Excerpted from Ovenly by Agatha Kulaga & Erin Patinkin (Harlequin).
|
|
But the harlequin shrimp doesn't give a damn about your rules.
|
|
And then they couldn't find any variable harlequin frogs at all.
|
|
Up Close and Personal student winner: "Harlequin" by Khristian V. Valencia
|
|
Kirby is a harlequin macaw, and Suzie is a military macaw….
|
|
Of 96 known species of harlequin toads, 37 are potentially extinct.
|
|
But in 2003, one species reappeared: the harlequin toad in Costa Rica.
|
|
"As a leading global publisher of romance fiction that is committed to diversity and inclusion, we at Harlequin believe it is important that all authors feel included, respected and heard," reads a statement from Harlequin and HarperCollins Canada.
|
|
A man (the soupir , or sigh) slithers and droops like a boneless Harlequin.
|
|
Predictably, within seconds, everyone had published Ken Starr's third-rate Harlequin romance online.
|
|
The average gargantuan harlequin is continually tormented by an unspeakable sense of loss.
|
|
She also wrote romance novels for Harlequin under a pen name, Vanessa James.
|
|
Lucky for Harlequin, he and the others are fictional characters in a ballet.
|
|
"Pinocchio's really naughty," he explained, likening him to a rogue or a harlequin.
|
|
None of this was going to work for Wesley, Mr. Saville's harlequin Great Dane.
|
|
She built the extension on her truck as a bedroom for Harlequin, her eldest.
|
|
"There is this section where Harlequin does a diagonal of batterie" — jumps in which the legs beat together in the air — "and each time you jump, there's a turn," Daniil Simkin, one of the dancers alternating as Harlequin, said during a rehearsal break.
|
|
But with his first studio album Harlequin out November 18, he's finding his rhythm now.
|
|
"Harlequin" is performed by a bright and flitting quartet of flute, clarinet, bassoon, and viola.
|
|
Opening night features a glittering pair: Isabella Boylston as Columbine and James Whiteside as Harlequin.
|
|
Still, the foundation says, some newborns with harlequin ichthyosis won't survive if their condition is too severe.
|
|
Playing the part of the harlequin is Picasso, and next to him is his lover Germaine Pichot.
|
|
Whenever I get a new part I always stop and ask myself how Harlequin would do it.
|
|
For seven months, the book picked up buzz, and my publisher (Harlequin Teen) was receiving excellent feedback.
|
|
Jeannie Lin has published historical romances with Harlequin that are set in China during the Tang dynasty era.
|
|
Also in the mix were tweed duster coats, harlequin leathers, slinky beaded tops and tracksuits cut from silk.
|
|
Newborns with harlequin ichthyosis have painful cracks in their thick, hardened skin, according U.S. National Library of Medicine.
|
|
Suggested Strains: ACDC and Harlequin Scorpio You're focused on home, family, and secrets from your childhood during this eclipse.
|
|
And strains that already have high levels of THCV or CBD include Durban Poison, Doug's Varin, ACDC, and Harlequin.
|
|
If I were interested in this genre of writing I would subscribe to the Harlequin or Reader Service websites.
|
|
The servant of the title, Truffaldino, wears a harlequin costume, and he and a few other characters are masked.
|
|
The snug boîte conjures Harlequin novels about Victorian vampires (red velvet chaise, black marble counter, palais black velvet wallpaper).
|
|
The evening also includes excerpts from Alexei Ratmansky's "Harlequinade," with Isabella Boylston as Columbine and James Whiteside as Harlequin.
|
|
It's the starry night harlequin toad, or Atelopus aryescue, and conservationists hadn't spotted the ornately decorated species since 1991.
|
|
In the painting, Picasso plays the part of a harlequin seated at the bar, next to his lover, Germaine Pinchot.
|
|
He was lucky that it started working again just at the moment he spotted the Variable Harlequin on a rock.
