" And Kat—who narrated the Fable—wrote: "I'd love for your video of the Fable as told in the SF House Library to be public.
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This movie is hard to categorize, but to me it feels like a fable, and maybe a fable about damned souls trying to make themselves clean.
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Lionhead Studios is gone, but that hasn't stopped a group of ex-Fable developers from finishing work on one of their former team's last projects: Fable Fortune.
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Fable could always make a return, though the 2016 cancellation of Fable Legends means we're likely a year or two away (at least) from any announcements about the series' future.
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Lionhead was working on Fable Fortune during the 18 months before it closed, and the game is now in the hands of Flaming Fowl Studios, founded by a group of Fable veterans.
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It was a rumor, a fable, but it was a rumor and fable from which marvels emerged, carried by camels across the desert to fire the imaginations of folk the world over.
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The company canceled Fable Legends and Scalebound earlier this year.
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A fable of power dissipates in a fantasy of rescue.
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But the fable of the snake is not without value.
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That's particularly challenging with an expansive, epic fable like Kubo.
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In one fable, Juha is approached by a proud king.
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Fable also isn't just looking to work in virtual reality.
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There are many deathbed scenes: a nasty fable in which
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The fable is that of the scorpion and the frog.
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RADIO FREE VERMONT: A Fable of Resistance, by Bill McKibben.
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A perverse psychological fable of unchecked ego and unhinged desire.
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Frank Capra's evergreen fable stars James Stewart and Henry Travers.
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This brings to my mind the fable of the boiling frog.
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The Fountainhead was a fable for children; Atlas was the Word.
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Trump has continued to occasionally recite the snake fable as president.
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What she's invested in: Fable Studio, Yolo, Squad, and Ethel's Club
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"One of my proudest creations was that Fable," he told me.
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We all know Aesop's fable about the tortoise and the hare.
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Soon the full horror of Ms Wood's contemporary fable becomes clear.
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The movie opens at Christmas, but it's no sugary Hallmark fable.
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This brief, almost fable-like novel is a departure for Messud.
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They made a case for the writing as a political fable.
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Facts don't work against demons, but what about faith or fable?
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Fable and allegory curl themselves like creepers around our hero's feet.
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A fable of a different digital world that could be tamed.
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The book quickly became an extension of the Santa Claus Christmas fable.
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What started out as a clever scam has turned into a fable.
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The fable of the snake, in Trump's rallies, was about Syrian refugees.
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Like the census in Mr Carey's fable, it is a "mammoth task".
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You know the fable, which has the benefit of also being true.
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Some members told the Fable as a bedtime story for their children.
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Like the Aesop fable, the German tortoise could overtake the Tesla hare.
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There's a new Love & Hip Hop fable being written on social media.
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Golding's fable began to take on a more complicated meaning for me.
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Was this yet another fable in the great treasury of color lore?
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All this content is there, though in a kind of humorous fable.
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But that is fable, the ultimate in what scientists call anecdotal evidence.
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A fable about Italy, bond yields and politics in the European Union.
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It's a contemporary fable about the black female body and its discontents.
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Würger's writing is mannered; it often has an otherworldly, fable-like quality.
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Though, in the fable of fashion, those are probably the wrong animals.
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He wants to juxtapose the schoolgirls' life stories and the "Cinderella" fable.
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It's a masculine melodrama that doubles as a fable of social catastrophe.
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"The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable" by Patrick Lencioni
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"Scandal" offered a healing fable; "Empire" rudely satirized the theatre of protest.
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"The Little Prince," Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A wonderful fable, beautifully told.
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Part of our fable of Dr. King has him doing everything, everywhere.
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Planet of the Apes was a fairy tale in many ways, a fable.
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We should, perhaps, recall Aesop's fable of the sick lion and the fox.
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Others saw it as a fable about hard work and hustle paying off.
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Aesop's fable, The Frogs Who Desired a King, is a parable of discontent.
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In reality, the fable is used to bleach away the stain of genocide.
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To outsiders, Sicilians claimed that the Mafia was a fable, a groundless slur.
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Explain how Andersen's seductively simple fable has grown more complicated as I've aged.
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He invoked the fable of "The Ant and the Grasshopper" to explain why.
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The moral of the fable is clear: Don't make much ado about nothing.
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Molyneux left Lionhead and Microsoft in 2012 after Fable: The Journey was completed.
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Consequently, the painting reads like a fable that dramatizes competing notions of time.
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The understated, intuitive sympathy among these outcasts gives this fable some political bite.
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"I'm not a fable or a hashtag or a cautionary tale," they sing.
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It has the shape of a fable and the texture of a documentary.
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I nodded as they whispered under their breath how incredible my fable was.
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A fable by Aesop was a lesson in the form of a moral.
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It's as if a fable split open and a diary page fell out.
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This included an interview with Mater, advancing the fable of a "grassroots" art scene.
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Scalebound, Fable Legends, and Ion were outright canceled, and Project Spark was shut down.
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"My new friends reminded me of children excited to hear a fable," Tomas said.
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"Thirteen Ways of Destroying a Painting" is a time-travel fable in list form.
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In Fable, evil characters sprout devil horns while those who do good get haloes.
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I was to create an original fable, complete with talking animals and a moral.
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In 2006 it was acquired by Microsoft and shifted its focus entirely to Fable.
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And as a morally instructive fable, it needs to examine these issues of prejudice.
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Are the folks at SPLC unfamiliar with Aesop's fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
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Though an educational film, it feels less like a lecture than a naturalist fable.
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"Radio Free Vermont" is more than "A Fable of Resistance," as its subtitle says.
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But even for a fable, "Cute Activist" may be flirting with too much cuteness.
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This is a delightful children's fable in the form of a humorous news story.
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However, Mr. Trump has previously referred to a long-debunked fable about how Gen.
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But unlike Us, Parasite isn't a supernatural fable, and it has a subtle arc.
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A better gloss of Stead's fable might be: What's a little blizzard between friends?
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They are the country mice of Aesop's fable and its many variants and retellings.
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In my version of this fable, I am both the centipede and the toad.
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Elon Musk finally has his, even if it's more melancholy fable than rah-rah rouser.
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Coppola's embattled war epic takes Joseph Conrad's moralistic fable and gives it depth and resonance.
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Scalebound, Fable Legends, and Ion were outright canceled, and Microsoft has shut down Project Spark.
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Children's Books Foxes are fable animals: Their fur carries the electric charge of literary history.
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It's more a pan-African fable about prejudice, superstition, and co-option, particularly around women.
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It almost becomes a parable or a fable, so we started going in that direction.
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But maybe, just maybe, Twitter is delivering some much needed edits to that particular fable.
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Cap the season off with Thanksgiving, a turkey dinner, and a fable of interracial harmony.
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Conversely, Fable wants to make projects that don't cost huge amounts of time and money.
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This wasn't a story unfolding in a show — it was a fable in every look.
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The metaphor in 'Modern Leper' becomes an almost fable-like explanation of sadness or pain.
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Plus: Hans Christian Anderson and how his icy sorceress fable inspired the character of Elsa.
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We also review "Green Book," a feel-good fable starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen.
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A fable about acceptance and forgiveness, teenager Jaxie Clackton is a victim of domestic violence.
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"Her story," Eatwell writes, became "a fable illustrating the dangers posed to women" by Hollywood.
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Suburbicon wants to be a fable and a comedy, a screed and an entertaining indictment.
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Contradictions enrich the novel, steering it away from the territory of a plodding, dutiful fable.
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And the story is a simple and appealing fable of indomitability and father-daughter companionship.
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But then the movie swerves — guilelessly and effectively — into the realm of folklore and fable.
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Name Withheld Everyone knows the Aesop's fable about the profligate grasshopper and the provident ant.
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But competence alone doesn't account for the whiff of fable that accompanies this team's wins.
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When I talk about the national fable, it's useful to think of President Ronald Reagan.
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I've seen them in The New Yorker, for Charles Yu's fantastic story Fable, and New Scientist.
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So, time to replace the boy who cried wolf fable with the host who scream apocalypse.
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Because all of us can achieve great things, and that's the darling fable of our age.
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The picture can be read as an open-ended fable about patriarchal privilege and sexualized power.
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Better a Stick than a Snake (above) is artist Andrew Catanese's depiction of this particular fable.
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In the fable, Goliath was brutish and slow, and everyone knew he was the bad guy.
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The idea of a fable or a myth is definitely at the forefront of our process.
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After the Fable, each Praxis went in different directions, but it was always creative and ritualistic.
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Following the cancelation of its latest game last month, Fable developer Lionhead Studios is shutting down.
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Vargas Llosa, a Nobel laureate, revisits characters from his earlier novels in this optimistic moral fable.
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Munger used the fable of the tortoise and the hare to demonstrate how unreliable people fare.
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CreditCreditFederico Ciamei Visiting Ljubljana, Slovenia's 1,000-year-old capital, feels like stepping into an ancient fable.
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Gabrielle's story, in particular, is a smartly told fable about the false intimacy of domestic labor.
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Smeared in red and wrapped in woo-woo mystery, "Suspiria" is a fable of demonic possession.
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Rather, it's from Orwell's 1945 allegorical fable about the events surrounding the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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At one point, one of his interview subjects independently references that exact fable, no prompting necessary.
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"Zenobia" is not so much a novel as a fable, a vignette in a lost life.
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Everything looks right in place in Anne Hamilton's "American Fable," all measured and ready to go.
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It is a fable inside an allegory and its soundscape ranges across the history of Western music.
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A Bread Factory explores those multitudes on the individual and community level within this small town fable.
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Lionhead Studios, the UK development team behind the popular Fable series, may have reached its last chapter.
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Wild Fable will feature clothing, accessories, jewelry, and shoes, with well over 700 products to choose from.
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Just a month after releasing Wild Fable, yet another in-house fashion line is in the works.
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Within the last year, it's launched A New Day, Joylab, Universal Thread, and the aforementioned Wild Fable.
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After the glowing fable in the book, I pulled other books down from the tiny library shelves.
