Wong's newest films, Fables 63 (2018) and Fables 2 (2019), showcased at the Camden Arts Centre's Cork Street location, are inspired by fables of Aesop and the Grimm Brothers.
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But if facts could become fables, fables could lead to facts, just as wild medieval tales of lost kingdoms had inspired Europe's exploration of America.
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Everything from the Bible and fables to science fiction, fantasy.
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Indeed, these fables might truly bring the whole family together.
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Fables of agrarian life are hardly unique to Freek's Mill.
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Is it ever anything else, in fables such as this?
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It's not based purely on altruism or fables or myths.
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Ingalls writes fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness.
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The latter was a creature right out of children's fables.
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It's a mistake to think that childhood needs syrupy fables.
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The dynamic in the capital grows ever more dangerous, as Donald Trump tells fables to justify the unjustifiable and his staff feeds him more fables in a futile attempt to manage his puerile moods.
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But I'm a storyteller, and these stories, to me, they're fables.
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They include fables and fiction, history and heresy, philosophy and aphorisms.
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FANWOOD "Aesop's Fables," interactive play performed by Bright Star Touring Theater.
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Bratescu's longstanding interest in Aesop, the ancient Greek author of fables.
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Eren Niazi's career arc is one of those classic Silicon Valley fables.
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It draws on fables, myths, even mysticism, to conjure its distinctive moods.
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Does anyone else think President Trump might benefit from reading Aesop's Fables?
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Onscreen fables usually have at least a hint of whimsy and wonder.
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A still from "Wong Ping's Fables 1," by Wong Ping, from 2018.
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Children's Books Fables give us archetypes to live by in nutshell form.
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The eight fables in Machado's book all depict women on the verge.
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The character of Woodcock comes straight from the book of fashion fables.
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His explanations delight his audiences; they have the pleasant totality of fables.
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Similar to Norwegian folkloric creatures, internet trolls are characters in new contemporary fables.
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The Stinky Cheese Man is an irreverent revisiting of your classic childhood fables.
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Like Aesop's fables, Nelson's anecdotes have lessons touching on knowledge, vulnerability, and pride.
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Ms. Le Guin's fictions range from young-adult adventures to wry philosophical fables.
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These 11 enchanting stories deserve to take their place among the classic fables.
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Many of the fables are antic, others too terrifying to read at night.
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It's easy to read these fables of nationhood as curios from another age.
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It makes the "And Other Fables" of the title resonate throughout the exhibition.
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Retelling old fables or repeating the familiar inconvenient truths isn't pricking enough millionaires' consciences.
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Travisano called her early poems "fables of enclosure," based on her somewhat isolated upbringing.
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But he was writing fables about the aspirations of expatriates, not textbooks on accounting.
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All are essentially fables — alternately heartbreaking and farcical — set mainly among the downtrodden peasantry.
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All his successful shows have been fables and fairy tales and pageants and pantomimes.
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Many of the songs, including the title track, are love ballads tinged with fables.
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And few fields are so cluttered with such fables as the history of music.
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A few of the stories I found even seemed like ledes to creepier Aesop's fables.
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"He likes to show the hidden unconscious meaning of myths and fables," notes Mr Devaux.
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Something like Rosemary's Baby or George A. Romero's Season of the Witch are feminist fables.
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She says tongue twisters, nursery rhymes, fables, and poems that were part of your childhood.
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The stories, some of which were based on African fables, were published independently, he said.
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They're fables, not operas—undeveloped vignettes with plot twists that slam the door on ambiguity.
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To study American history is often an exercise in learning partial truths and patriotic fables.
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Fantastic as these fables might be, they have clearly resonated with many people in Hong Kong.
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Think of Aesop's fables, the myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and even the Bible.
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But these are not children's fables: Alomar often centers greed, arrogance, cruelty, and above all, folly.
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It's just an excuse on which to hang two trite overbearing fables and one amusing one.
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American politics has always been prone to single storyism — candidates reducing complex issues to simple fables.
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And as usually occurs in such fables, the more the greedy get, the more they want.
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In contrast to the emblematic cutout characters of fables, flesh-and-blood Mephisto cannot stop talking.
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THE STORY of the emperor's new clothes is one of Hans Christian Andersen's best-known fables.
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THE STORY OF the emperor's new clothes is one of Hans Christian Andersen's best-known fables.
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The show title, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, acknowledges the elephant in the room.
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When she produced figurative pieces, she focused mostly on mythical subjects such as Medea or Aesop's fables.
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Albert Einstein, the inspiration for Alan Lightman's book of fables, believed in the endlessness of the cosmos.
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The triumph of a plodding species over a swifter one isn't just the stuff of Aesop's fables.
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But all of them are interested in offering something other than comforting fables of finger-lickin' harmony.
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A series of 23 drawings by Jacob Lawrence related to "Aesop's Fables" (1969) is a case in point.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Art history is the queen of fables and a breeder of criminals.
