Basically, folkloric creatures whose existence have yet to be proven.
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It was a part of folkloric presentations and competitions, not commercial theater.
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Why is our political discourse such a teeming cantina of folkloric beasties?
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These fantastical, almost folkloric tones were "common in Soviet paleoart," Lescaze notes.
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Recreational courses include English, photography, Zumba and dabkah, an Arabic folkloric dance.
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The American adoption of "homeland" is in fact less folkloric than technocratic.
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Others, like Mr. Lucas, claimed the spotlight, but Mr. Barnes became folkloric.
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Similar to Norwegian folkloric creatures, internet trolls are characters in new contemporary fables.
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They serve to recreate, in a contemporary guise, folkloric imagining from Na's childhood.
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My mother specifically practiced a lot of folkloric magic when I was young.
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But its colorful, folkloric way of life is threatened by a dwindling population.
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It's a superhero origin story of sorts, sparked by some desperate folkloric research.
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We have live mariachi music every day and folkloric ballet every Saturday and Sunday.
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The legend of Bloody Mary is centuries-old and appears in many folkloric variations.
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But scratch beneath the surface and you'll find a folkloric element to their dishes.
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French Catalans share folkloric dances and other traditions with the Catalans across the border.
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There has in fact been a 13-year move toward folkloric, less formal carpets.
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They became a team and recorded four folkloric songs for Odeon Records in 1949.
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If you must indulge in folkloric whims, just throw some salt over your shoulder.
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Her work was astonishing, as minutely detailed as any Copley, with a feminine, folkloric twist.
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Blending a mystery-novel plot with something more folkloric, Ghosh surveys an increasingly ravaged world.
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But he also wanted to enrich Slavic opera, with its folkloric elements and rustic colorings.
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This New York-based folkloric dance and music ensemble celebrates and promotes Afro-Cuban culture.
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Such figures populate many of Carrillo's canvases, drawn from indigenous Pre-Columbian and folkloric culture.
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While active fisherman here are nearly extinct, the job maintains an almost folkloric hold throughout Britain.
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But the director Hiro Murai gives the tale a dark folkloric edge that raises goose bumps.
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The women stood in troop formation, sheathed in evening gowns or folkloric costumes or bathing suits.
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A classically trained Argentine vocalist, Ms. Rei also plays a number of South American folkloric instruments.
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In "Che Malambo," a Frenchman has taken a folkloric Argentine form and turned it into grand spectacle.
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The wolves that menace Marie's flocks supply Mr. Guiraudie with a folkloric dimension, and a haunting climax.
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The children become street performers of folkloric shadow puppetry, eventually traveling to Crete looking for paying audiences.
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Jazz A classically trained Argentine vocalist, Ms. Rei also plays a number of South American folkloric instruments.
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Díaz's own recent recording, "L'ó Dá Fún Bàtá," is a marvelous document of folkloric rhythm and song.
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"We're absolutely leaning hard into Russian folkloric references because they have such brilliant percussive elements," she said.
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The traditional tiles and embroidered cushions contrast with its clay walls, adding a folkloric charm to the place.
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He presented me with a souvenir: a small stuffed figure representing a Mayan folkloric character called an Alux.
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They'd have some folkloric story about what was wrong with him: 'He was ill when he was young.
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A long white T-shirt dress with little cap sleeves had four folkloric rose bushes down the front.
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The resulting folkloric aesthetic makes Scary Stories' brand of fantasy all the more effective as fun visual horror.
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Their comeback release, "BooCheeMish," matches the choir's folkloric harmonies to multitudes of instruments, not all of them traditional.
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Fritz Böhm's debut film Wildling is cloaked in mystery, dark and dank, occasionally bloody, sometimes shocking, and fantastically folkloric.
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Such reports, he says, often included a white van – a familiar folkloric motif, like the hook-handed serial killer.
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Radio waves indicated that his grave had been disturbed, and folkloric accounts pointed to a local 18th-century doctor.
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He knows from folkloric use that these things aren't used by chance, that they've survived the test of time.
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It gives fans a glimpse of the folkloric, cultural and scientific influences on the magic of the popular series.
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At the houses where they stopped, young women in red, black and white folkloric dress came out to listen.
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What we think of as folkloric elements are basically Spanish or Portuguese elements, by way of Afro-South Americans.
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Released in 2002, "The Ring" furnished us with a fresh and memorably horrifying rendition of the folkloric vengeful ghost.
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Fiennes is like a folkloric boogeyman, stalking from town to town brandishing hammers and orbitoclasts, with Andy his obedient herald.
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To actually see Tannhäuser Gate, a fantastical place yet one with deep folkloric echoes in its name, would inevitably disappoint.
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A cameo by the traditionalist Puerto Rican rumba singer Totin (Arará) Agosto adds a folkloric seal of approval across generations.
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His early work is considered as traditional realism but his later style, including the printmaking, becomes more folkloric and graphic.
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Nothing you've learned or read about the subject—scientific, folkloric, touristic—seems remotely adequate or even relevant to the experience.
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A lot of these remedies that just seem folkloric or really esoteric actually do have some scientific reasoning behind them.