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Each Guild member had their own way of telling the Fable, which changed depending on their mood.
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Just this month, Microsoft announced it was closing Lionhead, the venerable British studio behind the Fable games.
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What's more, a teen's "personal fable" of invulnerability and importance can lead to risk-taking, Elkind says.
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The next Fable game is shutting down — and the influential studio behind it may well be too.
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After the launch of its first project, Black & White, it debuted role-playing game Fable in 2004.
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Look for more than a dozen titles in all, including Age of Empires and a new Fable.
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The resulting novel has the quality of a fable, in which the banished words are barely submerged.
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There is a fable that if you place a frog in boiling water, it will leap out.
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NORWALK "Gypsy," musical fable, book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
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Now he's rather perfectly cast in "Lodge 49," a modern-day fable set in Long Beach, Calif.
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Netflix gives Armistead Maupin's modern-day fable of San Francisco lives and lifestyles a fourth go-round.
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The littlest things grab me sometimes; today the clue for ANT reminded me of my favorite fable.
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A father hands his sons some twigs, Monte Gluckstein once told his nephew, drawing on Aesop's fable.
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The Glass Hotel finds its originality where Mandel blends her fable of financial collapse with ghost stories.
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Part documentary, part beast fable, Pietro Marcello's "Lost and Beautiful" is a loving act of cultural preservation.
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Be skeptical when scientific progress is reduced to a Frankenstein-like fable engineered to pollute thoughtful debate.
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This leads to a confrontation that nudges the story all the way into the realm of fable.
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It is a fable that can literally be told as a bedtime story about "sharing" and giraffes.
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Stand back from this fable and examine it for logic, and you see how nonsensical it is.
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It's a little cliché for an ending, but it fits well on a story that's essentially a fable.
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Microsoft acquired the company in 2006, and from then on it exclusively created games in the Fable series.
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This is indeed where I figured out that 1988's "Red Bandana" was a Bloods-and-Crips fable.
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The team's first release, strategy game Black & White, launched in 2001, and the first Fable followed in 2004.
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Guy Ritchie's aptitude for raucous action sequences lends itself to "Aladdin", a fable about a mischievous street urchin.
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We began with the formal opening ritual, and then we explained how Fable Exquisite Corpse would be played.
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The world of the show is grounded in realism but can seem somehow primordial, a fable about bureaucracy.
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In Mr Rubio's telling, his biography is a fable of America, which "changed the history of my family".
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But they follow a comfortable story logic that contributes to The Jungle Book's status as a modern fable.
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In my attempt to understand this story that comes off as some drunkard's fable, I spoke Bloom herself.
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" Critical response "A surreal fable" showing "colossal" imagination but dissolving "into a welter of confusing language and imagery.
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This fable was told with a bunch of watercolor drawings that one of the Olas had actually created.
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It's a heart-shaped Rubik's Cube, a funny, consistently surprising fable of broken machines trying to reassemble themselves.
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And second, as readers we should be much more skeptical about this author's personal investment in his fable.
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The company has canceled upcoming game "Fable Legends," and is considering shuttering the iconic gaming studio altogether. 10.
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She evokes the landscape hauntingly, as a site of loss so profound it assumes the quality of fable.
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The leaps and swerves seem closer to poetry or fable or song than to the novel as such.
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Mr. Nakata's most recent film revisits the fable, this time drawing on social media as the curse's source.
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Read: Max Porter's "Lanny," a Booker Prize nominee, richly balances elements of fairy tale, domestic drama and fable.
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He then tells the fable of the Egyptian god Theuth delivering the gift of letters to King Thamus.
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Games like Street Fighter X Tekken or Fable 3 rely on fan communities to bypass outdated login screens.
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For one source of insight, try "Feud," on FX, a barbed and bittersweet fable about female self-sabotage.
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If there's no real nuance in these depictions, that's because this is a morality play, almost a fable.
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In your book, you speak of the "national fable" that has been built around the civil rights movement.
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Lionhead, founded by developer Peter Molyneux in 1996, created the simulation game Black & White and the Xbox RPG Fable.
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Hindsight may be 20/20, but Aesop's fable of "The Grasshopper and the Ant" has been around for centuries.
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It turns out 'The Frogs Who Desired a King' wasn't a fable, it was an actual bloody prediction. pic.twitter.
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Personally, games like Fable, Elder, Scrolls III: Morrowind, and Psychonauts would be enough to sell me on the feature.
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While "Chitchat" discloses what old age can be, "Grampa" (2016) is a fable-like piece that titillates our imagination.
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Like the boiling frog fable, ISPs are likely to move slowly to minimize consumer backlash and negative media coverage.
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The original edition of King's apocalyptic moral fable and the "Complete and Uncut" updated version both have their partisans.
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The fable goes that if you toss a frog in a pot of hot water, it'll leap right out.
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"My Heart's in the Highlands" was a clear, clean, wonderful fable; Jesus, how you laid bare the human heart!
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What of the urgency of a "new Toronto" that feels more like a contrived fable than a tangible future?
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BEST FOR: Non-perfectionists Time-management maven Laura Vanderkam takes a novel approach to the productivity manual: a fable.
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There's a lot at stake here, and if nothing gets done, maybe we're a frog in a different fable.
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Because, even more than a ballet, "The Golden Cockerel" is a colorful fable told through music and danced mime.
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It is a telling fable about the consequences of human-machine collaboration that may unfold in the near future.
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But her bloodiest book has to be Mr. Fox based on the fable of the savage wife-murdering Bluebeard.
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Subtitled "a fable," it asks whether humanity, if nearly wiped out in a cataclysmic war, would be worth salvaging.
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The piece is a fable about bad postal service and the difficulties of communicating before email and video chat.
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And the prerecorded narration and dialogue, both delivered by Vera Beren, have the solemn austerity of an ancient fable.
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But Blauner's fable seems truer to its emotional beats, Natty and Lourdes powerfully real in their lucid, disillusioned idealism.
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Unlike the movie that occasioned it, "The Lion King: The Gift" is no remake or reiteration, no faraway fable.
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Only at the very end, with thrilling subtlety and impressive clarity, does a fable blossom from the satirical earth.
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In Hans Christian Andersen's fable "The Red Shoes," a young girl longs for a pair of pretty red shoes.
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This version, in the dreariest Hollywood-remake tradition, turns a grim, morally ambiguous story into a fable of empowerment.
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"This is a modern fable of the big city..." So began Vin's intro for the "Occasional Wife" opening credits.
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Microsoft will shutter its UK game development unit Lionhead Studios, canceling its Xbox One game Fable Legends, it said today.
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But this fable, though dependably crowd-pleasing and beautifully sung, comes at the expense of a more significant theme: feminism.
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The Ukrainian of Holoborodko's fable rises in the world, becoming a deputy in parliament, and, over time, his cynicism grows.
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While sports metaphors are overused in the business world, I think LeBron's story is a worthy fable for any founder.
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Likely candidates to appear onstage include Gears of War 5, Halo Infinite, Cyberpunk 2077, and maybe even a new Fable.
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The key here is the execution, and Adam MacDonald's deceptively nasty fable is especially effective at getting its point across.
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But certainly nobody reading this book will easily retain faith in the Hollywood fable of Mr Snowden's bravery and brilliance.
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Wolves director and Fable co-founder Pete Billington says visiting Then She Fell was a pivotal moment for the team.
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Thanksgiving, albeit still problematically attached to a fable of colonization, is a holiday all about simply meeting for a meal.
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Fable Fortune arrives in a post-Hearthstone world, after competitors based on Elder Scrolls and Skylanders (among others) have surfaced.
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After Praxis, I went back into the tiny library and opened the book to watch the Fable one last time.
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So treat this as a modern-day Aesop Fable of sorts, where the moral is: Keep your iPads at home.
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Sure, it might sound more like a Transformers movie than a Henson fable, but we'll take what we can get.
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JT: I think that mindset of, 'It's all over when you go public,' is kind of a Silicon Valley fable.
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The fable is remembered each Nowruz, a holiday marking the start of spring and the new year in late March.
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We also dig into Walter Hill's incredibly strange but admirably driven "rock and roll fable" from 1984, Streets of Fire.
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The new advocate, Larry English (pictured), found the innocence fable no more credible, but Mr McCoy was no less adamant.
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Fable could work faster using tools like Quill, though, and it could repurpose VR art for AR even more easily.
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Bits Facebook's relationship with the media industry is a bit like the old fable of the scorpion and the frog.
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It is both a satire and, like the Irving version, an exotic fable in which magic plays a big part.
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Wondrously weird and a skosh too long, "Good Manners" is a dark Brazilian fable of animalistic passions and social isolation.
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"Jar of Fools" was both of the '90s and timeless, a slim fable of magicians on the lam in Seattle.
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I went with my son, who is in his early 20s, and he found "Parson Weems' Fable" (1939) totally creepy.
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It opens with a fable about a boy samurai, a precursor to Atari and one of Mr. Anderson's wise youngsters.
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But coming upon the ruined castle, long abandoned, was "like entering the fable of 'Beauty and the Beast,'" says Horton.
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Once again Republicans are touting the fable of supply-side economics, where greatly increased growth magically makes expanding deficits vanish.
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And the infighting could be another lucky break for Trump, whose life story is already a fable of outrageous fortune.
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Part murder mystery, part fable, this novel — translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones — is elevated by Janina's striking and original voice.
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Natives are seen only from the settlers' point of view; the whole is awash in the slanted light of fable.
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Instead, it's an eco-fable devoid of didactic overkill, delivered with energy, winking mischief, unobtrusive effects and a skilled cast.
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I thought the story might be a brilliant fable, if not a hoax, and fell into enjoying it as such.
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The story is always the same, and as unvarying as the tale of the stepson in a Brothers Grimm fable.
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Donnetta Lavinia Grays is winningly uninhibited in her fable-like solo show about a community seduced by a mysterious benefactor.
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"The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood's cautionary fable, is adapted for the screen — and to our critic, it rings especially relevant.
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But with its fable-like plot and its song and dance, "The Sorceress" makes the case for a Hanukkah equivalent.