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The Swedish Academy called Grass's fiction "frolicsome black fables," which is a great description of Private Novelist, too.
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This upheaval involved the sexual revolution that made their early fables of forced choice—Must Harry marry Janice?
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The furniture stacks culminate in a child's chair or table, and evoke the farm animals in Aesop's Fables.
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Some 26 centuries later, one of the greatest sources of wisdom remains the classic collection of Aesop's Fables.
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Some of the most haunted castles and mansions in the world are rooted in history, folklore, and fables.
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Also, despite the reputation that ants have in fables as industrious, some ants were more persistent than others.
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As a work of literature the Bible has everything: poetry, philosophy, storytelling, myths, fictions, riddles, fables, parables, allegories.
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Novels abolished the power that unpredictable events had held in epics, fables, and other, older forms of storytelling.
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It was as if Aesop came back to life with a Twitter account to discuss politics through fables.
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Since these are all grand fables, it's only fitting that Radiohead pull out their most melodramatic, exaggerated performances.
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This is just one point in a film full of fables, which seems to lack a coherent message throughout.
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Us and Pet Sematary are both fables fueled by a sense of culpability for things that aren't always explained.
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The perils of vanity have been preached in cautionary parables, fables, and verse again and again over the centuries.
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"Grown Folks' Fables" is also 100 percent local, starting with a core writing team of up-and-coming collaborators.
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Fact-checkers spring into action when Mr. Trump mischaracterizes immigration law or passes off debunked fables as historical facts.
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He has a talent for absurdist fables that might have come out of James Tate's vest pocket: It's late.
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One can imagine the fables and stories that followed after people spotted a mystery animal carrying a dead man.
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The book's six illustrated "fables" – at least one of which draws on the fiction introduced in Disney's Galaxy's Edge theme park – are meant to stand as a spooky follow-up to the previously released Star Wars: Myths & Fables, which featured the same creative team of author George Mann and illustrator Grant Griffin.
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The interviews offer conversations about the nature of translation, the purpose of fables, and the transcultural exchange in their histories.
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And instead of painting on cave walls now we're telling some of those same fables in a more interactive way.
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The fables feature mythological creatures resembling birds, fish and dragons — which the artist describes as "friendly, cheeky and unfortunate" characters.
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Vucko is a wolf, an animal that was prominent in Yugoslav fables and commonly found in the Dinaric Alps region.
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The hentai screening room at Anime North, Canada's biggest anime convention by attendance, is the stuff of anime nerd fables.
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They're fables and history lessons brought to the public through the ages with a combination of mysticism and animal personification.
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Such fables act as nails in the credibility of the media that Americans do need for checks on government power.
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But he was undeterred on Monday evening and again peddled false claims, including some of his most thoroughly debunked fables.
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Her latest deep dive in that vein is "Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables," on view until June 10.
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That's the takeaway at least from "Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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The show features a Native American ensemble that performs indigenous songs and dances to illuminate fables from Native American lore.
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Brown, who died in 2005, wrote it in 1963 based on "The Farmer and the Viper," one of Aesop's fables.
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That includes The Wolf Among Us 2, a sequel that explores the fairy tale universe of the Fables comic series.
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Brown, who died in 2005, wrote it in 1963 based on The Farmer and the Viper, one of Aesop's fables.
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Like all fables, it is very simple in outline — and thus arguably better suited to literary rather than theatrical expression.
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His selection includes books written in seven languages, and ranges from religious texts to philosophical treatises, fables, history and fiction.
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In 2008, she lent her voice to the animated movie Unstable Fables: The Goldilocks and the 3 Bears Show as Goldilocks. .
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Journalists who sat by while VCs built founding fables about themselves should have done more to pierce these reality distortion fields.
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His stories compound the dreamscapes of Surrealism, the marvels of Icelandic folklore and a pop-culture sensibility into free-form fables.
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In 2008, she lent her voice to the animated movie Unstable Fables: The Goldilocks and the 3 Bears Show as Goldilocks.
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Adapted excerpt from Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves by George Estreich, © 2019 George Estreich.
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In a primitive visual style and with chipperly voiced, subtitled narration, he spins fables of men brought low by their vanities.
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Complexity gives way to easily digestible narratives, which often defang icons, turning them into fables rather than three-dimensional human beings.
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Mr. Uderzo and Mr. Goscinny initially thought of adapting the Roman de Renart, a series of medieval fables featuring anthropomorphic characters.
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You have to read them allegorically, as fables about the relative weakness of innocence and the bottomless malice of the universe.
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She'd unspool Bible fables for me and my brothers and expect us to accept this Santa Clausian malarky as, well, Scripture.
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They exist but they don't ... They have their fables and then there's German fairy tales, which are advice in some way.
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Tell Me A Story captures its viewers to put themselves in the shoes of some of their favorite fables with its realism.
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And as anyone who's listened to fairy tales or fables knows, metaphors are how we tend to offer moral instruction through storytelling.
