" Time magazine has our backs!" he shouted in bemusement.
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All the while, there is a kind of detached bemusement.
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Other carmakers look on its extreme vertical integration with bemusement.
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Moore's acting style could best be described as perpetual bemusement.
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For Raed Jazbeh the seasons are a cause of genuine bemusement.
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Responses to the photographs ranged from positive surprise to angry bemusement.
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Others stood back, surveying their new surroundings with bemusement and disbelief.
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American Muslims have greeted France's burkini ban with bemusement and dismay.
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The hosts responded with a mix of detached bemusement and resignation.
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Publicly, some Gawker Media employees are handling this with characteristic bemusement.
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FRANKFURT — Until recently European auto executives regarded Tesla with something like bemusement.
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THE news of Harry Styles's casting in "Dunkirk" (683) was met with bemusement.
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You do this out of secondhand shame, but also out of jovial bemusement.
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A dissident comes to work at the Smile Mart, this novel's bemusement park.
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" It was also one of the recurring subjects at his Dismaland "bemusement park.
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They've overrun the streets of San Francisco, to the bemusement — and annoyance — of residents.
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Annoyance is a not-uncommon reaction, though bemusement is a frequent response as well.
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Beliefs firmly held in his mind seemed to mingle with bemusement tickling his gut.
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There's righteous bemusement in India over newly converted Americans proselytizing on behalf of turmeric.
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China likely observed all this with a mixture of bewilderment, bemusement — and perhaps anxiety.
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These episodes provoke reactions ranging from bemusement to horror when Americans hear about them.
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Bemusement was my primary emotion as I gingerly approached the glass enclosure and peered down.
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Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana initially expressed bemusement at news of Canada reviewing the deal.
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Seeing my bemusement, Davíd explained that all of Venezuela's leaders were the reincarnations of predecessors.
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The antlers of the prehistoric deer Megaloceros giganteus inspire awe and bemusement in equal measure.
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Though Johnson earned numerous awards and tributes, she expressed an understated bemusement about the accolades.
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Before the game on Tuesday, Judge talked about his downturn with more bemusement than concern.
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Turlock threw back the last of his rye rocks, shaking his head, savoring the bemusement.
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Meanwhile, there's some bemusement that great powers seem to be putting so much emphasis on Nepal.
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The reaction to her role by trustees and workers evolves from shock to bemusement to acceptance.
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Peruvians are discovering, to their bemusement, that the referee can determine who wins in politics, too.
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The responses range from bemusement to plain old anger, all with the very appropriate hashtag #wheresthecheese.
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By this point, visitors felt extremely checked in, and a warm bemusement settled on the crowd.
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"Ok, I'm going to do it in six weeks," Takeuchi replied, to the bemusement of doctors.
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From multicultural Montreal to Quebec's manufacturing regions, Quebecers expressed bemusement and concern about President Trump's America.
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"I thought, 'What a strange way to make a buck,' " Robertson, now 76, recalls with bemusement.
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Near the beginning of his speech, Mr. Trump seemed to wonder in bemusement at his fate.
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Social media users quickly noticed the howler, and took to Twitter to express their surprise and bemusement.
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For all the torture secrets have caused, this only stirs a slight bemusement from Kratos or Atreus.
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An edict preventing any suitor from integrating Air India into its existing operations was greeted with bemusement.
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Ayer, in either irony, anger, bemusement, or all of the above, responded to Erlich's review on Twitter.
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The latter arguably stoked up the most interest and bemusement among MMA fans—both hardcore and casual.
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The expression on her face is ambiguous: It could either be mild bemusement, or barely suppressed rage.
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The suddenness of his resignation and the totality of it have been met with bemusement and skepticism.
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Cuban admits some pride but mostly bemusement at the small but pivotal part he played in the saga.
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But one look at the work's wackier features pulls us in another direction and we're back with bemusement.
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The aura of avant-garde jazz has clung to Ms. Bley over the years, somewhat to her bemusement.
