some models, there is added photography including 360-degree views of the sofa and video content that explains construction, but for other models there is nothing more than the static frontal view. How to buy a sofa online — and the best companies to buy from 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Aptly titled, it seemed both static and constantly in motion. Review: Roam the Spectrum With Tyshawn Sorey 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z So with photography, the magic for me lies in challenging the boundaries of a medium that is so static, and giving it energy. Jacob Sutton's best photograph: a dancer's release 2012-09-26T16:05:36Z Hernández’s “Silencio” differs greatly from the “Buena Vista” version: it bobs and weaves, changing its rhythmic background against static cycles of melody. New Music: New Music From Miguel Zen?n and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011-08-29T22:37:58Z It’s funnier than it sounds; in fact, it’s uproarious, dense with quotable quips and pieces of personality, with shiny riffs buzzing like static off a blanket. Review: Courtney Barnett's 'Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit' Is One of the Best Albums of the Year 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z There was audible static on Hough’s microphone for Sandy’s big ballad, “Hopelessly Devoted To You.” “Grease: Live”‘s technical triumph: A dazzling production almost makes up for lackluster leads 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Older, damaged, or copied videotapes can pop, fuzz, hiss with static. Sects, lies and videotape: "Archive 81" and the mystique of the semipermanent artifact 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z "If you combine that with the fact that wages are static or falling, that unemployment is an issue and that private rents are going up, it can only mean one thing." Britain's hidden homeless and the death of Michelle Conroy 2013-01-20T08:00:00Z And any bird is more miraculous — physically, visually, poetically — than a static, ploddingly overthought human artifact. Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z The static of a radio pierces the air. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and the Soul Train Awards 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z “On the ideal tundra,” Demuth writes, “people made history by separating themselves from nature, and then rendered natural variation static. Only people were supposed to change, and do so for the better.” A View of the Bering Strait That’s Anything but Narrow 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z This all sounds fairly dull, and often it is, filmed in long, static shots that don't add any interest. 'Tiny Furniture': a small tale of post-grad life 2010-12-23T21:25:07Z Such moments are exceptions; for all its action, “High Life” induces information hunger, because of the static way in which it drops its bits of narrative and bits of background together. “High Life,” Reviewed: Claire Denis’s Disappointing Journey Into Space 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z They start in near-silence, add layers of static and build slowly, almost imperceptibly until drums are at locomotive speed and guitars and violin create a matrix of interlocking lines. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z Information on the wiki could be easily updated, and static information was easily viewable without digging frantically through old emails. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z The moments between Ben and Paul are a little static. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Hunger Games 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z A canon is not a static list of dead white men. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z They were playing for themselves and they were playing for you, but they weren’t playing for any static definition of a concert. Review: Yonatan Gat Shreds Protocol in a Rampant Concert 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Since the whole “acting” career seems quite static, why not? | The Trouble With John (Galliano) 2011-03-04T21:14:54Z I found that to be a little static and boring. | A Place Where Art and Design Collide 2013-06-24T20:41:57Z It’s also a dramatically static piece, familiar without being especially beloved, so the more spectacle you shovel onto it, the better, and audiences are not likely to mind much. Review | With spectacular squib of ‘Samson,’ Met Opera grasps at new start 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Many of the book's minutiae are arranged into long, static lists. Winter Journal by Paul Auster – review 2012-08-15T10:00:02Z The pregnancy supplies some suspense, of course, but the situation becomes curiously static, and the provocations increasingly mechanical. ‘Titane’ Review: Auto Erotic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The London that Miles dreamed of as a grammar-school boy in the Gloucestershire town of Cirencester was not swinging but static. Barry Miles: 'I think of the 60s as a supermarket of ideas. We were looking for new ways to live' 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z The parents’ pursuit of their children is hysterical but static, mistaking emotion for action, while the children’s experience itself is implausible and dull. Maile Meloy’s ‘Do Not Become Alarmed’: This summer’s big literary novel? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z There is also something extraordinarily deflating about realizing you are sitting amongst a throng of blissful fans content with such a static enterprise. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?Part I. More Like Breaking Yawn 2011-11-17T17:30:14Z “Phase Six” aspires to real density, but it can’t quite get there: The characters remain essentially static. In ‘Phase Six,’ Two Women Get to Work Saving the World From a Pandemic 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Official sources such as the city’s tourism group and most hotels know mainly about static attractions like the museums and temples. On Java, a Creative Explosion in an Ancient City 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Carmichael is a more static, soft-spoken presence. Spike Lee Enhances Jerrod Carmichael and Katt Williams 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z But “The Hunger” is more of a lecture than an opera: Dramatically static and musically amorphous, the work is interspersed with filmed interviews in which academics invoke the evils of capitalism and colonialism. Review: An Unsatisfying Opera (or Is It a Lecture?) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Stark but never static, these performances call up a few precursors, notably Max Roach’s work for solo drum set. Drummers’ Choices: Setting the Beat, Calling the Tune 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The camera moves more in "Heroic," but I still use long shots; it is not as static as "Workforce." "It is a civil war": "Heroic" director on how the Mexican military makes ordinary men into killers 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z There are no static lines in the image; it telegraphs energy and excitement. Scott McCloud's 'The Sculptor' an imaginative work of art 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z From one gallery to the next, the sun and clouds move and animals roam across seasons of Ahae’s static landscape. | Simple Photos From South Korea Light Up the Grand Galleries of Versailles 2013-06-25T17:00:47Z The static effort does yield a few curiously offbeat moments, leaving the impression that Ms. Bareilles could shine if she chose a role of flawed eccentricity. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z But some scenes are dramatically static and overextended. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z Whereas was free to slash and burn its way through literary territory that felt relatively static, even stuck, is obliged to pick its way carefully through a richly variegated and much expanded genre. A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z The German poet Rilke had a word for it: Geräusch, the crackle of the universe, angels dancing in the static. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z Lighter and very finely crafted, it is static, in contrast to Colombo’s piece, whose sections swivel at will. Art: Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer 2011-10-14T13:00:17Z His hips remained static, although he did smile widely as he spoke to the performers. Prince Charles goes to Glastonbury 2010-06-24T19:02:00Z Donizetti's Renaissance Italy-set work was beautifully sung, but the staging was static. Mike Figgis's Lucrezia Borgia: a great big stinker 2011-02-02T11:30:44Z Mr. Malaby, using the freedom that the static harmony gave him, molded his solo into texture and sound and shapes, silences and coughs. Music Review: Two Saxophonists Step in as a Pair of Substitutes 2010-08-25T21:53:00Z The art fair has become a primary vehicle for viewing and selling art, but this doesn’t mean it’s a static form. Independent Projects Unveils New Art Fair Concept: A Show 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Unlike other artists he seems not interested in the static sculpture. People tree 2010-05-14T23:20:00Z This is a static and somewhat repetitive book that lacks a narrative through line. How New York City Got Its Fresh Water 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Rouse was accompanied by a string quartet, two female singers and the sounds of shortwave radio static; he played a National steel resonator guitar or an acoustic guitar, singing in a rusty voice. Music Review: Folky Strokes, With Dabs of News, Video and Static 2010-12-08T23:03:00Z The major issues are stark and static and unsubtle. My year of living ignorantly: I entered a news blackout the day Trump was elected 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z A booming pulse begins to undulate, and bursts of static flash across the screen as he draws near. Video Game Review: Slender: The Eight Pages, Video Game Review 2012-09-11T16:17:45Z Works by Phill Niblock require extreme dynamics — sustained at a rock concert-like 120 decibels — because only when played at high volume do seemingly static chords reveal a dazzling spectrum of overtones, interacting in complex rhythms. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Every so often, static crackled over test patterns. John Reilly, 74, a Champion of Documentary Video, Dies 2013-08-12T02:12:58Z This musical approach was underlined by the group’s minimal staging: no backdrop or videos and low-key, nearly static lighting. Review | Amen Dunes’s 9:30 Club show wasn’t dramatic. But it had a mighty sound. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z For many years the market was static, and then it went into quite sharp decline, particularly through the traditional market of bricks and mortar booksellers. Salt abandons single-author collections amid poetry market slump 2013-05-24T11:12:18Z Devoting an entire publication to Indigenous foodways is also a way to showcase the sheer diversity of these communities, which is much harder with a single story, or a static cookbook, they added. A New Cookbook by Indigenous People, for Indigenous People 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z In this memory, the world is nearly static — the sky is framed by the dark trapezoid of the window opening. What I remember about the dust 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Erdem’s blue-tinted floral prints and pleated lace skirts, with matching shoes and gloves, looked static, likes scenes from a party that has already happened. Fashion Review: Young Designers Lead the Way at London Fashion Shows - Fashion Review 2011-09-21T17:58:26Z The displays are also, of course, no longer static. Museum Review: Museum of History & Industry Reopens in Seattle 2012-12-29T01:25:41Z Museumgoers most likely presume that period rooms remain static, but many are being overhauled. The Period Room as Reconstruction Site 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Most of the scary bits are delivered in the static shot of their bedroom the camera records every night. DVD and Blu-ray out this week 2010-03-20T00:08:00Z A standard, static shot of police cars arriving for an arrest stretches out to nearly a minute. Review: A Netflix Legal Thriller Weighs Genocide and Guilt 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z From the collective cellphones came a wash of vibrating tones, Morse-code-like ticks, intoned spoken numbers, patches of crackling static, cosmic shimmers and more. Music Review: I?m Playing With the Orchestra. Leave a Message After the Beep. 