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I think it may be the case that we continue to live in this somewhat tribal folkloric fake news world.
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Instead, he took the stage and, on a tinny-sounding Bösendorfer, gave a performance of disarmingly lyrical, almost folkloric simplicity.
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No one would mistake it for Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" or "Carousel," with which it shares some dark folkloric aspects.
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Cannily navigating stylistic currents, he moved from folkloric nationalism to serialism and on to indeterminacy and other avant-garde techniques.
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Cervantes subverts the genre, uncannily referencing its baroque aesthetic, while mixing in contemporary influences, such as Mexican folkloric figurines of prostitutes.
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The beatific smile, the warm hugs and the trademark folkloric dress project the reassuring humility of a big but benign country.
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The composer's turn from nationalist, folkloric music toward abstract serialism mirrored broader calls by stateside officials for Latin America to modernize.
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In the overture, the statement of the stirring theme associated with the Dutchman had an ominous cast, but also folkloric vigor.
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In 2007, it withdrew a handbag printed with folkloric designs, one of which happened to look a lot like a swastika.
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The pieces that are mostly played in the United States are those that draw on folkloric elements of Latin American music.
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"Hecho/Hechizo" is a complex brew of the noise, folkloric, and brujeria sounds currently cooking in the growing global bass scene.
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Formed by Fadi J. Khoury and Sevin Ceviker, this contemporary group blends Argentine tango, ballroom, jazz and Middle Eastern folkloric movement.
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For most of us, the message in a bottle is purely folkloric, existing in pop songs and terrible Nicholas Sparks novels.
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It takes its name and technique from malambo, a folkloric dance at least two centuries old, developed by Argentine cowboys, or gauchos.
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The annual contest, which started in 1956, is known for its eclectic mix of rock ballads, techno-pop and occasional folkloric tunes.
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Jonathan Guthmann's etchings on Hahnemühle paper feature neo-Gothic, almost folkloric illustrations of a human skeleton that's been explicitly identified as 'death.
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Nidia comes from an amazing background; she's a folkloric singer—a type called a cantora—which is native to Colombia's Pacific Coast.
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These include cartoon-bright scenes set in a railway station, a hilltop favela, and a carnival, all intentionally flirting with folkloric kitsch.
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At the New-York Historical Society, a glimpse of the folkloric, cultural and scientific influences on the magic of the popular series.
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The newest pairing explores rhythm and showcases Ensemble Español Spanish Theater, which performs flamenco and folkloric dance, and Trinity Irish Dance Company.
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It's a raw, intense debut, well worth it for readers who enjoy folkloric creatures, unconventional romantic relationships and visceral (sometimes unsettling) storytelling.
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It's rare to see such a mercurial character—one that does not easily lend herself to easy moral lessons—in any folkloric tradition.
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But it does differ from the malambo at folkloric festivals, especially the most conservative one, held annually in the Argentine town of Laborde.
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Still, there is something extra disturbing about storks, a famous folkloric symbol for pregnancy and birth, going the way of the garbage, too.
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The 28-year-old UC Davis BFA synthesizes powerful poltergeists and etherial deities from a variety of folkloric traditions on her Instagram account.
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Rather than a cosmopolitan form of jazz with Ethiopian influence, Mr. Mekurya made a music of gruff, earthy incantation, rooted in folkloric custom.
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Despite some folkloric allusions to Morrowind, and a heavily touted continuity with the events of Oblivion, Skyrim's story and setting were vastly different.
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He details tortures inflicted on both sides—the phrase "tarred and feathered" persists as something vaguely folkloric but is revealed as unimaginably cruel.
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Bobby Sanabria is a leading Cuban percussionist and historian of the Afro-Cuban folkloric tradition, as well as others from across Latin America.
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More than 20 companies take part, serving up a feast of Mexican folkloric, classical Cambodian and traditional Congolese dance, among other styles. worldartswest.
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Janacek's music ingeniously blends folkloric Moravian elements, fragmented phrases and an elusive harmonic language to expose the raw undercurrents of the everyday characters.
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Her penmanship is both delicate and sophisticated in its maneuverings, yet childlike, almost doll-like, as well, in a folkloric kind of way.
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"The Observer" captures that bittersweet air with a soulful bass vamp, a folkloric vocal cry and a poetic trumpet solo by Mandla Mlangeni.
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Taught until 1925, the Best Maugard Drawing Method was later harshly criticized for standardizing artistic expression and limiting it to folkloric subject matter.
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The 33-person cultural delegation visited Cuba's famous University of the Arts, where musicians performed a concert with classical music and folkloric dance performances.
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Michael Phelps breaks a record that's literally folkloric, set by a man named Leonidas who was born before Jesus Christ, and it absolutely scans.
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Obviously the folkloric name comes from the red color of the moon during lunar eclipses, caused by the Earth's atmosphere scattering the blue light.
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But Donovan pointed out that the book Q and the conspiracy theory QAnon are both part of a rich folkloric tradition that predates both.
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Maggie Chiang, an LA artist originally from Taiwan, creates delicate folkloric paintings and illustrations, often overlaid with nature motifs in earthy twilight-toned palettes.