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Pinault is grinning with bemusement over Lively's velvet and silk gown, which looks a bit like a sleeping bag.
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Douglas Adams spent much of his life cogitating in baths, to the bemusement—and occasional fury—of his flatmate.
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"They're probably looking down at me with either bemusement or amazement," Chief Justice Roberts told C-Span in 163.
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And Mitchell plays him perfectly, capturing the character's bemusement and embarrassment, his desperation and, later, his surly, slurry dismissiveness.
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Venezuelans have reacted to the subplot he has introduced to Venezuela's crisis with a mix of bemusement and suspicion.
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Edward Snowden, it seems, has also been following Kanye West's bizarre Tweetstorm with a mixture of bemusement and, well, pity.
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As above, prominent UFC fighters have voiced their bemusement at the pairing of Edgar and Aldo for the second time.
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Many young or recently arrived Scots do not feel fear so much as bemusement at the chaps in bowler hats.
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As Gay spoke, I watched the expressions of some people at the table freeze in degrees of bemusement and discomfort.
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Taki, meanwhile, can't stop fondling Mitsuha's breasts whenever he takes over hers—much to the bemusement of her younger sister.
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Most of the Uruguay players were expressionless at first, before their poker faces gave way to some looks of bemusement.
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On Twitter, some bibliophiles expressed shock and horror, while others reacted to that shock and horror with snark and bemusement.
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The former president could barely hide his bemusement that his surrogacy was taking him to remote towns all across America.
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Industrial designers and tech critics used to swoon over Apple's latest hardware; nowadays you witness less swooning and more bemusement.
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Much to the bemusement of everyone over 30, some of the most embarrassing trends from the decade have been resuscitated.
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Right now, as The Times noted with bemusement last week, it leads its division, with a 5-1 conference record.
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Joe Crowley dished out some snaps as well, channeling Elle Woods from Legally Blonde -- to the begrudging bemusement of Rep.
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We go from Lance's pettiness to LeBron's bemusement to Lance's deviousness to LeBron's frustration to Lance's smugness to LeBron's genuine amusement.
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Several locals were sitting by the roadside with expressions on their faces best-described as a mixture of bemusement and curiosity.
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European representatives reacted with bemusement to a presentation by American officials on Russian disinformation at NATO headquarters shortly before Trump's inauguration.
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"I don't think there had been an African-American trainee there in years," King says, shaking his head with grim bemusement.
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The family of three whose bottom bunks we'd commandeered listened in with bemusement as Mr. Liu translated the action into Chinese.
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BOONE, IOWA — People connected to the Democratic establishment still tend to view the Bernie Sanders campaign with bemusement, incomprehension, or scorn.
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At times, he has privately expressed bemusement at what he calls Mr. Mnuchin's naïveté when it comes to haggling with Congress.
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This Chinese-funded EV company came to steal the show at CES, and it promptly did, but that was mostly through bemusement.
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She chronicles her mix of reactions — bemusement, excitement, and, at times, comical frustration as she integrates the items into her daily routine.
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LONDON — Wild Bieber sightings have been reported across the UK and Ireland to the excitement, bemusement, and sometimes consternation of local residents.
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But, even so, his bemusement at this fight is clear in what he had to say when the contest was officially confirmed.
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As we drove up, a woman held the hand of a toddler while they crossed the street, looking at us with bemusement.
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But Gulliver is left with a feeling of bemusement that a visit to Europe is now akin to an act of bravery.
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He previously said Duterte's drugs obsession distracted him from pressing issues and expressed bemusement at his hostility to ally the United States.
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Miquel Iceta, the leader of the Catalan branch of the Socialist party, expressed bemusement at the "complex" wording used by Mr. Puigdemont.
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Even the teenager whose diatribe had many European leaders quaking in their loafers evoked little more than simple bemusement from the Chinese.
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Despite being Pelosi's daughter, she conveys a sense of bemusement at the absurdities of politics, while seldom appearing to judge anyone too harshly.