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It is a way of misrepresenting, demeaning, reifying what you see, of creating fables out of real objects, real places, real people.
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Silver's storytelling tactics are finely matched to her themes, with her book's structure frequently mimicking the dreamlike movements of memories and fables.
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British Columbia artist Caitlin McDonagh incorporates creatures from fables, upgrading human characters and breathing life into animal avatars straight from a storybook.
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We've given social realism this pride of place as the thing with the most verisimilitude, but there's more verisimilitude in Aesop's fables.
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Everything is shaped on a deeper level, through the parables, fables and myths that our most fundamental groups use to define themselves.
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Short fables are sprinkled among the chapters, and the author makes use of pastiche, footnotes and other moves from the postmodern playbook.
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I took 215 books the first time — illustrated books, fables, fairy tales and happy stories of white children and their kind parents.
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Her interest the Greek author has less to do with his fables and instead is focused on the character of Aesop himself.
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If Kafka had rewritten Aesop's fables, the result might have looked like this thought-provoking new collection of literary allegories and aphorisms.
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The result is a spellbinding memorial to the nameless souls lost in Europe's vicious past, whose whispers are best heard in fables.
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Andrew Menke built a career around reviving and revisiting fables and legends, reminding listeners about the power of the oral storytelling tradition.
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The year was full of stunners in all categories: tear-jerking comedies, joyous musicals, moving dramas, haunting fables, and everything in between.
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The second room, the installation "Stream of Stories" (2015), offers an in-depth exploration of traditional French fables by Jean de La Fontaine.
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"It recalls all the stories and fables he was read as a child," Vigo Gallery director Toby Clarke explains to The Creators Project.
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"I recently started rereading Aesop's fables with an eye out for some that would resonate with current events and politics," he tells Creators.
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These paintings will explore his relationship with his young son and draw on a wide range of influences, from fables to children's books.
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This show is inspired by the hosts' podcast and book of the same name, a dating guide that includes fables, quizzes and graphs.
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The show has the ability to create new fables about power and violence the likes of which most modern audiences have never seen.
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Way back in 2013, Telltale released a tense and gritty fantasy whodunit with The Wolf Among Us, an adaptation of the comic Fables.
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Before modern celebrities, there were fables, fairy tales, and myths—gods cheating on goddesses, stepparents casting their stepchildren out into a magical forest.
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James Joyce, who wrote some of the most famously impenetrable passages in English literature, wrote two children's fables about cats for his grandson.
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In one of the stories in Fables 2 (2019), the protagonist, a cow, is arrested after accidentally killing a policeman during a protest.
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Accompanied by drumbeats and keyboard riffs, he spins out insults, sexual boasts and old-time fables, like the story of the signifying monkey.
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Hakawatis—storytellers—have historically been an integral part of Middle Eastern culture, orating popular myths and fables to audiences in cafés and public squares.
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If you're familiar with Telltale's past forays into the comic book universes of The Walking Dead, Fables and Batman then this should look familiar.
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As with many fables, it begins with the hero encountering an animal in the woods: a wolf whose foot is caught in a trap.
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Written in the 17th century, his fables became hugely influential; today, they are often reading material for children and a frequent source of aphorisms.
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His hammy fables of the loving-yet-austere upbringing of little Joey Biden in his idealized birthplace of Scranton, Pennsylvania, are easy to mock.
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Instead, they produced what sounded like dilapidated nursery rhymes, fables with overriding messages, and odd Christian songs, because that was all that they knew.
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We ought to look to fables, parables, myths, and folklore from a wider pool than what Hollywood and western science fiction have given us.
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Much like the studio's The Wolf Among Us series — based on the Fables comics — Batman retains the vibe of the character's comic book heritage.
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Biel spoke to Hyperallergic about Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, a retrospective currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables continues at the Whitney Museum of American Art (99 Gansevoort Street, Meatpacking District, Manhattan) until June 10.
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"Since I model myself after Aesop from Aesop's fables, I consider these holidates to be a story with a moral attached," Ms. Koopersmith said.
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This is not a tableau of exotic spices and brilliant saris, of flashbacks to fables told in a village back in the old country.
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He had also been campaigning against Vietnam's supposed theft of borderlands — a highly delicate topic here — and writing a collection of mordant political fables.
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There's no word yet on where this takes place in the overall timeline, except that it's before the graphic novel that inspired it, Fables.
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If it is too early to tell whether the Holy Roman Empire was a success, listen to one of Aesop's fables, dating back 2,500 years.
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Storytelling's stories are more accurately didactic fables, arguments leading to or from a specific solution for the purpose of demonstrating the correctness of that solution.
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What makes "Maple Street" so potent is that deep down, it feels so right in a way that only fairy tales and fables really can.
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" In one of the fables, Americans opened their newspapers and discovered that "five hundred thousand Jews had been murdered in Germany, Italy, Rumania, and Poland.
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And the many people who learned about responsibility, duty, empathy, kindness, and selflessness from Lee's plethora of heroes and fables wouldn't be the same either.