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Fable Fortune takes the characters, creatures, and concepts from Fable's land of Albion and wraps a card-collecting game around them.
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In a fable by Harry Mulisch, Sergeant Massuro literally turns to stone "from remorse" at his jungle atrocities in New Guinea.
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But it's also kind of a fucked-up fable, what with the whole dying-to-preserve-your-loved-one's-career thing.
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You use an analogy in the book to talk about this, and refer to a children's fable, which one is that?
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The studio's currently-in-development project, Fable Legends, has been officially cancelled, and Microsoft is discussing a potential closure with employees.
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Molyneux led development on two subsequent Fable games before accepting an internal promotion to oversee Microsoft Game Studios operations in Europe.
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Another likens the party's situation to the fable of the frog: the water is hotter, but colleagues have adjusted to it.
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IN THE FABLE of the town mouse and the country mouse it is the country mouse who comes out on top.
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As the fable of the "Emperor's New Clothes" illustrates, nothing is more threatening to a flawed consensus than a single dissenter.
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Before the tax reform debate has even begun in earnest, it has moved into a realm of pure fable and fantasy.
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There are variants on the fable, but this is the one we're using and it showed up first in the 1950s.
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This fable is the third of six chapters in the film—separate Western tales, prefaced by the opening of a storybook.
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Under Stacie Passon's precise direction, this gothic fable of isolation and violence expertly treads a fine line between tragedy and camp.
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You know that old animal fable where a scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river on its back?
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There's a little fable tucked in the center of it, but there's also something really, really unsettling and creepy about it.
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The most revealing false claim: A Veterans Choice fable Trump has made a concerted effort to erase and distort Obama's record.
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R. Lacey is a writer of wonderfully strange tales, and with Pew she's created a new fable about faith and prejudice.
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Here in the Northeast, look for ciders from Fable Farm Fermentory, Aaron Burr, Treasury, Eden, Farnum Hill, Sundstrom and West County.
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Some version of this fear-stoking fable will be repeated by Trump on Monday night at the El Paso County Coliseum.
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Some of them are like a good joke that can be told more than once, or like a quick little fable.
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And you can see it particularly when they bring up their party's cherished fable of Ronald Reagan and the Iran hostages.
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The result is a realist tale about labor, class, and cruelty, while also being a moral fable with a fantastical core.
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Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck star in a playful and eerie — but not scary — fable about a love, grief, and longing.
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Often critically-acclaimed Aussie flicks tend to be almost fable-like in their simplicity, obsessed with the natural world and morally ambiguous.
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The film constructs a fable of a childhood friendship between Liu and its two other main characters, Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson.
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"Your conclusions about conservatism remind me of the Indian fable about the blind men trying to describe an elephant," he told me.
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In 1978, Grease and Saturday Night Fever producer Robert Stigwood assembled an all-star cast for the disco-fied musical fable Sgt.
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The story that they've been telling themselves and others, about the President growing in office, looks more and more like a fable.
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The book begins with an alternative flood fable that first appeared in 1962 and ends with an alien invasion tale from 2016.
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Yoga magazines, websites, advertising — they all echo the mainstream "perfect body" fable, except they add onto that the flexibility of ballet dancers.
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The whole experience is charmingly narrated by Captain Qwark — a famous, but questionable, superhero — giving the game an almost fable-like quality.
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Rewind Newly restored, Ildiko Enyedi's confident debut feature, "My 20th Century," is a sparkling Hungarian fable of theft, anarchy and electric light.
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One, a German documentary-maker, leaves halfway through, laughing off Hadi's tale as a fable stolen from a Robert De Niro movie.
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The story is a quick-draw fable, with the lesson that there's always somebody with a faster hand just over the horizon.
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If you need a reminder, the fable goes something like this: A scorpion asks a frog for a ride across a river.
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It's not clear what this fable could possibly have to do with Gretchen and Jimmy, until we leap into the present day.
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Returning to the fable, it seems the interaction between the two figures is about many less obvious things than fury and restraint.
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From this splendid premise John Krasinski has fashioned a robust and frightening fable of predation and survival, set in upstate New York.
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In the world of WangShui, tendrils of legend, fable, and diasporic memory flit just out of reach, somehow both timeless and ephemeral.
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Since then, Lionhead primarily focused on Fable sequels and spin-offs, with a few other projects ending up being canceled before release.
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Her version of the myth takes place in a fable-like world that looks and sounds a lot like Depression-era America.
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It has offered up the resources of a giant company like Facebook to pioneering developers like Fable and eccentric artists like will.i.
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It's a fable about a dragon and a sacred tree, but the book's not finished yet, and Eily wants to read more.
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It's like a fable for the modern age, about the temptations of technology and the real-world cost of accepting those temptations.
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Although it is based on a real story, the book has the force of a timeless fable, thanks to minimal, poetic text.
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Hans Christian Andersen's wintry fable even lies behind "Frozen", Disney's animated blockbuster from 2013, a sequel to which has recently been released.
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This murky and tedious reworking of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's dark fable of love and lucre is illuminated by Lesley Manville's dazzling star turn.
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Shadows' Dylan Flinn and Kombo's Kevin Gould on the business of 'virtual influencers' Fable Studio founder Edward Saatchi on designing virtual beings
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Right out of the gate in "The Eastern Shore," his 19th novel, Ward Just offers the reader the gift of a fable.
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Somewhere between a fairy tale, a fable, and a fantasy, it's garnered strong reviews from critics and done well at the box office.
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Novelist Helen Oyeyemi's work often deals with myth and fable, and Boy, Snow, Bird, which is based on Snow White, is no exception.
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First published in Taiwan in 2015, this exuberant but sinister fable confirms its author as one of China's most audacious and enigmatic novelists.
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And ultimately, Waitress isn't even a fable of self-reliance, because Jenna's happy ending is gifted to her by a curmudgeonly old man.
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Vulture critic Bilge Ebiri described it as "a gloriously hand-animated existential fable that manages to be both genuinely sweet and thoroughly twisted."
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" And as for Warner, she speaks to God in public: "My funeral a Disney fable / Cause the King about to take me home.
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The movie serves as a revenge fable in which the town's hypocrisy is exposed and the marshal's killers are punished for their misdeeds.
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But I went back into the library and recorded the Fable an hour later, when my ascendant was distracted, and couldn't stop me.
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Get into the details, though, and it is a highly complex construct—and, as Mr Nordhaus's fable shows, a snare for the unwary.
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Perhaps one day we'll see the reign of haute cuisine as yet another Eurocentric fable that propped up unthinking assertions of cultural superiority.
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Former members of Oculus Story Studio, the cinematic virtual reality team that closed last year, are founding a new studio known as Fable.
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Fable is co-founded by Edward Saatchi, who previously co-founded Story Studio, and Pete Billington, the director of Wolves in the Walls.
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They proceed in slow motion, like the worn-down Berliners at the start of Ingmar Bergman's "The Serpent's Egg" (1977), another premonitory fable.
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Konar's novel takes an unorthodox, though not unprecedented, approach to these horrors: She describes them beautifully, lyrically, in the language of a fable.
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Even at its most endearing, the Saint-Exupéry story is far from the kind of smugly reassuring children's fable manufactured by Hollywood nowadays.
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They also saw a project — a mix of feminist fable and romantic fairy tale — that could resonate with women, who drive Broadway sales.
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But in typical McCarthy fashion, the White Snow oeuvre has taken root and grown into something of a meandering fable of its own.
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"Parson Weems' Fable" (1939) is Figge Art Museum, Estate of Nan Wood Graham/VAGA, New York, via Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
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I got (and really dug) 2100A, "Fable about smoked salmon?" by conjuring "myth" and "lox" in my head — LOCKSMITH had to be it.
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Grafting that theme onto a West African folk tale, Ms. Sampson makes a contemporary fable about the black female body and its discontents.
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Late in the 224th century virtually every home had a viewer for 2673-D stereographs of a West that looked like a fable.
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And in his style — this pastiche of poem, autobiography and fable — there is an integration of the self that the life never afforded.
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Annaleah Eenigenburg, 33, of Sayville, N.Y., was at the beach on Monday with her four home-schooled children — Poppy, Olive, Fable and Andrew.
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"The Call of the Swamp" could be read as a fable about adoption, and at points the text edges toward "issue book" reassurance.
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Think: under-$50 animal prints and under-$40 faux leather from in-house labels, A New Day, Universal Thread, Wild Fable and more.
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"The story is a simple and appealing fable of indomitability and father-daughter companionship," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
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In the 1930s, the activist W.E.B. Du Bois argued that the idea that there was no prejudice in the North was a fable.
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In Reagan's arguments for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we see what are going to become the key elements of the national fable.
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Like that fable, Rivette's film begins in the "forest," in a scene that appears to have been shot in the Bois de Boulogne.
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The film is stylized, set in a beige town that could be anywhere, in an unspecified time period — it's more fable than realism.
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A melodrama and fable set in post-war Coney Island, Wonder Wheel could, with some polishing, have been one of the good ones.
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The team is back, under the name Fable Studio, a new startup dedicated to pushing storytelling forward in immersive mediums like AR and VR. For Fable, Wolves in the Walls, based on the work of Neil Gaiman, is an opportunity to experiment as heavily as possible, given that Oculus is still footing the bill for this project from the young startup.
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The playful fable from Japanese animator Masaaki Yuasa centers on a young mermaid who befriends a middle-school rock musician, with spectacularly surreal results.
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The Egyptian fable of the mouse who served as vizier related the lesson that societies need leaders who rule with kindness and without spite.
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In "Fable for technocrats", an essay published in 1974, he described Brazil as "Belíndia", a tiny, rich Belgium surrounded by a vast, poor India.
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It's been more than a century since the fable of the USS Maine, but governments continue to blur the lines between news and lies.
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The entire Fable series sold itself on the claim that everything you do, from eating food to kissing villagers, matters in some small way.
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The store's latest announcement adds the newcomer, Wild Fable, to the ranks of fashion-forward lines like A New Day, Joylab, and Universal Thread.