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Virgin America released its "new" logo (pictured below), which bore a passing resemblance to a pair of breasts, to the bemusement of some.
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This contest will certainly draw plenty of Polish eyes to KSW 37, while the rest of Europe will be looking on in bemusement.
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She smiles with bemusement as he tells her how to behave and declines to tell her the most basic facts about his past.
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His joke delivery is more measured than the spitting fire of Jon Stewart's Daily Show, and less gobsmacked than Trevor Noah's gentle bemusement.
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Th decision infuriated health campaigners and extended the bemusement of many tourists who expect nights out in picturesque Austria to be largely smoke-free.
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Venture into the offices of many young tech companies and you'll notice a certain aesthetic—scrappy yet stark, with an undertone of sophomoric bemusement.
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In response to an emergency request, he assured Moscow, with some bemusement, that everything in the alliance's civilian bureaucracy was ticking along as normal.
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Passersby expressed pity and bemusement at the sight of the then unknown 15-year-old sitting on the cobblestones with a hand-painted banner.
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Instead of being brutalized for his lack of cooperation, Suitter is time and again met with either bemusement or toothless exasperation from the cops.
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The Emmy-winning actor (for HBO's "The Newsroom") shook his head in bemusement, aware that Wagner cards have sold for $1 million and higher.
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Neither player scored in the first match, much to the chagrin of Kit, the frustration of Mr. Davies and the bemusement of Mr. Crane.
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That a country few Americans paid much attention to in the past now commands center stage in Washington has stirred mostly bemusement in Ukraine.
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On a recent evening in the basilica, a group of brothers and other devotees responded to questions about Queipo de Llano with bemusement and irritation.
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On The Daily Show, Noah opts for bemusement, rolling whatever clips happened to land on his desk that day while largely chuckling on the sidelines.
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I've more than once seen Mr. Cohen shrug his shoulders in perhaps faux bemusement at praise from highbrows such as Wood (who died in 2009).
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Doepfer's A-100 suitcase Doepfer's A-100 suitcase Despite its relatively low cost, Döpfer says the new synthesiser was initially met with bemusement by dealers.
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The bemusement, at times admiration, expressed for the British rebellion, was a far cry from the outrage and indignation voiced in the official quarters in Brussels.
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I order one and tentatively take a sip—much to the bemusement of a small audience of young men that has suddenly sprung up from nowhere.
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Over the course of five seconds, Cruise's face went through just about every human emotion, including (but not limited to) surprise, confusion, amusement, bemusement, and anger.
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ANGST OVER petrol prices, confusion over Britain's relationship with the EU, bemusement at the American president's legal tangles: it feels like the 1970s in Europe again.
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Asked about the ongoing Russia-related saga surrounding U.S. President Trump and his former campaign staff, Putin responded with his typical mix of sarcasm and bemusement.
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To the amusement of Lakers fans and the possible bemusement of those who root for other teams, James's wardrobe switch became a reality on Sunday night.
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Ryan was sitting on the stage in shirtsleeves, and he tilted his head and shifted his body into a pose that communicated wry but earnest bemusement.
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A source close to Boeing said there was some bemusement at the U.S. planemaker as to why Airbus was able to book all of their Iranian orders.
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Fall's major characters spend most of their time outside Bitworld either pontificating on technical concepts or pondering the masses' foolish customs with a sense of anthropological bemusement.
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Crytek has created a weird game for a weird piece of hardware, and it's quite likely something that we'll look back on with bemusement in ten years.
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Two small children sit next to their mother, watching with vague bemusement as she drives her fists into the air, cursing the pink structure behind the fence.
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After Mr. Trump imposed the metals tariffs last June, the move drew anger, bemusement and disappointment in the metals industry and across the political spectrum in Canada.
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After the film's release and acclaim, she treated her sudden fame with bemusement, happy to be recognized but insistent that she had only been doing her job.
