And, finally, there's an impish woman with a crossbow and an even-more-impish squirrel companion.
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The music can be impish and audacious, sometimes at once.
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"It was a technical glitch," Cossman says, with an impish grin.
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He rebuffed it with an impish smile, or a positive spin.
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Instead, the sketches and debris evince the impish, sweet, and haphazard.
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His face is so expressive; his eyes twinkle with impish glee.
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All the children look happy, relaxed; the younger ones, impish, even.
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"Seven hundred acres," the impish 77-year-old said with a grin.
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Ms. Schwartz, who was known as Ersy, made precise and impish pieces.
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Boehmermann, an impish-looking 35-year old, isn't taking any chances now.
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" And with an impish smile Merkel added, "Then I'm a feminist, too.
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The fact that they all freaked out about an impish, British f–.
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But, over time, his plots would become ever more prankish, impish, outlandish.
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Yet the lines creep up and down and overlap with impish freedom.
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The Cowboys have even brought out Manning's rarely seen impish, taunting side.
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"I was very lovable, in those days," he said with an impish laugh.
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Slight and agile, he can seem much younger than his years, almost impish.
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He was wanderlust with a lavishly stamped passport and an impish, irresistible grin.
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At the pink palace, Jacques Tati and Federico Fellini were impish dinner guests.
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But I prefer Chew-Bose's version: the daytime moon as empowered and impish.
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Episodes have the impish glee of honky-tonk with a curious demonic edge.
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Whether the texts were somber or fanciful, poignant or impish, words came first.
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Other visitors entered after me, their initial trepidation similarly giving in to impish delight.
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The instructions' curious tonal mix — at once impish and empathetic — encapsulates the collective's aesthetic.
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The short scherzo movement had the requisite impish streak, but also grace and sparkle.
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"I kind of want to steal that jacket," Lochte said with an impish grin.
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But they work in different styles — Kreimendahl's is visceral, Kaufman's meditative, Mr. Barbagallo's impish.
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"Because I can," the impish Mr. Hoadley declared from his nautically themed front parlor.
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His rumpled brown mop of hair framed his watery green eyes and impish grin.
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"It's very hard to detach from my pieces," Czech says with an impish grin.
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It's a game Mr. Cattelan, impish prince of the art world, loves to play.
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Ms. Ayano has a playful touch, giving many of her dolls an impish mien.
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It's refreshing to see someone so young confidently embrace an impish, Bowie-esque androgyny.
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Spin, on the other hand, has an impish quality; it doesn't take itself too seriously.
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Even his nickname, Pik—short for pikkewyn, Afrikaans for penguin—hinted at an impish character.
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Explorer "I taught Sean Connery to scuba dive," Stuart Cove said with an impish grin.
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Mr. Dannenbaum's son, Alexander Dannenbaum III, said that his father had his own impish streak.
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"My mom told me I should never study psychedelics," he says with an impish grin.
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Boehmermann, an impish-looking 35-year-old, is known for pushing the boundaries of satire.
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Mr Guo is an impish little dumpling of a man, bald, brown-toothed and jolly.
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Aminé, an impish rapper from Portland, Oregon, tried to keep spirits up by goofing around.
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Rotenberg has the squat and powerful frame of a wrestler, and a round, impish face.
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And their striking masks, impish faces, lustrous fur, and ringed tails are all aesthetically appealing.
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"My God, why didn't we ever think about that?" he added with an impish smile.
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"And then people can finally sleep comfortably again," Mr. Schwarzenegger added, with an impish grin.
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His early movies, like "Roger & Me," represent an impish moral intelligence at its most incisive.
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One sees Cohen, in his fedora, looking down with his all but imperceptible impish grin.
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He's been prodding us for a long time to do something impish on this particular date.
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The woman gives off an impression of calm, elegant composure, with a hint of impish humor.
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For an encore, he played his own frenetic, impish arrangement of "Dragon Dance," a traditional song.
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But memes of the president — impish, often captioned photo illustrations — are spreading rapidly on social media.
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Elliot has short black hair and dresses with impish androgyny in men's pants and band T-shirts.
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The result is by turns caustic, coy, baffling, impish, embarrassing, insightful and, as the pseudonym suggests, frank.
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"This is the only place I have been called 'His Excellency,'" he says with an impish smile.
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Impish and imperious, she later starred in "Chicago," playing the infamous Velma Kelly alongside Verdon's Roxie Hart.
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Anthony Trionfo, a breezily virtuosic flutist, gave an articulate and ebullient account of Ibert's impish Flute Concerto.
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The wrinkles around his eyes and his impish smile have made him something of a racetrack Yoda.
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There was some of that impish quality in the Danish quartet's playing, despite its elegance and brilliance.
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Slumped in a chair, she conjures up the chaos and folly of desert warfare with impish bitterness.
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She is now the visual brand of the show: her face and impish smile adorn the marquee.
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Some audience members giggled out loud during the amusing moments of the impish scherzo and spiraling finale.
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My older daughter, a bright, outgoing girl with an impish sense of humor, just started kindergarten this year.
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This left-right dynamic on the Ninth Circuit may sound like an impish game of cat-and-mouse.
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The evening opens with "Prologue," a bright and impish courtly duet danced by Parvaneh Scharafali and Ander Zabala.
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But this impish septuagenarian with his shock of white hair would hate to hear himself described that way.
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The songs are pared back and essential, the impish creaks are replaced with steady ballasts of earned sadness.