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Some fans have even questioned the need for a reboot of Buffy at all, over another vampire fable written by a woman of color.
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Fable Fortune isn't expected to be completed until early 2017, though a closed beta test is expected to open for backers in August 2016.
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But the Fable is one of the most beautiful portions and it's one that we made, and I'd love to see it out there.
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Soul Calibur and Fable 3 are both great games, and the Gears of War franchise is nice for letting you chainsaw through alien brains.
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These phony stories, especially outrageous ones like the fable of Clinton's "body double," generate massive digital traffic that adds directly to Facebook's bottom line.
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On the gaming side, we expect some big news about Gears 5, Halo: Infinite and, perhaps, Age of Empires and a new Fable title.
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It's sort of like if the fable of the scorpion and the frog were made into a movie, but with more swears and explosions.
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In the fable, her baptism as "Rebecca" and her marriage to a Jamestown settler are held up to show the moral righteousness of colonization.
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The entire Fable series sold itself on the claim that everything you do,from eating food to kissing villagers, matters in some small way.
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Amid the childhood stories and memories Al-Sharif recounts in the early pages of Daring to Drive is an account of her favorite fable.
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Microsoft has struggled to produce first-party games for its Xbox One console over the past year, after canceling Scalebound, Fable Legends, and Ion.
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"It's a morality tale — a fable," Mr. De Niro, who directed the film and will co-direct the musical, said in a telephone interview.
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Instead of the tale from Genesis, "Babel" substitutes its own sweeter spoken fable about gesture as the original unifying language, lost but potentially recoverable.
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Gangi has come up with a very cunning variation on the revenge fable, but when she strays from Jo, she undermines its simple conceit.
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It was a sort of existentialist fable about the fragility of self, built out of the raw materials left over from the first game.
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According to that fable, Harrison caught cold, which progressed to pneumonia, which took Old Tippecanoe out before the first new moon of his reign.
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This is a fable vision of Long Beach, one I think people in all parts of the country can relate to on some level.
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The fable of the cooler is just another reminder that gambling is a dumb, irrational pursuit that relies upon a temporary suspension of sanity.
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We guess we see the point: Washington reporters and observers were a little puzzled by Ms. Sanders's fable about 10 reporters who drank beer.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MIAMI — In Aesop's fable, The Boy Bathing, a child who cannot swim decides to bathe in a river.
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America's first millionaire, John Jacob Astor, also made his fortune in "soft gold," an ascent that remains a fable of immigrant ambition and hustle.
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Mr. Nakata's most recent film revisits the fable again, this time drawing on social media as a curse in lieu of a VHS tape.
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Some of her stories and poems involve people, and many more involve animals, but all of them have the sly, wise tone of fable.
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And yet, in the best true crime there's a quality of the fairy tale or fable: a simple story that reveals powerful, complicated truths.
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And yet, in the best true crime there's a quality of the fairy tale or fable: a simple story that reveals powerful, complicated truths.
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That ornateness is perfectly suited to "Once on This Island," a fable of love and death and temperamental gods set in the French Antilles.
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Target's Gen Z-focused, '90s-inspired Wild Fable brand launched this fall, offering Instagram-friendly mix-and-match separates in an inclusive size range.
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For its part, Wild Fable — and its ability to reimagine iconic '90s styles for modern discount shoppers — is pretty key to Target's current strategy.
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This fable has led to a lot of confusion surrounding whether the Night's King could somehow have survived to become the current Night King.
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But since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, the tale of Ahab's hubristic vendetta against the whale has become an all-purpose political fable.
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In an interview with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Marc Leepson, author of "Flag: An American Biography," argued that the story is more fable than fact.
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Recall the end of the Anderson fable, in which a child laughs at the naked emperor, triggering a cascade of nonconformity that undoes the spell.
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Microsoft canceled Fable Legends and Scalebound earlier this year, and it seems like the company is learning from showing games that aren't ready too early.
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That Owens returned to the United States and declared Hitler to be "a man of dignity" does not fit so well with that simple fable.
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Fable Fortune tweaks the Hearthstone formula with planned features like cooperative modes against AI-controlled bosses and a level progression system for regularly used cards.
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And on its shore there was a port.... The fable-teller was always from the Affairs Guild, a group of volunteers that ran Society events.
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The Marilyn fable contains flashes of the ordinary: Norma Jeane Mortenson was, after all, once just a foster child from the skids of Los Angeles.
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Michael Arden's revival of the 1990 musical fable, by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, traces star-crossed lovers from opposite ends of a Caribbean island.
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"If you eat food, you are being lied to every day," writes the food critic Laura Reiley in this astonishing series called Farm to Fable.
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David Mercatali directs this London import from the man whose sensational futurist fable "Mercury Fur" gave shivery new meaning to the idea of partying down.
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The now-canceled project Fable Legends was going to be a sort of revival of the series, which will likely never have a new installment.
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His critics offer another analogy: the fable of the scorpion that persuades a frog to carry it across the river, then stings it, drowning both.
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"This shit to me is like some fable, trap shit, with the melodies and harmonics in the beat," Nue told me in an email conversation.
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Unlike, say, Fable 2, where however much of a dick you are, you still get the option to undo all the badness at the end.
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James had wanted to write a "noirish, magical-realist fable" about Jamaican rural life, he told me—a story that wouldn't idealize its pastoral setting.
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The National Theater of Scotland will bring its full cast for this theater fable in which a woman comes face to face with the devil.
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The fable of Aladdin appears in the vastly influential French translation of the "Arabian Nights" by Antoine Galland, which was published between 1704 and 1717.
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That's the chilling premise of Sophie Mackintosh's unsettling debut novel "The Water Cure," a story that feels both futuristic and like an eerily familiar fable.
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Nielsen makes the wise choice of largely avoiding proper names and other details that might drag her tale too far from the realm of fable.
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The relentless positivity of this fable is put across with such bounce-house energy that children in the audience may be bludgeoned into submission instantly.
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Edward Saatchi, who started Fable, predicted that virtual beings would someday supplant digital home assistants and computer operating systems from companies like Amazon and Google.
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Rife with symbols and encroaching apocalyptic dread, Us is a big, ambitious fable about how a society develops willful amnesia, then tears itself to pieces.
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In 2008, he starred in Seven Pounds, a modern-day fable about compassion that featured one of the most bizarre suicide scenes in recent memory.
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It's a fable of serendipitous encounters, of strokes of luck, which counterbalance both the harshness of life and the demons the three main characters battle.
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Poem Selected by Terrance Hayes This poem by the poet and novelist Laura Kasischke channels the sort of folkish fable Borges and Calvino would adore.
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The Cold War abroad, and low levels of partisanship at home, gave Americans reason to tell themselves an easy fable about a stable, broadening democracy.
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But I also can't help feeling a dystopian chill amid all the warm don't-be-evil fuzzies, a hint of corporate propaganda behind the fable.
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Mr. Nakata's most recent film revisits the fable again, this time drawing on social media as its own curse in lieu of a VHS tape.
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"Borne" is VanderMeer's take on a post-apocalyptic narrative, a humor-soaked fable about parenthood and sacrifice that eschews almost every convention of the genre.
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It's a purposely blunt work, a radio-play version of Mr. Glass's operatic style, smartly suited to the fable-like nature of the underlying tale.
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Back in 1973, Wolfe had written an essay called " The New Journalism ," which presented competition between the two forms as a kind of populist fable.
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Monk transports the figure of Alexandra into a symbolic milieu, one that hovers between the mid-twentieth century and the timeless landscape of Buddhist fable.
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This is a fable, more or less, but it's a lovely and loving one, with genuine affection for every character who is even briefly introduced.
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Now the 15-second clip is one of the exhibits in Vans' lawsuit against Target and the designers it contracted to help create Wild Fable.
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It's the endlessly recycled fable about what happens when humans get a little too smart for their own good and start getting up to shit.
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It's folky and fable-esque, but then it surprises you with tiny hints (which I assume will expand into bigger, swirling pieces) of industrial space adventure.
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I suppose what I liked about Rudy's story was that there was something a bit fairy tale about it; almost as if it was a fable.
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Goatish terror, grower of cannabis, shepherd of morons, idiot savant of chaos, Ricky is Vancouver's hockey rioter returned to fable: the Pan of the redneck arcadia.
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Offering basically nothing to pay off the story told around these characters, Free and Easy plays more like a fable that forgot to include the lesson.
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She's telling us this fable, I think, as a way to ease us into the trip—going straight to the heavy shit would be too jarring.
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With fable-makers like Gary, the artificiality of the material is almost always self-evident, and so is the dramatic point being sought by the story.
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This account of the author's struggle with epileptic seizures as a young man merges elements of medical drama, anti-discrimination fable, and coming-of-age memoir.
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BAM raises the volume with a production of "Greek," by Mark-Anthony Turnage, which sets the Oedipus fable in bawdy nineteen-eighties London (Dec. 216-217).
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EAST HAMPTON "Living Well Is the Best Revenge: A Jazz Age Fable of Sara and Gerald Murphy," exhibition about couple who inspired Fitzgerald and Hemingway characters.
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It was told as a fable about a little squirrel; she was very interested in technology but felt excluded by the other animals in the forest.
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This emphasis on hard work is central to morality tales about money that date back centuries, such as Aesop's fable of the grasshopper and the ant.
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Fable Studio, which bills itself as "the virtual beings company," created Lucy, a cartoonish character able to read and respond to viewers' reactions in real time.
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Mr. Norris wrote his sprawling comic fable half a dozen years earlier, before few predicted that Donald J. Trump would one day occupy the White House.
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A fable about a stuffed animal that comes to life risks being a tedious cliché, but in Liniers's skillful hands, "Good Night, Planet" is anything but.
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That the land of "A" seems as timeless and enduringly relevant as that in a fable by Aesop or La Fontaine may be cause for lamentation.
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And I think also, in entertainment terms, it makes a kind of fable about forces that we do believe in the West are stacked against us.