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Because she is the "Shut up mom you're embarrassing me!" type of Instagrammer, the Photoshop was immediately noticeable, stirring up a little bit of controversy, but mostly bemusement.
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Luckily for Armitstead CAS struck off last year's mix-up in Sweden, freeing her for Rio - a decision that produced some bemusement in the cycling world and beyond.
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The business was started by Seun and Seyi Abolaji, two brothers who were raised and educated in America and returned to Nigeria, to the bemusement of their families.
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Back then pitches to clients would elicit bemusement, recalls Ian Bremmer, founder of Eurasia Group, a veteran purveyor of real-time political science with headquarters in New York.
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The bemusement at those attacks has extended to ORF's main satirical TV show, which joked on Tuesday that the broadcaster should feel obliged to report Hofer's every move.
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But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.
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Vera has his own minions, Peanuts (Young M.A) and Javi (Jahneer E. Williams), who view both their boss's flights of fancy and Elliot's shattered psyche with wry bemusement.
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A prominent BBC journalist even suggested to Ireland's Europe minister, Helen McEntee, that Ireland quit the EU and join the United Kingdom - an idea met with some bemusement.
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"But they did not film them with their mobile phones, as everyone does these days in Egypt, or try to stop them," he told the court with incredulous bemusement.
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On Wednesday, Blair, who governed the U.K. between 1997 and 2007, expressed bemusement and dismay at the popularity of Trump and other polarizing politicians in the U.S. and Britain.
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And I had stared, with alarmed bemusement, at Mr. Abdrazakov's soft-shoeing, air-guitar-playing, floor-pounding performance, which seemed to grow more unhinged as the evening wore on.
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On his way into the tunnel, Markieff Morris spotted Stephen A. Smith, and delivered him an ebullient slap upside the backside, to the erogenous bemusement of Mr. Preposterous himself.
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On these tapes, as he splits tones and repeats gusty, arrhythmic phrases, you hear the audiences in Paris and Stockholm react with bemusement — and sometimes shouts, whistles and boos.
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In a revealing series of black-and-white portraits by the Vienna-based photographer Regina Hügli, people with Alzheimer's disease show expressions of delight, confusion, bemusement and utter vacancy.
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On Wednesday, LeBron James committed a blatant travel that went uncalled, much to the bemusement of the Utah Jazz and their fans and the amusement of the NBA world.
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Mr Blankfein has expressed bemusement to colleagues over how Mrs May appears to treat finance like any other industry, despite its major contribution to the UK economy and its exchequer.
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Drumming up allies, including the 34-country counter-terrorism coalition that the prince announced in December (to the bemusement and surprise of some of its putative members) is proving costly.
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Back then, he six-putted the 10th hole during the second round, much to the bemusement of Australia's Adam Scott and South Africa's Trevor Immelman, with whom he was playing.
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Those who knew Kaufman, such as "Taxi" co-stars Danny DeVito and his manager George Shapiro, alternately express bemusement and befuddlement over Carrey's transformation and Kaufman's uncanny sort-of resurrection.
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Exhibit A: When Trump joked about the US wiretapping Germany at a joint news conference during Merkel's visit to Washington in March, the Chancellor's reaction ranged from bemusement to disbelief.
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Cohen approached the end of his life with the same wry bemusement he'd used that night, quipping during a listening session last month that he'd rather choose to live forever.
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But perhaps his best known mark on New York is the 1972 "diagram" of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway system, which earned praise from aesthetes and bemusement from some straphangers.
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Instead, she reacts with little more than gentle bemusement toward his better handle on language and his skills as a fighter, when she ought to be kicking him to the curb.
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Sufer showed Gizmodo the photo that first sparked the WowWee team's interest, a smokey glassy-eyed critter clinging to an index finger, with a look that could be bemusement or fear.
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The Ottoman authorities saw their ability to absorb people of all faiths as a sign of power, not weakness, and observed the Protestant-Catholic conflicts of the time with detached bemusement.