|
|
It's actually where I sort of had my big break on DWTS in season 23 as Harlequin with James Hinchcliffe.
|
|
The highlights of the recent Salone del Mobile included rainbow-colored Aalto stools, harlequin carpets and a field of wildflowers.
|
|
The two second-floor bathrooms include one with vintage black-and-white harlequin-patterned floor tiles and a checkerboard wall trim.
|
|
A cape, a pantsuit and three long dresses all feature a harlequin pattern of black diamonds stitched together with leather edging.
|
|
Birders know this south shore of the island because it's a wintering area for harlequin ducks — lovers of cold, turbulent waters.
|
|
The third man, in a diamond-patterned harlequin shirt, seems to be filming the other two with a small movie camera.
|
|
And for new authors in particular, "the cover is really critical," said Dianne Moggy, vice president for romance fiction at Harlequin.
|
|
Writing romances for Harlequin, she said, was a useful way to learn pacing, dialogue and how to make the plot move.
|
|
So there were crystal-spangled bloomers, and red and black polka-dot corset playsuits; harlequin ruffs and beaded bareback-rider dresses.
|
|
"I can look at a harlequin duck, and I remember I first saw that at Belmont Harbor [in Chicago]," he says.
|
|
A Trojan archer, from approximately 500 B.C., wears tight pants with a harlequin pattern that is as boldly colored as Missoni leggings.
|
|
Each issue of harlequin creature was hand-typed (I was one of those hands) and is unique in its bounding and style.
|
|
The harlequin is so huge that everyone at work on their screenplays must pull their tables toward their bellies—a dreadful screech.
|
|
A cutout allows you to see the harlequin pattern that Ms. Shull hand-painted on a wall in the adjacent dining room.
|
|
But it is worth noting that there is a harlequin Great Dane, one of the sweetest-natured dogs imaginable, who is his namesake.
|
|
The dog in Sigrid Nunez's new novel, "The Friend," is an almost mystically grand beast named Apollo, a 180-pound Harlequin Great Dane.
|
|
His latest reconstruction is "Harlequinade," starring the familiar Italian commedia dell'arte characters Harlequin and Columbine, based on Marius Petipa's original version from 1900.
|
|
In 1891, at the fashionable Black and White Ball, she defied the invitation by dressing as an androgynous harlequin in yellow and blue.
|
|
Ironically, RWA was co-founded in 1981 by a black woman, Vivian Stephens, a former editor at Harlequin Books and editor Dell publishing.
|
|
The trope began as a part of more traditional trickster archetypes across the world, like the court jester, the fool, and the harlequin.
|
|
These shadows are digital trails of acrylic paint, each with its own harlequin pattern, and are titled "Eight Thirty and Eight forty Five" (2016).
|
|
They were black, navy, and heather gray, spotted with harlequin diamonds and argyle, and worn with tropical Aloha shirts, sailor hats, and waterlogged hair.
|
|
Sleek black loons, herring gulls, harlequin ducks and oldsquaw dive at the fish on the surface, and eagles, falcons, terns and plovers glide above.
|
|
At least Russell Maliphant's "Entwine," set to music by Mr. Glass, sees partnering in a way that is more sinewy flow than Harlequin passion.
|
|
Plopped into the midst of these bizarre creatures is a man who might have stepped straight from the cover of a Harlequin Romance paperback.
|
|
In that series of moves, Penguin and Random House merged, Hachette Book Group acquired Perseus Books and News Corporation bought the romance publisher Harlequin.
|
|
WILLIAM PEDENAncona, Italy Bagehot might review The Economist's recent coverage of Boris Johnson, which aptly describes him as more Rabelaisian harlequin than "Rousseauan" ideologue.
|
|
And when Dragon Age: Inquisition dropped, I definitely set aside chunks of time to secure the Tongue of Serpents dagger and fight harlequin assassins.
|
|
I did read Harlequin novels as a preteen, though, and formed the perfect mental image of a repressed, withholding, cruel yet devilishly handsome man.