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I am certain, however, that we cannot dismiss these types of contemporary concerns by appealing to fables about our supposed fears of all new technology.
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Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables continues at the Whitney Museum of American Art (99 Gansevoort Street, the Meatpacking District, Manhattan) until June 10.
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Drawing on the fables of Scheherazade's 1,001 nights in three installments, the director Miguel Gomes tries to explain austerity measures in Portugal in 103 and 2014.
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Although anthropomorphic creatures have appeared in literature since at least the time of Hesiod, several centuries before Aesop's fables, furry culture started gestating during the 70s.
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I take out our old tattered Giant Golden Book of Aesop's fables, and I start with the stories about dogs because they were always my favorite.
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As in all fables, though, the magic is fleeting, with the Italian hamlets linked for just 2100 days before the piers are dismantled after July 2000.
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But despite the fables of Li's thrift and being an active philanthropist, many Hong Kongers resent the pervasive role his family plays in the local economy.
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In the old industrial town of Dunkirk, warehouses and defunct factories are retrofitted and revamped into training and co-working spaces called fables or tech shops.
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After finishing school, Khan produced an English translation of the Jataka Tales, fables about the previous incarnations of the Buddha, and established herself as a writer.
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Some of Carrington's ooziest explorations were wild little fables — microstories in which wolf-men talk to plants and naughty children sculpt living camels out of sand.
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The show serves as a modern day Aesop's Fables, set in alternative realities similar to present day society and centered on the impact of technology on humanity.
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Another entry is on the moon and green cheese, with a string of references to fables about the moon and cheese, from Serbia, France and contemporary America.
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Related: [NSFW] Provocative Illustrations Explore the Exquisiteness of Lust The Modern 'Big Bad Wolf' Is a Chiller Classic Fables Get a Colorful Twist in Caitlin McDonagh's Illustrations
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And, at first glance, Holmes' story isn't dissimilar to the countless fables of women CEOs and founders who are pushed off the edge of the glass cliff.
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After we'd all written our fables, we took turns reading them — but we were only supposed to listen to one another's pieces, not to comment on them.
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Fables of artificial intelligence aren't simply about the machines themselves, but the exploitation of labor—including, in both Ex Machina and Her, the emotional labor of women.
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For comic book fans, Vertigo Comics (now DC Vertigo) will forever be the line that gave them Sandman, Fables, Y The Last Man, Preacher, and dozens more.
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Her playing with coarse, organic forms gradually materialized into Fattal's impressive signature leggy shapes, inspired by fables of Dionysus and legends of king Gilgamesh from Arab mythology.
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This year sees the publication of Ninety-Nine Stories of God, a collection of short stories and fables that was previously only available in e-book form.
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Nearly a century ago, the publisher Alfred A. Knopf released a slim book of spiritual fables by an obscure Lebanese-American poet and painter named Kahlil Gibran.
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Somehow that's supposed to add up to "collusion" between Clinton and the Russians, on the remarkable theory that Steele was merely retailing Kremlin-invented fables about Trump.
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Dr. Lightman, it turned out, had not been there, but his fables conveyed more of the life and charm of the place than my own descriptions did.
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But Mr. Gould plays him as a thin cartoon, with nothing behind the joke, and no sense that he believes his own fables as he's spinning them.
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It's about co-opting the virtues and strengths of those archetypes for inspiration and guidance, and reminders to live the lessons they offer in old myths and fables.
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It's written in prose, fables, and short stories and is about the secret life of fags and women hiding in the world of a ruthless overlord (i.e. Patriarchy).
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In February, the temple hosted a "Totally 80s Purim" celebration where members of the congregation parodied famous '80s songs to represent stories and fables of the Jewish holiday.
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Xiao Han, an associate law professor in Beijing, cited one of Aesop's fables, of a man trying and failing to stop a donkey from going over a cliff.
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The curator Barbara Haskell marks 43 years as a curator that have taken her from Claes Oldenburg in Pasadena to "American Gothic and Other Fables" in New York.
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"They kind of reflect what the Bouffes has done over the years, bringing casts from all over the world to present these fables of humanity," Mr. Linehan said.
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The "Fabulous writer" is AESOP, because he wrote fables, and if you squint your eyes and tilt your head a bit, "fabulous" is an adjectival form of fable.
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Although the novel does not stray from the script when telling Ofilia's story, there are sections interspersed among the chapters, styled as classic fables ("Once upon a time …").
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But the women of the 116th Congress are redefining what it means to be powerful and reshaping some of the most dearly held American fables in the process.
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By linking these well-known legends, Lachauer and Schuh highlight the tropes common to all of them, unearthing the truths that make these children's fables resonate throughout the ages.
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Mandisi Dyantyis and Pauline Malefane have drawn on a script by the playwright Peter Terson to adapt "Aesop's Fables" into a 70-minute opera for children 7 and older.