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Mr. Aiken has an impish mien and, we'll later discover in an audience-participation segment, a quick wit.
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" And the Riverside Symphony has recorded some exceptional Hartke works, including his brilliant, impish Violin Concerto, "Auld Swaara.
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Her wit and impish sense of humor, Ms. Blampied said, could be traced directly back to her mother.
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Quick and clever dialogue, yes, and also a main character who's quite taken by her own impish brassiness.
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He brings an impish joy to the study of human behavior, and it comes through in his writing.
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On a recent evening, Mr. Israde paused in front of the mural, an impish glint in his eye.
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This is, of course, a recipe for disaster, mostly because Winfried can't (or won't) curb his more impish instincts.
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He was an older man, bald, who was quietly walking away without looking at me after his "impish" deed.
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Ms. de la Fressange had the impish look of a coquette and a relaxed gait that enhanced her insouciance.
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She stared back at us, then gave an impish grin and ran off to play with a firefighter hat.
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He wore tannish golden robes, and his shaved head was set off by thick eyebrows and sharp, impish lips.
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He had an impish smile and rotund frame, and an affinity for cheap menthol cigarettes and expensive sports cars.
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They were worshipped by the impish Children of the Forests, whom Bran has encountered in his journey to the North.
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His hair has silvered, and he walks with the hint of a stoop, but his grin and manner were impish.
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Some impish part of us likes to hear about friends' breaking up, just because it's more entertaining than the alternative.
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"He had an impish smile, an innate need to make those around him happy, and a delicious touch," Lakshmi tweeted.
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He is rounder than his film character, the Little Tramp, but he remains impish, a child among his own children.
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After some five minutes, the variations begin with a stately run-through of the theme, though with tiny, impish tweaks.
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" While admitting to an impish sense of humor, Mr. Norman protested, "I don't think I was so mean as that.
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Valetto, an impish valet (the soprano Silvia Frigato), has an endearing love scene with the perky damsel Damigella (Francesca Boncompagni).
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I've always read him as a queer figure: androgynous, impish, game to play dress-up with a bunch of sisters.
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The character is impish and funny, and yet Hosoe's style lends a sense of melancholy and seriousness to Simmon's mischievous antics.
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The image is languorous and impish: Ms. Lang leans her head back onto Ms. Crawford's breasts, eyes closed, her smile beatific.
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Mr. Hough brought impish charm to the gurgling figurations and splashy outbursts that suggest "Goldfish," the title of the third piece.
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I have never witnessed anything quite like the scene at the Booth when Miranda leaped onstage like an impish Jiminy Cricket.
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Mr. Capuçon and the orchestra were inspired in the Finale, a dancing, sometimes impish movement full of sudden, startling dark bursts.
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The duo's impish oeuvre pushes viewers to consider these questions and then volleys them back at us with a cryptic grin.
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Their impish portrayal blurs our perception of the human and the nonhuman by mixing ballet dancers with children and anthropoid robots.
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He has sometimes been pilloried as impish and arrogant, and he bristles at being labeled an "enfant terrible," as he often is.
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An impish Petit led us through a series of contemporary art galleries, drawing connections between artists from Diego Rivera to Mark Rothko.
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One evening during a scavenge I came across a picture of a woman sucking off an impish clown with a cracked grin.
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Morsal, 22286, was quiet and fastidious like him, while Madina, at 226 the youngest in the family, was impish and apple-cheeked.
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Trust Mr. Bradshaw, one of contemporary theater's most impish provocateurs, to give it the old college try — and more or less succeed.
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"I didn't blow them up to their full size," said the boy, Sarfaraz Ali, looking over his shoulder with an impish smile.
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"The less water, the more concentrated the seasoning, and the better seasoned the food will be," Austin added with an impish smile.
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As Lara, Vikander is terrific: By turns vulnerable and strong, brave and frightened, impish and determined, she ably fits the evolved character.
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How about Roman (Kieran Culkin), the impish brat torn between winning his father's approval and treating his entire life as one big joke?
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She liked to watch Mass on Channel Four, since it was shorter than the RAI one; she had not lost her impish streak.
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Impish, bearded and a chain-smoker, he enjoyed bantering over cheap wine with his students late into the night at taverns in Bologna.
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Among the heads of publicly traded companies, Tesla's Elon Musk might just be the most whimsical, the most impish, the most delightfully trolly.
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Maybe that's because age has only brought limited maturity in Payet: he still plays with the impish fearlessness that so powerfully connotes youth.
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Five impish insects snuggled into an overgrown backyard learn life lessons with the help of Beatles tunes in this new animated children's series.
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The 78-year-old has the vibe of a bohemian painter crossed with an impish old man out of a Japanese fairy tale.
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This arc says a great deal about not only Letterman himself, but his once impish, now grizzled generation's shifting role in American life.
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In more recent times, from 1999-2008 the impish Mistress antagonized listeners with a hyperactive mix of death metal, doom, and grind-infused hardcore.
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Lumiere (Ewan McGregor) isn't all eyelids and smile as he was in the animation, but rather gnarled and impish; Cogsworth (Ian McKellen) is dilapidated.
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His head is shaved, his features round and boyish, with half-moon brows—a merry mask of a face, as of some impish spirit.
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Before embarking on his quest, Mr. Yang, a stout 50-year-old with an impish grin and tortoiseshell glasses, had a fairly conventional life.
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Van Sant passed his phone around, so the cartoonists could admire a painting he'd made of an impish man near a googly-eyed bush.