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Emezi, who is Nigerian, conjures the African oral tradition with sweeping metaphors folded into an almost folkloric rendering of some of humanity's harshest truths.
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The smiling images of Myanmar's 135 official ethnic minorities (they do not include the Rohingya) in the National Museum in Yangon constitute folkloric deception.
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Recent studies have confirmed its folkloric qualities, finding that the arousing stimulant's reputation is based on compounds called flavonoids that reside in the damiana leaf.
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The renowned artist, known for her raw and mysterious self-portraits, has inspired generations of women with her feminist views, folkloric fashion and passionate lifestyle.
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Their contribution feels intuitive and deep-simmered: Even when a track flaunts its electronic timbres, as on "Rapsódia Brasilis," there's a tendril of folkloric imprecision.
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The publication divides the events into holidays — religious, civic or folkloric — and what it calls special days, which can be advocacy, quirky or promotional days.
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Energized by savvy filmmaking and star performances and infused with folkloric elements, they were made as alternatives to, rather than imitations of, contemporary Hollywood movies.
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"Blind Vaysha," a film by Theodore Ushev with folkloric, Eastern European overtones, is a bit talkier, with a narrator's voice accompanying eerie, woodcut-like images.
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"Jeanne Lanvin traveled all over, brought things back and made them hers," Mr. Sialelli said, referring to a folkloric print from Egypt as an example.
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But scientists would like more than intuition, more than a history of 18th-century river level gauges and discharge stations, more than written and folkloric memory.
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American political culture is a crowded bestiary of folkloric creatures that, despite not being real, bring order and meaning — if not truth — to our common life.
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A pianist originally from Cuba, he has a superb new album, "Hidden Voices," informed both by folkloric Afro-Cuban custom and the postwar jazz avant-garde.
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Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra directed this contemporary story of star-crossed lovers, which takes place both in the real world and in a fantastical, folkloric parallel universe.
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She guides us impiously through the holidays with no particular deference to denomination, mixing the folkloric and the Judeo-Christian with the commercial and the bureaucratic.
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There's something post-apocalyptic about the apparitions he sees, which also bring to mind the folkloric spirits known as "haints" that Jamila's family discusses over dinner.
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LENS Bego Antón has spent five years traveling to Iceland to explore the world of mythical, folkloric creatures — and the people for whom they are real.
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As family members huddled around the television, watching images of burned buildings in Qaraqosh, Ms. Mosaky brought out a folkloric wraparound dress she had recently sewn.
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But fortuitously, the works' embellished picturing also has the means to broach atavistic and folkloric meanings, given its deliverance from the common codes of pop representation.
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But all of this is only a preface for the explosion of colors, costumes and folkloric dance that will overtake the city in its annual Carnaval celebration.
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The exhibition, which launched in 2017 at the British Library, featured historic and folkloric inspirations for the kind of magic we see in the Harry Potter books.
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I think the official doctrine of socialist realism, which was binding in 1956, was that art should be folkloric and nationalist in form, and socialist in content.
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In the Welsh folkloric tradition of Mari Lwyd, a horse skull visits your home around Christmas, and you must best it in poetry or allow it inside.
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For people too young to have watched the proceedings in Judge Lance A. Ito's courtroom unfold in real time, the story had a fuzzy, almost folkloric quality.
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I saw it probably two years prior to making A Ghost Story, but it was nonetheless on my mind a lot, the folkloric aspects of that film.
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Nowhere is this folkloric read of popular culture better represented than in two of the 1980s' most salient cultural artifacts: heavy metal records and Saturday morning cartoons.
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The name, an amalgam of female folkloric figures Baba Yaga (the wise elderwoman of Eastern Europe) and Sheela Na-Gig, (a UK/Irish pagan figure) feels contrived.
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The folkloric correlations made perfect sense: Looking at purple wildflowers and kelly-green grass, I couldn't remember the last time I was surrounded by such serene exquisiteness.
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And she effused over a straw-colored folkloric-looking set crocheted of horsehair (crocheting was a favorite past-time of housebound British women in the late 1800s).
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The image of today's folkloric inquiry might be one of the artist recording herself while she repurposes the tools of past generations, using new instruments and technologies.
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End your trip on a luxurious note with the manos santas massage, which uses local botanical oils inspired by folkloric healing practices (60-minute treatments from $185).
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In the 2017 postseason, Boston's Isaiah Thomas earned near-folkloric status across Celtics Nation by playing through an injury and the sudden death of his little sister.
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard is definitely not the African Game of Thrones, but it is a novel based on folkloric stories that combine the mystical with the political.
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The theme gave the designers leave to express their penchant for couture-level ornamentation via floating layers of tulle embroidered with clouds, or folkloric runes, or feathered wings.
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This year, however, June's full moon, the Strong Sun Moon (according to folkloric traditions), falls on the same day as the solstice for the first time since 1948.
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With her in mind, Ms. Shyu set about culling folkloric tales from traditions across East and Southeast Asia, and created her own syncretic saga for the present day.
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The unusual percussion adds folkloric color, and the players heat up the tension until the final, wild glissandos on the piano here, pounded out with a softheaded mallet.