|
|
The standouts were soft, irregularly shaped gradient rugs by the Amsterdam-based designer Germans Ermics and a trippy harlequin grid series by Martino Gamper.
|
|
It was a cops-and-robbers Harlequin called Cold as Death, with a girl in garters holding a gun on the corner, looking deeply shocked.
|
|
The harlequin filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris), prune at Acropora corals partially to absorb their scent, helping them chemically blend in with the reef to avoid predators.
|
|
At Jacquemus (left), the designer Simon Porte Jacquemus showed a muscular navy jacket, while at Marni (center), a Harlequin-checked blouse had a Victorian feel.
|
|
It's that, sure (and really good when it is that, by the way), but Harlequin is also an extremely complicated album that gets fuggin' weird.
|
|
His inspirations have ranged from lesser-known American Precisionists, such as Ralston Crawford, to Shaker quilts, to the Harlequin pattern we see in early Picasso paintings.
|
|
Zorn's composition requires 20 musicians, and is divided into five movements, one for each of the traditional Commedia dell'arte characters: Harlequin, Colombina, Scaramouche, Pulcinella, and Pierrot.
|
|
Two months later, in an apparently unrelated incident, police arrested a drunken harlequin gallivanting through the woods of Maine with a machete strapped to his arm.
|
|
Researchers reported this year that other tropical frog species, like the variable harlequin frog, are also bouncing back after a fungal epidemic drastically slashed their numbers.
|
|
Take Julia London's latest: A ripped Lucifer in a kilt smolders darkly from the cover, and DEVIL IN TARTAN (Harlequin) renders the image in blunt syllables.
|
|
More specifically, she is a cat person in a 500-square-foot Manhattan apartment who inherits, after the suicide of a friend, his harlequin Great Dane.
|
|
In technicolor CGI, nude harlequin cyborgs float through gardens; schoolgirls turn oceans into wormholes; flowers bloom out of eyeballs and eyeballs pop out of blooming flowers.
|
|
Set amidst an impressive display of European ceramic table wear and figurines, this small assortment of Harlequin sculptures don dark masks that stand out for contemporary audiences.
|
|
When Harley leaves the Joker (Alan Tudyk), she leaves her classic harlequin costume behind as well, exchanging it for a getup more reminiscent of Robbie's movie look.
|
|
A look at her mini-makeover shows that she shed the classic harlequin costume and "Daddy's Lil' Monster" shirt that associated her as one of Joker's comrades.
|
|
At a certain point, the diamonds in the harlequin pattern began to stretch larger and larger until the entire world was brown, which eventually faded to black.
|
|
After discovering variable harlequin frogs again, she and her colleagues have returned to their Panama research sites and found a few other species that had previously vanished.
|
|
Certainly the 1970s Harlequin bathtub dialogue doesn't tell us much — unless Claire and Jamie are trying too hard to convince themselves they're as happy as they say.
|
|
The plot of "Harlequinade," based on the conventions and stock characters of commedia dell'arte, is only slightly more fleshed out than the Harlequin story I've described above.
|
|
DEVITO You go up this endless, steep staircase at Harlequin Studios [now closed, off Times Square] to a rehearsal room, and there's the movie's director, Milos Forman.
|
|
But horse-drawn carriages kept passing by, and a man dressed as a kind of harlequin-cowboy occupied a shady corner nearby and began singing country songs.
|
|
Miss Knife's gown was not just floor-length, it was also gold; her second outfit was a flamboyant Harlequin-clown hybrid, her third a black feathered tutu.
|
|
Mr. Salle's harlequin figures, painted from color reproductions against tones of blue and orange, are splayed across the top half of his "Sextant in Dogtown," from 1987.
|
|
Her writing and translations have appeared in Guernica Magazine, Stonecutter Journal, n+1, Ugly Duckling Presse's 6×6 Journal, Asymptote Journal, harlequin creature, and Words Without Borders.