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But Mr. Reed still has those eyebrows — impish, irascible, just like in the framed Al Hirschfeld caricature of him in his den from 1970.
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Plain English is a London design firm that makes kitchens painted in lush colors with impish titles like Milky Tea, Boiled Egg and Sprouts.
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Mr. Glowacki approached tumultuous times with an impish eye that he attributed to growing up under a system that had often made no sense.
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According to legend, the impish goblins like to materialize in dark, humid corners, mostly after dusk, and sometimes when the air moistens with rain.
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" And in a moment of impish humor he notes that "Although nature tends toward entropy, they shared a confidence that economies tend toward equilibrium.
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Gone are the days of scrunchies, an impish thumbs-up delivered in concert with a precocious catchphrase, and matching detective's trenches with twin sister Ashley.
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The Tonight Show host, 41, certainly has an impish side to him, so we're guessing he'll be able to amp up the pranking possibilities exponentially.
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In the world of Broad City, even the fearlessly impish Ilana is wary of the police, and she doesn't aspire to start-up CEO-dom.
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Richard D. James Album's impish melodicism rubbed up against drukqs's haunted dissonance, and heads likely noticed how much AFX-style acid laced these jittery beats.
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"I hope guys are asking him to run and go get stuff for them, even if they don't want it," Jimmy Walker said, looking impish.
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Steve had a luxuriance of gray hair and an impish sense of humor that, like a live wire at the family gate, sometimes ran cruel.
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Records will show that the people on the group's trail—pro-Trump activists, impish saboteurs, and budding neo-Nazis—didn't need high-end spy gear.
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It goes something like this: Throughout its republican history, Turkey has been governed by a secular elite characterized by its impish adherence to Western imperialists.
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This is partly because Eichmann is played by Ben Kingsley, who is capable of suppressing neither his natural charisma nor the impish aspects of it.
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The Fantasia II in C (Book Six) has the impish playfulness of a Haydn finale, complete with a penchant for sudden stops and suspenseful pauses.
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Bespectacled, fingers flecked with sherbet-colored paint, he's soft-spoken and impish, with a bone-dry sense of humor and an aversion to self-glorification.
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In Hosoe's photographs, however, Hijikata is more of an impish intruder in a northern Japanese farming village, whose presence is at once disruptive and farcical.
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But Tyrone, the impish embodiment of Jason's unmoored id, soon becomes the dominant force, imposing his evil will on Jason to disastrous — and explosively funny — effect.
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To his left is the younger brother John, unbreeched and posed with a flower basket, staring away from the camera and barely containing an impish grin.
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IN IMPISH mood, Paul Bocuse would roll up the sleeve of his whites to reveal, on his left bicep, a tattoo of a Gallic cock crowing.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa — Nearly every time a politician has dared to offer him censure, Donald J. Trump has responded by tagging his adversary with an impish nickname.
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Peter (Peter Smith, an impish nonbinary comedian) intuits that growing up means mommy-daddy stuff, which is awfuller than all the awful things that ever were.
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Miller and Lord have a distinctively impish and irreverent voice to their work, while Howard's work is more conventional, and integrating those two sensibilities seemed difficult.
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Mr. Limonov liked to describe himself as the Johnny Rotten of Soviet dissident writers, a reference to the impish, anarchic lead singer of the Sex Pistols.
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He used to love playing with Minions, the impish characters from "Despicable Me." Now his favorite game is patting down and shackling "migrants" with plastic cuffs.
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He has an impish humor, a first-class brain and a principled worldview based on a belief in America as the last best hope of earth.
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In person, the 57-year-old director is spry with an impish smile, reminiscent of a philosophy professor whose lectures err toward entertaining rather than cohesive.
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Lyonne's throaty rasp sounds like a cigarette would if it could talk, but she also has a presence and an impish spark that cuts Nadia's cynicism.
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"But, because they were bought by an Asian, and not just a Japanese but a Chinese person—" He looked up, his eyes full of impish pride.
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And all his life he has depended on being the impish one, the eccentric one, the boy with a bag full of Einstein who enjoyed climbing trees.
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Kong's aesthetic feints are equal parts impish and self-protective; they are playful ways to explore personal concerns while also hedging against potentially hostile responses to them.
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Sure, sometimes it wobbles uncertainly between satire and sentiment, but Mr. Nguyen's fresh and impish voice rarely lets up as he thumbs his nose at our expectations.
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"It's not a bad weekend for me," said McIlroy, who lifted his long-sleeve blue sweater to reveal, along with an impish grin, a green golf shirt.
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The album opens with his first completed orchestra score, the ebullient and impish Toccata Concertante (1947), a piece that could become a surefire concert opener for orchestras.
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The initial episodes have the magus protecting Chise from impish fairies, taking her to a dragon-populated Iceland and introducing her to colleagues in the magic arts.
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But his 2014 television mini-series, "Li'l Quinquin," about an impish kid caught up in a grisly murder mystery, added an antic playfulness to the Dumont vocabulary.
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It is dominated by a single voice: Ms. Nixon's, reciting stanzas instead of voice-over narration and cracking impish, sometimes impious jokes with the marvelous Ms. Ehle.
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Her numerous "Philosophical Drawings," each an attempt to visualize some branch of human knowledge, encapsulate her work's vast, often cosmic scope, as well as its impish undertones.
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I'm not a very sentimental person, but watching my daughter morph from a newborn blob into an impish, expressive toddler felt magical and made me a bit teary.
