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Art Talk with Fred Stonehouse Thursday, May 17 • 6:30 pm Fred Stonehouse will talk about his idiosyncratic cast of characters that comment on the human condition and its various betrayals, wounds, and disillusions in his work.

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Now, other reviewers have weighed in — and most are enthusiastic about the idiosyncratic 1,100 page doorstop with more than 200 essays by contemporary writers and academics, including novelist Walter Mosley writing on what it means to be «hardboiled,» novelist Mary Gaitskill on why Norman Mailer moves her, and humorist Sarah Vowell on «American Gothic» and kitsch.

Damn») and Peeping Tom («Pooping Tom») pretty much tells you everything you need to know about its idiosyncratic sensibilities.

I completely agree about the idiosyncratic rules.

Not exact matches

Yes, of course you need to get through your requirements, but after that an idiosyncratic pick with an inspiring or thought - provoking teacher («When I think about the classes that shaped me the most, I think about my Marxist Canadian history class, taught by a socialist ideologue,» says Blattman) beats on on - topic one taught by a snooze - inducing robot.

Bottom line: There's no free lunch on Wall Street and just about every asset class carries its own form of idiosyncratic risk.

In particular, the organization raised concerns about leveraged trading of cryptocurrencies, though it acknowledged that the low correlation between cryptocurrencies and other assets «suggests that the risk of spillovers from idiosyncratic price moves in crypto assets to the wider market may be limited at this point.»

For a good company, idiosyncratic risks can also turn into idiosyncratic rewards in the future, which nobody talks about.

The bottom line for you is that even if you are worried about growth or inflation, stick with the companies like these three that have idiosyncratic growth.

A reader of the Comedy unversed in medieval debates and unaware of Dante's idiosyncratic notions about them is easily persuaded that this work indeed represents the late middle ages in nuce.

And although my need is in part temperamental and idiosyncratic, I believe it also reflects something about human beings quite generally.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

In other words, if politics is reducible to technocratic competence then there is something benighted about the clash of interests — out interests seem to be little more than idiosyncratic expressions of our rationally indefensible attachments.

He adds that his wife's decision to foreswear the Anglican ordination she had been seeking was critical (in all of these cases family matters are crucial, idiosyncratic, and difficult to talk about on the record).

He tries to twist everything that happens under the sun to back his idiosyncratic views about Wenger.

I think that there are plenty of parents who have the same sort of issues about nudity in front of their children, bathing with their children, kissing on the lips, rubbing or stroking backs and feet, playful nibbling of ears or anything else that might carry a sexual connotation to a particular person, however idiosyncratic.

The discretionary nature of the best interests principle means that it is applied in an idiosyncratic way by judges... who are guided by their own biases about what is «best» for children.

But she's passionate about them, no matter how idiosyncratic they may appear to others, so she makes time to fit them in — and she believes they have helped her career.

To celebrate the exciting collaboration with the shopping network, we caught up with the idiosyncratic songstress about the collection, why she's currently rocking pink hair, and why she'll never be stranded on a deserted island.

This is a bit idiosyncratic and personal: I'm sensitive to itchy fabrics and fitted jackets, so I'm careful about not buying things I won't wear.

The point here is that we make judgements about people based on our idiosyncratic lens and sometimes they are erroneous judgements.

Penn has fame, money, his own idiosyncratic form of «suave» and, although far from a favorite performer of mine, a fair degree of sophistication and Sean Penn is speaking out following Donald Trump «s «disgraceful» comments about immigrants from Haiti and Africa.

The two amalgamate in an idiosyncratic slice of poetic realism that — while not necessarily saying anything new about cowboy virility — is still hypnotic in terms of sheer craft.

While the satire is brilliant enough, the Coens make it even better with their signature style of idiosyncratic dialogue, and absurdist themes about the nature of life and crime.

The universal quality you mentioned is interesting given the earlier films where the characters» idiosyncrasies are more pronounced — they still have universal themes below that — but this one seems less about heightened idiosyncratic characters and more about a universal fear.

Raising Arizona has all the Coen essentials: a dark storyline about desperation for status; zany characters with sharp wit and idiosyncratic dialogue; and super stylized sets that magnify the absurdity of the world they've created.

Jackman has an exhausting degree of commitment, in various stages of weeping for about 80 % of the movie, while Gyllenhaal is almost masochistically restrained and delightfully idiosyncratic as the detective determined to find Jackman's missing daughter.