|
|
There are 15, including the Royal Suite, which is so top-secret you won't find photos of it online, and the Harlequin Suite, which was Elizabeth Taylor's favorite.
|
|
I'd read enough excerpts from Harlequin Romance novels in the back of Cosmopolitan to know that my well-intentioned, but sexually inexperienced, boyfriend hadn't actually made me come.
|
|
The poster child of lost frogs is the Variable Harlequin, which was rediscovered in Costa Rica in 2003 after chytrid fungus was thought to have decimated the population.
|
|
It's about what happens when a woman who lives in a tiny Manhattan apartment inherits, after the suicide of a former mentor and lover, his harlequin Great Dane.
|
|
Then on January 8, major romance novel publishers like Harlequin and Avon began to withdraw from attending the RWA national conference, putting the event in jeopardy as well.
|
|
There are no kings in "The Sport of Kings," but there is a Fool, clothed in the harlequin brilliance of silks, uniquely able to speak truth to power.
|
|
In five segments, starting with "Harlequin," eight dancers used all the available space and numerous design details of Frank Lloyd Wright's small, eccentric and circular (of course) auditorium.
|
|
In 2016, Hachette Book Group struck a deal to acquire Perseus, an independent publishing house, and in 2014 News Corporation bought the romance publisher Harlequin for $415 million.
|
|
After laying down a towel so as to not permanently blemish my sheets, I got to work on delivering a massage straight out of a harlequin romance novel.
|
|
There are also tribal art figurines on the yellow brick road that ends in a colorful painting of a drum major high stepping on a similar harlequin floor.
|
|
"I had never heard of Harlequin ichthyosis before the doctor took me aside and showed me a text book with pictures of babies with this condition," Barber told SWNS.
|
|
He wears an enormous hat, has wide, full, deep chocolate lips and a fey, dispassionate gaze, and his headgear, clothing, and skin are often depicted in a harlequin pattern.
|
|
" On her reaction: "I'd been reading Harlequin romances for years, you know, at that point, and I was expecting candlelight and roses — and what I got was very different.
|
|
After recently finishing a nearly life-sized Batgirl figure, Christian is at work on a nine-foot-tall Harlequin sculpture, with a take that will be dark and threatening.
|
|
This stream was a "harlequin pattern" of large brown and white diamonds that flowed away from me and began to form the "boundary" of an infinite three-dimensional space.
|
|
Her route began at the Lorimer Street stop on the L. Rogers had on a long Nike puffer jacket in bright orange, harlequin-checked jeans, and chunky-toed boots.
|
|
Angie Douthit tells TMZ ... the neighbors got pissed in the past about Mackenzie's Harlequin Great Dane, Hank, getting loose in their yard, which caused hard feelings between the households.
|
|
The men play for the popular Kenya Harlequin FC team and internationally for their country's sevens team (which is when smaller squads of seven per side, rather than 15, compete).
|
|
" Henry smiles at Dad from within the gaping mouth of the harlequin, and says to Dad, "You should stop by soon, did you know we have over 500,000 record albums?
|
|
For as delightful as Austen's static world may be, it is the humbling, bracing confrontation with the self that lifts her characters beyond caricature and her plots beyond Harlequin romance.
|
|
"New adult is also extremely sexy, often bordering on erotic romance, so strong sensuality is definitely a huge part of the genre's appeal," a senior editor for Harlequin told Publisher's Weekly.
|
|
For his fall 2007 couture show in honor of Dior's 60th anniversary, John Galliano included a living replica of Picasso's "Young Harlequin" complete with pastel satin suit, peplum and peach ruff.
|
|
On Wednesday, several major romance publishers, including Harlequin and Avon, said they wouldn't attend or sponsor the R.W.A.'s annual conference this year, citing concerns with R.W.A.'s commitment to diversity.