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Will Ferrell swaggered onto the "Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner" stage on Saturday night, a cigarette clutched between two fingers and an impish grin adorning his face.
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Richard Dreyfuss won an Oscar for his performance in "The Goodbye Girl" as an impish, irritating actor with whom an unemployed dancer played by Marsha Mason moves in.
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The pair are the stars of many shorts, and Park went on to spin off a series featuring their spiritual cousin, the silent and impish Shaun the Sheep.
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Some party-goers donned the Guy Fawkes masks beloved of the online collective Anonymous, an impish nod to the Russian hackers whom American officials believe interfered in the elections.
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The lapse in the yule log permitted Yule Lads — the "impish spirits of children" that have traveled down from the mountains — to enter the Spellman residence and cause havoc.
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He was sufficiently talented as an artist that he could almost make you believe in his visions of sly, sneering impish demons trying to snare humans at every turn.
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To me he projected a vulnerable literary darling trying to turn his impish art criticism into a cultural inquisition based on holier-than-thou opinions sans convincing theoretical ties.
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In the nineteen-fifties, a Canadian psychologist named Ronald Melzack treated "an impish, delightful woman in her mid-seventies" who suffered from diabetes and whose legs were both amputated.
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He is a slight, unassuming man in his fifties, with an impish way of deflecting questions about his post-Lumley celebrity clients (Brian May, of Queen, is among them).
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Yet Mr. Thor's impish sense of humor comes through over social media, as when he worked with a designer to photoshop the cover of "Use of Force" into Gov.
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Composed with the detailed shading of colored pencils, Arosio's drawings are an easy mood-lifter, full of unpretentious joy and lightheartedness, but they also smack of an impish charm.
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On "Woo Boost," as ever, the British wobble pioneer gives his drops an impish personality, their melodies surfing over bottomless troughs of bass with a wink and a middle finger.
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The glint in his eye changes from impish to determined, and it is this that elevates "Soorma" from what would otherwise have been a run-of-the-mill sports film.
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Whether you're a bullish Tesla superfan or an intense skeptic, there's one thing on which you can agree: The electric carmaker, and its irreverent and impish CEO, are seldom boring.
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Among these are a translator (Tadanobu Asano) who presents a cogent case for Buddhism, and a cranky and impish magistrate (Issey Ogata) who comes close to stealing the film altogether.
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Following her guest verse on Kanye West 's "Monster," in which she effortlessly alternated between the impish and the demonic, she was widely considered hip-hop's most exciting new vocalist.
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The film opens on a note of impish farce, as Cassius (Lakeith Stanfield) shows up for an interview with a counterfeit trophy and a phony employee-of-the-month plaque.
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An impish figure in a black bowler hat and red sneakers, Wright once developed a site-specific "Romeo and Juliet" that unfolded over 36 hours at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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This is partly the result of an ideal mix of personality types: Mr. Veneziale warmly upbeat, Mr. Ambudkar snarky-nerdy, Mr. Sullivan impish and explosive, Mr. Jackson joyful yet commanding.
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Each of the game's protagonists (skeptical and detached Luna-Terra, impish and needy Saturn, and pressure-cooker perfect Pluto) is tied to a different organization, each with a different goal.
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And so they are in Erica Schmidt's bloody "Mac Beth," an adaptation of the Shakespeare play that with its all-female cast becomes a raucous, sometimes impish, very dark-edged revel.
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The space once belonged to another lover of fakery — the impish artist Gino De Dominicis, who faked his own death in 1969 — but today it is strewn with Colantonio's current projects.
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By 1943, the Finzi Contini family — impish blond Micòl, as well as her parents and grandmother — would be deported to Germany, along with almost the entirety of Ferrara's remaining Jewish community.
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The second option would make it easier to execute the coloratura roulades during this, well, ecstatic music, but Ms. Yende preferred for the two women to twirl together, like impish schoolgirls.
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The spirit of the film blends mourning with perseverance, and above all acknowledges, with impish wit and lyrical solemnity, the virtues of steadfastness, represented by Tommaso, and imagination, represented by Pulcinella.
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Perhaps the most sacred rule: Writing a clue for an abbreviation — even an impish one — means you abbreviate a word in the clue or use some kind of "short form" tag.
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"William Van Alstyne's contributions to First Amendment interpretation, like his contributions to all of American constitutional law, are characterized by a piercing intellectual honesty and an impish play of intelligence," Prof.
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"We emphasize... the British part of the man dem," says Alki Riddimz—one of the two main MCs in the group—with a wide grin evoking the spirit of an impish villain.
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And in more recent children's books by the Maori artist Gavin Bishop ("Maui and the Goddess of Fire") and the Hawaiian writer Gabrielle Ahuli'i ("Maui Hooks the Islands"), he's slim and impish.
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Like some other dancers in this exhibition, his weight is all on the right foot, and he creates a through-the-body line; but that line — sly, impish — is traced, not stretched.
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NBC's funniest premiere-week moment wasn't Kate McKinnon's impish Jeff Sessions smooching Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump on SNL or one of too many warmed-over gay jokes from the Will & Grace revival.
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But Ms. Bouder, five months after giving birth, was back in characteristically impish, merrily vulgar, twinkling form; if she doesn't yet have all her former speed, she still has enough to dazzle.
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Joaquin's beauty was darker, impish and marked with a satyr's smile, the scar above his upper lip adding a sense of menace — there was something sweetly unsettling and endlessly vulnerable about him.