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On July 16, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are set to meet up in Helsinki, Finland, sending much of the rest of the planet into either terrified bemusement, embarrassed squirms, or worse.
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To the bemusement of two sources on the call, C.J. Mahoney, Robert Lighthizer's deputy, said he figured the USMCA could get through Congress with huge bipartisan support by the end of April.
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But the troubles didn't stop there: Once the session had begun and much to everyone's bemusement, it quickly dawned on viewers that the format of the Q&A session was very unorthodox.
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One night, as a fetching blonde described a complicated makeout arrangement to the bemusement of her lanky companion, the Even Keel (Bimini gin, chili-infused tequila, aloe water) kept bystanders pleasantly afloat.
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But most of the visitors expressed simple amusement, or bemusement, about the crime as they looked at the blue police tape across the damaged wooden door that once led to the toilet.
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I'm a generally phlegmatic moviegoer, but the first time I saw Hereditary I yelped a lot, and very nearly crawled under my seat once or twice, to the bemusement of my viewing companions.
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The incident sparked bemusement on Twitter, annoyance from some who were awakened late at night by the errant messages and sadness from some who said they received texts from their deceased loved ones.
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But the news that they had even pursued the complaint to begin with set off an outpouring of bemusement and anger in Ireland, which has been grappling with its deeply conservative Catholic history.
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SUZUKA, Japan (Reuters) - Russian driver Daniil Kvyat caused bemusement in Friday's Japanese Grand Prix practice when he told his Toro Rosso Formula One team that a "baby octopus" had appeared on his car.
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Donald Trump might have whipped the crowds into a frenzy with his first speech as the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency, but Europe looked on with a mixture of criticism, fear and bemusement.
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They came with painted faces, and tricolores draped around their necks, starring nervously at the big screen while another effort went wide, singing "allez les Bleus" and crying in bemusement at the Romanian penalty.
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Then, for the grand finale, the pair exit the cafe and perform a dance routine in the street, much to the bemusement of commuters and smokers grabbing a last cigarette before catching their trains.
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The humblest dish becomes a feverishly hunted object of desire, often to the bemusement of those who have eaten it their entire lives, in their homes and on the streets, without thought or fuss.
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More precisely, it's a three-person buddy comedy, driven by the humor inherent in Cole and Noah's frenemy status, and in the bemusement of Anton at the absurd turns the older men's lives have taken.
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"In fact, it would appear that they are entirely disorganized, have no specific plans…" In others, like Julia Ioffe's Politico Magazine profile of a revolt in the New Mexico delegation, the tone is closer to bemusement.
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The sketch he delivered, called "The Cat's Meow" — in which a black cat delicately paws past a lineup of black stiletto pumps, gazing at them with bemusement — perfectly embodied Kakanias's playful view of the fashion world.
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And Yellow Vests looked on in horror and bemusement as vandals smashed in the windows of a sporting-goods store and made off with boxes of sneakers on one chic avenue around the Arc de Triomphe.
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Ernst, who was thirty-eight, with floppy brown hair and a look of perpetual bemusement, had recently become the head of Channel One, the state television network with the largest reach, a post he retains today.
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The prose rather reads like a '50s primer: formal, an almost affected sense of bemusement at anything improper, and peppered with antiquated words like "slithery" to describe a dress and "a real dilly" to connote something exciting.
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There is an odd and effective dance between the faces in the crowd: we move from our bemusement at Prager's casting choices to the slow realization that all is not well with our heroine in the film.
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The interview style he perfected followed a pattern: feigned obliviousness, wrestlers ratcheting up the verbal or physical intensity of their actions, a whiff of frustration or bemusement, then throwing it back to the announcing table or ring.
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When Rizin announced that Gabi Garcia would be facing the much smaller and much older Shinobu Kandori on their New Year's Eve card, the news was met with a fair amount of suspicion, bemusement, and maybe even disgust.
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But even though Gravel's sort-of campaign has been covered with bemusement by some media outlets (Rolling Stone called him a "teen sensation"), few seem to have discussed another aspect of Gravel's career: He's a 211/22006 truther.