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Within the Catholic tradition, the idea that saints can intercede to God on one's behalf makes saints particularly important and the object of folkloric veneration in their own right.
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The characters and performers are all black, but the story, which might strike different observers as charmingly folkloric or offensively caricatured, was written by Lynn Root, who was white.
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Related These Layered Photo-Paintings Are Several Works of Art at Once Joyful Folkloric Paintings from a Former Fashion Model Naked Ladies Run Amok in Microsoft Paint Oil Paintings
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Mr. Kamae was one of the most influential Hawaiian musicians of the second half of the 20th century, at once an innovator and a diligent steward of folkloric customs.
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Painted using tempera on plywood, the scene is a simple folkloric image featuring eight Egyptian fellahin (peasants) in colored smocks and tunics closely observing John the Baptist baptize Jesus.
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To conclude, Mr. Morlot drew a vibrant account of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony from the well-prepared players, with full-bodied string tone, folkloric charm and lots of brio.
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Later, Clarisse's daughter—also named Ladivine—travels to an unspecified, apparently African country, and enters an almost magical world that reconnects her with the folkloric beliefs of her grandmother.
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Going beyond scurrilous scandals, murder, and Satanism, and into the immense forests, mountains, and paganistic and folkloric traditions of Scandinavia, art zine Becoming the Forestplumbs the depths of black metal.
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All three create a folkloric atmosphere; all have the gift of working in miniature without being trivial; all engage, very gently, the surreal comedy of the world looked at peculiarly.
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Malverde is a folkloric Robin Hood figure famous for robbing from the rich to help the poor, and in the eyes of many has much in common with El Chapo.
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Mr. Opper makes body mist, bath soap and 543 other products from the lavender he grows, and he sticks with the folkloric wisdom that dates back to Pliny the Elder.
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The huge wooden bar back is carved with a traditional rendering of the Green Man, the folkloric figure who has shown up in both secular and ecclesiastical buildings for millenniums.
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Mostly, though, the instrument engages the vocal lines, shifting from moments of folkloric melody to passages of disorienting sonorities, or to stretches that become obsessed with a strange repeated riff.
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I wasn't an avid scholar of his work, but Hemingway's legacy had retained a folkloric quality of expatriate vagabond glamour in Paris, the embodiment of some hyper-American tenacity and grit.
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For purists of Islam, the way Muslims celebrate Mawlid, the birthday of Muhammad, today — with street processions, fireworks, special dishes or new clothes for children — is a folkloric deviation from doctrine.
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The folkloric design features a lot of the patterns we know and love from the label (including the technicolor leopard spots!), but is clearly inspired by founder Kenzo Takada's early work.
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Members of the band have backgrounds in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, and Texas and they draw on the DNA of jazz, salsa, folkloric music, as well as intercontinental traditions of psychedelia.
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As it turns out, there might be something to the idea that young blood has rejuvenating powers, and fortunately, it is not quite so nefarious as its folkloric reputation would suggest.
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Anecdotally, the song has been around for at least 15 years and has floated about in the folkloric way most nursery rhymes do -- with slightly different endings and slightly different origins.
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So the team turned its attention again to the archives, poring over tomes of folkloric evidence to find any accounts that might offer reliable insights into what happened to Shakespeare's head.
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Until recently, the art in Guadalajara has tended toward the folkloric: The town is primarily known for earthen ceramics, as well as for mariachi bands (the genre originated in the region).
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GABRIEL ALEGRÍA AFRO-PERUVIAN SEXTET (Wednesday) The polyrhythmic-triplet pulse common to the folkloric music of Peru — in dance rhythms like festejo, tondero and landó — meshes well with a jazz cadence.
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The most unexpectedly delightful feature is the three-member band of stage musicians — playing a saxophone, an accordion and a tangy violin — that adds vibrant improvised interjections in different folkloric idioms.
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She turns up dead in an irrigation canal, where a story that might otherwise seem folkloric — or yet more misleading, "magical realist" — flowers into something more richly disturbed and psychologically intricate.
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Every glimpse of the Moomins, be it in the form of fanart or glimpses of the show itself, has been immeasurably soothing and fascinating — regular dispatches from a pure, folkloric otherworld.
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Ms. Shyu is a commanding vocalist and player of folkloric stringed instruments — in this instance, moon lute and gayageum (a Korean zither) — who is drawn to fascinating and often challenging designs.
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More recently, musicians seeking direct mentorship have been wise to seek out the Cuban folkloric percussionist, singer and poet Román Díaz, who runs the Midnight Rumba at Zinc Bar every Thursday.
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One book, The Little Octobrist Rascal (19173), even features a young boy handing out copies of the Pioneer to ward off pre-Soviet folkloric characters like Baba Yaga and Ivan Tsarevich.
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Amid the folkloric witchery of the knockout, one of the constant factors that cunning folk can agree on seems to be that the punch you do not see hurts you the most.
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"Their love for eccentric vintage pieces, folkloric costumes, and antique handbags was inspiring for me to witness and seemed almost irreverent in a town where everyone tended to dress homogeneously," she says.