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Many people said they were fans of the plaintiffs' trial lawyer, Mark Lanier — known for his dramatic, even impish opening statements, replete with slides and props — and hoped to see his performance.
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She looked out her fifth-story window and saw a snowy-white bird perched on her fire escape—ten inches tall, with a pink blush around its beak and an impish Mohawk.
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Will Bond, displaying the impish smile of an eccentric scientist, and Ellen Lauren, whose deceivingly detached inflections recall Laurie Anderson's, putter around the stage in a manner that feels aimless and deliberate.
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Armed with a picture from Wikipedia and an impish sense of humour, Terence Eden, a developer at Britain's Government Digital Service, convinced the firm that he had painted a work called "La Gioconda".
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With the addition of curvilinear lines as borders separating one area from another, wilder color, and other stylistic moves, Petersen has juiced up the "impish delight" that I saw in his first exhibition.
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Mr. Shibata, 65, whose dyed lavender hair gives him an impish air, contends that Mr. Obama's visit is aimed at bolstering Mr. Abe's efforts to change the Constitution and draw Japan into war.
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One of them, sluicing the floors at the fish-auction house, recalls with impish laughter how she left, aged four: "hoisted aboard in a fish box packed with other children and their parents".
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Schur's vision of paradise includes endless drinking without hangovers and curse words rendered unspeakable, and Bell's impish intrusion into this world is the kind of juxtaposition that makes TV comedy...well, good. Oct.
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Christopher McQuarrie, who directed and co-wrote Rogue Nation, returns as solo writer and director on Fallout; he's nailed the series' impish, ambitious voice and also injected it with a bit of heart.
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The other is its impish, jumpy dynamics; songs like "Ripcord" and "Prove Yourself" burst abruptly into raging, squealing guitars every few bars because hey, it was the 90s and everyone was doing it.
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And in that ballet's "Fascinatin' Rhythm" solo, Tiler Peck gave (even more than on previous occasions) one of the most astounding performances before the public today: teasing rhythmic brilliance, impish speed and sensational oomph.
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And Miitomo, a new mobile game from Nintendo, makes the gamification of our social lives explicit — in it, when your impish avatar socializes, you win piles and piles of digital coins for your trouble.
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When Ms. Smith asked how that time has altered her, Justice Ginsburg spoke not of law or ideology but of the intensity of the spotlight — and her own impish way of dealing with it.
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If it were not for his impish joy — the clear fact that he is having a lot of fun setting the country on fire — more voters would see his malevolence for what it is.
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Impish and sometimes short-tempered, Mr. Mulvaney seemed to chafe at serving in the shadow of Mr. Gowdy and Mr. Scott, who are best friends and shining stars in their party and home state.
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We met at the family reunion tailgate on Saturday, where Robertson, a tall, impish man with the eyes of a mischievous child, was holding court at the center table inside the black culture center.
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Watching them together does feel like witnessing a rarefied coupling: With her windup impish curiosity and his reserved charm, they recall one of those adorable wildlife videos where, like, a coyote befriends a badger.
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When Cooper agrees to try to sneak a photo from inside the Saito facility to Sonja, he's trying to make some money and impress a girl, but there's also an impish quality to Cooper's quest.
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Despite their impish handsomeness and talent-show origins, One Direction was largely a traditional rock band, one more likely to tip its cap to Journey, Big Star, and Fleetwood Mac than Michael Jackson or Usher.
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He first appeared about six months ago, his impish face rising up from the bottom of hundreds of web pages, smiling serenely like he knew some catastrophe was coming that I'd be powerless to stop.
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Getting to the point where Pratchett's impish style might find a place in Hollywood has been a long journey—we can only hope it will have time to find its voice before the trend passes.
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Minions, the impish fire hydrant-shaped yellow misfits who exist to serve the world's most evil villains, would appear to be unlikely mascots for corporate synergy at Comcast, one of the world's largest media conglomerates.
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Mr. Robinson, built like Santa Claus and with an impish sense of humor, would hand over the produce in a plastic bag, snap the cash proceeds into a binder clip and be on his way.
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CreditCreditTodd Heisler/The New York Times PHILADELPHIA — Before they were separated at the southwest border, Ana Carolina Fernandes's 5-year-old son loved playing with the yellow, impish Minion characters from the "Despicable Me" movies.
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The house used to belong to Rose Impoliteri, a bucket of bright Italian paint on New York's stolid white canvas, and a riot of premonitory associations: Rose the Impolite, Rose the Loitering, Rose the Impish.
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And back at Arkadia HQ, Collin is increasingly drawn to Daphne, the company's impish, charismatic marketing wizard (or should that be witch?) — and the very person to blame for Aidan's addiction to the new game.
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At the Fondazione Prada, the impish artist Francesco Vezzoli curated an ingenious history of Italian public television of the 1970s, mixing shimmying showgirls with footage of feminist protests and the murder of a prime minister.
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This impish joy, manifested even in small details such as the pink and red colors, is refreshingly different in tone from austere Conceptualist experiments in seriality, such as those of On Kawara or Tehching Hsieh.
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Something of that impish delight can be found in the current exhibition, Gary Petersen: Back There Behind the Sun at McKenzie Fine Art (September 7–October 16, 2016), his first with this Lower East Side stalwart.
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But what we got from our conversation was a clear view into the ambitions and concerns that Sims had in approaching making this first comprehensive retrospective of the work of the deviously impish artist Robert Colescott.