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Often middles, too, his stories pushing you along with the intangible dread of a fable, pulling you forward with the inexorable logic of a mathematical proof.
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In "Play," the go-for-broke cast of six acts out a kind of politically correct fable about a person who seems to represent them all.
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"The Treasure" is both a fable of futility worthy of Samuel Beckett and an allegory of Romania's precarious place at the margins of the European Union.
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She is an affable, uninhibited performer, whether as narrator or as the mysterious stranger, peddling the fable to us via enchanting lyrics and flourishes of humor.
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In the fable he likes to weave, Clemson will always be the lightly regarded college from the tiny town that rises up to smite the giants.
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The result has been hailed as a milestone for its portrayal of under-represented Asian-American minorities as much as a fable of Asia's economic rise.
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Combs called into "The Breakfast Club" when Charlamagne asked if the bombshell revelation Fat Joe made on ESPN's "Highly Questionable" was factual ... or hip-hop fable?
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But then, I remember that the magpie myth is nothing more than a fable, and I cannot blame my love of bling on reincarnation or petite fowl.
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The boy likes to hear fairy tales at bedtime, and his father soon finds himself on an adventure that has all the markings of a modern fable.
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Having made early investments in Brud, A.I. Foundation, Artie and Fable, it became clear that the missing piece behind most AR experiences was a lack of memory.
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These are a few of the questions nascent VR studio Fable began asking when developing Wolves in the Walls, an experience premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
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"Inspired by a small but nasty encounter" of her own, the fable that made Ms Roupenian's name resonated with many female readers' experiences of 21st-century dating.
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Since the original Legend of Zelda first launched 30 years ago today, Link has starred in many adventures, each one like a retelling of an ancient fable.
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Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it was stopping development on the free-to-play title Fable Legends as part of the possible shutdown of Lionhead Studios.
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Yet this is not a straightforward fable of patriarchal oppression: the dynamic between the women as their lives intersect on the stairwell are just as keenly observed.
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Saatchi acknowledges these AI-fueled goals are lofty and that Fable has some more ground-level things to prove in the meantime regarding VR filmmaking's staying power.
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Native Americans often feature as consorts in these narratives, such as the fable in which Satan briefly cohabits with a Cherokee woman in the mountains of Tennessee.
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"For these women, the classic idea that the Zika epidemic has a beginning, a peak and an end is a fable," Diniz wrote in her final report.
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In "Land and Shade," the setting holds more interest than the plot: a fable-like, elemental story that sketches its characters too faintly to develop much power.
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It is also the narrator's coming-of-age story, starting at 9 — a dark fable that traces the metamorphosis of a bright schoolboy into an appalling monster.
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EAST HAMPTON "Living Well Is the Best Revenge: A Jazz Age Fable of Sara and Gerald Murphy," exhibition about the couple who inspired Fitzgerald and Hemingway characters.
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Today is the last one for Lionhead Studios, the famous and ambitious UK game developer team that brought the Fable and Black & White series to the world.
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Our fascination with Pizza Rat, Pizza Squirrel, and other carb-obsessed rodentia stems from a 1954 fable that made an early appearance in an Orson Welles script.
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She's now spreading her tale—and its fable-like moral of how engagement across differences set her free—through a recent TED talk and an upcoming book.
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Then, the sucking morass of fable crept back into my consciousness each time the fog swept in, smudging the horizon and leaching the color from the ground.
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It's also what helps fill the show with its melancholy, like a sad fable where you're cursed by knowing the future, and who's there and who isn't.
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Nearly all of the stories hum with sweet nostalgia, and some even dispatch the kind of moral one would expect from a fable or a fairy tale.
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This stereotype of the young milkmaid with a heaving bosom, besides the obvious association with milk and breasts, may have come from a 14th-century European fable.
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In composing this moralistic fable, Mr. Capra and his writers have tossed in a great abundance of colloquial incidents and emotional tangles of a mistful, humorous sort.
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At that point, "Happy as Lazzaro" is propelled into the present, a fable of biblical proportion set amid a decaying Italy — and requiring a leap of faith.
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Second, Park is at once answering the demands of the genre—the long-form romantic fable, ripe with mischief and erotic predation—and using them for sport.
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While he wrote fiction, essays, journalism, travelogues, short stories and satire, he never published fiction for very young children, apart from his translation of a German fable.
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Gitty doesn't grasp what's going on with the family's farm, but, like so much in "American Fable," her naïveté comes off as forced, scripted rather than innate.
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This fable of society, bureaucracy, and rural life centers on a Tamil farming couple in South India and the female goat they receive from a mysterious man.
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Trump also launched into the "snake" fable that formed a major portion of his campaign stump speech and warned against accepting immigrants he characterized as violent criminals.
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I found excellent Champagnes from Lelarge-Pugeot; wonderful Bordeaux from Château le Puy, not far from St.-Émilion; and terrific ciders from Fable Farm Fermentory in Vermont.
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Tori Sampson's fable about beauty and race, directed by Leah C. Gardiner and set in the imagined village of Affreakah-Amirrorkah, prepares for its happily ever after.
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Twelve years after first deconstructing the midwestern fable for a student production at Bard College, Fish has refined this great myth of American exceptionalism into snake oil.
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The dreamy fable, published in France last year, stunned Ms. Barbery's editor and her translator, Alison Anderson, and even came as something of a surprise to the author.
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Well — to revisit the analogy with which we began — just like the fable, David has a slingshot at his disposal; a simple mechanism that can subdue the giant.
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Last week in San Francisco, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors convened for the first Virtual Beings Summit, where organizer and Fable Studio CEO Edward Saatchi announced a grant program.
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The opening scene of Shooter, a USA Network drama starring Ryan Phillippe as former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, could be read as a sort of conservative fable.
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The latest, Fable Legends, was a five-player action role-playing game in which a team of four "hero" players would join forces against a single "villain" player.
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"Do we look at the world through the eyes of Vaysha the Blind?" the narrator of this fable from Canada asks at the end of its eight minutes.
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Another book that will blanket you in its melancholy tone, The Vegetarian is a Metamorphosis- esque fable about a woman who basically breaks up with her own body.
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This is especially urgent for Otto — the Dr. Frankenstein figure in this fable — a social misfit who relies on Mary to be his real-world eyes and ears.
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Casting magic spells in Fable, scavenging the wasteland in Fallout, or journeying through the fantasy worlds of my favorite franchise, Final Fantasy made me obsessed with the medium.
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In spite of, or because of, the harsh true-to-nature theme (similar to the fable of the scorpion and the frog), their courtship has a memorable beauty.
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In Mr Lanthimos's last deadpan magic-realist fable, "The Lobster", the characters all accepted that anybody who was unmarried for too long would be transmogrified into an animal.
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"That story — which she makes clear "ain't no myth, ain't no fable" — includes co-writing Beyoncé's first country song, "Daddy Lessons," along with "Don't Hurt Yourself" and "Sorry.
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Much like the fable of the scorpion and the frog, stinging us is in The Walking Dead's nature, but we still choose to go along for the ride.
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"Guava Island" turns out to be a 54-minute, fable-like story of a musician named Deni (Glover) and his girlfriend Kofi (Rihanna) on a fictional Caribbean island.
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"Frankly, it annoys the crap out of me—they're nothing but grasshoppers in the system," Joe said, recalling the fable about the thriftless grasshopper and the provident ant.
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Mr. Barnes's view of Shostakovich conforms in every detail to the sentimental Cold War fable of a passive, pathetic yet saintly figure buffeted by an obtuse, implacable force.
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Loosely, it recounts a fable about people from a dark place called Tropico, whose journey to a safer land is represented by many shuffling processions around the space.
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Lionhead was acquired by Microsoft Studios in 2006 — and after 10 years, Microsoft announced it would be canceling Lionhead's Fable Legends game and potentially closing the developer altogether.
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The turtle may be what drives the story, but its existence is not the point, a distinction that positions The Red Turtle squarely in the realm of fable.
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I loved Fable, and obviously Oblivion and Skyrim, but I also played a lot of Runescape when I was younger, so I think that might have done it.
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This is a damaging net loss nearly impossible to rectify, as the more complex and interesting truth rarely tastes as good as the oversugared fable that comes before.
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This week's selections from the physical and digital shelves feature an end-of-the-world tale, a storybook fable, a twisting quest for self-truth, and robot hunters.
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The "Fabulous writer" is AESOP, because he wrote fables, and if you squint your eyes and tilt your head a bit, "fabulous" is an adjectival form of fable.
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Both Meyer and Guo begin their memoirs with quotes from "Journey to the West," a classic 16th-century Chinese fable starring a Buddhist monk and a magical monkey.
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It is a book that hides, and glints, like "the girl" who is at the center of its stark, fable-like tableau of catastrophe, pursuit and repetition-compulsion.
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But this is not a moralistic fable about the lavish waste of funds and the duty of helping poor children instead of partying in a giant baby costume.
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"Spencer built a fable that helps people deal with change in a really accessible way," said Ivan Held, president of G. P. Putnam's Sons, which published the book.
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The website's name comes from the fable "Belling the Cat," in which a group of mice decide to wrap a bell around a cat as a warning system.
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Her many works also include "A Reading of Modern Art" (1969), "A Fable of Modern Art" (1980), "American Art Since 1945" (1982) and "Noguchi East and West" (1992).
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The spirituality in the show, positing a new religion in our lives, is found in the song "Little God" which functions like a fable from a religious text.
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In a last man on earth/survivalist fable with just a hint of class commentary, Jim Preston (Pratt), a mechanic, wakes up in his pod on the Avalon.
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From their Gen Z-focused brand, Wild Fable, to their plus-size basics label, Ava & Viv, it's safe to sat that this collection has a little something for everyone.
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The internet is ROFLing like crazy over the whole thing, which played out like some sort of contemporary fable meant to teach a lesson to Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
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In fact, she went so far as to open the briefing with a lengthy, somewhat inscrutable fable about the complexities of the tax system and the need for reform.
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Fable Legends was meant to be a revival of sorts for the series, introduced alongside the Xbox One as a new, multiplayer-driven approach to the familiar fantasy fiction.