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All these references, plus the stunning backdrop for the actual show, manifested in an earth-toned collection, highlighting rich shades of terracotta, tan, and rust, featuring folkloric prints rendered in intricate embroidery.
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Mr. Salonen drew out the folkloric elements of the music: the rustic tunes, the evocation of gurgling streams, the heavy-footed stomping in the landler dance that runs through the third movement.
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Their humiliations at the hands of a brazen plutocrat, sardonically filmed with soaring camera work, are matched by their riotous efforts to work in the entertainment business—at a folkloric theme park.
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To turn him into this strange Japanese folkloric form, they spent five weeks at Nolan's studio building a fully mechanical animatronic head and long neck that they blended into Craig-Stephens' clothes.
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He started studying drumming and zapateo at age 4 and performing folkloric dances like the malambo at 11 — a background shared, he said, by most "Che Malambo" dancers, all of whom are Argentine.
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When everything clicks — as on "Hiccup Smooth," which converges odd-metered funk and express-lane swing — the linkage between folkloric and modern dialects feels clear and compelling, with not a jot of doubt.
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It's a deeply unfashionable, folkloric grape that you'll find a smattering of in all sorts of wines, but it usually doesn't even get a mention, let alone celebrated in a single-varietal bottling.
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Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet (Friday and Saturday) The polyrhythmic-triplet pulse common to the folkloric music of Peru — in dance rhythms like festejo, tondero and landó — meshes well with a jazz cadence.
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"My paintings help me travel to magical places without having to actually leave," she elaborates, attributing her folkloric style to a significant influence by Tove Jansson who created the famed Moomin children's books.
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To tourists in Nicaragua , Masaya is known as the City of Flowers, the site of an artisans' market where people come down from the capital to buy rocking chairs, hammocks, and folkloric masks.
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Their world is a version of the lost and longed-for territory of fantasy and romance, genres that hark back to an elemental, folkloric past roamed by monsters and infested with ghastly wonders.
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Interpreted traditionally — that is, reading them purely as folkloric campfire stories with no modernity attached — the monsters of Scary Stories are relatively straightforward metaphors for our confrontation with strangeness and frightening social irregularities.
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There were few women in season one; season two has many women in the cast as the plot churns around the Japanese folkloric tradition of the spurned-woman-turned-vengeful-ghost, or yurei.
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Here's a splendid performance of the Concerto No. 3, from a London Proms concert in 2011 with the Hallé Orchestra, in which Mr. Schiff reveals the folkloric lyricism coursing through this crunchy piece.
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Inspiring many followers, Poiret's seemingly revolutionary designs — primary hues, harem pants, hobble skirts and oriental-inspired turbans alongside Cossack-style coats trimmed in fur and folkloric embroideries — originated on the Ballets Russes' stage.
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The cultural responses to Earth's only natural satellite have ranged from the Japanese folkloric figure of a rabbit in the moon making mochi, to contemporary work like the "Moonwalk Machine" designed by Sputniko!
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When Eva's father, a professor at the Berklee College of Music, traveled to Cuba to research Afro-Cuban percussion and music, the opportunity arose for his daughter to learn folkloric dances from local teachers.
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An imposingly assured album informed both by folkloric Afro-Cuban custom and the postwar jazz avant-garde, it officially introduces his lean, watchful trio with Eric Revis on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums.
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Overall, however, Böhm's film is cloaked in mystery, dark and dank, occasionally bloody, sometimes shocking, and fantastically folkloric as protagonist Anna's possibly explicable, possibly supernatural, possibly uncontrollably monstrous origins and existence are fleshed out.
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They opened a temporary studio to record local folkloric musicians, and realized that if they got musicians from labels like Warp Records to collaborate with these immensely talented locals, some righteous shit could happen.
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A quintessential hero's journey set in a dreamy, folkloric Japan, Kubo is a story about stories, told with a sophistication that never gets in the way of its straightforward earnestness or its stunning visuals.
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Her latest project, "The earth is only a little dust under our feet," is the result of five years spent traveling back and forth to Iceland to explore the world of mythical, folkloric creatures.
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One of the duo's hit sambas, "Nação" ("Nation"), lives on as an anthem of Brazil's majesty; it recalls folkloric heroes, the glories of nature, the deities (orixás) who watch over things, and battles won.
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Along with his collaborators, the choreographer-director Bill T. Jones and the librettist Ann T. Greene, Jenkins produced a sometimes grim, sometimes dizzyingly folkloric opera full of modernist touches and references to the blues.
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You can go out to find any type of music you love: rock 'n roll, blues, jazz, swing, merengue, salsa, Nicaraguan folkloric music and pay about $1.50 for a beer or rum and coke.
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Sure there were few really silly looks (Janelle Monáe's bubble-bath Armani and Olivia Culpo's folkloric harvest-festival-on-a-skirt Zuhair Murad among them), but there weren't a lot of memorable ones, either.
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But he was a proud Puerto Rican — a jibarito, a professional dancer on the island with a fierce devotion to jíbara, a folkloric dance created long ago by workers on coffee plantations and inland farms.
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Mingling technology "solutions" with crystals, and media communications with folkloric energy and healing materials, Ms. Cameron-Weir has concocted a glamorous but slightly paranoid science fiction in which past, present and future are effectively compressed.