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On the occasions when Isabel demonstrated adequate obedience, Katharine regaled her with inventive, winding fables about how the rugs and tables in their household had originated in mythical lands.
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Awash in as many then-common cold war anxieties as it is classical cautionary tales, the godfather of sci-fi TV is basically Aesop's fables for the modern era.
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"Arnold Comes of Age (Portrait of Arnold Pyle)," from 19301, is part of the retrospective "Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables," at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Each episode in the season, titled "Grown Folks' Fables," features an audioplay based on a traditional folktale representing one strand of Chicago's cultural diversity, reinterpreted by a homegrown writer.
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The second, "Annuity Fables: Some Observations From an Ivory Tower," appeared in the Journal of Financial Planning and was written by Moshe A. Milevsky of York University in Toronto.
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In three ingenious back-to-back fables, one featuring a Buddhist elephant, another a social-media-addicted chicken, and third an insect-phobic tree, Mr. Wong sabotages logic itself.
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For almost half a century, he's been weaving this quirk into poignant romantic fables, often galvanized by offbeat casting decisions that add unexpected layers to whatever story he's telling.
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Although in parroting the fables her plot hardly illuminates the characters' motivations, this device serves to underscore the way storytelling has always been used as a spiritual survival tactic.
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Just north from there is The Woods, which is described as an "enchanted and eternally springtime realm" where guests can embark on adventures rooted in fables and fairy tales.
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Throughout his relatively short life, in his free hours, he wrote parables, fables, novels and diaries with a vehemence that suggests a physiological compulsion to get at the truth.
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Like his hero's fables, Hamid Ismailov, an exiled Uzbek dissident and journalist with the BBC World Service, turns this double plot into "a fairy story, adapted for ordinary men's minds".
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New York's Fox and Jane, a hair salon, describes itself as a "British pub meets upscale salon" and says its name pays homage to famous pubs named after English fables.
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With a resume that includes The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us (based on Bill Willingham's Fables), the Dark Knight should feel right at home in Telltale's line-up.
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But Mr. Kaurismaki does not traffic in the harsh, immersive naturalism that has recently flourished on the international festival circuit, and his movies feel more like fables than like bulletins.
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Once again Mr. Trump proves his skill at the "long con" by his elaborate construction of fables with just enough superficial plausibility to persuade or at least distract the gullible.
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While making it, she read extensively about utopias: in academic studies and in stories and novels through the centuries, from ancient fables to the science fiction of Octavia E. Butler.
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There's not much more detail about the new season, except for a brief reintroduction to Bigby Wolf — the protagonist of the original 2014 adventure game based on comic series Fables.
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A 1495 edition of Aesop's Fables is just as prized for its 15th-century printing as the precious pages from a 12th-century Talmud that were reused for its binding.
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It's a busy, beautiful vexation, this novel, a quiver full of fables of pilgrims and pilgrimages, and the reasons — the hidden, the brave, the foolhardy — we venture forth into the world.
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With few exceptions, these stories aren't prechewed moral lessons or easy fables about heroism, and they aren't engaging in "Game of Thrones"-style escalation, either, turning harassment stories into pornographic melodrama.
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Related: Anime Meets European Art Nouveau in Blossoming Female Portraits These Paintings Take a Fairytale Turn to a Forest Far, Far Away Classic Fables Get a Colorful Twist in Caitlin McDonagh's Illustrations
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Art and artifacts contend with life beyond our solar system, from interpretations of old Japanese fables about alien vessels containing small women, to old American pulp fiction magazines detailing life on Neptune.
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They were very much didactic, moral fables, in which viewers were expected to learn a lesson at the end (usually imparted by the narrator, sometimes in more heavy-handed terms than others).
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The late 1800s and early 1900s were the nadir of race relations in the United States, but there was still this emergence of black writers who were penning futuristic stories and fables.
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Lloyd Webber stumbled onto the truth that there was a range of stylized storytelling that lent itself to his music—that if you couldn't tell street tales you could find old fables.
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" He writes that the philosopher's style is one of "rhetorical questions, ellipses, fables, mini-dialogues, hints that much is left unsaid, and apparent praise for seeming to be other than you are.
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Her love for the red shoes causes her to give them priority over the more important things in her life, and, as often happens in fables, karma is not on her side.
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The film is directed by Matteo Garrone and adapted from a volume of fables that was published in the sixteen-thirties, a century and a half before the Brothers Grimm were born.
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" Or: "Elizabeth always wanted to read fables to her little girl but the child only wanted to hear the story about the little bird who thought a steam shovel was its mother.
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Dr. Segal, who has also written "Twin Misconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts About Twins," said the studies highlight the importance of keeping twins, especially identical twins, together when they are adopted.
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Over the next 25 years, Vertigo would publish everything from blockbuster series like Fables, 100 Bullets, Swamp Thing, and The Invisibles to oddities like Shade the Changing Man, The Unwritten, and Air.