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"Think of all those anecdotes of octopuses' impish misbehavior—hiding inside of teapots, pushing toys around, taking valves apart and flooding rooms, squirting jets of water at the researchers who try to study them," Engber writes.
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Born Robert Zimmerman in 1941, Dylan was the enfant terrible of the New York City folk scene—a impish trickster who annoyed (and stole from) many of his elders, particularly Dave Van Ronk and Pete Seger.
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"Here in our offices at 21950 Rockefeller Center, in our office closet, actually, we have, sort of randomly, a really hideous complete set of kitchen cannisters," she said, drawing them to her with an impish smile.
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Yet Jacobson writes about her performances with a propulsive, impish charm that is so contagious that even I end up liking improv, for absolutely no other reason than its ability to make the author this happy.
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In the 1990s he took an impish tack, whether he was photographing a flasher in Tiananmen Square or dropping a millennia-old Chinese urn, in biting parody of both western performance art and Cultural Revolution iconoclasm.
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Witherspoon's accent may need a little work, but she's gripping to watch as she plumbs new depths in Becky's shallow soul, her impish smile suggesting that she's in on a joke that we're in that dark about.
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In 2018, for instance, speakers who maintain that women are too intellectually feeble to vote, or who advocate eugenics, are unlikely to receive invitations even from impish contrarians; both were mainstream positions in the fairly recent past.
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Every new scenario fills you with that swooping, impish joy of sexual discovery — like the feeling you get when falling in lust with a new partner, or finding out you're into a kink for the first time.
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While their version conforms broadly to the original, it is continually infused with impish humor; it's as much a spoof of "Othello" as it is a serious attempt to translate the play into a contemporary musical idiom.
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Everyone else gleams, and that's about it: Brandon is a merciless, impish flirt; Kelsey is, like, an actual model, and she dates Garrett, who has an 8-pack or 10-pack, depending on how he is standing.
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Conrad was a kind of impish mad scientist, whose curiosity diverted him from his Harvard Mathematics degree into the underground worlds of experimental music and filmmaking, and, ultimately, to an unpretentious understanding of himself as a conceptual artist.
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One of the oddest shows on this season's calendar stars the impish performance artist Poppy, a meta-meme concoction dreamed up by the Nashville actress and singer Moriah Pereira (who portrays her) and the visual artist Titanic Sinclair.
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By showing how achingly normal Coy and her family were, they could put a face — an adorable, impish face — on an issue that many people at the time were not just unfamiliar with but also stigmatized and feared.
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"Fans of the real-deal 'Chucky' movies, with their cheerfully low-rent effects and bawdy, impish humor, may well regard this slick new offering as a desecration masquerading as an upgrade," said Justin Chang of the LA Times.
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Heard in the context Mr. Muzijevic devised, Feldman's radical use of moments of silence in his moody "Two Intermissions" (1950) had surprising commonalities with Haydn's humorous late Sonata in C, which often unfolds with impish pauses between phrases.
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That, too, has a dutiful daughter at its heart, as well as a helpful doctor, except that he is a cynic with an impish grin, who knows that the world, amid the detritus of Communism, has gone mad.
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The live-action remake of Aladdin, directed by Guy Ritchie (Snatch; Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels), seemed promising from the trailer, suggesting it would retain the fun and impish humor of the 21825 animated original after all.
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All of this was in keeping with the show's two major influences, Moonlighting and The X-Files, but it also reflected creator Hart Hanson's impish sense of humor and desire to have fun with his show and his characters.
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You never know entirely what to expect from the impish Mr. Schiff, whose stamina is no less amazing than his capacious memory, and he often displays both at the end of a concert with a generous helping of encores.
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Derek Fordjour's impish and touching installation is so chock-a-block with the minute details of Fordjour's making that I feel I'm inhabiting his dreamscape Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I had a dream a few weeks ago.
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Naz's dim-bulb friend/Adderall customer slouches his way through testimony, painting the defendant as a drug dealer, and gets admonished by the DA (Jeannie Berlin, who owns these scenes with her impish charm) for being a shitty business student.
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When a middle-aged man records himself complaining about how kids these days all suffer from "Peter Pan syndrome," one of those kids will remix the video to include themselves scribbling an "ok boomer" sign while bearing an impish grin.
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The new book by the two surviving members of the Beastie Boys is "a compendium of anecdotes, recipes, impish riffs and shaggy-dog stories and a heartfelt elegy" to their bandmate, Adam Yauch, who died in 2012, our critic writes.
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Mr. Koch might even enjoy an impish pleasure in taking up so much psychic space in the heart of one of the most liberal cities on earth, but it is doubtful that he believes that he will win New Yorkers over.
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Even before Pedro Almodóvar's new movie, "Pain and Glory," screened this week at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie's poster offered a telling hint: the shadow cast by the star Antonio Banderas forms the familiar, impish silhouette of his director.
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Gabriel is played by an impish, energetic actor named João Pedro Zappa, and his girlfriend, Cristina Reis — who meets Gabriel in Dar es Salaam and accompanies him for part of his journey — is played by Caroline Abras, also a professional.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A portrait taken of Pamela Colman Smith (278-21911) just after she had turned 21902 depicts a gamine woman, with fiercely intelligent dark eyes that twinkle with intensity, her face bristling with impish charm.
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First staged Off Off Broadway more than three years ago, this gleefully over-the-top parody of the brief deluge of disaster movies that flooded movie screens in the 1970s was written by the impish Broadway baby Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick.