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z Never a kinetic performer, Mr. Chappelle, who has always had an intimate, even offhanded style, has become even more static and low-energy onstage. Dave Chappelle at Radio City Music Hall 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Aside from our footfalls up the stairs to the bedrooms and the static from the radio, the house was dead, hollow quiet. “Is there an afterlife?” Ghost-hunting at my grandmother’s house 2014-02-02T11:59:00Z Ms. Barba marries elements of documentary filmmaking with images of static or industrial landscapes, including projectors and elements of film production in sculptural, conceptual installations. When Celluloid Is Both the Medium and the Message 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z As for director Joel Polis, he fails to mitigate the static quality of his material, planting his performers in undynamic tableaux as they drub home a message as muddled as it is repetitive. Commendable ambition but cliched narrative in 'Disconnection' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z His "park-and-bark" comment referred to the performance style in which singers stand statically on stage to sing a song. New York opera houses woo new fans with edgier fare 2010-10-03T13:17:00Z Photograph: Helen Maybanks Too static, too visually blaring, too short on tunes, too mechanical, too unimaginative. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review 2013-07-01T06:00:08Z Stilted, static and unbearably smug, “The Contenders” was originally written as a play, and it shows. | 'The Contenders': Marta Mondelli?s Troubled Beach House 2010-07-15T23:19:00Z But its properties are static, meaning they can’t change as conditions do. How can an octopus help us stay warm? 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z While it made sense to pair Farley, a former company member who has always been entranced by City Ballet’s rich history, with Israel’s score, the collaboration is too static to soar. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z In our experience, the Earth is pretty much static. Q&A: Geologist David Montgomery on Noah's flood 2012-09-17T17:34:36Z Silent, static, skeletal, the desert has always been a symbol of death. Ben Ehrenreich’s Dispatches From the Beginning and End of the World 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z He does all this with a combination of flat, saturated color, trompe l’oeil shadows and tiny, overlapping daubs of paint that split the difference between TV static and Ben-Day dots. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The show’s entertainment is diminished, however, because the exhibits are mostly static. Art Review: Tom Sachs, ‘Space Program: Mars,’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-05-24T22:30:07Z When characters aren’t forging swords or fighting dragons, they are bafflingly static. Review: In the Met’s ‘Siegfried,’ Singers Transcend the Staging 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z In the first, spectators encounter performers who either recreate sections of Mr. Le Roy’s solos like video loops or remain in static poses like sculptures. Xavier Le Roy’s ‘Retrospective’ at MoMA PS1 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Next, I walked out on to a lawn which, according to Adriana, my guide, “absorbed static energy”. Medellín, Colombia: a miracle of reinvention 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z The dancers’ activity never really advanced or revealed anything new, so the work felt not just unpersuasive but far too static. On Artists and Audiences at American Realness 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The call went nowhere—no voice mail, just noise and static. Whitey Bulger: Secrets behind the capture of the FBI’s most wanted man 2013-02-24T17:00:00Z In the earlier book, the author attacked her largely static story with a distracting barrage of language. Review | Adventure seekers — and a few ghosts — make a dangerous trip up a mountain in ‘Mysterium’ 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Our expectations of drama are different today, and it’s hard to keep these works from seeming static. Review | Strong women take the lead in Washington National Opera’s ‘Alcina’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Seeing “Willie” helps to explain why Mr. Lyon shifted his focus away from still photography, for however artfully composed, the photograph remains a static and silent object. Danny Lyon’s Camera Seeks Truth in Marginalized Lives 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The work of Radigue, who turned 90 on Jan. 24, often seems static on first hearing. For a Composer at 90, There’s Nothing but Time 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z “Aida” can feel like a series of pompous tableaux, but this production is never static, always evolving. Seattle Opera presents a spectacular “Aida” 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z His character is very strong and powerful so he wanted to have more static and powerful movements. Star Trek Into Darkness: how it was made, by the people who made it 2013-05-11T05:00:00Z To keep jurors, witnesses and observers from being privy to these bench conferences, obnoxious static is pumped through the overhead speakers. Asleep at the Roger Clemens trial 2012-06-10T13:00:00Z Yet even as Mr. Balduzzi, reciting poetry by Jamaal May, began to shout, then sing, then howl, the work felt static and, for all its violent undertones, not dangerous enough. Reviews: Colliding Particles, a Grim Duet and Channeling Martha Graham 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z But these big bronze figures have as an attribute this sense of thwarted motion, of busy minds trapped in static forms. Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures – review 2012-09-29T23:05:27Z At a glance the images appear static, but you quickly notice that they are moving slightly as if shot from the deck of a floating raft. Art in Review: PETER CAMPUS: ?Calling for Shantih? 2010-12-09T23:20:00Z But an orchestra’s sound is never static, nor is the chemistry between a conductor and his players. Music Review: A Dutch Orchestra Plumbing the Depths 2010-02-19T04:35:00Z Blackadder, extremely verbal, the character rather static, rather sardonic, rather adult. Before and after 'Bean': A talk with Rowan Atkinson, continued 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Orchestras of the time were not a static phenomenon, but an evolving one, making use of the latest evolving technology as regards the woodwind and brass instruments, rather as Beethoven’s symphonies evolved. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z But they thought it was too static, they wanted more action. Rejected film posters go on display 2013-05-17T13:16:18Z Phone calls allow for a less static experience — you’re not confined to maintaining perfect posture or finding the most flattering camera angle. Perspective | 10 socially distant date ideas that aren’t just a walk or a video chat 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The static was amazing and sometimes it would disappear completely. Irish composer Raymond Deane talks Achill, Alma and ABBA too 2013-02-14T14:01:41Z In his art, Mr. Caranda-Martin has used heirloom African textiles as canvases, painting over them, refusing to allow the past to remain static. At Serengeti Kitchen, Touches of Memoir Dot the Menu 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z In every case, the object itself carries a threat even before we look at the images themselves, which inevitably creep with static and faulty tracking. Ghost in the system: has technology ruined horror films? 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Agents grip their steering wheels; they can’t hear one another with all that static; they stomp the gas and BOOM! 'The Americans' Recap: A Most Painful Extraction 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z “If you turn on your television and tune it between stations,” he writes, “about 10 percent of that black-and-white speckled static you see is caused by photons left over from the birth of the universe.” Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z As the camera zooms and retracts the sun swells and contracts, scrambling and flickering as static is layered into the song. Exclusive First Look at Bon Iver's Digital Deluxe Edition 2011-11-28T09:58:38Z Sick to death of his most famous composition, He turned the dial through the static Until once again, and clearly – The Adagio for Strings. The Saturday poem: A Note on Barber's Adagio 2010-05-14T23:29:00Z “Her career is in no way static, her practice is in no way unchallenging and she is very much about trying new things.” Nandipha Mntambo’s Journey From Taxidermy to Art 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z In “Unbreakable,” the drama involves Elijah’s cult of the image—the static image, the hand-drawn one of the world of comics. “Glass,” Reviewed: M. Night Shyamalan’s Unsatisfying Obsession with Superheroes 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z The production, originally seen in Vancouver, creates a sense of fluidity that matches Adams' score and keeps the essentially plotless work from seeming static. 'Nixon' headlines SF Opera's summer season 2012-06-15T18:03:09Z The static of a radio pierces the air. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and the Soul Train Awards 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z But to me, walking closer and staring up and across the sun-bleached square, it’s all about a sort of static power. In Mexico City, an itinerary built on modern architecture 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z In the recap I theorized that it signals the barrier between Elliot and Mr. Robot, almost like the static separating two channels. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z After several minutes of static, one of the radios emitted a startling noise that sounded like swiftly beating wings. Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But these static moments are imaginary bouquets culled not from reality, but from the storehouse of representation. From sketch to painting, there’s no single clear path 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z But in form and content, his latest offering is one of his most daring, a testament to a creative mind that remains anything but static. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z And yet, other than its account of Booker's torment, "God Help the Child" is a curiously static work. The magic is missing in Toni Morrison's 'God Help the Child' 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Tal Yarden’s sound design envelops the proceedings in ominous atmospheric gloom:a distant howling wind; the cold, mechanical hum of static and feedback; and, finally, the thunderous exclamations of drums. Review: In a Powerful ‘Hamlet,’ a Fragile Prince Faces His Foes 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z All this creates annoying mental static, which is a shame, because the historic materials are uniformly first-rate. Art Review: Plains Indian Culture, as Seen Through the Ingenuity of the Tepee 2011-03-14T22:32:12Z They are, obviously, static, and if you stand in front of them, you won’t see your shadow disrupting the projector’s light. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z While the gross has increased significantly, audience numbers are roughly static, revealing a significant jump in ticket prices. Seven days on stage: Edinburgh festival fringe gets the Hoff 2012-06-01T14:39:26Z But it is a world away from "Grand Pianola Music," which is an often static, glittering romp ending with what was, to serious Minimalists, a controversially catchy tune presented with wonderfully ostentatious flourish. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z “Those original shorts, I just kept the camera static as much as possible,” Camp confessed. How ‘Marcel the Shell’ Went From YouTube to the Big Screen 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z This might seem an oddly static choice if it didn’t prove so generative. Coming of Age — and Becoming a Writer — in an America Obsessed With ‘Dead Girls’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Fiddling with the dial on the car radio during my time there usually generates only static. Delbert Anderson’s Mission: Putting ‘Native Sound Back Into Jazz’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z So while a photograph is a static record of a specific moment, the pigment is a symbol of that specific moment vanishing. Photographer Benoit Pailley Uses Color to Explore the Meaning of Time 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z As a young, unregarded wife she is mostly quiet and static, yet she unfolds as the action does: hopeful, dashed, wary, on the watch. Rutherford & Son; Glasgow Girls; Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-17T00:06:21Z Here the static woman's mask is composed of live animals. Warm spots in Pierre Huyghe's often chilly Conceptualism at LACMA 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z When I think of that moment now, I do not see my chest rising and falling with breath; instead, I am static with anticipation. How many times had I wished my father dead? This time, it was different 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z The introduction sets up the familiar groove with its static harmony, pulsing bass and keyboard riff. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, though, the static and buzz of photography's uncertain future was the loudest, most distracting background noise in a curiously fragmented festival. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2011 ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:19Z Oh, I would like to see what he would have made of things today, only a year later, instead of going to the Met to see a static exhibition of his clothes. On the Runway: Spring Theater of the Absurd 2011-04-15T18:43:26Z “The dreams of a wild west are made plastic and static,” the artist writes, “in this sculpture that wants to recapture the energy of a time gone by.” Artwork in action! | Bumbershoot 2013 2013-08-29T05:38:09Z This summer — hurrah — the free art fix isn’t limited to static works on walls or pedestals. Take in a dance-inspired museum exhibit, and museum-inspired dance 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The transition is like a static shock, the equivalent of shuffling across the floor in warm socks and touching a doorknob. Rauw Alejandro Draws a Fresh Blueprint for Spanish-Language Pop 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z I didn’t know if I believed in a static, hidden, true self. A Novelist’s Stint Impersonating the Ultra-Rich in China 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z It was excellent, formally absorbing, the opposite of static. Basilica Soundscape: A Festival of Pop, Punk and So Much Else 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z "The first thing people think of with Henry Moore is that it's weighty and static and timeless," she said Tuesday. Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin meet in English field 2013-03-19T17:50:18Z It’s not just that the first part, a gathering at dawn, is slow and somewhat static. Review: Keeping the Dance Fires Burning at the Joyce 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z And while “Hang Time” offers a work of theater that’s undoubtedly moving, it’s also too static to leave a more lasting impression. Review: In ‘Hang Time,’ Lynched Men Tell Finely Tuned Tales 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The song, a latticework of scripted repetitions, felt both busy and weirdly static. Music Review: Where Hearing the Parts Whirl Is the Point 2011-08-19T21:33:35Z "The setting and mood of the short story are static and tense, whereas the setting and mood of Disturbia are more dynamic and peppered with humour and teen romance." Disturbia did not steal Rear Window plot, judge rules 2010-09-22T14:38:00Z If this approach — steadfastly resigned rather than mercurial — made for static storytelling, it paid off in Grimes’s climactic mad scene. Review: Opera Stars Take On an Omicron-Battered Vienna 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z One of your book's lessons is that a movie's reputation isn't static. Q&A: Writer Nathan Rabin on Years Watching Hollywood Flops 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z “Death in Her Hands” pokes fun at the boilerplate detective novel by using its template to tell a mostly static story. Review | Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Death in Her Hands’ kicks off like a murder mystery. But the missing dead body is beside the point. 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Spank reproduces the sound of a nuclear power plant creaking to a halt: fuses blow, static rattles the amplifiers and the guitars muster a last screech of protest. The Naked and Famous ? review 2011-02-18T19:16:02Z The palette is almost black and white; there are static scenes, times where the screen fades to black, and the camerawork includes some marvelous long tracking shots as well as fixed frames. Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Most of these story threads eventually come together, but while they’re playing out they leave the series feeling attenuated and static. Review: ‘Hand of God,’ on Amazon, Is a California Neo-Noir Thriller 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Here, Górecki reveals his flair for generating almost unbearable tension within apparently static structures. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Because it’s not just the static image of the mascot that is the problem, be it stoic and noble or a horrific caricature with a feather on top. My life as a Cleveland Indian: The enduring disgrace of racist sports mascots 2014-04-13T15:30:00Z More than just a style, though, it manifests a new kind of worldview, an immense leap from the static cosmos of the medieval mind to a new universe of constant change. Art Review: ‘Bernini: Sculpting in Clay’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-10-04T22:43:07Z “Wallflower” was produced and arranged by the megahit maker David Foster, whose lush but static string arrangements, written by William Ross, couch each song on a soft feather bed. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z By contrast, the men in the book are blissfully static. What if You Didn’t Know Who You Were? What if No One Did? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z But as you voyeuristically gaze into the dioramas, the artist’s static depictions of his sufferings make you feel powerless. Conceptual, Sensual, Degenerate: Your Summer Art Choices 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Just don’t expect bright lights and laser shows; this work is a lot smarter and subtler than that, and far more static. Review | Whistles, rumbles, bleeps: New Icelandic music sounds like no string quartet you’ve ever heard 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z He developed a cinema of long takes and static tableaus, an aesthetic so elemental it verged on the primitive. Manoel de Oliveira, Pensive Filmmaker Who Made Up for Lost Time, Is Dead 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z His own static paintings look cramped in comparison to his animated work, and very much of their time. Oskar Fischinger: the wizard who angered Disney 2013-01-09T17:39:00Z If you’re a kid raised in the age of Google, a printed map might at first seem dry and lifeless, a bunch of static lines suffering from GPS deficiency. Enticing Books for Every Kid This Holiday Season 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z If it were static, I would have been stuck with the system we had on May 15. ACLU sues Chicago police over deployment 2011-10-27T20:33:00Z The static pacing that the director, Jade King Carroll, tolerates may reflect the depiction of halting conversations, but when Ms. Giles’s charged performance follows it, “Spit” seems to have lacked any urgency at all. Theater Review: Summer Shorts at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-09T02:00:00Z It's quite silly, and at times frankly baffling, but for all its colour, the production can't get around the fact that the opera is a largely static affair. Montezuma 2010-08-15T21:01:00Z I was unfamiliar with Moran’s work, but his cogent, dramatic voice was a welcome balance to the static longueurs of Glass. Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z How can he say that ours is a static culture in the age of connectivity, which has accelerated change and turned ours into ever more “liquid societies”? An illusion. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Runnicles had a way of holding out a chord, not static but slightly shifting, like a pulsing, living organism, until it finally, elegantly reached its own limits. The NSO starts its regular season with a promising debut 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Zigzags of static regularly crash through the scene, and the tape is on fast-forward, so Ms. Rist’s voice is very high and her movements very fast. ‘Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest,’ Deep in the Wilds of Video 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But, again, this measured stylishness felt very static, and I can’t say exactly why. On the Runway: Set Against Black, Jil Sander Strikes a Nerve 2011-02-26T18:16:21Z This is meant as a criticism, implying that it is devoted to displaying old things in a relatively static way. The challenge of presenting ‘African American music’: First, define it. 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Exactly how much to drink is not a static number for everyone. Perspective | No, soy doesn’t give men breasts: A dietitian answers her 10 most commonly asked questions 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Consequently, the best literary precedent for what we’re enduring now is not the static image of Big Brother but the turbulent eruptions of King Lear. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The 911 operator hears only static, but police are compelled to answer each call. Katie Couric bedeviled by strange 911 calls 2013-02-14T16:39:15Z In fact, the post struck a chord with so many that Nicholson began her own “support group” Facebook page for all those “victims of static cling.” Kid found mom's thong stuck to his pant leg at school, mortified mom reveals in viral post 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Brandt’s photographs, which at first glance can seem static, are in fact suffused with movement and with a sense of the ephemeral quality of life. Elephants in Dust 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The presentation is not particularly imaginative; the overall design is fairly static; the feel is almost utilitarian. Museum Review: The Musical Instrument Museum Opens in Phoenix 2010-04-24T00:46:00Z In a field of international producers Seattle takes the cake, with local man DJAO's radical take on "Relief," which starts with a crashed wave of static and then follows that back into the ocean. Album reviews: 'Coexist' by The xx and two more 2012-09-18T16:39:06Z Noufel, meanwhile, shares similar feelings of detachment, but his existence remains more or less static. Netflix's "I Lost My Body" will have you rooting for a severed hand 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Seizing grand themes, teeming with incident, fat with dozens of characters representing different political stances, his pictures are often staid and static; they represent good intentions unfulfilled, great opportunities squandered. Amigo: John Sayles' Latest Declaration of Indie-pendence 2011-08-17T07:10:00Z Lovely passages alternate with segments that feel static and a bit dull. Fresh Releases by Pink Floyd and Queen 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Hair can become dry and prone to static from factors such as friction from clothing, indoor heating and even low humidity,” she said. Winter hair care: How to prevent seasonal damage 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The production has received mixed reviews, with The Guardian's Tim Ashley writing that the incorporation of four short films with what is otherwise "a static, old fashioned" staging "proves unwieldy in the extreme." It's not over 'til the tenor sings -- now in 3D 2011-02-23T11:11:35Z “Bierstadt presents a certain way of understanding nature as beautiful and unpeopled and full of animals and grain and enduring and static, and Hegarty takes that same image and literally dematerializes it,” he said. Can Art Help Save the Planet? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z She indulges her maximalist side only on cruises, a static vacation. Tips on how to travel light without sacrificing comfort and style 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z “Prayer for Now” originated as a film earlier in the pandemic, and those origins seem evident in its static, in-place beginning. Review: The Stephen Petronio Company Reconnects 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z When I think of that moment now, I do not see my chest rising and falling with breath; instead, I am static with anticipation. How many times had I wished my father dead? This time, it was different 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z “Beauty is not static,” his collection notes conclude. Del Core intros new brand with live show during digital MFW 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Whenever Quint appears, the TV screen - a la "Poltergeist" - develops static. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z The static images recall the views from live theater, where the eyes of the audience are limited by the proscenium and the angle of a particular seat to the stage. ‘Four Quartets’ Review: Virtuosi in Verse 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The camera needs to be static but the view need not be, i.e. cars passing. Will the digital age kill off art? 2013-07-02T15:36:28Z Instead, the stilted dialogue and static camerawork leaves The Linguini Incident feeling more like Invitation To Love, the intentionally gaudy soap opera watched by the characters of Twin Peaks. The Linguini Incident: a Bowie re-release nobody needs to see 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z The action here might best be described as inaction: This is a decisively static picture, more a series of Helmut Newton-style tableaus strung together than a movie with anything resembling an actual plot. Review: The Superslick 'Neon Demon' Seduces and Befuddles 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z “My hope is that whoever is chosen will be given a chance to prove why they were chosen, without too much static,” he said. The unanswered ‘Jeopardy!’ question: Who’s the new host? 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z David Remnick, in a recent New Yorker article on Zaatari, described refugee camps as places of “dependency, bureaucracy and static suffering.” Art becomes way to help Syrian refugees 2013-08-26T02:49:38Z He uses test-card color bars, sizzles of radio static, and laugh tracks that jeer like mobs to gain texture. The Urgent, Giddily Imaginative Vision of “Random Acts of Flyness” 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z One of the oldest problems in poetry—how to render the hectic presence of the person in the static notation of the written word—has been rebooted for our moment. The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The highlights are there, but lost in the static. What films have left you confused? 2012-08-20T10:22:30Z The Morris Arboretum is a zoological park not for animals but for more static creatures: shade trees, conifers and shrubs. There’s a lot more to winter trees than meets the eye 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z For 20 years he bestrode the pop world in a manner unlike anyone else — and not, it should be noted, with a style that was static or imposed upon him. Ernst Jorgensen remasters Elvis Presley's legacy 2010-12-24T06:00:00Z It aims to fill a gap in local cultural offerings, with an emphasis on performance rather than static exhibitions. Miami, With Sun, Surf and Clubs, Now Has a Solid Art Scene 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The ark is static, enshrining the sacred, and itself sacred. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z In many ways “Ripped Paper,” which features music by Daniel Brewbaker and an assortment of wide-brimmed hats, is another painterly dance of static poses. Dance Review: A ?Requiem? Unwraps Stillness Swathed in Silk 2011-02-16T22:54:59Z The production’s video elements — digital static, projections of social media accounts, the Egyptian army’s unconvincing drowning — merely distracted from this human element. At the Opera, Humans Bear Witness to Atrocity, or Ignore It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Looking at them lined up in a neat row, politely static, can be frustratingly anticlimactic. A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z At the Bird’s Nest, four static, remote-operated cameras captured the opening ceremony and remain in place for the closing. EXPLAINER: Robots and Olympics — a potent photo combination 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z That type of static strength, however, doesn’t always translate well to an event that can involve, for example, picking up a 300-pound keg and doing a 50-foot timed run. In Maryland’s Strongman competition, lifting, grunting and the ol’ heave-ho And part of that was just Saul Goodman per se is a static character. Show runners examine the ever-changing television landscape 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z They want to be stable but not static. For D.C. pop band Shaed, the rock-and-roll dream is all about family 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z His unsparing dual character study is affecting, if at heart static. In ‘Gruesome,’ love and dysfunction meet 2013-07-30T16:49:12Z “I’m gettin’ nothing but like static cling here for God’s sakes alreadys, now focus in here.” 'Inner Voices': Judith Blazer Seeks Divine Clarity at 59E59 Theaters 2010-04-07T21:51:00Z The frequent sight of evenly spaced dancers, dressed simply in grays and blacks, was overly static. Review: A Cuban Troupe’s Strong Dancers, Less Strong Premieres 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z This is not to say that the works were static. Dana Tai Soon Burgess dancers cosmically intertwine art and science 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z He’s interested in noise music, which uses static and unexpected sounds in place of instruments. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z I pushed through, the balloons bobbling above me, and eventually made my way back to the exit, with static in my hair and clothes clinging to my body. Opinion: High Culture Goes Hands-On 2013-08-10T18:36:44Z The fact that it delivered the sound with a patina of grainy static only made the music more fragile and precious, the experience more moving. Opera Over the Phone Offers Passion in a Pandemic 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z There’s a scene of Idan and his father playing video games, depicted in a single static shot. ‘God of the Piano’ Review: How Far Will Mother Go? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Florence And The Machine - Lungs Source: Official UK Charts Company The album chart is largely static, with Mancunian rock trio Doves scoring the highest new entry at 11, with their Best Of collection. Fourth time at the top for Gaga 2010-04-11T18:05:00Z The new garden is not static or sculptured; it is a shifting, transforming web of interactions: Nature, shaped, nudged, guided and cultivated, by its human servants. Critic’s Notebook: New Native Plant Garden at the New York Botanical Garden 2013-05-02T22:27:06Z Yes I did, I confessed, but there was a very important difference between static pictures of, frankly, idealized naked women, and the almost universally degrading videos available online. Parenting in the Age of Online Pornography 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Its story could be described with equal fairness as stately or static, depending on your sense of how fast a narrative should move. Review: Jane Urquhart’s ‘The Night Stages,’ a Novel of Melancholy and Missed Chances 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z At first he showed magic lantern slides, some of which “dissolved” between two static images to create an illusion of movement. How did some of cinema's greatest films end up in an Iowa shed? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z “They wanted a different way of life. They were moving away from standard, static brands. And they wanted a sense of authenticity.” Three people creating the new Washington “The Black Monk,” about a man’s descent into madness, is another one better left to the page, as is “Vanka,” a static story packed with narration. Theater Review: ?Chekhovek,? With 9 Chekhov Plays, at ArcLight Theater 2012-02-08T22:18:57Z He became a series of static moments trapped in amber. Married at 15, or How he met my mother 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z His ballet pieces only infrequently show the harmonious lines and static poses that inform much of classical dance; whole passages can go by during which you’d be hard pressed to name a ballet step. Dance Review: Echoing the Tones of Francis Bacon 2011-07-11T22:23:00Z On air, Mr. Pickles is a steadfast, noble presence but a static character. “Kidding,” Reviewed: Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry Reunite to Conjure Whimsy, Dread, and Puppets 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z A static trio of fiberglass horses is fenced inside a shallow trench, the excavated dirt piled nearby, two with one hoof planted in a bucket full of pennies. 'Current: LA' art biennial: Water may be the theme, but gas is what you'll need to see it all 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Disappearing child, other dimensions within the house, ghosts communicating through the static on the TV set, etc. Did You Watch ‘Stranger Things’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Saariaho’s orchestration, with prominent harpsichord to suggest the period, is vibrant, consisting mainly of somewhat static textures, whether dense or shimmering. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z I’ve a vest in the attic That attracts so much static, I’m bound to appear In the ugliest sweater this year! Style Invitational Week 1416: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The static of the radios, like surface noise from an old LP, added to the melancholy, as did the juxtaposition of their scratchy faintness and Mr. Herbert’s hearty yet poignantly isolated presence. For the Solstice, a Bach Appearance on the G Train 2012-12-23T22:44:46Z Mr. Muhly’s style is inherently restive — it’s all unsettled motion, shot through with tender exhalations — but the sound world is so hyper-polished and unvarying that the restlessness feels paradoxically static. Review: Nico Muhly’s ‘Marnie’ Brings Hitchcock Into the 21st Century 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z When the work slows down, it goes slack, revealing a single-layered and static quality to the choreography, as in a procession of people balancing motley possessions. Review: Waging Battle With Scarcity and Borders at La MaMa Dance Festival 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z As is “Five,” a video piece dedicated to the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu, which consists of five static shots of landscapes, including a moonlit pond whose serenity is disrupted by the croaking of unseen frogs. How Abbas Kiarostami Had Me Thinking in Persian 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z But nice moments get lost in the static. Books of The Times: Padgett Powell’s New Novel, ‘You & Me’ 2012-08-14T12:00:00Z Ms. Morrison crafts muscular sentences that accumulate a poetic force, even when the staging is static. | 'Desdemona': ?Desdemona? at Lincoln Center White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-03T22:47:19Z But I worry about being too static, that it becomes a parody of itself. Queens of the Stone Age, Redefining Itself to Renew Its Sound 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The Webcam’s static shot is reminiscent of “Empire,” Warhol’s 1964 movie which focused for eight hours on the Empire State Building. ArtsBeat: On Warhol’s Birthday, a Live Video Feed Streams From His Grave 2013-08-06T18:00:49Z Painted over several years, “The Night Watch” was commissioned as a group portrait of an Amsterdam city militia and broke new ground by showing its subjects in action rather than as a static portrait. Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' begins on-site restoration 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z For the video, I wanted to dance around, but they told us to remain static while the cameras moved around us. How we made: Heart of Glass 2013-04-29T15:27:00Z It is, after all, surveying a realm whose only static aspect is its past. Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. 2012-09-28T17:20:02Z While one sits there static against the floor and wall, the other becomes a dizzying little reflector. Roy McMakin's riddling sculptures on view at Western Bridge 2012-05-03T20:22:04Z This push and pull grows more violent in “Quantum,” but the mood remains oddly static. Dance Review: Big Bang Theory From Armitage Gone! Dance 2010-06-04T23:00:00Z How do I get my creativity back from all the static in my mind? Psych meds dull my creativity 2013-02-26T01:00:00Z It's not a set of static aesthetic principles. If entertaining is a domestic performance, let Thanksgiving be camp 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Departing from the traditional static museum concept, another entry proposes an interior street and public space. Six museum designs make Helsinki Guggenheim shortlist 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z It remains largely a static and meaningless cacophony. Mothering in a Newly Quiet World 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The monologue form helps to emphasize the feelings of disconnection among the characters, but it also renders this melancholy play static. Theater Review: Elizabeth A. Davis Stars in ‘Four Last Things’ 2014-04-30T19:25:04Z In an era of virtual reality, interactive Wiis and 3D TVs, it is difficult to imagine a more anachronistic attraction than a crowded dark room peopled with static wax models. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z The California artist subverts the precision of digital photography by exposing his camera’s sensors to heat and electromagnetic static. In the Galleries: Exploring Cuba via the artwork 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z My younger brother Mike said my name twice, but when I spoke, I heard only the hollow echo of my own voice and the clicks and static of empty sound. How many times had I wished my father dead? This time, it was different 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Its more recent blossoming may reflect a society increasingly obsessed with celebrity but it is also because, as its visitors soon realise, the division between static wax and interactive virtual reality is a false one. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z “I try to spread that out in everything I do, instead of working toward some static goal.” Tavi Gevinson of ‘Rookie’ Inspires Young Women to Create Communities of Self-Empowerment 2014-04-02T21:19:04Z But that sequence is as expressive and alive as the rest of the supposedly movement-loving drama is static. Review: A static 'Desert Dancer' lands flat footed 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z “Any resistance is just because change is hard, but performing arts are not a static form, and continual interrogation and reinterpretation keeps historical work relevant.” Toning Down Asian Stereotypes to Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Fit the Times 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Unlike the toys of yore, which are static figures placed on stands, the vehicles will all have moving parts, meaning kids can better play with them when the game is off. Toys-to-life gaming at E3 is set to land big, but it's not all child's play 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z “The Memory Show” is small — two performers, one piano, 75 minutes — and ultimately static. | 'The Memory Show': Forgetting of Things Past: A Duet Off-Key 2010-08-26T22:46:00Z He allows the world around him to fade into static before suddenly, with zero transition, morphing into the predatory Saul. "Better Call Saul" and the two faces of JMM 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The idea is to shift “the spectator’s perspective and physical relationship to the performer” and to “explore dimensions of the performance space that are typically static.” A&E highlights: A week for Trekkies, folkies and fairgoers 2013-05-17T23:15:08Z It’s just expressing an emotion, and the narrative is static for three, four minutes. Sting Frees Himself With the Writing of ‘The Last Ship’ 2013-09-12T12:00:01Z It’s just the television screen with the static. Danny Elfman Brings Music From Tim Burton’s Films to Lincoln Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z If Ms. Antopol’s stories are also occasionally static, hesitant and similar in tone, I’m willing to chalk this up to her relative youth. Books of The Times: Molly Antopol Looks to Old World in ‘UnAmericans’ 2014-03-18T19:56:45Z Since the sculptor was selected from a pool of artists in February 2018, he wondered and worried: How would a dynamic, flowing Soundsuit transition into a static mosaic? Nick Cave Digs Deep, With a Symphony in Glass 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Modern audiences won’t want to sit for hours through parades of static arias and confusing plots. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z It was 7am and I was sitting on a race bike attached to a device called a turbo trainer that turns a normal bike into a static exercise machine. 'Toddler twins, a demanding job... why not take on an Ironman?' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Both are static images but one implies motion. From Instagram to TV ads, what’s the science behind food porn? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z I have heard performances in which this third part of the song just descends into complete anarchy: weird warping crescendoes, cymbal crashes; atonal static from Mars, lizard music. My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Still, a static production of new work can be thrilling too. Where Do Theater Artists Go to Ask Questions? Poughkeepsie. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z “Recorded music’s brilliant, but it’s static. If you’re playing a game, Hans Zimmer isn’t sitting with you composing. I think responsive systems like that will be a big part of the music of the future.” From Jingles to Pop Hits, A.I. Is Music to Some Ears 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Kitsch is static — it’s a description of an object or an item — where camp is performative, and you’re in on the joke. Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Kids These Days open their self-released debut album, “Traphouse Rock,” with the sound of several radio stations cutting in and out between static. Kids These Days pull songs from the static 2012-11-16T16:04:00Z The song kicks off on a chilled-out vibe with a muffled keyboard melody, then quickly turns into a psychedlic anxiety attack, shot through with manic blips, smeared static and auxiliary tinny/buzzy melodies. Ladies and gentlemen, Seattle's Keyboard Kid is floating in space 2010-07-21T21:31:00Z Like “Shakespeare’s Worst,” Iris Dauterman’s “Hatpin Panic” is being performed in a rehearsal hall at Arena that hasn’t been reimagined with any flair — portable platforms and three static backdrops, colorfully lighted — that’s it. Review | Mike Daisey scores big in an uneven ‘curated’ series at Capital Fringe Festival 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z That experience isn’t static; it exists through time, absorbing and responding to the world in which it moves. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Accordingly, while “Top Secret” offers a cogent, informative peek into a historic chapter in 20th-century journalism, as an evening of theater it is static and a little ponderous. Theater Review | 'Top Secret': A Vietnam War-Era Fight at New York Theater Workshop 2010-03-10T03:02:00Z Badalamenti’s soaring Twin Peaks theme kicks in, before there’s a sudden disruption – a shocking fuzz of static and a blurred man looming into the camera. Twin Peaks teaser trailer: 'It's like being in a moving painting' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z It assumes a static and compressed definition of Africa. What makes a 'real African'? 2013-07-07T17:31:41Z But as with all static shows, it was hard to tell how the designer Milan Vukmirovic envisaged the clothes. Special Report: Fashion: Armani's Blue Period 2010-09-27T18:20:00Z The presence of the chorus, often just sitting on stools, also lends a static quality to several sequences. Review: God and Devil Gamble on a Soul in ‘Cabin in the Sky’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z It assumes a static and compressed definition of Africa. What makes a 'real African'? 2013-07-07T17:31:41Z One of the most consistently great bands still running from the ’00s indie-rock boom, the baroque rockers have avoided the divisive left turns of some of their peers without staying completely static either. Washington’s best outdoor summer concerts and festivals 2019 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Here, at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, he was surrounded by his band in static “Ed Sullivan Show” style, singing songs that recalled the peak Sam Cooke era. Review: Leon Bridges Reveals Classic Soul and Something More Personal 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He and his associate Robert Hooke wanted it to double as a huge static telescope, with an opening in its crown and lenses and mirrors employed to watch the heavens circling above. Porgy and Bess; the Prince Consort; Live Music Sculpture – review 2012-07-14T23:06:10Z The character design employs the pert nose, heart-shaped face and huge eyes that are standard in anime, but these conventions never feel static because Suzu isn’t. ‘Belle’ Review: Soaring and Singing Over the Online Rainbow 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Still, when images of heavy weaponry show up in a decorative border or a repetitive textile pattern, it is reminiscent of a primitive, though static, video game interface. War swept under and over the rug 2012-07-04T00:00:00Z It was the essence of juicing made material: a static object that perfectly described the process by which it worked. Design: How Dieter Rams Made Braun Look Cool 2011-06-06T10:51:36Z Mad Men is "static and airless", "rusty and unsubtle", "melodramatic rather than dramatic", its plotting "haphazard and often preposterous". Waiting for the Barbarians by Daniel Mendelsohn – review 2013-01-06T00:08:39Z Scenes from Boccaccio and Dante gave way to static, monumental figures whose threat, or promise, only hint at what comes next. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z There is something unnerving about the static nature of his image, of its imperviousness to the passage of time and his own ballooning wealth. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Mitchell’s movie, an occasionally static work if also an unequivocally important and gloriously comprehensive one, tracks the years from 1968 through 1978, in which “a procession of assured Black talent” filled the screen. ‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’ Review: A Miracle Decade 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Using sampling techniques to create multiple layers of static and shifting sounds, she created a shimmering construct of disembodied, but fully expressive, voices. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z We hear static and the sound of trains. Review: Kyle Marshall’s History Lessons, in Fragments 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Yet the definition of what is acceptable, in art and in life, is rarely static. The Carpetbagger: The Woody Allen Debate 2014-02-05T13:30:26Z Then Elsa’s entrance is so static, and the music is so still, that it’s extra difficult. The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Letterman himself has meant different things at different times; he has been himself, always, but he has not been static. David Letterman's 33-year journey from cult hero to late-night institution 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Other countries' problems come to us like poor radio signals — emerging from the static when something exceptionally sensational occurs and then sinking back into the white noise of bad business as usual. Dramatic, inspiring 'El Poeta' targets Mexico's War on Drugs 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Everything else is just static, everything else is just dancing specks of white and black skating on dead TV screens. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcript 2012-10-11T09:18:54Z For a book about transformation, most of the people whom Brooks describes are static figures, exemplars of the first mountain or the second. David Brooks’s Conversion Story 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z And as a sort of reward, more than two months later we heard the news, through the same weak little voice of the radio filled with static, that they were coming back for us. Returning to the scene of the crash: A survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z Ellenbecker, who is also a physical therapist, said that stretches before playing should be dynamic stretches that elevate the body’s tissue temperature, not static stretches. Pro tennis players’ good habits are prolonging their careers. The average athlete can learn from them. 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z "I spend time wandering around and staring, going through certain accidents that produce a tickle or potential static, which I write in my notebooks." Elia Suleiman: stories my father told me 2010-06-15T21:01:00Z And there is breathy fuzz to the overall sound as the static noise produced by the friction of air against vocal cords is multiplied. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ by the Oratorio Society at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-25T19:53:56Z And of course that static quality forces you to pay attention to the words, which sound good and scan well but deny you the pleasure of a point of view. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z The opening, when the man narrates the story of his pilgrimage in static chant, can be unbelievably fatiguing. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z The static dots of its pupils stare out from behind tiny grilles. 'The secrecy has been ludicrous': Star Wars actor Anthony Daniels on the new film and his life as C-3PO 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Alternating between static poses and bursts of motion, this introductory work established the clarity of Ms. Sarukkai’s dancing, her ability to define and shape space, and especially her uncommon rhythmic precision. Dance Review: Malavika Sarukkai at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-11-18T23:04:26Z “It showed me you didn’t have to do static artworks; you could create situations, do something environmental,” Mr. Vega told The Village Voice in 2002. Alan Vega, Punk Music Pioneer and Artist, Dies at 78 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Disruption is in the air — being contentedly static is no longer enough. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z I believe that self-discipline is not a static character trait that does or does not exist in someone, but a daily choice regarding our actions that is ever-so-difficult to be consistent about. 