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It's a fairy tale in the tradition of The Gingerbread Man, Momotaro, and other traditional "childless family gets a strange child through magical means" fables, but it goes in dark and surprising directions.
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While no one says 'with great power comes great responsibility,' this is about as faithful an adaptation of those old Amazing Spider-Man fables as has been brought to the screen so far.
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A Bulgarian Four Paws employee, Vasil Dimitrov, speaks to Szabłowski with derision of the "dumb, grasping Gypsy"—who is, in his account, as greedy, cunning, and stupid as the bears of European fables.
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Long considered a siren-voiced beacon of consistency across her own albums and those with the New Pornographers, Ms. Case tends to favor cryptic storytelling through fairy tales and fables in her lyrics.
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His career began in 1964 with "Pleasant Fieldmouse," a series of pastoral fables featuring anthropomorphic animals drawn by Mr. Sendak, who had published his classic "Where the Wild Things Are" the year before.
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Consider Julia Sedefdjian, who at 17, armed with a secondary-school certificate in pastry arts and cooking, found a job through a government unemployment office at Les Fables de la Fontaine in Paris.
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During Oakland folk duo Faun Fables' set, guitarist Nils Frykdahl—a burly, dress-clad guitarist with the hair of a metal legend—ambled around playing the flute as if in a medieval court.
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This is evident in the animal fables of the archaic Greek writer and slave Aesop and in the Greek comedic playwrights who used frogs and wasps to comment upon politics during the Peloponnesian War.
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Canny authors enlist ancient fables of gods and heroes, of rival clans, gigantic battles, perilous quests and fearsome ordeals as a way of unlocking the crowd-pleasing genres of mystery, fantasy and historical romance.
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The sensational focus on Elizabeth Holmes' misdeeds steal focus from a group of landmark female entrepreneurs and waste a tremendous opportunity to inspire the next generation with heroic tales instead of fables of fabrication.
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Initiated in 1967 by Anant Pai, the series was intended as a pedagogical tool to educate children on their cultural heritage through the retelling of stories from Indian epics, mythology, history, folklore and fables.
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" Kirsten Smith: "We were recruiting so many of our friends to find fairytales, or fables, and one night a friend was like 'You guys should do Taming of the Shrew, that would be great.
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" The two series are both surreal, visually immersive fables overseen by detail-oriented people—"Maniac" was directed by Cary Fukunaga; "Russian Doll" was co-created by Leslye Headland, who directed the cult movie "Bachelorette.
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During the past several decades, her staged works have embraced symbolist fever dreams ("The Death of the Last Black Man…"), Brechtian fables ("In the Blood") and Homeric epics ("Father Comes Home From the Wars").
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Accompanied by a golden retriever puppy named Unali (Cherokee for "friend"), children read Cherokee animal fables and learn basket-making and weaving from the National Treasures — Cherokee elders dedicated to preserving the tribe's traditions.
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Like those fables, Adebayo's "Stay With Me" — a beautifully produced book with a Matisse-inspired jacket that felicitously captures the spirit of the author's writing — has a remarkable emotional resonance and depth of field.
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His book steps back from the headlines to draw a full arc that reads as both complement and counterpoint to enduring fables and simplistic accounts surrounding wars and nations you may think you know.
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"Our culture and religion is based on a plethora of these fables and these stories of our gods and goddesses, or even just regular people, that have been passed down for generations," Pawar said.
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Liu's fondest childhood memories are of sitting on his grandfather's lap as the old man told him ancient fables or read to him from the cheaply produced, garishly illustrated Maoist storybooks of the time.
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We rarely talk about them the way we talk about other accidents, with a wince or a shrug depending on how closely the lives affected resemble our own, but as fables with lessons to impart.
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"The Twilight Zone was an ingenious mixture of morality tales, fables, and fantasy that are as relevant today as when they first aired," Veronica Hart of CBS, where the original series aired, told the Reporter.
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What really smarted for some women, and what continues to smart, is the way these films have so lucratively peddled an updated, R-rated version of romantic fables we're supposed to have left in the dust.
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Fables wasn't just an entertaining series filled with rich storytelling — suggesting, long before the TV show Once Upon a Time, that all characters from myths and fairy tales are real and hiding out in our world.
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We know bad lies from good fables because the world they propose is not the mixed one we know and narrate but another, made-up world where only domination counts and the teller alone asserts himself.
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" Any discussion of this topic would have to include Billie Holiday's bloodcurdling lynching anthem, "Strange Fruit" (1939); Charles Mingus's "Fables of Faubus" (1959), about the fight for school integration; Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln's "We Insist!
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The narrative is spare and firmly voiced and, as is customary in fables, Jeffers delivers swift justice in a few concluding words that make for an ending that satisfies for being both fair-minded and irrevocable.
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Legend has it that when Aesop, a slave, was brought to the Greek island of Samos, he so charmed the locals with his fables that they not only freed him, but honored him with a shrine.