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Like all major faiths, Amazon has a logo (an impish, slightly lascivious smile), a spiritual leader (Space Pope Jeff Bezos), and a holiday: Prime Day, this day, the cunning Christmas-in-July scheme that serves as the online shopping giant's holiest occasion.
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These are two men who are beloved in the heavy music world for their impish grins so ubiquitously plastered on their faces, so when there's even a hint of darkness in their sound, it's sure to get people to sit up and notice.
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Last spring, your writer had a hugely entertaining, but hugely uninformative, chat with impish actor Michael Rooker in the parking lot of the Atlanta studio complex where he was reprising his role of the blue-skinned alien Yondu in Guardians Vol. 2.
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If the goose can be said to have a mission statement, it is perhaps best characterized as "nyah nyah nyah nyah boo boo"; the stated objective of the game is to complete a checklist of impish tasks set forth for the goose perform.
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Perhaps you moseyed onto Amazon this week to take advantage of Prime Day sales, only to be greeted by the impish beam of a bedazzled, bow-capped blonde with a staunch side ponytail and the wardrobe of Lisa Frank's long-lost niece.
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Her character is required to be impish, scandalous, depressed, and in love, sometimes all at once, and Kulig has the sort of screen presence that's impossible to tear your eyes away from, whether she's singing, weeping, dancing, or staring into the abyss.
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In an elaborate scheme first teased in a flash-forward, Andolov arranges to have Mike Wagner (David Costabile), Axe's impish right-hand man, better known as Wags, imprisoned within the embassy of a Middle Eastern nation whose investment Axe had been courting.
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A retired four-star Marine Corps general, Kelly was brought on in July 2017 to replace former Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff, and had been tasked with the unenviable job of trying to rein in the president's more impish impulses.
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We've reached out to Elon to find out if "Thud!" is something legit or if he was just being impish on Twitter as he is wont to do on occasion, and will update this post in case he provides any cryptic hints either way.
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Neil MacGregor, the museum's scholarly and yet impish outgoing head, turned down the knighthood that would have drawn him further into the British establishment, and became instead the nation's storyteller-in-chief with his radio series, "A History of the World in 100 Objects".
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But there is a haunting person in the back of me, living in the darkness of my mind, dancing like an impish ballerina, squawking and spinning and chirping, troubling my present consciousness with the horror of a thought that I am not comfortable with.
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You won't find his name in history books, but if you dig into his scattered discography you meet an original: a musician who combined a command of craft with an insurgent's flair for the impish and odd — the kind of weirdness that can't be faked.
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Until then, Matt Tyrnauer's gossipy portrait of Scotty Bowers, an impish nonagenarian and former Marine, listens without judgment as he describes decades of servicing the closeted hungers of stars like Rock Hudson and Katharine Hepburn, helped by an eager network of World War II buddies.
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Honnold already had such a reputation for extreme boldness that I was surprised to find a nerdy young man with big ears and brown eyes and an impish impulse to tease — gently, sweetly — anyone burdened by the average human terror of death-by-plummeting.
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It was as if the Independent Spirits, which manage to pull off an impish, scrappy vibe despite counting Bank of America and American Airlines among their sponsors, were gleefully sending rebuke after rebuke to the beleaguered Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its #OscarsSoWhite ways.
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Called "Beastie Boys Book" (though the front cover might lead you to believe that the actual title is "PIZZA"), it's a 571-page doorstop and a tombstone, a compendium of anecdotes, recipes, impish riffs and shaggy-dog stories and a heartfelt elegy to a much-missed friend.
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Critic's Notebook Early in the night at the 34th annual MTV Video Music Awards, the genial pop singer Ed Sheeran was in the middle of a sober performance of "Shape of You" when, quite jarringly, the impish rapper Lil Uzi Vert crept onstage and joined in.
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A massive 2011 photograph of three billiard balls by Shirana Shahbazi — who has German citizenship but whose Iranian birth means she is now barred from this country — incongruously dominates the gallery devoted to Dada, right behind "To Be Looked At …," Marcel Duchamp's impish painting on glass.
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Prince was the first musician who made me understand that you could be many things at once: an impish figure in a tightly cut red matador suit, cooing in a falsetto, then in the same breath one dropping to a velvet baritone while fluttering kohl-rimmed eyelids.
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But his place in the public imagination was pretty much fixed at the time of the Catonsville raid, as the impish-looking half of the Berrigan brothers — traitors and anarchists in the minds of a great many Americans, exemplars to those who formed what some called the ultra-resistance.
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The film stars Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, the impish criminal introduced in "Suicide Squad," as she strikes out on her own after a breakup with the Joker and assembles her own gang of antiheroes (including Ella Jay Basco, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Rosie Perez).
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TYLLBy Daniel KehlmannTranslated by Ross Benjamin Tyll Ulenspiegel first appeared as an impish swindler and tightrope walker at the end of the Middle Ages, became a Protestant hero in the 19th century and lent his name to magazines, films, operas and the first American B.D.S.M. organization in the 20th.
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Tall, spare and urbane, Mr. O'Keeffe, who said he is in his late 70s, wears handsomely tailored suits, custom-made shirts, tasteful silk ties, horn-rimmed glasses and the impish expression of someone holding back a humorous anecdote for the perfect moment (and there are plenty of them).
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To some of those he encountered, he was an impish, 22016-foot-tall cynic whose American associates nicknamed him "Carry-on" or "KK" and who was rejected for a job with an oil company in Moscow in late 22016 or early 22 because he was seen as too meek.