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But what was once an endearing homage to a fable has become a literary battlefield, as some Tolkien fans take umbrage to the techies' appropriation of their beloved work.
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In a 1967 piece based on a Jean de La Fontaine fable, language piles up in silent layers as photographed words are projected over others printed on a screen.
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Praxis always began with a senior Society member retelling the Fable that we'd heard from the glowing book: There was an island... And at its centre was a village.
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However, much like the hare's quick start in Aesop's fable, to win the deregulatory race, President Trump, his appointees, and his allies now need to act like the tortoise.
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Definitely not this woman, who is pointing her finger deliberately in one direction, with all the unwarranted swagger of a person who believes in the fable of linear time.
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In other words, the artist as Aesop, as fable-making troublemaker, is still possible, even when a government does all it can to keep the artist confined and afraid.
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Still, you have to wonder what a director like Michael Moore could have strung on the strong thread of this strange fable from the era of income inequality. video
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I shall not wax too indignant over the fact that this ostensible children's entertainment, in this summer of all summers, could easily be taken as an anti-immigration fable.
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Elusive but never vague, he is closer in spirit to the Symbolist movement, with its vivid evocations of unreal realms, and to the fable-bright world of Les Nabis.
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EAST HAMPTON "Living Well Is the Best Revenge: A Jazz Age Fable of Sara and Gerald Murphy," exhibition about the Long Island couple who inspired Fitzgerald and Hemingway characters.
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Fable, an award-winning RPG that lets you choose whether you're a hero or villain, came out in 2004, followed by Black & White 2 and Hollywood simulator The Movies.
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You can understand Nolan's interest; born in London, in 1970, he belongs to what is probably the last generation to have been reared on the rousing fable of Dunkirk.
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This dark fable isn't a hit with some Miyazaki fans — the story takes eccentric turns, and the connections have to do with emotion, characterization and image rather than plot.
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It has mostly been clued to the Aesopian fable about the tortoise and the HARE, but in this puzzle it is clued as HARE Krishna, the religious movement. 10D.
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After his third novel, "The Plains," a fable-like story reminiscent of Italo Calvino published in 1982, Murnane largely turned away from what might be called conventional narrative pleasures.
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In my highbrow research endeavors I uncovered a really cute fable about a "pinch of snuff," if you feel like reading a mash-up of O. Henry and Judaica.
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Sure, I didn't ultimately fall for David Lowery's A Ghost Story, a decidedly kooky fable in art-house clothing, but I do appreciate its presence at this year's festival.
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Jordan Peele followed up his 2017 smash debut Get Out with Us, a big, ambitious, terrifying fable about how a society develops willful amnesia, then tears itself to pieces.
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"La La Land" succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard-headed fable, a romantic comedy and a showbiz melodrama, a work of sublime artifice and touching authenticity.
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A woolly mammoth with a biblical name is the beating heart of "Samson in the Snow," Philip C. Stead's exquisitely poised and tender fable about friendship in extreme circumstances.
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Working with the set designer Daniel Ostling, the costume designer Mara Blumenfeld and the lighting designer T. J. Gerckens, Ms. Zimmerman has explored the dark complexities of this fable.
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These findings — eerie and ethereal abstractions he posts as either single images or closely related groupings — seem like snapshots from a fable in a language that does not exist.
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Fable and chronicle, the cryptic and the confessional, spiritual longings and earthly concerns, folky delicacy and rock impact, motion and meditation all have a place in Jesca Hoop's songs.
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Fable and chronicle, the cryptic and the confessional, spiritual longings and earthly concerns, folky delicacy and rock impact, motion and meditation all have a place in Jesca Hoop's songs.
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The playwright Tori Sampson, making her professional debut with a vividly titled, bracingly powerful contemporary fable, has spoken about feeling censored when publications bleep a word from its name.
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In terms of the visuals, it's a Lynchian-inspired circular narrative that plays with the fable of Little Red Riding Hood, while reversing the roles of predator and prey.
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I have heard this fable before and know it to be hogwash, but I say, "Oh, wow," and await my $10 change that does not appear to be forthcoming.
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In this fable, a young girl eats the flesh of a ningyo, and ends up living for 800 years, endlessly enduring the deaths of loved ones as she lives on.
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Twenty years ago (or maybe 15, the documentary points to the many holes in this fable), Julian was living on the island of Culebra, off the coast of Puerto Rico.
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Although a sophisticated fable of liberty and its discontents, "Kruso" roots every idea in the salty, sandy landscapes of this "last hope of all the freedom-seekers in this land".
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Petit's fable, based on a libretto by the playwright Jean Anouilh, contrasted the gentleness of the beast with the prejudice of a society that kills those who upset established order.
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The TV deities are smiling on American Gods — Starz has given a Season 2 renewal to Bryan Fuller and Michael Green's modern-day fable two weeks after the show premiered.
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Instead, it was part of a unique machine-learned encoding project, one that had attempted to reconstruct the classic Philip K. Dick android fable from a pile of disassembled data.
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The story of "Papa" John Schnatter, his pizza company, and his insistence on making poorly-thought-out remark after poorly-thought-out remark reads like the worst Aesop's fable ever.
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"Prince of Nothing" is a playful and well-executed fable written and directed by Avram Dodson—but my true favorite of this block included one of the night's best characters.
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This tension of our origins is described in the fable of Cain and Abel, which ends with Cain the farmer slaying his brother, and God's favorite, the hunter-gatherer Abel.
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In northern European classrooms there is an oft told fable of the Dutch boy who saved the country from flooding sticking his finger in the dyke holding the floodwaters back.
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But Foxcatcher still functions well as a cautionary tale — a kind of legend of power and delusion run amok, and a fable about the dangers of turning a blind eye.
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Chris Cohen, "In a Fable": I loved Chris Cohen's humble, woodsy 2012 debut Overgrown Path, and I'm hoping more people find their way to his follow-up As If Apart.
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Some people have said that every generation makes its own A Star Is Born (though I'm personally glad we skipped whatever "sell-out" fable the '90s would have served up).
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Peering at them, I leaned my head against the shuddering glass of my window and, as in the fable of the burning bush, saw instead of the Africans a mirage.
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Fable is working on four future projects that will explore different elements of VR storytelling, and they're being made inside VR as well, using tools like Oculus' illustration program Quill.
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Remaining true to the novel, "The Light Between Oceans" steadily becomes a strained fable about forgiveness and revenge that sabotages its best intentions by taking one too many plot turns.
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Based on an old fable, "Kalila" is about a king's ambitious, jealous adviser, who is suspicious of the influence of a poet who has aroused the passions of the people.
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Directed at a bouncy pace by David Mercatali, this is a blithely told fable for the age of unaffordable housing, blunt in its didacticism but often nastily entertaining (2150:265).
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Directed at a bouncy pace by David Mercatali, this is a blithely told fable for the age of unaffordable housing, blunt in its didacticism but often nastily entertaining (1:35).
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The film, a fable set in rural Poland, focuses on a young man who is seriously injured after an accident on the construction site of the world's largest Jesus statue.
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But despite the book's frequent attention to realistic details, it is securely situated in fable territory, and Mozley's sheer storytelling confidence sends the reader sailing past almost every speed bump.
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The piercing, fable-like novella (translated by Andrew Bromfield) starkly captures the damage wrought by Cold War-era atomic testing on the environment and people of the steppes of Kazakhstan.
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"Storm Boy" tries to present itself as a modern fable, where the lessons learned relate directly to present-day concerns over the environment, industrialization and the marginalization of indigenous cultures.
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Mr. Zahler is working with the Jim Henson Company to produce his dream project, "Hug Chickenpenny," a Dickensian fable about an Elephant Man-esque orphan embodied by an animatronic puppet.
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He excels, as in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," still perhaps our greatest fable, when most connected to the demotic and the vernacular and to the painful truths of human existence.
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He's the show's built-in storyteller, a noirish figure whose position allows him to observe from the periphery, helping to structure Tiger King into a fable rather than a spectacle.
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He's a political fable, holding out the happy if far-fetched possibility that a candidate's effervescence matters more than a state's partisan breakdown and that gumption beats any focus group.
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In the striking magic-realist fable "And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye," from Chile, a mother strives to prevent the death of her adult farmer son.
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"Gold" could have been a biting satire of greed and folly, a neo-Conradian tale of Western misadventure in Asia, a rousing fable of underdog triumph or a caper comedy.
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The 1918 theatrical work is a fable about a soldier who trades his violin — his soul — to the devil for wealth, only to realize the true happiness he's given away.
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He launched into the "snake" fable that formed a major portion of his campaign stump speech, glistening with sweat as he warned against accepting immigrants he characterized as violent criminals.
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If the show's concluding fable about the stalking of a sacred blue stag seems a bit metaphorically muddled, it offers a signal image that captures this vibrant show's distinctive tone.
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His image, taken this week during a demonstration in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, is wet with poetry and the ironies of cancel culture, a twisted fable of our modern times.
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The imagined family history of Knut (2006-11), an actual polar bear in Berlin's zoo, is the subject of this fable-like novel by a Japanese writer based in Germany.
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It's overstuffed, and could easily have ended at least a half-hour earlier; it would have come off as a kind of morality fable about the perils of modern workaholism.
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Searches for lost riches in ancient places as told through fable are almost a part of the human condition, and these modern interpretations give us three things: heroism, adventure, and aspiration.
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Investment in AI will help Fable and other companies tell those stories, Saatchi said, but he doesn't think it'll ever remove the need for having a human behind the virtual face.
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The science on vaccines is settled, the link with autism is a fable, and the leader of this country can't legitimize unfounded conspiracy theories that will cost American children their lives.
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From on-trend leopard prints by Wild Fable to must-have oversized knits featured in its Who What Wear collection — no matter which brand you prefer, Target's been doing everything right.
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Well, not only does Target's new fashion line, Wild Fable, offer pieces that are both on-trend and under-$40, but it just so happens they can also double as costumes.
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Moved by what she heard, she recorded a version of the "sci-fi fable" over the course of three days on an old out-of-tune piano in a rural studio.