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This makes sense not only in terms of how urban legends and folkloric tropes are passed down through generations but also in terms of the cyclical social anxieties that trigger these kinds of mass panics.
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After all, the chicken is both a delicious, pragmatic promise of real-world "luxuries" OITNB's inmates are denied — like fresh produce — and a folkloric dream in itself (according to legend, the chicken escaped its own prison).
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Others — like those from the plaintive crooner Richard Desjardins, the folkloric group Les Cowboys Fringants and the Quebec rocker Éric Lapointe — are such a part of Quebec's musical tapestry that leaving them out seemed a sacrilege.
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Bulalo is traditional, almost folkloric in its depth, a heavy stew of beef shank cooked bone-in, so the collagen melts into the broth, and served intact, with its marrow — to be sucked, not spooned out.
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The folkloric pieces, such as "Estancia" (to be presented in late April at New York City Ballet, with Christopher Wheeldon's choreography), avoid neo-primitivist cliché; the serial works have a black-and-white, deep-focus allure.
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For the Nazis, however, there were good monsters like the werewolves—folkloric monsters of blood and soil who protected the nation at times of stress—and there were bad monsters, like vampires, who were never merely metaphorical.
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The Wampus cat is the legendary "big cat" of the rural US that still maintains the status of a recurring folkloric legend, as anyone who's grown up near a wooded area, swamp, or mountainous region can attest.
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On "Sonocardiogram," Arocena's newest album, the husky-voiced young singer and composer yokes the folkloric melodies and rhythms of her native Cuba into a richly textured, contemporary context, adorning them with digital sounds and subtle funk grooves.
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Her father's business partners, Al Ram's mayor and other prominent residents piled into a school hall, where her rally underscored women's participation: There was a female master of ceremonies, and a women's folkloric dance troupe entertained guests.
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Full of tense moments and complicated family dynamics, and illustrated in stark black-and-white by Revel that invoke everything from early American woodcuts to Chick tracts, Wendigo is a 70-page love letter to folkloric horror.
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A highlight is a room of massive abstract paintings by Tomm El-Saieh, whom Mr. Gartenfeld praised as "one of the leading artists working in Miami today" for his drawing upon both expressionist and Haitian folkloric traditions.
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Stella Jean, meanwhile, another newish-bie, also went Eastern bloc, though even more literally, upping the narrative by weaving a tale of the Cold War and Siberia (and Syria, too), full of military memorabilia and folkloric fantasy.
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Bert Kruismans, a comedian from Aalst who has written several books on Belgian history and culture, said that every year, more than 40 local folkloric groups raise about 50,000 to 100,000 euros each to create their displays.
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The 20th-century folkloric choreographer Santiago Ayala seems to have added them to the dance, but "Che Malambo" takes the technique to another level: one in each hand, spinning at different rates, behind the back, through the legs.
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In a country with so much musical talent playing traditional instruments, the idea of "electronic music" is also about using contemporary techniques in the playing, recording, and production of folkloric sounds to keep them current in the digital era.
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She's told the story so many times that it's almost folkloric: There was a conversation about dumplings with her friend Yiying Lu, an exchange of 🍴 and 😍, and a realization that no emoji existed for her favorite food.
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She was wearing an outfit that was sort of bohemian folkloric — a white tank top and neckerchief over a peasant skirt with a medicine pouch around her neck that I like to imagine held some kind of special crystal.
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The characters hurtle through the sky, tumble in balletic slow motion back towards earth, zip across the ocean, and develop bizarre talents while training in the forest; the film's defiance of physics adds an otherworldly, folkloric tinge to the proceedings.
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Judging from the trailer, a ton of folkloric bad guys get in their way, ranging from hill giants to a house with big ass chicken legs that looks a lot like the one in which mythical Slavic witch Baba Yaga lives.
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The use of the nyckelharpa, a medieval hybrid of a hurdy-gurdy and a viol, adds the sense that despite the modern setting, we are witnessing an ageless folkloric morality tale about hypocrisy, moral rot and the oppression of women.
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" A woman who was hired at Google at 52 described on Wired the issues older tech employees face with career development, lack of mentoring programs and socializing — although she noted she survived "karaoke, rock climbing and a folkloric overnight ski trip.
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In 2017, the label released "The Photographs of Charles Duvelle," a book-and-two-CD set revisiting the work of the musicologist and photographer Duvelle with Disques Ocora, a French label devoted to documenting folkloric music from around the world.
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They're revisiting a successful premise, samba jazz and the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, with regular partners: Ms. Adnet, a singer originally from Rio de Janeiro, and Anat Cohen, an Israeli clarinetist and saxophonist with an affinity for Brazilian folkloric music.
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But here in EU-member Slovenia, within the continental climes of folkloric Ljubljana (a petite municipality near Venice on an alluvial plain dating to the Quaternary era), the Americans' art took on oddly gallant, almost fairy tale qualities of transcontinental value.
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The real Whittington, and the folkloric one, were both Lord Mayor of London in the 15th century — but it's unknown if Sir Richard actually had a cat, or if its mousing abilities earned him enough wealth to go from rags to riches.