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"It's a busy, beautiful vexation, this novel, a quiver full of fables of pilgrims and pilgrimages, and the reasons — the hidden, the brave, the foolhardy — we venture forth into the world," our critic Parul Sehgal writes.
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He wasn't so much a comic book artist as the last great stained-glass painter of the European tradition, his didactic little fables bringing theology and liturgy into the domain of fungible images, to educate the unchurched.
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The 1930 oil painting will be the centerpiece of the exhibition "Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables," an attempt to broaden and complicate Wood's legacy, coming to the Whitney from March 2 to June 10, 2018.
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Nap Eyes, "Roll It" Canadian foursome Nap Eyes exists within a proud tradition of shambling, wordy rock bands, one that stretches back nearly half a century to the urban fables of The Velvet Underground and The Modern Lovers.
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The concept of animals or inanimate objects speaking or solving problems suggests a kind of intervention on the part of the characters in the fables, perhaps on behalf of humans who are not otherwise able to solve them.
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Presented by the company WonderSpark Puppets, which is appearing for the first time in the Just Kidding series at Symphony Space, "Fox Fables" draws on stories from Aesop as interpreted by the medieval author Rabbi Berechiah ha-Nakdan.
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Taken together, the uncommonly clear moral of these dark fables is that, given enough of an opportunity, even the kindest, most thoughtful people can be driven to gleefully, passionately hurt and exploit others just to satisfy their desires.
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Ms. Sedefdjian and Baieta's co-founders, Sébastien Jean-Joseph (sous-chef) and Grégory Anelka (manager), met at Les Fables de La Fontaine, where Ms. Sedefdjian became the youngest Michelin-starred chef in France at the time, in 2016.
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In her memoir and fiction — and, in retrospect, her visual art as well — Carrington strives to understand people's "systems;" to peer into them and visualize all their beautiful or ugly selves, often through animal incarnations, as in fables.
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In "Intimations," her first story collection, she places us in both the realm of skewed, weird-dream fables (as signaled by a title like "Fairy Tale") and the more recognizable settings of realist stories, no less strange for it.
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It's hard to imagine that any of these bizarre fables actually changed anyone's mind; they were mostly a way for evangelicals to convince themselves they were preaching God's word while taking on all the impersonal efficiency demanded by Mammon.
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This is the unsanitized truth about American history you probably weren't taught in school alongside stories of the "noble savage" or fables about peaceful dinners between Natives and Pilgrims on Thanksgiving: European settlers mercilessly raided and killed our people.
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The sly question teased in "Unbreakable," the mystery that sets it apart from run-of-the-mill grandiose superhero fables, is whether Dunn is the real deal or if Glass merely wants a foil worthy of his self-aggrandizement.
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Lucky charms: transit tokens and tickets, movie stubs, cute key chain, fables, your phone Jupiter is a planet that favors wisdom and experience over book smarts, but Jupiter in Gemini suggests that you're more drawn to numbers, language, and quantifiable data.
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The cartoon by multiple BAFTA award-winner Claudia Lloyd and Kenyan singer-songwriter Eric Wainaina features Kenyan children's fables to explain questions from the animal kingdom, such as why the giraffe's neck is long and how the chameleon got its colors.
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Also coming next year is the long-awaited second season of The Wolf Among Us. The series — an adaptation of the comic Fables — debuted way back in 2014, and introduced an intriguing detective story set in a dark fairytale world.
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In this slim set of "flash fables" — prose pieces ranging in length from a few lines to a few paragraphs — Oz offers parables about human deceit, the pitfalls of dependence and metaphor-making and the vagaries of time and politics.
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Kem Ley was beloved as one of Cambodia's few public pedagogues: He reached a wide audience thanks to frequent radio shows and his Facebook posts, often political explainers about real-life cases of corruption and impunity told like old-fashioned fables.
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In some photographs we can make out the building blocks of fables, the supporting framework and the scaffolding which props up this 'land'; and yet, rather than exposing the tricks or taking away the magic, they contribute to the illusion.
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Two books published by members of the family's third generation to coincide with the stand's centennial largely debunk that stubborn, if serviceable, legend (although, as interested parties, Nathan's two grandsons by feuding fathers — Murray and Sol — may perpetuate several other fables).
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There is a poetic, timeless morality to these tales, like classic fables, but they all have a modern sensibility, a mischievous darkness and an understanding of what it feels like to be young that can be moving and thought-provoking.
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Alice Provensen, who illustrated and often wrote books for children for more than a half-century, helping young readers learn about animals and aviators, poems and presidents, Aesop's fables and Chinese legends, died on April 20093 in San Clemente, Calif.
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Photomontages featuring quotes and images of Mr. Kem Ley are widely shared on social media, collections of his fables have been printed and distributed, and absurd puns on Meet Kill's name are a favorite new political joke at coffee shops.
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In the face of the President's many public misstatements, obvious financial conflicts of interest and troubling ties to Russia, the White House has decided to launch an all-out attack on the news organizations that reliably report on the administration's fables and foibles.