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Since the project began, four groups—of 15, 18, 19 and 14 animals—have been so moved, often to the bemusement of existing wildlife in the recipient areas, which take time to get used to the new neighbours.
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The opinions below belong to the author (CNN)On Wednesday, the world looked on with bemusement as the British people united to bid farewell to one of their most beloved institutions: a TV show about people baking cakes.
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Poem Selected by RITA DOVE Who among us hasn't looked back at youth with rueful bemusement — all that impatience and hunger and certitude, that yearning for tragic emotion, for an adult heartache that will come all too soon?
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That his previous employer had been The Sun, the right-of-center London tabloid that until 2015 printed a jumbo-size photograph of a topless young woman each day on its "Page 3," only added to the bemusement.
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Mr. Lewis's bemusement about that phenomenon spoke to an essential American Jewish truth of the period, wrought truer in his film than perhaps he knew: Did a collectively imagined American dream appeal more strongly than your personal history?
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But the intense experience of the risqué, unexpected situation in the gallery guarantees that whatever emotions the viewer feels — from bemusement to arousal, discomfort, or outrage — are strong enough to elicit reflection on the relationship between stripping and art.
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The tempestuous Kyrgios had just been beaten in a tiebreak against Johnson when he walked to the net, offered his hand to the American and stormed off court to the bemusement of his opponent and chair umpire Fergus Murphy.
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Over a salad lunch in an upstairs office ("We've had so much kale since we've come to America," Ms. Rourke said with some bemusement), the creators discussed what inspired "Privacy" and how they're altering it for New York audiences.
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Our general bemusement notwithstanding, the larger Russia-US story is, of course, not exactly over—and the KGB, it should be said, has a long history of murder and abduction to go along with its more mildly dystopian antics.
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In fact, the most entertaining aspect of this contest was its bizarre introduction, which saw the Saitama Super Arena's mascot interrupt the fight's start much to the bemusement of the English commentary team of Joe Ferraro and Bellator fighter Joe Warren.
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While most of us experience Amazon's surveillance with a mixture of annoyance and bemusement — you are never allowed to forget what items you've looked at on Amazon, at least not until you buy them — Vine reviewers have learned to exploit it.
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Twitter is the super-highway of Apple information and Apple is usually the guy sitting on his porch, grinning through a stick of wheat in his mouth and watching in bemusement as rickety tweets full of guesswork, innuendo and wishful thinking race by.
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It actively grapples with its own bemusement about the idea that pop stardom can have its own artistic legitimacy, and with the possibility that industry forces are a complex ecosystem that can be navigated instead of just surrendered to or fought against.
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Putting on her dog collar, the Reverend Katrina Scott races down to find, to her bemusement, flash bulbs exploding as an extravagantly dressed young couple from Shanghai pose at the altar of St Mary's, in Lower Slaughter, for a Chinese photography crew.
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I suspect that someday, future generations will look back on the age of the internal combustion engine with the same mixture of amazement and bemusement that come to mind when we think of the times of the horse-and-buggy and landlines.
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" When speaking to Broadly, James "Coder Brony" Turner, the president and chairman of the board of the Brony Thank You Fund and creator of the Brony Herd Census & State of the Herd Report, said, "The general [Brony] sentiment is one of bemusement.
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We tried to take walks in the neighborhood (the E.R. doctors had recommended it), but quickly found that the narrow sidewalks required us to constantly circle away from our neighbors, which required shouted explanations that provoked bemusement in some cases, fright in others.
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When John Kelly publicly announced this summer that President Trump had asked him to stay on as White House chief of staff until 2020, the most common reactions in Trump's inner circle were bemusement and, in some cases, laughter — no one thought it was real.
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But inside the Post's newsroom, sources say, the right-wing site's war has been met largely with bemusement — and that the paper is not interested in any sort of pissing match as the Moore story continues to snowball, and Moore continues to deny the allegations.