|
|
That the species still exists is phenomenal news, for the mountain the starry night harlequin toad inhabits is home the highest number of threatened amphibians in the world, according to Valencia.
|
|
The Los Angeles-based artist has been pretty quiet in the run up to today's announcement of a debut album, Harlequin, out November 18 on Weird World, an affiliate of Domino Records.
|
|
In addition to overt Picasso homages — a harlequin appears in one dreamy landscape — echoes of Egon Schiele show up in moody, bony-shouldered figures, some set amid jungly, Paul Gauguin-esque backdrops.
|
|
Anyway, after this brief exchange, the harlequin takes its place in line, which to do it executes a maneuver on a massive scale, revolves all the way around, a wide 360-degree turn.
|
|
As she was designing looks for the character, Benach kept returning to the original inspiration for Harley Quinn, a clip of Arleen Sorkin dressed as a sparkly harlequin on "Days of Our Lives."
|
|
After I accepted that I wouldn't be going in the tunnel that day, however, I spent the remainder of my trip watching a harlequin pattern—green and yellow this time—flow across its surface.
|
|
The Italian theatrical form commedia dell'arte, popular from the 16th century to the 18th century, introduced the mischievous Harlequin and the object of his affection, Columbine, whose father attempts to thwart their playful relationship.
|
|
Each dancer represented a mental illness that touches this generation: anorexia (above), depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder (left), rendered as a Harlequin whose colors symbolize the illness's emotional quick-changes.
|
|
"We at Harlequin believe it is important that all authors feel included, respected and heard," the publisher said in a letter to the R.W.A., which faces criticism for its handling of a racism dispute.
|
|
CBD from industrial hemp, which is grown to make other non-ingestible products like textiles or rope, contains less CBD than marijuana strains like AC/DC, Charlotte's Web, or Harlequin, that are rich in CBD.
|
|
For 20 years, Bob Perchetti has served as curator, owner, and connoisseur at Nevada's Clown Motel, inviting guests to pop in for a cheap room and a chance to marvel at his extensive harlequin collection.
|
|
Long before the creepy clown summer of 2016 or the gruesome blade attack on a man in Denver at the hands of a clown, a red-nosed, gun-toting harlequin nearly got away with murder.
|
|
Designed by Amanda Connor, the artist on Harley's current ongoing comic, the line will depict Harley in a variety of kooky getups befitting the character's oddball nature—everything from retro spacesuits to her classic Harlequin getup.
|
|
Soon, Masaru is targeted by people looking to steal his money for themselves, but he is saved by a martial artist named Narumi and Shirogane, a woman who fights by controlling a human-sized harlequin puppet.
|
|
The former "Teen Mom 3" star tells TMZ ... her neighbor in Miami, OK unnecessarily reported her for leaving Hank, her Harlequin Great Dane, alone in the backyard while she went on a cruise in the Bahamas.
|
|
What began as a lone sighting of a few clowns in South Carolina quickly snowballed into a full-blown harlequin pandemic last year, with people suddenly spotting evil, bloodthirsty clowns cropping up all over the country.
|
|
According to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, the unnamed 11-year-old was biking to school last Friday and said he saw a harlequin leap out from behind a light pole and a set of bushes.
|
|
"All of the paintings incorporate the harlequin diamond pattern, representing The Fool card from the deck of tarot, who is starting out naïvely on a new journey—something I understand as a new mother," Blickle says.
|
|
As a result, as the fine print on the Harlequin Illusions' website reveals, the wine rack can hold 12 bottles when completely full, but only six of them (those positioned behind the angled mirror) will be hidden.
|
|
After an interlude — a sweet rendition of "Lazy River," sung and strummed on ukuleles by Ms. Dorrance and Ms. Davis — Mr. Irwin unveiled his "Harlequin and Pantalone," a comedic tour de force for the dancer Warren Craft.
|
|
The Kunstmuseum started as a private art cabinet in the 16th century and is now a world-class museum that's known for its collection of six works by Pablo Picasso, including one of his "Seated Harlequin" works.