10 Character Traits I Want to Teach My Children 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z He achieved this in the delirium of the third movement, which seemed to draw from the static opening movement and the more staggered patterns of the second — while adding something newly mystical. Review: Philharmonic Ties New Threads to a Recent Premiere 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z She has experimented with Tower Bridge, in London, which made “the sort of sound that would make your ears bleed, static and screechy.” Turning Bridges Into Music 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The design here is never static; there isn’t the oppressive sense of control found in some classical architecture, with its rigid perpendicular lines. Architecture Review: Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting 2011-07-05T21:43:47Z Then there’s the confidence of those smoky but unmistakable edges with their occasional halos of brownish static. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z "Sometimes someone has to tell me what city I'm in," she says with a laugh over a static cellphone. Why rapper Ana Tijoux won't be a sex object for her music 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Each segment includes static shots of the location along with a title card listing the city, the date, the number of people killed and the number injured, then a cut to black between each event. A Documentary Grows With Each Mass Shooting 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Eventually, the music builds to atmospheric waves of sounds that seem nearly static. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The AM radio stations offered only crackling static, interrupted by snippets of sermon. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z And Ms. Wasikowska, embracing the static, romantic conceit of her character, also transcends it — or rather grounds it in the habits and actions of a believably stubborn and capricious young woman. | ?Restless': ?Restless? With Mia Wasikowska - Review 2011-09-15T23:00:10Z It is hard to imagine a more static way of showing off expensive active-sports clothes. Check Out That Dude 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z It hovered statically for a moment, then came alive as Mr. LaFosse stretched it slightly, flooding the gesture with purpose. Dance Machine of the 21st Century Imparts Vintage Broadway Steps to a New Generation 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z There are different standards of table manners specific to the setting and company, but there are some rules that are static. Salon’s social bootcamp: He says licking his fingers at the table is fine 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z “I wanted to fight against any sense that Batman would remain static,” Reeves said. ‘The Batman’ and Matt Reeves: Emerging From the Shadow of Other Caped Crusaders 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z When he asked if it was serious, I said probably not, though privately I was thinking there would probably be some static. A Memory of Robert Stone 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Wavery pitches, melting tones, swooping glissandos, ephemeral loops, controlled static and a soothing yet varying pulse emerge from a thicket of knobs and patch cords, serene but never merely ambient. The Playlist: Zayn’s Bizarrely Great Sleaze Rock and 13 More New Songs 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Relatively static, such rooms change as new works are acquired and historical ideas are revised, but changes are usually incremental. The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Westhoff incorporated techniques like bariolage, a fast alternation between static and changing notes, which Bach also used to create contrapuntal textures. Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z It’s an experience, this record, written in big riffs and celestial choirs and digital static. Playlist: CDs From Guillermo Klein, Kris Davis and the Body 2010-08-08T00:47:00Z As we moved from exhibit to exhibit, directing each other this way and that to point out some new captivating feature, we appreciated that the landscapes were anything but static. The World in Miniature: A Model Train (and Plane) Lover’s Paradise in Hamburg 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Equally, Thatcherism created massive job insecurity, higher pay for a few with static pay for the majority, and much more atavistic workplaces, with some of the longest working hours in Europe. Should workplaces have on-site psychiatrists? 2013-02-16T17:59:01Z What we see on stage is a static, old-fashioned production of Donizetti's opera ... What to say about ? Mike Figgis's Lucrezia Borgia 2011-02-03T16:01:01Z “When you see an artwork for the first time, you approach it and it’s usually static,” McQueen said. In a Steve McQueen Film, the First Frame Is Everything 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Unavoidable, but not static; which means that it develops in ways that cannot be foreseen, the specifics and minutiae of which are often beyond our imagination. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z The static categorization likely does not include teacher and nurse jobs. Sorry to burst your bubble, but don’t all Americans live in their own little worlds? 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z I dealt with that by introducing secondary characters for Margot to talk to about the texts — the stepdad, Tamara — which both helped keep the scenes from becoming static and felt true to life. ‘Cat Person’ in The New Yorker: A Discussion With the Author 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z As the others appear, Rudd’s choreography grows to encompass the group with lifts as well as more static moments. Smoke, Mirrors and Passing the Torch at American Ballet Theater 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z On one hand, some elemental truths regarding our behavior have remained pretty static. Table manners aren't dying. They are changing, though 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z “One of the things I said to Jorge is that it’s important to me that there are not a lot of static moments in which I am looking at or reading something,” Mr. Gordon said. David Gordon Digs Into His Archives for a Dance That Matters 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The rest of the top three also remained static, with Men In Black 3 at two and Snow White and the Huntsman at three. Prometheus remains UK number one 2012-06-20T16:32:26Z In the first, “Capriccio,” pulverized dance fragments float through abstract static like dust particles caught in a strong beam of light. Review: Chamber Music Society, From Mirth to Mortality 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z As the best critics do, Coates draws us into conversation, into argument, rather than closing off discourse with canned proclamations or static resolutions. Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The re-enactments are staged in a perfunctory, static way, despite brief standout performances from Ross and Jen Richards, as a transgender woman who found a community of women like her in the 1950s. ‘Framing Agnes’ Review: Transition, Center Stage 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Other than that, the setting was static - not very creative and not much beyond a concert performance. La Traviata in Vienna shines but staging weak 2011-10-10T13:33:08Z The opera industry’s party line is that while the repertory may be woefully static, it could and should be refreshed with an influx of new works. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z But Rabbit Snare Gorge injects the island’s static saltbox vernacular with sudden kinetic energy, an argument for the 20th-century theory that evolution happens not gradually, as Charles Darwin suggested, but in dramatic bursts. In Nova Scotia, Homes as Wild as the Landscape Around Them 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z "I wish I would have felt more static in the air," she said, when asked in her dressing room why she wasn't satisfied. Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z Her performance of Mouth is as terrifying as any and yet, in its vulnerability to neurological static, more human than most. When Disability Isn’t a Special Need but a Special Skill 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Punctuated by eerily static shots of empty basketball courts and deserted hallways, Mercutio’s blustering menace is as timeless as the romance he seeks to derail. Movie Review: ?Private Romeo,? Directed by Alan Brown 2012-02-09T23:34:09Z Virtual assistants, too, bear their own kind of static. Office Help Is On the Way, Virtually Speaking 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The words, set against suspended, seemingly static strings, come quickly, unintelligible as they blend and best taken in, as with most of Adams’s music, as if letting them wash over you. Review: Doleful ‘Vespers’ Pray for an Earth in Crisis 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z For as delightful as Austen’s static world may be, it is the humbling, bracing confrontation with the self that lifts her characters beyond caricature and her plots beyond Harlequin romance. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z “On these machines here, I’m experimenting having a mix of static and variable tension,” he said, pedaling slowly. Sebastien Lagree’s Megaformer Machines Put the Sweat in Pilates 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z However, "This Land" features the same striking papier-mâché puppets of rural Americans in the Dust Bowl era, their faces creased and weather-beaten from the hard climes and times they've endured, their faces static yet expressive. Seattle troupe brings back Woody Guthrie tribute, with marionettes and song 2012-09-19T17:56:03Z “His operas are made up of static pictures. There’s a situation. Someone comes to the front of the stage and sings. For me, that’s not imaginable anymore.” Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z But it’s an oddly static closing, and a dead end. Review | From New York City Ballet: Big music, big dancing (mostly) 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “Collections are static and still and flat,” he said. Technology Invites a Deep Dive Into Art 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z He also engineers a static, almost wordless 19-minute shot inside a tent that generates more tension than many horror directors achieve with a swarm of foley artists and a healthier budget. ‘Willow Creek,’ a Good Old Hunt for Sasquatch 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The first sound on the album is the crackle of static over a fragmented beat. Album review: Wilco, 'The Whole Love' 2011-09-22T04:29:00Z Make a list of static kitchen closing duties: Think about a few tasks that consistently need to get done to make cooking or feeding yourself easier. How to make dinner while drowning 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Plush, comforting sounds are in retreat; instead, instruments are often sparse and brittle, electronically desiccated or sampled through static. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Perhaps the best way to think about the state of popularity is like a kind of quantum element: Both static and in perpetual flux. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z As for the last element, the recorded radio static, I could only hear it faintly when I got close to the brass bell. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Advertisement In these early moments, Ms. Fei’s mind is filled with the crackling static of a mother in trauma. Review: In ‘Girl in Glass,’ Deanna Fei Shares Her Baby’s Struggles 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z I want a minimum of detours, absences and static longeurs, with introductions and bridges and codas. Music: Revisiting ?Main St.,? Rethinking the Myth 2010-05-20T03:39:00Z They are simply extraordinary creations, not the least because they eschew the internally static identity of the interior components of most big-scale puppets. Broadway review: Extraordinary puppets make heart of 'War Horse' beat 2011-04-15T00:43:39Z In the ’90s timeline, two months have passed, and everything has remained mostly static. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Best Friends Forever 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z “Instead of engaging with real people, we are interacting with a static system.” During self-quarantine, learn a foreign language without leaving the house 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Her summerhouse catches fire, but the fire is static and unsmoking. Empty Space: A Haunting by M John Harrison – review 2012-08-02T07:00:00Z His forerunners’ work was mostly static, he says, so he created forms in motion. Zimbabwean artist's dynamic stone sculptures find global acclaim 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z James Johnson Sweeney, curator of painting at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and ’40s, characterized Mr. Soulages’s imposing, static forms as “a chord played on the piano and held.” Pierre Soulages, Leading French Abstract Painter, Dies at 102 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Like watching the audience volunteer get a good case of Bride-of-Frankenstein hair from the static electricity that Granack plays with like a kid with a new Lego set. Worth the trip: a pilgrimage to experience Bellingham’s MegaZapper 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Not one that is stoic or static, but rather a moving image that aimed to present Brown as unbridled in his pursuit of justice for all. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is a New Entry in the John Brown Canon 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Lurie rescheduled the entire shoot, starting with static scenes and shifting the action to the end. Eastwood’s ankle forced production shift for ‘The Outpost’ 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z But it grew monotonous: The grooves often felt static, suggesting agitation without momentum. Music Review: Derrick Hodge and Aaron Parks at 92YTriBeCa - Review 2011-10-28T23:42:57Z These turned into his 2010 début, “Love Remains,” a subdued and ghostly assemblage that used eighties and nineties R. & B. like radio static. In 2016, How to Dress Well Gets Happy 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Eight years later, he added that far from being static, art “lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints.” Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Beside it, Fernández's work looks improvised and static, a mortifying own goal for a space that boasts the word "contemporary" in its title. Revealed ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:39Z There is something static about them even in movement. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z "Sometimes a silence in music is better than adding to the static and so an end to it," he said. Elvis Costello cancels Israel concerts 2010-05-19T11:19:00Z Instead you hear what sounds like industrial whistles, hulking machine clanks and analog static, cut into snippets of equal length and timed to the precise four-beat swing of the rapping. The Playlist: AlunaGeorge Says No and Radiohead Says Goodnight 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Action often matters more to Vass than sharp focus, and some of his images are enlivened by the visual equivalent of surface static on a vinyl LP. Seattle artist Nathan Vass : going forward in all directions 2013-06-26T21:19:08Z Which is the point, a static point perhaps more suited to museums and art galleries than a theater. ‘The Mood Room’ Review: 1980s Anomie, California Style 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z In between these static scenes, we are treated to bursts of video imagery: Ames’s memories, more or less, projected on a screen at the back of his office set. Theater Review: ‘Stop. Reset.,’ by Regina Taylor, Opens at Signature Theater 2013-09-09T21:00:52Z But the call soon dissolves into digital static. 'Girls' Recap: Hannah, the White Girl in the Room 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Sleep came easily at the villa; the banging of the waves obliterated the usual static, and not a single bat disturbed my dreams. In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Deftly she focused on life and dance — specifically how a life in dance is never static. Danspace Project Turns Choreographers Into Curators 2010-04-10T03:53:00Z Reversed keyboard chords swoop into earshot; a patient beat is built out of static and, eventually, drum-kit sounds. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z He would later tell me that musically, his mind was cluttered, filled with static like a car radio. For John Lennon, Isolation Had a Silver Lining 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Mahfouz may have proved her point, but as adventures go, this one is curiously static. Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship 2014-04-13T21:06:55Z The beat, if there is one, might be a glitchy bit of static; the harmony keeps its distance, with sustained synthesizer tones, a treated guitar or a music-box glimmer. Playlist: Falling in Love, Longing and Leering 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Then there’s the jarring, meanwhile-back-on-shore static shot of Butler holding binoculars and looking anxious. Chasing Mavericks: Looking For That Big Break 2012-10-25T14:30:40Z Hearing it is probably the best part about the formulaic “Drenched,” which maintains a static quality even as it progresses like clockwork, or a dripping faucet, from one scene to the next. Dance Review: Luke Murphy Performs His ‘Drenched’ at La MaMa 2013-07-07T21:19:11Z Her basic technique of juxtaposing either static or busily repetitive elements against proper thematic material leads the ear along effectively. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuts two works from two ‘uncommon’ women 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z This film of director Katie Mitchell's production, while a little static for television, nevertheless captures why audiences have been so excited. TV highlights 28/06/2013 2013-06-28T06:00:08Z Standing still on point is not a static act, but a flurry of micro-muscles working in tandem to make a body float. Two Critics Reflect on Ballet’s #MeToo Moment 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z "And I'm exploring two climates that share a somewhat static nature in a similar way." A sneak peek at the Broad museum draws an enthusiastic crowd 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z When spring moves to summer, the annuals fill in, but then the garden is essentially static. Review | The Haupt Garden demands constant work, and isn’t worth it 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The texture of “The Enormous Room” is keyed-up and rather loose, at once frenetic and static, the notations as wandering and improgressive as day after day in prison must be. An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Wadsworth's production is elegant but a bit static, reinforcing the feeling that the work is as much oratorio as opera. 'Maometto' takes Santa Fe Opera by storm 2012-08-05T16:44:09Z Before Ben descends into these fantasy memories, we see and hear the fuzz and sound of vintage TV static. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Hunger Games 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Yet the proceedings don’t fully jell, due in part to the static way in which director Michael Dove has staged the play physically. 1st Stage puts on taut drama ‘Doubt’ 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z "Dryer balls help reduce drying time and energy cost. They are chemical-free and help limit static cling and soften clothes." 5 laundry mistakes you didn’t realize you were making 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s the most static point of the piece, and a groove needs to be found between static to the point of no motion, and finding the magic that’s in it. A Young Pianist Learns Liszt From Listening 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z EH Now that we're going the other way with western countries, where economic growth is relatively static, even declining, then the question of reforms becomes much more urgent again. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z Shot in and around Brooklyn and Manhattan, this low-budget film is often static and awkward. ‘Delusions of Guinevere,’ a Comedy Starring Ariana Bernstein 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z This new movie from the Belgian filmmaker Bas Devos opens with a static shot of an apartment’s living room and its window. ‘Ghost Tropic’ Review: A Missed Stop and a Long Walk Home 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z But significant as it is for the treasury department to put her on capitalism’s flagship bill, money is static. In ‘Underground’ Delivering Justice Along With Escapist Entertainment 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Burns’s chief takeaway from his immersion in the genre is spot on: country music is not, and has never been, static. Ken Burns’s Delightful “Country Music” Gets the Big Things Mostly Right 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Annie Gosfield, a New York composer and keyboardist, exuberantly exploits the inadvertent music of contemporary life: static, distortion, the clangor of industry and the siren song of space junk form part of her digital palette. Music Review: Moving Sounds Festival at the Czech Center 2012-09-16T22:18:00Z Accompanying this metamorphosis is a scratchy electronic soundtrack by Mica Levi that suggests vaguely melodic static emanating from another galaxy. Movie Review: Scarlett Johansson as a Deadly Alien in ‘Under the Skin’ 2014-04-03T22:28:04Z “Classical music became a way for parts of society to celebrate itself, but it just stayed static ever since,” Mr. Abelin said. Bringing Classical Music to the Club Scene 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The form – an exchange of letters – means that any staging must be static. Address Unknown – review 2013-06-26T16:40:14Z The medium remains stuck in what might be called its epic-poem phase, relying on static, larger-than-life characters whose exploits are explicitly fantastical — wizards, aliens, zombies, future soldiers and space marines. Video Game Review: Papo & Yo 2012-09-25T12:45:11Z One of the glories of Odissi style, as practiced by Nrityagram, is how its sinuous poses, its deep bends and curves, are sculptural but not static. Review: Breathing, Dancing Art at the Met Museum 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z But while most billboards remain static, the wall evolves. The Climate Changes Before Your Eyes 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z She leads with her jaw, and she has this very static, still posture that nothing can penetrate. Charlize Theron on ‘Bombshell,’ Fox News and Harvey Weinstein 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The beat is waves of indistinct percussion static that swirl before or after the beat, it's hard to tell, and pull the listener closer like some mystical undertow. Music Monday: Lil B and White Rainbow, The Skins, Shabazz Palaces 2010-06-21T18:34:00Z Like Caine in the 1970s television series “Kung Fu,” Hong walks the earth with a strange passivity, the surrealism of his surroundings sometimes arresting yet too often static. Review: ‘Phantom Detective,’ a Dawdling South Korean Noir 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Down a flight of wide wooden stairs, the basement-turned-dining room was ebullient that night, jammed with a static of chatter and clinking silverware. Ralph Lauren Restarts the Fantasy 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z With all of this static surrounding a single dish, they decided to solve the question of what is paella in the most democratic way possible: let the people who make it most define it. How paella got punked – and the Valencian chefs trying to save it 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z In a later Facebook post, the embarrassed mom explained that her undies got stuck in his pants due to static cling. The 10 funniest parenting fiascoes of 2020 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Dr. Deary has a lot to say about our personalities and characters in “How We Are,” about how we are less static objects than we are a series of moving parts. 'How We Are,’ by Vincent Deary, Mixes Psychology and Philosophy 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Reading from left to right, the sequence moves from static and stuck to getting back to normal — which is where the great pumpkin lurks. 'The Gildless Age': A different tale of the '1 percent' at the Torrance Art Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The city’s conflicts and contradictions serve instead as elements in a static, ready-made backdrop, occasionally distracting attention from the drama at center stage. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, a busy “static” of lurid hues — bright magenta, lemon yellow — infringes upon its upper and lower peripheries. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The music provides an appropriate soundtrack, conjuring choppy, slow-moving waves amid thick static hum. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z He really never lets you know what he’s thinking, and he’s very static and very remote and very poker-faced in his performance. Breaking Down the 'Breaking Bad' Finale With Vince Gilligan 2010-06-14T12:23:00Z There were no camera stands or static shots, there was no producer or director to tell him what to do. Robert Kee obituary 2013-01-11T18:56:24Z Side A features the drummer Chad Taylor and the saxophonist David Boykins, finding meandering purpose in static harmony. Playlist: New Albums: Tift Merritt, Rangda, Randy Newman 2012-09-29T23:43:03Z While Mable never leaves her wheelchair, that doesn’t mean that Ms. Smith is a static presence. Theater Review: Sam Shepard’s ‘Heartless’ Opens, With Lois Smith 2012-08-28T02:00:00Z What's curious is that this identity has remained so static – and so different from how he seems in the flesh. Vin Diesel on Guardians of the Galaxy: 'I didn't realise how much I love trees' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s old but it’s dynamic; it’s tradition that isn’t static. In Africa, a Village of Mind, a World of Styles 2010-05-21T22:37:00Z The technology and the medium were new, so camera operators everywhere faced common difficulties, such as annoying white streaks on footage, caused by static electricity. One perfect shot: the unsung power of cinematography 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The staging promises not to be static, even apart from any flying that may be involved. Massive demand for 'Harry Potter' play tickets in London snags website 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Volle observes these varied indications, even when the production is all too static. A New Wotan Reigns in the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z She had been shooting static documentary photographs; suddenly, she had the opportunity for conceptual, staged work. A Catherine Opie moment in Los Angeles at LACMA and MOCA 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The director has admitted that people had doubts about the black-and-white film, which was shot with a static camera and features actors unknown outside Poland. Polish film Ida wins double awards 2013-10-21T08:21:25Z It is something static, left behind by the past, like moraine deposited by a glacier’s retreat. Museum Exhibitions at National Archives and the Smithsonian 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The characters are never named, the camera work is static, and little that’s conceptually interesting materializes. Review: ‘Kekszakallu’ Plunges Into the Unknown 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Live, they remain categorically unshowy – three static figures dressed in their trademark black with just two "x"s lighting up their stage set. The xx; the Coral 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z We get bursts of radio static through whipping snow, a glimpse of a man on an ice floe. Storms Crash Through These Two Novels, Leaving Humans in Their Wake 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z These shots are the longest, and they are always elaborately choreographed; the reverse angle reaction shots are mostly static. ‘Sunset’ Review: Discovering a Dark Past and a Cataclysmic Future 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Art is becoming less and less static, taking up many new different shapes, from printing digitally created sculptures in 3D to flash-mobs to photographers lining up hundreds of naked volunteers on the beach. Tech & art: Engineering the future 2012-10-04T09:01:30Z It is holding a static protest outside the stadium on Saturday 10 November at 1:00 pm. Walthamstow stadium: viabilaity, credibility and democracy 2012-11-06T17:34:00Z Its seven-and-a-half-hour duration is virtually irrelevant, because it’s constructed as a static package rather than as an experience. The O. J. Story and the Flow of Information in a Pre-Internet World 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Ada, for her part, is caught in the maze of patriarchy and static gender roles. ‘Atlantics’ Review: Haunted by Ghosts and Injustice in Senegal 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z City views by George Washington Wilson and Henry Dixon are essentially static and mostly depopulated. Art Review: ‘London Street Photography’ at Museum of the City of New York 2012-07-26T22:56:22Z The piece snaps into gear with loud drumming, filtered through synth sounds and some scratchy static. Electronic percussion, evolving: Rosenboom, Winant at REDCAT 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z The number of women in sports media remains stubbornly static. ESPN baseball analyst Jessica Mendoza racking up firsts in booth 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The scene may be wholly static in terms of action — a man in headphones on stage engaging with a disembodied voice — but it’s fiercely gripping nonetheless. | 'Spirit Control': Four Seven Whiskey, We?ve Got a Problem: A Controller?s Life in a Tailspin 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z While he was condemned to static sanctity, she got to do what movie characters are supposed to do: grow, learn, change, confront, overcome. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z AM radio, the scratchy medium that long ago aired Franklin Delano Roosevelt's fireside chats, soap operas and the day's most popular music, is trying to avoid becoming static. KFWB switching to all-sports format as AM radio fights for survival 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z “For most of the shots, the movement comes across as subliminal, but we hoped it would help loosen up the environment so that it would feel in motion, rather than being perfectly static,” McGaugh said. ‘Mortal Engines’: How the Filmmakers Created a Roaming London 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z I explained that although bones appear to be hard and static, they are made of living tissue that is constantly changing. Perspective | Want your kids to have healthy bones? It will take more than a milk mustache. 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z “We used to be static places where people would come and look at the objects and then they left,” she said. Illuminating the Plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “Ocean’s Kingdom,” first performed in September, is as plodding as ever: four movements of static choreography by Mr. Martins, along with blandly sweeping music and a convoluted libretto by Mr. McCartney. Dance Review: ?Ocean?s Kingdom? at New York City Ballet - Review 2012-01-21T00:29:19Z No offence to travelling engineers, but anyone who would rather sit in a van all day for less money than they'd get for showing up to a static venue at 6pm is a sociopath. The 10 golden rules of being in a DIY indie band 2013-02-12T13:05:03Z Blurry, sustained tones that might be orchestral or electronic and quiet, shifting fields of static hover over muffled beats and subtly rhythmic washes of noise. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z “They think it’s going to be around forever. My friend, these boundaries are not static.” What Is the Status of Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Wall’? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z But is this supposed to be an objective depiction of a bear or is this just one moment of its overall existence that the hunter has posed statically to tell a story about him? Cultural taxidermy, not appropriation: the trophies in sports no one wants to talk about 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Amélie’s solos feel static, and her erotic pas de deux with Pozzi is firmly in the genre of ballet sex — conspicuously artful sequences of splayed legs, arched backs and suggestive positions. Review: Premiere of Wheeldon’s ‘Strapless’ at the Royal Ballet 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z I got involved in more and more unusual music because I didn’t want that connection to become something that was too static. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z The music is never static, never dwells on one genre for too long. Bar Martha, Tokyo, where the customer isn’t always right 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The movie’s idiosyncratic composition, comprising many static takes that deliver the action with a plain reserve, doesn’t so much fragment the action enigmatically as reduce it to anecdotes and information. “The Souvenir,” Reviewed: Joanna Hogg’s Ambitious, Frustrating Autobiographical Drama 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z When they formed a circle, the edges were never static. Review: Faustin Linyekula’s Twin Peaks of Mourning and Joy 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The Cocoon also shows us that what we see as a static array of specimens is actually a stroboscopic image of knowledge in perpetual motion. Darwin Center at the Natural History of Museum: London Museum Boldly Spreads Its Wings 2010-04-07T22:49:00Z The designers posit that in the future, buildings will not be static but will be able to change and adapt to their surroundings — becoming symbiotic, not anthropocentric. Design Shows Take On the Future. And It’s Not Pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The cinematography seems static and distant, not so much trapped in a house of evil spirits as it is stifled by the space. Review: ‘Darkness Rising,’ a Bland Haunted-House Salad 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z “So much land art is monumental, static,” he said. Doug Aitken Plans Underwater Art Installation 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z He writes about himself, but without recourse to the static ideas from which selves are made. Knausgaard’s Selflessness 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The women appear in profile: a frequent choice for Carpaccio, who favored static composition that can feel timeless, or even a little medieval. Mysteries of a Venetian Perfectionist Revealed in Washington 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The sounds are static, consonant harmonies and long tones and slow tempos. Review: Beach House Releases ‘Depression Cherry’ 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The title, “Spirit Movers,” is a nod to this idea that art works aren’t static but are dynamic entities connected to ritual, devotion and collective experience. Grace Wales Bonner Has Set Her Sights Beyond Fashion 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z The task was fairly static for decades, with promotional materials limited to trailers, television ads, radio commercials and posters. Advertising: A Hollywood Referee Aims to Keep Movie Ads in Bounds 2010-04-23T00:40:00Z Other than the movements that draw sound from the instruments, the scene is relatively static. Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartet’s Odd Player Out 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Occasionally, Banks' voice is scratched with static, and the closely cropped, digitally enhanced instrumentation heightens the claustrophobia. For Jillian Banks, music is a major 'exhale' 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z By contrast, Ziegler’s work is more muted, perhaps a bit insipid and static, but by no means inept. Artworks labeled degenerate in Nazi Germany are N.Y. hit Noises normally rejected, like surface scrapes and static bursts, provided fertile sonic lodes. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Carl Stone at the Stone Space 2010-08-04T22:28:00Z What it means to be “pro-life” or “pro-choice” isn’t as static as it seems. After Roe: It’s hard to believe now, but the abortion debate wasn’t always so toxic. What happened? 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The director’s vivid imagination enlivens a static, talky finale, with Orestes receiving his verdict flanked by stolid, robed jurors and feral, scuttling Furies. Music Review: ‘Oresteia’ Is Revived as Prelude to Bard Music Festival 2013-07-29T21:21:44Z Then, a sudden pulse of drums replaced the earlier static. Flying Lotus takes audience to the limit and to the great beyond at Lincoln Theatre The remaining jurors gaze into the polished oak walls as the static washes over them. Asleep at the Roger Clemens trial 2012-06-10T13:00:00Z Rather than create static objects to be looked at, Ms. Sasaki is also expert at activating her installations. Breaking Glass and Gloomy Skies Inspire This Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z In “Rehearsal of Anxiety,” the performances are curiously static. Anna Lim’s Vision of Nuclear Anxiety in South Korea 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Oliver & Ohlbaum said the organisation should do more to look after its lower-paid actors and presenters, who are "feeling the squeeze" because their pay has stayed largely static for the last five years. BBC spends 29% less on star pay 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z It was the music that Nono wrote from the mid-70s that marked a different world of sonic exploration, often involving electronics, and new kinds of very slow or even static time, and silence. A guide to Luigi Nono's music 2012-11-26T15:50:00Z Ho-Ho Humbug: You don’t detail how your in-laws’ behavior contributes to this poor relationship, but you are obviously resigned to a completely static state regarding them. Perspective | Ask Amy: Toxic drunk pauses in the beer aisle 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z As a consequence, pork consumption has been static for 30 years. Nose-to-tail eating 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z |
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