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This fable of mice and (wo)men manages to be warm, whimsical, and spine-tingling all at once; I reread it every Halloween and find myself deliciously creeped out every time.
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After Molyneux departed in 2012 to form a new company called 22cans, the studio announced Fable Legends in 2013, as part of a showcase for the then-upcoming Xbox One console.
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This is like the fable of the scorpion and the frog, if the frog were Democrats struggling to remain afloat in Trump's America, and the scorpion were a buoyant man-turtle.
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Then it turned into a microfauna park for insects, mushrooms and the odd frog that had wandered in as if out of a fable, gold-eyed and dark as a fig.
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The new one begins with wind chimes—they recorded at Claypool's Rancho Relaxo studio, in Sonoma County—and segues into Lennon's friendly guitar and a playful fable, by Claypool, involving pollution.
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More than a fable about the clash of tradition and modernity, "Ixcanul" is finally a painful illustration of the ease with which those who have can prey on those who don't.
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The film is really a movie within a movie, in which the author's delicate, fanciful story is folded into a harsh modernist fable about depersonalization and conformity in the contemporary workplace.
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But it also starts the game again, making the show a fable about the ugliness of endless second chances—the resource that is a family like this one's truest wealth. ♦
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Its case studies of erotomania, Othello syndrome, and Couvade syndrome (in which a man seems to experience pregnancy at the same time as his partner) have a fable-like, poetic quality.
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With the toppling of the old forms of order, Rachel, Wick, and the other residents of the city have been plunged into a primordial realm of myth, fable, and fairy tale.
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Hailed by city leaders as a beacon of economic development, the building now serves as a cautionary fable about the dangers of believing in, and spending major money on, pro sports.
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But it is ultimately a fable about the power of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our lives, and what happens when those stories suddenly become more complex.
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The renowned director resides at the sprawling, Haunted Mansion-like structure, developing his ideas that someday may turn into a primal horror movie (Hellboy) or an otherworldly surrealist fable (Pan's Labyrinth).
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This memorable fable about the arrival of a giant, fork-tongued but seemingly harmless lizard artfully combines the mythmaking sensibilities of the Portuguese Nobel laureate Saramago and the Brazilian artist Borges.
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At least that's the premise for a late 19th-century fable that serves as a metaphor for our inability and unwillingness to react or be aware of threats that arise gradually.
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The feeling of fable is common in post-apocalyptic fiction—the extremes of the future echoing the extremes of the past, and playing grace notes of nostalgia overtop the horrifying setting.
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Video game players can pick up Fable for Xbox and immediately recognize it as being developed during that one year period where game developers really hammed it up with light bloom.
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If "The Snow Queen" extends the medium's long-standing attachment to fable and legend, Czernowin's "Heart Chamber" nods to the modern tradition of Zeitoper —"now opera," or opera of the moment.
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Directed by Luca Guadagnino ("A Bigger Splash"), this summertime fable stars Timothée Chalamet as Elio, a 17-year-old living with his parents (Michael Stuhlbarg and Amira Casar) in rural Italy.
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Sans celebs, excessive scenery, or striking dancing talent, the film reads like a Judson School rejoinder to the Christian rock opera, a picturesque fable flying in the face of the sublime.
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Similar to games like Fable 2 and 3, this will be "drop in" co-op, where you join up with your friend's ongoing settlement but keep your own settlement at home.
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The resulting movie is a gentle fable, a small myth, and the rare philosophical film that captures the balance of work and art that so many artists — especially poets — have to navigate.
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Like a character in a fable about Washington, DC, every time Trump curses the cloud or orders it to leave him alone, it instead grows bigger and rumbles more ominously with thunder.
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"An ungainly mix of benign monster movie, action comedy and coming-of-age fable, Okja marks South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's contentious debut in the official Cannes competition selection," he notes.
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But such discouraging views were not heeded by an administration so bent on war that it not only ignored history but faked it — cooking up a fable of weapons of mass destruction.
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Sit down, my pretties, and let me tell you a little infosec fable: Once upon a time there was PGP, which stands for Pretty Good Privacy, and it was good and strong.
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This episode of Black Mirror is a little fable about how we humans are but one moment away from losing our precarious grip on morality, and committing act of sheer, unfathomable cruelty.
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Unsettling and uncanny, like any good gothic fable, "Phantom Thread"—nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture, director and costume design—is embellished with touches of humour amid dark, sibilant drama.
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That was the scurrilous fable an anonymous Baltimore Police Department source leaked to The Washington Post two Aprils ago, shortly after Gray died of spinal chord injuries incurred while in police custody.
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"There's the fable, the moral level, but also the social dimension, social class, and the religious dimension," said Alexandre Mallet-Guy, a French producer who co-produced the film with Mr. Farhadi.
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"We have had this almost 'Chicken Little' kind of dynamic on the left where it's like literally every tweet is like the end of the republic," Jones said, referencing the famous fable.
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It's then, with the help of a runaway bride and some environmental hippie magic, that this blurry movie morphs into a fine fable about life, death and female self-determination (plus zombies).
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The 40-year-old leader played narrator of Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic fable when his mail office staff and underprivileged children attended an invitation-only performance at the Elysee Palace on Thursday night.
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"Guava Island" is a music-driven fable that follows Deni (Glover), a happy-go-lucky singer who believes that music has the power to unite the squabbling citizens of his tiny island.
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On "Anat's Doina," a klezmer-inspired suite written by Ms. Cohen, the distant electric guitar, vibraphone and accordion evoke the chatter of an urban scene, and the resonance of a fable. G.R.
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If we don't face them forthrightly, we risk living in worlds of fantasy and fable, subject not to reason, the greatest of gifts, but susceptible to passion, the most dangerous of forces.
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One of her earliest biographies is filled with inaccuracies and racist language, while a cottage industry of children's books paints a picture of her that's often more fable than flesh and blood.
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The Corman film of "Shop" was, like many horror and sci-fi flicks of the Eisenhower years, a fable of the atomic age, playing to a nation's fears of science run amok.
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Its minimal production values, and matching ticket prices, suited a tale that was, at heart, a lighthearted fable about the "half-blood" son of the sea god Poseidon and a mortal woman.
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"Macario," which was nominated for an Oscar — and, like "Salón México," shot by the distinguished cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa — was a prestige project, based on a fable by the expatriate writer B. Traven.
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The latter include "The Gilded Six-Bits," with its plot turning on heartbreak and betrayal; "Spunk," a spooky adultery fable drenched in swagger; and "Sweat," a nail-biting tale of domestic terror.
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Too mannered for realism and too thin for fable, it spins its wheels in a social and intellectual void filled only by Wakefield's voice-over musings and the shadow of Doctorow's virtuosity.
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There is no end to such stories, and though they are linked by theme, setting and technique, each one is different — a fable of contemporary life that feels both specific and eternal.
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Relocating Dürrenmatt's tragicomic fable from middle Europe to a dying factory town in upstate New York in the mid-1950s has allowed him to take uncharacteristically crude potshots at all-American consumerism.
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The 1976 A Star Is Born reboots the story as a hippie-glam rock and roll fable, with a script co-written by Joan Didion and her late husband John Gregory Dunne.
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For all that the story is rooted in a speculative conceit, it demands to be read as a political fable about the ease with which reality yields to the coherence of fantasy.
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In the mime-as-metaphor symbolism of this tautly constructed, demanding fable, Dennis's predicament is likened to the feeling of being cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible wall.
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Del Toro had set his phantasmagoric fable about a young girl navigating a world of fauns, faeries, and demons in 1944 Franco-era fascist Spain, and kept the script in its native language.
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The story he told was a loose-jointed personal biography, spanning more than half a century — a classic show business fable of an ambitious hopeful from the sticks who conquers the Big Apple.
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The track is a Dennis Hopper monologue read over a simmering, hummed instrumental, telling the fable of a small mountain community who are besieged upon by strange folk who tellingly, "came in camouflage".
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"I think that VR movies were a stepping stone," says Edward Saatchi, whose company Fable is rebranding itself as a "virtual beings" company after launching as a VR film outfit just last year.
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The film, directed by Sébastien Laudenbach, is decidedly not for children, but it is a fable, and it's elegantly told through spare, stylized drawings that soften its bouts of bleakness without erasing them.
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Within the simple, Disney-flavored morality of that first Kingdom Hearts, which mashed up Final Fantasy and Disney into a silly-but-compelling fable of a role-playing game, this makes perfect sense.
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Such is the case with Erich von Stroheim's Queen Kelly (1929) — a film that, though glistening and ethereal on the outside, is at bottom a brutal fable of libertinism, stifled love, and domination.
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As it stands, experts say ISPs have glacially imposed such restrictions in the hopes American consumers wouldn't notice they're punitive and wholly unnecessary (imagine the boiling frog fable, with you as the frog).
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PixelCount is made up of a couple ex-Lionhead devs who tout their work on the Fable games, and they are planning to launch a Kickstarter at some point to support their work.
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But it takes Aesop's classic fable, which teaches us that perseverance and a strong work ethic can overcome a disheartening skill gap, and crystallizes the lesson at a time when it's needed most.
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The answers reveal that the Cannes jury last May was looking for the same thing that so many less eminent moviegoers seek out in frightening times: a rousing fable with a credible hero.
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The film is directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, who made "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006), and, as in that winsome fable, the steady procession of setups and payoffs can feel suspiciously pat.
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The fable also allowed its audience to avert its eyes from the marginalization of Asian and Latinx labor populations, the racialization of Southern European and Eastern European immigrants, and the rise of eugenics.
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Hilarious though the chowder goblins are at face value, in the context of his elaborate Twitter fable, they take on a richer significance as recurring figures, a kind of entourage of the weird.
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The lust that is, of necessity, thwarted and dammed in Disney productions of "Beauty and the Beast" is released, and allowed to flow at will, through the fable of Eliza and the Creature.
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By now, the fable had become a musical, and so it was again in 1976, when Kris Kristofferson was defeated by Barbra Streisand 's vast voice and the untamable majesty of her perm.