|
|
It has been thoroughly renovated in the last five years, with extensive shelves and cabinets lining the walls and an updated galley kitchen with stone countertops, a harlequin-patterned tile backsplash and Viking and Fisher & Paykel appliances.
|
|
With an extremely rare genetic disorder, called harlequin ichthyosis, that renders his skin painfully thick and hardened, he experienced difficulties at birth that involved easily cracked plates forming on his skin that left behind a raw layer.
|
|
Alicia Barber's son Jamison, 1, was born with Harlequin ichthyosis, a rare genetic mutation that means his skin is covered with hard scales, and requires baths in bleach twice a week and rough exfoliation to stave off infections.
|
|
I felt so curious I asked the artist how the character came to be, and Sonhouse replied that he took the harlequin pattern from Picasso, but the rest consist of an amalgam of images from men's fashion magazines.
|
|
During the week I spent in Faranah, cars passed only occasionally, mostly harlequin taxis of multicolored metal patchwork held together and onto the chassis with duct tape and plastic string, crammed with passengers, roof loads doubling their height.
|
|
In 2014, News Corporation bought the romance publisher Harlequin for $415 million, and two years ago, Hachette Book Group struck a deal to acquire Perseus, an independent publishing house, acquiring imprints like Basic Books, Nation Books and PublicAffairs.
|
|
What keeps us watching is Badgley's delicate balancing act as Joe, synthesizing charm and bug-eyed creepiness and alarm while carrying much of the comic burden in the slightly stiff but yearning tone of his Harlequin-novel narration.
|
|
Michelle Dorrance presents her vibrant tap company in three different two-act programs featuring works not only by Dorrance, but also by the clown and actor Bill Irwin ("Harlequin & Pantalone") and the veteran choreographer Brenda Bufalino ("Jump Monk").
|
|
Affixed to the wall with vinyl lettering, these poems rub shoulders with Gris's "Man in a Café," a Yourbi fetish statue, and a "Harlequin" bust by Picasso — much in the same way that their author might have installed them.
|
|
News of her potential casting comes over than a month after she was accused of leaving her dog, a Harlequin Great Dane named Hank, in a fenced-up pen while she vacationed to the Bahamas with Josh, TMZ reported.
|
|
Click here to view original GIFFor just shy of $300, Harlequin Illusions will sell you a seemingly magical red oak wine rack that always looks empty when viewed from the side, despite there obviously being bottles stored in it.
|
|
Entangled Publishing is five years old, one of the newer entrants to an industry whose identity is synonymous with Harlequin, the Canadian publisher, which in the early 1950s started publishing chaste romance stories set in hospitals and medical offices.
|
|
Her parents took her to theater, at the Olney Theater Center, and the Kennedy Center, plus the now-closed Harlequin Dinner Theater ("you have pot roast and see 'Dreamgirls'") and, about once a year, while visiting grandparents, on Broadway.
|
|
Mackenzie McKee, who appeared on Teen Mom 3 in 2013, was accused of leaving her dog, a Harlequin Great Dane named Hank, in a fenced-up pen this week while she vacationed to the Bahamas with her husband Josh, TMZ reports.
|
|
Others contain just one bonded pair like Mandy and Kookie, a female and male eclectus parrot couple, a species native to the Solomon Islands, or Jester and Tango, one Harlequin and one green-wing macaw, who never leave each other's side.
|
|
Colourful harlequin prints decorated several outfits, some tops were shiny and pleated, reminiscent of 1970s disco fashion, and bows were at times tied around the ankles on trouser suits, which came in large shapes, with waistcoats or ties for women.
|
|
At those Olympics, at Svae's urging, the Norwegian rink purchased two pairs of red, white and blue harlequin-pattern pants made by LoudMouth Golf, the brand made famous by professional golfer John Daly and the rest is curling fashion history.