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Trump, which the Times noted had "adopted the language of Mafia bosses" by referring to people like Cohen as "rats," has been offered as an example of an antihero, and his actions—often odious and potentially deadly, like those of mobsters—are folkloric.
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On Wednesday, a compilation of hip-hop, salsa, African and house dance will shake up Central Park, while on Thursday the vocalist and composer Tamar-kali and the choreographer Adia Tamar Whitaker pair emotional rock with "neo-folkloric" movement in Marcus Garvey Park.
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Her illustrations — a bear caught in a trap, his face a world of confused, hurt feelings, or Snow, Rose and their mother heading out on Christmas Day in cozy cloaks with pointed hoods — have a gentle folkloric naïveté, reminiscent of Tasha Tudor's work.
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In Andy González's basement in the Bronx in the mid-1970s, veteran Cuban musicians and younger New York-bred Puerto Rican players were jamming, eventually recording two albums as the Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevayorquino — the New York Folkloric and Experimental Group.
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Each day starts off with Morning Song, a Danish folkloric custom of singing and camaraderie (get ready, jaded urbanites!) and usually one evening is reserved for clogging (a kind of mountain dance that predates tap), where even the local kids join in.
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Although Mr. Scarlett, the Royal Ballet's artist in residence, often responds to the folk dance cadences of the music — and dresses a corps de ballet of men in long, folkloric skirts in the second movement — his "Symphonic Dances" is not about a country.
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Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer | Buy on Amazon The characters around the trio, the dead astronauts, are even stranger, but also more folkloric: Botch; a messianic blue fox; a broken-winged duck; the antagonist Charlie X, a bad man with a worse father.
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Heather continually Hermione Grangers her hapless friends deeper into the woods outside the small town of Burkittsville, Maryland, searching for answers to the folkloric mysteries of the Blair Witch and the history of shocking murders and disappearances that plague the woods she's said to inhabit.
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Eschewing the presumably inhospitable soil of Britain, Mr. Pilotto and his partner, Christopher de Vos, flew south on the wings of swallows for their floor-length hibiscus lace, folkloric menagerie of parrots and kangaroos and palm trees appliquéd on faded denim, and bright-striped taffetas.
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Even though they renew their musical vocabulary with every album, Bomba Estéreo's identity is based on the folkloric elements from Afro-diasporic genres such as cumbia, champeta and bullerengue –genres that originated in the Colombian Caribbean region, where Saumet comes from– and their traditional instruments.
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Nobody really knows what inspired 16th century artists to erect this monument to child-gobbling; some say it is an anti-Semitic portrayal of Jews, while others cite mythological or folkloric origins, based on figures like the Greek god Cronus or the goatman cryptid Krampus.
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Five of these folkloric and political stories, set in his native Sicily in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were adapted by the Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio, for the luminous three-hour-plus feature "Kaos," from 1984, playing at Film Forum Jan.
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Many times they describe themselves as simply American, and many of these agents have alluded that they see the local, folkloric indigenous knowledge that you find in brown communities throughout the Southwest as Mexican beliefs, Mexican ideas, which they often do not see as not their own.
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In November six German academics, including one non-Muslim, formed the Secular Islam Initiative to promote "a folkloric relationship to Islam", according to one of its founders, Hamed Abdel-Samad, the son of an Egyptian imam and author of a critical biography of the Prophet Muhammad.
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The Carnivalesque ceremony, featuring frevo dancers twirling umbrellas, a performance by the samba legend Martinho da Vila and the songs of Carmen Miranda, offered a folkloric if fittingly upbeat bookend to an Olympiad that had been shrouded in grim assessments and protests as the Games approached.
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As of this writing, the members are separated into two groups, the OG Krewe of Red Beans, and the 2018-born Dead Beans Krewe, whose members dress to celebrate folkloric traditions that deal with death—while still, as always, decorating their fits with plenty of beans.
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"The Intuitionist," with its dystopian concerns and futuristic mood, gave way to the folkloric past of "John Henry Days"; "Zone One," Whitehead's contribution to the unquenchable American thirst for zombies, was his departure from "Sag Harbor," with its coming-of-age feeling and concessions to nostalgia.
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From its beginnings — when the collective got together to play the opening ceremony of an art biennale in Medellín, Colombia — Systema Solar has been tossing together the folkloric and the programmed, the homegrown and the international; it also cultivates a visual side in costumes and images.
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In the myriad folkloric representations of her, Baba Yaga's generally unsettling physical attributes remain constant—she's usually said to have a long nose and iron teeth, and she's constantly flying about in her mortar and pestle—yet different contexts exacerbate or highlight certain qualities and phenomena associated with her.
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I've been a Glaswegian country singer (Wild Rose), a fury-filled inductee into a Swedish folkloric cult (Midsommar), a member of the Avengers (Avengers: Endgame), a dancer in the throes of a drug-fueled mass psychosis (Climax), and a very hot stuntman (Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood).
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If it seems odd that a hyperviolent caricature of the cowboy, that most American of folkloric characters, caught on so well in Japan that Hansen spent most of his career there, it's not quite as odd as the fact that Hansen was clearly at his most comfortable over there.