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EAST HAMPTON "Living Well Is The Best Revenge: A Jazz Age Fable of Sara and Gerald Murphy," exhibition about the Long Island couple who inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's and Ernest Hemingway's characters. Aug.
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Speaking of political commentators, he said, "One wonders if these people are people at all, or instead soulless golem" — creatures of fable that were set in motion by rabbis in time of danger.
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DT Willis's set, dramatically lighted by Adam Honore, is a low-key but pleasing element, with evocative silhouettes in the first and last scenes that enhance the fable-like tone of the musical.
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EAST HAMPTON "Living Well Is the Best Revenge: A Jazz Age Fable of Sara and Gerald Murphy," exhibition about the Long Island couple who inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's and Ernest Hemingway's characters. Aug.
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It could be a 19th-century premonition about the dangers of biotechnology, or a fable about the possibilities of male birth and all the horror such transgressions of the so-called natural invoke.
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Michaël Dudok de Wit's wordless animated fantasy The Red Turtle is more specifically for audiences who can handle a low-key, quiet fable based on the sheer beauty and ambition of its animation.
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The fable of a Harvard underclassman taking some equations written on his dorm window, drinking a few beers and spawning a world-altering social network is by now a well-known origin tale.
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Without astute comic performances like these the play might curdle before revealing itself fully as a fable for our times, about people so uncertain of the right path that they risk taking none.
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"Submission" is a clever fable of modern France getting taken over by an Islamist totalitarianism, pretty much the way France did get taken over by the pro-Hitler right wing in the 1940s.
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OVER THE TIME I spent listening to the inhabitants of Henrietta Street, its story came to sound not like one of simple regeneration, but like a much stranger fable, with a moral bent.
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Trilobites It's been nearly 3,000 years since Aesop wrote "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," the fable in which an urban rodent exposes his rural cousin to the city's superior dining options.
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In this case, that system is specifically the food industrial complex, and her tale is a clear and effective animal rights fable, or at least a protest against factory farming and genetic engineering.
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The first movie in the franchise was released in 1954, just nine years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a not-so-thinly veiled fable about the dangers of nuclear weapons.
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The first movie in a long-running franchise, it was released nine years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a not-so-thinly veiled fable about the dangers of nuclear weapons.
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Set in an invented colonial country on the verge of native rebellion, it's explicitly allegorical, a fable of societal upheaval lighted with flashes of gorgeous, lurid imagery, like something out of Henri Rousseau.
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In the central section, a fable about a boy's journey through the rain forest in pursuit of honey, the integration of live action and the projection of gorgeous line drawings is a delight.
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This alone makes the show stand out in our naturalistic contemporary theater, but, alas, he did not stop at thriller and also went for melodrama, romance, spy mystery, political yarn and supernatural fable.
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Like most of these films, it's entirely wordless, but the music (by Michael Giacchino), facial expressions, framing, and editing work in concert to craft a funny little fable with some truly satisfying twists.
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First, a quick recap of the fable of the scorpion and the frog: A scorpion meets a frog on a river bank and asks the frog to carry it to the other side.
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But it is also why hip-hop narratives, like the "Walk This Way" saga, continue to hold so much appeal, almost as America's national fable: They reinforce the myth of the American dream.
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A plot that began as just another story of violence in a city plagued with troubles has barrel-rolled into what looks like a different but equally familiar fable of tourists behaving badly abroad.
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The rise and fall of Theranos doesn't lend itself to a single interpretation, because it shouldn't — it's not a fable, it's a mess that offers up all sorts of astonishing details and instructive lessons.
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An unpopular norm is on view in the Hans Christian Anderson fable in which an entire village pretends to see a naked emperor's nonexistent new clothes, falsely believing that everyone else can see them.
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"'The Handmaiden' is just pure cinema, a dizzying, disturbing fable of love and betrayal that piles on luxurious imagery, while never losing track of its story's human core," wrote The Atlantic critic David Sims.
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Yan Lianke, one of China's most forthright and versatile novelists, enlists extravagant comedy and far-fetched fable to propel his critique of a society where "power and money have colluded to steal people's souls".
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Microsoft will also be discussing its plans for the xCloud game streaming service, and is rumored to be unveiling a new Gears 5 game, a Fable reboot, and the next-generation "Anaconda" Xbox console.
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The story of Scrooge's subsequent nocturnal encounters with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, and his Yuletide change of heart, is as much a financial fable as it is a moral one.
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It's a place for newly formed studio Fable to explore virtual interactivity that's deeper than what you'd find in a simple 360-degree animation or video, but less formally structured than a typical game.
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It follows a shipwrecked man to an island, where his attempts to escape are blocked by a giant turtle; from there, the story unfolds with the dreamlike logic and sudden surprises of a fable.
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Fyre Festival is the great story of our time, a dystopian revenge fable that condemns the follies of late capitalism while also giving the already relevant Ja Rule a few more decades of visibility.
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"It does seem a shame" that Stephen Chow's "exhilarating, bizarre, good-hearted, blatantly obvious sci-fi-fantasy-slapstick eco-fable isn't getting wider fanfare," Glenn Kenny wrote in The Times about this Asian blockbuster.
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Like other legends that surround Mr. Guzmán, the basic facts of his flight from the marines five years ago have been told so often they have started to develop the haziness of a fable.
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During the more than forty years that succeeded his momentous conversion—years of endless controversy and the wielding of power and feverish writing—he persuaded himself that it was no mere fable or myth.
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OTHER THAN WE Described as "a cli-fi eco-feminist fable," this new play written and directed by Karen Malpede finds four scientists concocting a bold response to the climate crisis. Nov. 21-Dec.
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Wideman imagines himself talking in down-home, midcentury black slang to the dead young man as if he were a brother or a comrade, telling him a fable about a tenacious swarm of honeybees.
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From there, Swann's undeniable talent and the inherent sketchiness of this particular human resource tranche make the rest of the story less of a fable and more of a study in free market gravity.
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The filing also makes note of promotional photos for Wild Fable in which models wear the sneakers and hold bags with a black and white checkerboard pattern — another of Vans' most well-known designs.
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No matter what he claimed as the intention behind the painting "Parson Weems' Fable" (1939), this parable of George Washington confessing to chopping down the cherry tree is the looniest painting in the show.
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A piece like "Fable II" (1957), one of the earliest works in the show, done in oil on illustration board, represents a solidification of the formerly shimmering paint strokes of the artist's previous abstractions.
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The bulk of the action is a longtime favorite fable an elderly man (Peter Falk) is reading to his grandson (Fred Savage), who starts out as a reluctant listener but gradually gets into the story.
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Ever since the drug store introduced a collection of in-house fashion lines like Wild Fable, Who What Wear, and A New Day, our shopping excursions now consist of more than just cheap beauty buys.
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Microsoft hasn't released a title list, but the graphics on the teaser page show off Halo 5, NBA 2K16, Payday 2, Soul Caliber II, Fable III, Mad Max, Saint's Row IV, Lego Batman, and others.
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Allanson fondly remembers Ted's Caving Blog and a story he couldn't remember the details of, but described it as a "great House of Leaves-esque" fable of a man who tried to eat a house.
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A successful espionage fable needs to burrow deep beneath the masks these spies wear, even in their private lives (think of le Carré's enigmatic George Smiley), but Marian remains a tabula rasa, aloof and unknowable.
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Had DeLillo created a world of pure abstraction where the reader would be left to float in the zero-gravity chamber of the death fable, everything to think about and nothing to latch on to?
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Without letting go of its grounding in the lives and desires of its characters, especially Ada, it becomes an unusual kind of ghost story, more unnerving than terrifying, a supernatural fable of resistance and revenge.
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That is a reference to a fable about a leader parading down the main street wearing nothing but his birthday suit and he is so brainwashed his subjects that everybody thinks he's wearing beautiful clothes.
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Those looking for a morally complex fable or incisive politics should look elsewhere, but those content with a stylist as extravagant as Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, F.J. Ossang, or Seijun Suzuki will be in heaven.
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From the mouths of gods to the hand of a servant, a fable of power where money or influence or social capital trickles down from a class that controls it to those who are employees.
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The first is a fable accepted by many intellectuals, who have found themselves guilty because just enough white working-class voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin handed Mr. Trump his Electoral College win in 2016.
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Would they harness their energy to create a world envisioned in books like "Herland," the 1915 feminist fable in which a treacherous male-dominated universe gives way to a matriarchy of peace, justice and empathy?
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The pressures of city life are embedded in millennia-old tales, like Aesop's classic fable of the town and country mouse, and these ancient themes are all the more relevant in our rapidly urbanizing world.
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Relying on warm intuition over cold logic, "The Cakemaker" can at times seem almost detached from reality, its characters mere symbols in a delicate fable about the fluidity of attachment and the permeability of boundaries.
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An environmental fable, the lushly animated movie — A. O. Scott of The New York Times compared the delicacy of Mr. Miyazaki's landscapes to that of Monet or Turner — also centers on a young man, Ashitaka.
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The beloved retailer behind Wild Fable and Prologue is an integral part of our fall routine, whether we're back-to-school shopping, post-summer apartment organizing, or just living our typical day-to-day life.
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In its bid to tell a feminist fable, Bombshell presents Carlson to us in her fully enlightened form, as she readies herself to take down one of the most influential conservative men in the country.
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The Spanish film "Timecode," about the clandestine activities of parking garage security guards, might seem equally slight, but it reveals itself to be a sly fable of creative resistance in the face of deadening routine.
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Joffrey — played by Jack Gleeson in the HBO version of Martin's Song of Ice and Fire novels — is a wicked, rage-filled teenage royal who gets only a short stint on the fable Iron Throne.
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The townspeople wear galoshes in their houses, flood their floors with water, they use poison, electrical currents, gasoline, battle tactics, all to no avail, and again the story feels like a fable for our time.
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"The Whispers" does not turn out to be the fable it at first seems, but Howard pulls off the trick of making Riley's real quest even more heart-wrenching than the fantasy that drives it.
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