|
|
And so, in an almost oenological language, he started to describe for me the qualities of the Native Roots proprietary brands: Harlequin, for instance ("a mix of three sativas") and Sour Kush ("musky, sweet, cerebral with a nice tight nug structure").
|
|
Colorful harlequin prints decorated several outfits, some tops were shiny and pleated, reminiscent of 1970s disco fashion, and bows were at times tied around the ankles on trouser suits, which came in large shapes, with waistcoats or ties for women.
|
|
Harlequin, Avon and other romance publishers said Wednesday that they will not attend or sponsor this year's Romance Writers of America conference, another setback for the organization as it struggles with the backlash to its handling of a racism accusation.
|
|
Two years ago, Hachette Book Group struck a deal to acquire Perseus, an independent publishing house, acquiring imprints like Basic Books, Avalon Travel, Da Capo, Nation Books and PublicAffairs, and in 2014, News Corporation bought the romance publisher Harlequin for $415 million.
|
|
Bruno Bettelheim, the psychologist, might have had a field day with scenes of Clara battling and "whipping" an army of marshmallow mice or of a pair of harlequin gingerbread "crumbs" dancing out from beneath the folds of the parted skirt of Mother Ginger.
|
|
This season, while thinking back on those years, he decided to take the sartorial traditions of the French bourgeoisie and turn them on their head, refashioning luxurious capes, harlequin patterns, equestrian motifs and silk scarves into his own brand of high-voltage glamour.
|
|
In the past, infants born with harlequin ichthyosis typically survive only a few days after birth, but thanks to medical advancements, many with the condition have been able to live into their teenage years or into their twenties with normal mental and intellectual development.
|
|
A spokeswoman for Harlequin said the publisher was "working to increase representation and inclusion in our stories, as well as in our author base," and cited recently published works that feature African-American and South Asian characters, gay and lesbian characters and heroines with disabilities.
|
|
The best-selling romance writer Courtney Milan, who writes novels with interracial and gay couples and transgender and bisexual characters, left a Harlequin imprint around seven years ago and began self-publishing because she wanted to have more creative control over her plots and characters.
|
|
"RWA plans conferences years in advance," she said in an email, adding that both Avon and Harlequin are major sponsors — "tens of thousands of dollars worth" — and that losing them will likely have a "cascading effect" in terms of the authors and editors who attend.
|
|
Today it is lined with modern structures built after World War II, but the long, colonnaded King Boudewijn Promenade, with its harlequin floor and benches to rest on, survives, as does the imposing if faded Art Deco-era Thermae Palace hotel at its end.
|
|
If Michelangelo's group of archers looks like a multi-limbed creature, in "Parade," because of playful overlapping and the doubling of black-and white socks and slippers, Picasso's awkwardly angled young man wearing a black-and-red diamond-patterned harlequin costume looks like he has four feet.
|
|
The work is touching not only for Mr. Craft's transformation and improvisation as he shifts between lanky entertainer and hobbled villain, but also for Mr. Irwin's conscientious role, as he rises from the narrator's seat to shoo Pantalone offstage and coax the dejected Harlequin back into dancing shape.
|
|
Joining it is "Lessons in Tradition," a dialogue between Dorrance and the renowned clown performer Bill Irwin, with the singer and jazz bassist Kate Davis; "Harlequin & Pantalone," a duet between Irwin and the beguiling Warren Craft; and "Basses Loaded," which brings together four tappers and four bass players.
|
|
Departing from tradition, she mixes different services together, and whimsically groups pieces: a Harlequin admires himself in a reflective, chrome-coated plaster mold; a court jester converses with a small but robust lidded pot; a gilded cup with pointed handles seems to reach out toward a bowl with elaborately curling handles.
|
|
Tales like "'Repent, Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman" (about a future where being late is the greatest crime) and "The Deathbird" (a man witnesses the dying Earth's final moments) and "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" (the saddest Las Vegas ghost story you'll ever read) won him many awards, and have been anthologized many times.