Produced by James L. Brooks, who knows a thing or two about character - driven comedy (The Simpsons, Broadcast News), The Edge of Seventeen screams with an idiosyncratic voice at a time when so many movies just want to fall in with the popular crowd.

For fans of Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic book about a Toronto bassist - scenester who must defeat his girlfriend's seven «evil exes», there was no better choice than Wright, the man who gave Spaced its idiosyncratic visual style, the zombie brilliance of Shaun of the Dead, and the high - octane send - up Hot Fuzz.

Inventing characters is a lot of fun but I don't think I'm capable of creating a fictional character that could possibly be as dimensional, idiosyncratic or fully realized as the actual people I read about in the newspaper every day — which is another way of saying that when you're telling a true story, life itself has done most of the work for you.

Since Hill's feature debut, The Foot Fist Way, the Carolina hooligans have been crafting idiosyncratic comedies about highly capable buffoons that — despite being remarkable joke generators — are also three - dimensional human beings.

What I'm really excited about with this is that they're such idiosyncratic characters.

It's a spectacularly entertaining film about guns, money, cars and rock and roll but it also reflects the kind of deeply personal, idiosyncratic vision you don't see enough in commercial filmmaking these days.

Until last year, the idiosyncratic Scottish auteur behind «Ratcatcher» and «We Need to Talk About Kevin» wasn't even a remotely plausible candidate to direct a blockbuster spy movie that comes with a full set of baggage — prior to her most recent film, Ramsay seemed as well - suited for James Bond as Apichatpong Weersethakul does for the next «Star Wars» spin - off.

However, he really knocked it out of the part with the dark, strangely romantic and idiosyncratic Only Lovers Left Alive, about a long - lost pair of centuries - old vampire lovers who reunite in a decrepit, run - down modern Detroit.

Oscar's screenplay categories habitually reserve some love for odd ducks, and as one of the year's most buzzed - about, idiosyncratic indies, Beasts surely fits the bill.

This is bold, amazing, hilarious experimental protest cinema, so in your face and not giving a fuck about any kind of defined «rules», allowing the movie to operate on its own idiosyncratic wavelength.

His first movie, In Bruges, about a pair of squabbling hitmen cooling their heels in that medieval Belgian city, attracted a small but passionate following for its idiosyncratic blend of semi-comic violence and bro - on - bro chitchat.

When [Landesman] starts talking about his ideas for integrating the arts in education, his rhetoric becomes less bipartisan: «We're going to try to move forward all the kids who were left behind by «No Child Left Behind» — the kids who have talent or a passion or an idiosyncratic perspective.

A VTS paper describes what happens when teachers stop telling stories about art that children are not developmentally ready for, and students start «reading» art that they have the capacity to understand: «Over time, students grow from casual, random, idiosyncratic viewers to thorough, probing reflective interpreters.

Back in 2000, Harvard researcher Richard Elmore argued that because teaching has primarily been an isolated, autonomous, and idiosyncratic practice, school Read more about For School Improvement, Demographics Aren't Destiny -LSB-...]

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

Sometimes, with great artists, it might be better not to know about their personal lives, their idiosyncratic...

Sarah Weinman of Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind made a distinction between two «waves» of bloggers who write about books:

Additionally, talking about lawsuits, as we pointed out before, a mortgage on a property could serve as a poison pill against greedy lawyers trying to sue you and a put option on the property value in case of idiosyncratic catastrophic losses.

Yes, maybe there was a CD somewhere in my house that would have led to something especially unique or weird or powerful, but I wasn't about to put every CD in my house through the reading process one by one, and the CDs in my CD booklet all mostly produced monsters I'd already seen, with some mildly idiosyncratic stats.

At the same time, I appreciate blogs that keep me informed about a wide range of art and art news, such as Hyperallergic; painter Sharon Butler «s blog Two Coats of Paint; and critical writing that does keep current with art exhibitions but in an idiosyncratic way, like painter Bradley's Rubenstein «s reviews on Culture Catch.

Marie Lorenz at Jack Hanley Gallery April 18 — May 17 One of New York's most pleasantly, refreshingly idiosyncratic artists, Brooklyn - based Marie Lorenz has recently been making art about her journeys in homemade boats throughout the five boroughs, videotaping her travels and fashioning prints from the flotsam she discovers.