Sentences with phrase «escape artist who»

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Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher) is an escape artist who does the old locked - up - in - a-water-tank trick with a timer counting down until a school of piranhas are dumped into the tank.

Many Alaskan Malamutes are clever escape artists who will go over, under, or through fences in search of adventure.

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«A lady who escaped from North Korea and applied and one artist [a painter] still living in Syria in war were stories that stood out, because these women live or lived in danger and still longed for the same things we all do,» she adds.

A ramshackle, graffiti - covered warehouse in the rough Fruitvale area, «The Ghost Ship» was home to a colorful collection of artists who had built a unique creative community, working and (illegally) living in the space while trying to escape the outrageous rents of the surrounding area.

Our absolutely unbelievably amazing online community, The Lasting Supper, is entirely made up of escape artists: people who've escaped or are in the process of escaping from unhealthy churches, relationships, jobs and other unhappy situations.

(Our online community, The Lasting Supper, is entirely made up of escape artists: people who've escaped or are in the process of escaping from unhealthy churches, relationships, jobs, and other unhappy situations.

Directed by Dome Karukoski, this biopic shows the rise of the famous gay erotica artist Touko Laaksonen, who worked under the titular pseudonym to escape persecution in post-World War II Europe.

The movie opens with the introduction of its main players, offering brief displays of their talents: Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel Atlas, an arrogant, celebrity prestidigitator; a quirky, tightly wound Woody Harrelson, as Merritt McKinney, a once famous mentalist; Isla Fisher, as Henley Reeves, an escape artist, who makes her garish debut pretending to plunge, shackled, into a tank of piranhas; and pretty boy Dave Franco, as Jack Wilder, a quick - witted, pickpocket.

Following an aspiring voiceover artist who tries to escape from the shadow of her father, a legend in the field, Bell assembled an excellent cast including Fred Melamed, Demetri Martin, Rob Corddry, Nick Offerman and Geena Davis, and, by most accounts, proved a sure hand behind the camera and a winning presence in front of it.

Jim Carrey plays the con artist who finds his soul mate, the eponymous Phillip Morris, in prison and then goes to astonishing lengths to pamper his lover, and, when sent to back prison for some of those lengths, goes to even more astonishing lengths to escape.

These three artists and a few longtime friends from their tough, south LA neighborhood, decide the way to escape lives of poverty, violence and drugs is through their music — and the film follows their rise from local stars to international superstars, who change the industry forever, unapologetically exercising their First Amendment rights with controversial lyrics.

For example, in his series of paintings called «Migration» the artist Jacob Lawrence vividly portrayed the dreams of African Americans who escaped poverty and oppression in the South to follow their dream of freedom and a good job in the North.

There they meet famous magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, who is the middle of planning his biggest theatrical disappearing act yet, making an elephant vanish in a crowded theater.

Our first routine is from the repertoire of a performer everyone's heard of: Harry Houdini, the greatest escape artist in America, if not the world, a man who performed before crowned heads of state and U.S. presidents.

These are typically purchased with a specific purpose in mind, for example the heavy - duty crates might be necessary if your dog is an escape artist or if he has been able to destroy other crates in the past, while more decorative dog crates are better suited for more docile dogs who won't chew their way through the wood frame.

«When I first adopted Jake, he was an anxious, hyper, uncontrollable pooch, who was a master escape artist (constantly performing Houdini acts) to get out of his harness.»

If you have a dog who's an escape artist, the benefits of microchips are obvious.

Our fences are able to withstand the toughest abuse (and they prevent dogs who might be escape artists from getting on the lam).

Dogs who spend all day alone and isolated from the pack may develop barking problems as well as become escape artists.

It is unfair to hold biology against a dog who can do perfectly well in a home setting but, in a shelter, may be labelled aloof, stiff, standoffish, stoic, hyper, escape artist... the list could go on.

«Heavy duty crates are coveted by owners who have escape artist pups.»

The museum will hold a screening of «Eva Hesse,» a new documentary about the influential sculptor who helped establish Postminimalism before her death in 1970 at the age of 34, tomorrow at 6 p.m. Helen Hesse Charach, the artist's sister, with whom she escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of 4, will introduce the film.

Its stated aim is to «exhibit diverse work of the highest quality, often by established international artists, or those from the recent past, who have somehow escaped London's attention.»

Among these artists was the Detroit - born James Lee Byars (Michael Werner Gallery, London), an eccentric figure who persuaded the renowned MoMA curator Dorothy Miller to let him stage his first show on a fire escape at the museum in 1958.

For all intents and purposes, Öğüt is an artist, but he is an artist who attempts to escape the restricting definitions of the very the art world within which he was educated, fleeing instead to a place more progressive and creatively rich: reality.

William Cordova, who has also appeared among emerging artists at the Studio Museum, has exactly the literalness and lack of style that Mark Bradford escapes with ambition and style.

But for those who make the effort to see the work itself the artist has a neat surprise: the handcuffs are real aluminium, protruding from the flat image in a way that slyly escapes photographic reproduction of the art work.

By Paul Laster A do - it - yourself ceramicist, Klara Kristalova was born in Czechoslovakia, but raised in Sweden by parents who were abstract artists that had escaped their country's oppressive Communist rule.

I view Gillian Ayres as belonging to the generation of artists who escaped the gloom of the 1950s professional middle classes by creating visually intense, imaginative canvases full of life and colour and abstract, pictorial vividness.

Rubble with a Cause Gustav Metzger, the autodestructive artist who escaped Nuremberg as a boy, tried another strategy to force viewers to re-engage with the familiar scene.

Anni Albers and her husband Josef were leading Modernists who met at the Bauhaus in Germany, came to America to escape the Nazis and had a profound influence on this country's artists.

Hesse, a Jewish artist who escaped from Nazi Germany as a child, is known for her post-minimalist tactile forms made from aging, organic fiberglass.

There are a few artists in the top 15 who might superficially seem to have little or no interest in narcissism and the uneasy «I.» And yet, one of the main desires today is to escape the solipsistic prison — through, to cite one example, meditation.

Wild, who comes from a family of women artists, was born in Vienna, escaped to Buenos Aires at the beginning of World War II, later moved back to Europe, and then retired to a village in Guatemala at the age of 74.

For an artist who's spent his career dismantling visual and cultural systems, this is one system he seemingly can't escape.

New York had become a magnet for many of Europe's leading artists, and there, along with Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall who had also escaped, Ernst edited the Surrealist review VVV.

At the start of the second world war, Guggenheim, a member of one of New York's wealthiest families, whose sheltered childhood had been emotionally shattered when her father died on the Titanic, went on a spending spree, buying modern art from artists who were desperately planning their escapes from the Nazis.

Raised mostly in Texas and New Mexico by bohemian parents who'd escaped anti-Semitic violence in Europe, he's been a young disciple of Richard Feynman, an employee at Atari, a scholar at Columbia, a visiting artist at New York University, and a columnist for Discover magazine.

Titled Escape the Golden Cage, Escape 2010 — International Exhibition of Urban Art in Vienna / Austria presents work by national and international street artists, graffiti sprayers and artists who are inspired by these works.

It's called The Escape Artists: True Stories of People Who Turned Their Obsessions Into...

When my youngest was little I baby sat another little one who was a total escape artist.