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Even in the grimmest Western fables, such as the film "Soylent Green" (1973)—which ends with the revelation that the titular foodstuff is made of people—audiences at least have the comfort that drawing back the curtain might lead to positive change.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's famous fables, "The Concrete Jungle Book" offers a gritty outlook on life where tigers and forests have been replaced by homeless people and refugees struggling to survive in an urban jungle filled with drugs and knife crime.
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The earliest written reference to the blue-eyed animals with horns was way back in the 4th century B.C.E. Over time, they became popular folklore fodder, and as fables have it, they could only be lured by the naked breasts of virginal women.
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A lazy reader might compare Beverly's novel to similar fables by Richard Price, but a genuine conversation about such stories necessarily includes inexcusably neglected urban chroniclers like Ronald Fair ("We Can't Breathe"), Jess Mowry ("Way Past Cool") and Jervey Tervalon ("Understand This").
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I could relate more to this landscape than to those of the fables of my childhood, in which valiant knights pursuing fair maidens were usually fresh off the horse from bloody quests that had a little something to do with vanquishing Islam.
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Composed in cadences reminiscent of fables, this poem is a bittersweet song for our tortured world, dispensing light and dark equally as it imparts — with a candor usually reserved for children or griots — yet another chapter in the eternally calamitous tale of humanity.
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If the term "Disney princess" evokes, for a certain kind of parent, a distasteful ethos of sparkly dresses, impossible wasp-waists and fables of princely rescue, then "Frozen," which centers on not one but two princesses, seemed, sight unseen, to be doubly odious.
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The book is laced with object lessons, poems and fables, like the one about the boy who asks an old man why he is "wasting time" throwing stranded starfish back into the sea when there must be thousands of beaches and millions of starfish.
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It is deeply feminist and at times chilling, but also very entertaining and funny, full of stories that often read like cautionary fables — such as a retelling of the classic story about a woman whose head is tied on with a ribbon around her neck.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the tradition of Lives of the Saints and, even more pointedly, Laura (Riding) Jackson's Lives of Wives, visual artist Susan Bee and book artist Johanna Drucker have created a wonderful new "picture" book, Fabulas Feminae or fables of women.
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A 40-foot-tall tree monster from one of Conor's drawings (voiced by Liam Neeson) walks up to his bedroom window, and provides him with a cryptic challenge: the creature will tell Conor three fables, and then Conor will have to tell the monster his own story.
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For instance, she understands that the living room is called the drawing room; knows the words for jeera (cumin), haldi (turmeric) and atta (flour); can talk about cricket; fetch music from Bollywood films; tell stories from the ancient Panchatantra children's fables; and more, the report also noted.
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There will also be detective sequences, which makes the new Batman sound a lot like Telltale's riff on the Fables comic book, called The Wolf Among Us. That game similarly featured a mix of conversation, action, and investigation, and it's one of the studio's strongest efforts yet.
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Writing children's literature "has helped me grow in confidence as a person, which in turn has helped me develop … as an officer, too," said Gavin Puckett, a U.K.-based policeman (it remains his primary income source) and author of the prizewinning 2013 "Fables From the Stables" series.
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The first restaurant from Julia Sedefdjian, who earned a Michelin star at 21 years old as the chef at Fables de la Fontaine, planted itself on the Rive Gauche in March, foregoing an Instagram-oriented atmosphere for a firm focus on what matters most: the food.
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" Read Our Review No. 11 Zadar and nearby islands, Croatia "With fables and allegories, as well as events borrowed from the headlines, Obreht illustrates the complexities of Balkan history, unearthing patterns of suspicion, superstition and everyday violence that pervade the region even in times of peace.
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That $12 price gets you two seasons of The Walking Dead game, plus its off-shoot 400 Days; Game of Thrones; A Wolf Among Us (based on the comic series Fables); Back to the Future: The Game; and 2015's should-not-be-missed Tales from the Borderlands.
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The jam complements the museum's new exhibit, "Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables," with a label that shows "Parson Weems' Fable," the painting that depicts the tale of George Washington and the cherry tree: Cherry Jam, $19 ($17.10 for members), Whitney Museum of American Art Shop, shop.whitney.org.
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They spend the first part of the show retelling, at considerable, convoluted length, the premise tying together the old fables: A woman named Scheherazade saved her life from the tyrannical King Shahriyar's cruel whims by keeping him hooked on the tales she made up night after night after night.
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Produced by the Morán Group and Teatro SEA, the Latino theater for children, the festival includes Compañía la Bicicleta's wordless "Nana Raíz," about a sleepless baby and a mystical dream world, and WonderSpark Puppets' "Fox Fables," whose titular creature loses his tail and, with it, his sense of self.
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Between the narrated fables of Filipino painter Brenda Fajardo that chronicle the life of women foreign workers, and the simple but stunning personal topographies by Park McArthur, how do we discern from this large ensemble, conceived as a kind of atonal symphony, a relationship to either orthodoxy or Jewishness?
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