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ASE DANCE THEATER COLLECTIVE AND NATHAN TRICE/RITUALS DANCE THEATER (Wednesday) "Demon Fruit Blues" is a collaboration between the vocalist-composer Tamar-kali and the choreographer Adia Tamar Whitaker, pairing emotional rock with "neo-folkloric" movement that combines contemporary dance and traditional dance theater from the African diaspora.
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Soto's happiness lasted only two months: The music took precedence again when Echeverry not only convinced the composers' association to restore Díaz's rights, but also to give him a minimum monthly salary as the creator of one of the most recorded and listened to songs of Colombian folkloric value.
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The headlining act, Inganzo Ngari, a popular Rwandan folkloric troupe founded in 2006, performs crop rituals and a big-wigged warrior dance alongside the Brooklyn-based BAM /Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble, a festival mainstay whose spirited members (including Adia Clarke, pictured above) never fail to bring down the house.
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Mora's illustrations use collage to give the book's world a sense of depth and vibrancy — the stew in the pot is represented by an ever-changing calico design — and the stream of cooking odors trailing out the apartment window gives the first hint of the book's folkloric plot.
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Most of these styles come from undeveloped "third world" club scenes, others from non-mainstream "first world" club scenes, in which producers and DJs play with mainstream pop music as much as experiment with innovative rhythms and sound design that often tell a story and link to traditional/folkloric cultures.
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Produced by British expats and a Cuban rapper, the festival is an encounter between Santiago's folkloric groups — playing rumba, son montuno, guaracha and other Afro-Cuban traditions — and electronic dance music, primarily from British rhythm explorers like Quantic (Will Holland, who's based in Colombia), Plaid and A Guy Called Gerald.
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Period blood is another useful liquid in sex magic, and according to Luna, there is a long folkloric history of women putting period blood into coffee or tea or red pasta sauce (because it is easy to hide!) often for binding spells, to cause sexual attraction, as in the Hoodoo tradition.
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I walked by the religious santeros who invite you to sit with them and be spiritually cleansed, statues of Malverde (the so-called angel of the poor, a folkloric hero in the Mexican state of Sinaloa), musical instruments, flowers, typical suits from Nuevo León, and stalls selling seafood, stews, goat meat, and more.
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Natalia Vodianova returned to the runway as a favor for her fellow Russian, Ulyana Sergeenko, opening a show of folkloric flounces in black silk and velvet, as if our heroine had been interrupted in the midst of her cocktail hour and was forced to flee to the woods in all her finery.
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Eschewing her more polemical feminism for leotard-like body suits instead of her usual playsuits, Ms. Chiuri layered on Isadora Duncan dresses of draped jersey, macramé'd tulle tea frocks, combined it all with faded denim and folkloric work wear, and then brought on the unforced romance of tie-dyed over-embroidered florals and minutely layered feather appliqués.
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At an outdoor performance in front of an audience of 11,000 for the release of her album "El Mal Querer," the singer appeared onstage wearing sneakers and a rose-red bodysuit embellished with an abundance of ruffles, not the long skirts and heeled shoes that have long been associated with Spain's folkloric style of music and dance.
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At Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the exhibition "You're at Home" brings together his digitally animated video series "Birds in Paradise" (123-212), in which folkloric motifs and symbols of American consumerism tumble into a video-game world, and his 212D-printed objects, such as coin purses and jewelry boxes, based on drawings made by his mother, Patricia Satterwhite, before her death in 12.
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SummerStage teams up with the Bronx organization Pepatián to present two groups: Bombazo, the Bronx-based drum and dance group led by Milteri Tucker, specializes in traditional Afro-Puerto Rican bomba and Afro-Caribbean music and dance, while the Sabrosura Effect is a Latin-fusion dance company founded by Beatrice Capote and Miguel Aparicio that melds Cuban folkloric material with New York-style salsa and contemporary movement.
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Wolfe acknowledged, though, in the foreword to Mr. Timoney's 22000 memoir, "Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities," that the folkloric face was insufficient to cow two drug dealers with whom Mr. Timoney once engaged in a shootout.) John Francis Timoney (known to his family as Sean) was born on July 22002, 21, in Dublin, the son of Ciaran Timoney and the former Catherine Kenny.
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Still, those three are exhibiting some stellar natives: David Castillo will feature the winningly playful assemblages of Pepe Mar; Central Fine is showing paintings by Tomm El-Saieh, whose hypnotic brushwork fuses Haitian folkloric traditions with classic Abstract Expressionism; while Fredric Snitzer's booth is devoted to paintings by Hernan Bas, whose beguiling, homoerotically charged portraits of dandies and waifs remain some of the strongest work to emerge from Miami over the past two decades.
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Being a Newark Jew in a largely working-class city where political leverage accrued through ethnic pressure, where both historical fact and folkloric superstition sustained a steady undercurrent of xenophobic antipathy in each ethnic precinct, where the apportionment of jobs and vocations often divided along religious and racial lines—all this contributed enormously to a child's self-definition, his sense of specialness, and his way of thinking about his discrete community in the local scheme of things.
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