|
|
There is a touch of the Harlequin hero in the newspaper correspondent William Byrne, who appears in Lib's life at just the right time, and who is last seen, at least before the brief epilogue, galloping away on a horse, with his red hair no doubt blowing handsomely in the wind.
|
|
It is the latest in a wave of consolidations that has swept the industry in recent years, including the 2013 merger of Penguin and Random House, which created a publishing behemoth with about 250 imprints, and the News Corporation's acquisition of the romance publisher Harlequin for $20123 million in 2014.
|
|
And beginning Monday, Alexei Ratmansky's new production of "Harlequinade," a comic ballet in two acts set to music by Riccardo Drigo, takes the stage with what looks to be a stellar opening-night cast: Isabella Boylston as Columbine, James Whiteside as Harlequin, Gillian Murphy as Pierrette and Thomas Forster as Pierrot.
|
|
Avon and Harlequin, two of the biggest romance publishers, have both taken modest steps to publish more diverse books, but despite those efforts, their lists remain overwhelmingly white: Books by minority writers made up less than 4 percent of Avon's list and around 7 percent of Harlequin's list, according to the Ripped Bodice.
|
|
But simply by varying those colors — and tinkering, slightly, with the width of the nose or the exact placement of a line — he transforms this opaque icon from a brick-red mirage to a lemon-yellow harlequin, from a trick of light on the wall to a pattern of mud under water.
|
|
"A Discovery of Witches," which was made for Sky in Britain and begins streaming Thursday on both Sundance Now and Shudder, is an action fantasy in the multi-monster category of "Twilight" and "True Blood," with a focus on Harlequin-style, time-jumping romance that may make it of interest to the "Outlander" audience.
|
|
At Marni, for example, they took the form of capes, cut on the curve at the ribs, hugging the shoulders, sometimes sweeping down at the back, over balloon-sleeved shirts and pleated pants suggestive of a boardroom Musketeer, before harlequin prints and Prince of Wales plaids and jellyfish squiggles and oversize sea-creature paillettes got jumbled into the mix.
|
|
Seasoned Burberry girl Edie Campbell opened the proceedings (set to live music performed by Jake Bugg) in a military-style coat with a beautifully green, not quite Harlequin print; It model of the moment, Lineisy Montero, heightened the envy in a green snakeskin mackintosh, and Ruth Bell sported a freshly shaved head and a black overcoat with a bold yellow fur collar.
|
|
Between Mr. Timm's striking take on the classic harlequin costume — he ditched the "frills and spangles" of the commedia dell'arte original for a skintight bodysuit of alternating blacks and reds — and the voice actress Arleen Sorkin's over-the-top reads (a singsongy Brooklyn accent that could, in a split-second, jump from pure sugar to nuts), Harley became an instant hit.
|
|
Identical twins with Harlequin romance-caliber leather pants, poet blouses worthy of the Goblin King himself, and that hair-tossing, screaming guitar élan that sent relegated boyfriends to cry-sterbating at home while their girlfriends swooned at the nearest stadium, Nelson were double platinum music poster gods of the early 90s and they're not gonna apologize for being the era's swaggiest duo.
|
|
But I was a reader, and most of what I knew came from books, starting with the copy of Judy Blume's "Forever …" that made the rounds of the cafeteria in seventh grade to the dozens of Harlequin romances I devoured to the best sellers by Judith Krantz, Shirley Conran, Jean Auel, Susan Isaacs and Erica Jong that I snagged from my mom's shelves.
|
|
Gilliam's red, blue, and green watercolor, Parade VII, employs color through staining; Thompson's humorous oil painting, The Golden Ass, features a more traditional application; McArthur Binion uses crayon and collage elements in his 2016 brown abstraction, DNA: Sepia II; Nathaniel Mary Quinn's Mean Ol' Teacher uses color as a way to bridge abstraction and figuration in a collaged face made up of many different harlequin features.
|
|