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At the heart of Pressler's profile—which otherwise and excellently chronicles the height of EDM's economic stranglehold on the music industry with equal parts bemusement and chuckling curiosity—is Bergling's struggle with alcohol abuse as a byproduct of shuttling from superstar gig to superstar gig.
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Which brings us back to Louis C.K. If you see sexual discrimination, harassment, and abuse as an ongoing moral crisis, as so many women have encouraged us to do, then you can only regard the discussion around Louis C.K.'s reentry into public life with surreal bemusement.
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Personal elements are threaded throughout, and Knapp, now married, looks back with bemusement and chagrin on a parade of his former selves—a lacrosse player partial to alternative metal bands; a reluctant frat boy; a cultish devotee of David Foster Wallace—and wonders what they add up to.
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Motives notwithstanding, it was a source of bemusement to conservatives ever after that the money made by the arch-conservative Henry Ford, the publisher of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," in a system and spirit of unfettered capitalism, should have fallen into the hands of liberals.
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In a rational universe, a long two-point bank shot like the game-winner Pierce made with a hand in his face for the Wizards in the 2015 playoffs would be recognized as the product of pure luck, dismissed as a fluke among all flukes, regarded with bemusement and nothing more.
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JIM GRAY ON THE REAL REASON NFL OWNERS DON&aposT WANT KAEPERNICK Gray, who began his career with ABC News' Denver affiliate as a teenager where he received his break by interviewing Muhammad Ali, also remarked with some bemusement that he ended up in the Hall of Fame with so many storied fighters.
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But the great thing about Pokémon Go is that hundreds of millions of consumers aged 8 to 80 have played it worldwide, watched others play it with bemusement or read about odd experiences with it in the miles of column inches and vast numbers of electrons devoted to it by mainstream media.
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Each country's culture perpetuates myths about its closest rivals that often have no basis in reality and which puzzle those from elsewhere (I remember my bemusement at being informed by English friends of the "fact" that Germans are more likely to monopolise sunbeds on Mediterranean holidays – no other culture shares this belief, by the way).
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Other things are also on their way, and could eventually make VR as ordinary a part of life as the iPhone (first released to polite bemusement in 2007, without the apps that made it essential.) Facebook's work in livestreaming and 360-degree cameras are an attempt to build a network that can easily handle VR globally.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The Night Wolves, a Russian motorcycle gang known as Putin's Angels and widely feared as agents of meddling and mayhem beyond Russia's borders, provoked more bemusement and giggles than awe on their latest outing, a nine-day tour of the Balkans designed to show that Russia still had some fervent friends left in Europe.
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When it was announced that the composer would be performing at Coachella in April of this year, the news was met with some bemusement before reactions quickly shifted into disbelief that it hadn't happened already; after all, Zimmer had already tested the waters with a successful European tour in 2016, his first, proving the appeal of a Hans Zimmer live experience.
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On the strength of the evidence of Ishida's talent and artistic intellect, however, he was in a secure position from which to have criticized what he did not like or, on the other hand, to have embraced, to his friend's bemusement, the colorful, charming pictures of the painter-illustrator Rokurō Taniuchi (1955-1981), who was known for his covers for Japanese culture magazines.
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Related: Carrie Fisher, 'Star Wars'' Princess Leia, dies at 60 Yet she always appeared a reluctant star, more comfortable in the role of court jester -- maintaining a sense of bemusement over both her upbringing and little items like the gold bikini she modeled in "Return of the Jedi," thoughts she articulated in free-wheeling fashion by writing about the absurdities of her privileged perch.
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Even more remarkable than a storied career of comic hilarity that saw him co-star NBC sitcom NewsRadio for five seasons, host his own The Andy Dick Show on MTV, and sashay his way to the seventh round of Dancing with the Stars, is the trail of destruction and bemusement Dick has left in his wake, fueled by alcohol, cocaine, and an utter inability to keep his hands to himself.
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