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What he has done, in effect, is a sort of impish, Argentine equivalent to what, in politics, is known as shifting the Overton Window; in public discourse, it refers to the gradual process of taking concepts previously considered unthinkable and making them first seem feasible and then, finally, ordinary.
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Derek Fordjour's impish and touching installation, Parade, now at the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, is so chock-a-block with the minute details of Fordjour's making that walking through the work I do feel like I'm inhabiting his dreamscape — one I wanted to linger in.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Son Heung-min's long-range blast set South Korea on their way to a 2-0 win over Honduras in a World Cup warm-up on Monday but it was the performance of impish forward Lee Seung-woo on his senior national team debut that really caught the eye.
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A jaunty man with an impish smile, he has experience representing a star author who is subject to death threats: he was the first foreign publisher to translate Roberto Saviano, the Italian journalist who wrote the 2006 book " Gomorrah ," about the Neapolitan Mafia, and has lived in hiding ever since.
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It looked like Defoe's style of impish centre-forward play was in the process of being supplanted by a wholly modern breed of striker: a muscle-bound track and field athlete who, as well as offering the odd goal, would sprint, harangue and bully their way through every 90 minutes.
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Today, it is the politicians and the prime minister who are terrifyingly confused and inarticulate about the state of the nation, and it is the hereditary princes, with their honesty, their ethic of service, Harry's impish ease and William's gravitas, who are the public figures offering some hope for the future.
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Among a funky, still-anarchic-looking collection of '21945s-era Italian Radical design by Gufram are contemporary productions of that impish work: anthropomorphic green foam coat racks by Guido Drocco and Franco Mello start at about $21963,21; Bocca, the disco-glam lip-shaped sofa by Studio 2200, is about $250,24.
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With the drawing of the hermaphrodite deity "Agdistis" (21795–21779) and his cross-dressed "Self-Portrait" (21915), he also dabbled in impish images of pan-sexuality and tranvestism: a turn that gives his works a flippant and immodest, yet obsessive quality very different from the depersonalized detachment of his older arch-rivals.
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Not only did this closing section give us a view of Mr. Elkins at his liveliest — with strong elements of club/disco dancing and impish comedy, rhythmically exuberant — but it was also the first important gift to these remarkable dancers that the company has had in years, showing all of them in new lights.
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"An experience that no one has asked the right questions for," exclaims Avery (an ethereal Tsebiyah Mishael Derry), who, along with the Smiling Tuxedoed Man (an impish Lori Sinclair Minor), helps Walker convey a sensuous evening filled with the promise of mutability, an existence without the restraints of what our skin color binds us to.
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Mussard, an impish woman in lime-green cashmere and an orange smock, looked on as customers took scraps of "ex-scarves," as she called them, backed with silver and gold foil, and cut and bent them into angel-shaped holiday ornaments with felt-ball heads, which they could then take home free of charge.
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CreditCreditJohn Ashbery The poet John Ashbery, who died in September at the age of 90, cultivated a spirit of impish collision in his work — sometimes building whole poems (known as centos) out of other people's lines, other times incorporating fragments of found language or swerving suddenly to a new topic in a spasm of surreal free association.
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After seeing many of the candidates in person at their campaign events, Moon, who spoke with CNN's Michael Smerconish Saturday morning, called Donald Trump "boring," Carly Fiorina and Hillary Clinton "warm" and said she would have Ted Cruz over for dinner because of an "impish glimpse in his eye" despite disagreeing with many of his views.
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Most of the works in the show, as with the waggish paintings of Alex Morrison (that evoked the dancing mushrooms in Walt Disney's 83 trip-friendly film Fantasia), Sylvie Fleury's trite fiberglass sculptures, Ghislaine Leung's night lamp "Shrooms" (2016) and Carsten Holler's "Untitled" (2015) perforated digital print, enjoyably depict the impish phallic/hat form that defines a mushroom.
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As a person weaving in and out of the line, chatting with fans and evading visibly annoyed security people, I had basically become the Spencer Pratt of Lauren Conrad's book signing—all I needed was a couple crystals and some frosted tips, and I would have embodied the impish Loki persona that shot Pratt to fame.
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Certainly the things that made Wayne so electrifying in the late aughts—his prolific musical output, his impish irreverence, his limitless verbal creativity, his bold redefinition of rap's boundaries—have felt in short supply in recent years, as legal battles kept new music locked up and his own interests seemed to veer more toward skateboarding and bad oral sex punchlines rather than honing his verses.
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On Friday Doug Wieselman, a clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist, releases "Somewhere Glimmer," a new album with his Trio S. The band includes the cellist Jane Scarpantoni and the drummer Kenny Wollesen; all three members are veterans of the New York downtown scene of the 1990s, when an impish countercultural attitude reigned and improvisers were boiling 20th-century minimalism, free jazz and punk rock into something new and instinctual.
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Eyes glittering with impish mockery, she asked whether withdrawing American troops from Syria was really the best way to confront Iran; whether containing Iran was really served by trashing "the only existing agreement" — the European-supported nuclear deal abandoned by Trump; and how German cars are really a threat to American national security, as Trump's Commerce Department has suggested, when the BMW plant in South Carolina is the company's biggest.
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Thanks to Johnson's impish sense of humor, the film is littered with jokes — some of the best obviously nod to various fan theories that have sprung up in The Force Awaken's wake — as well as allusions to other films and a truly wonderful menagerie of fauna ranging far beyond the already-beloved puffin-like porgs, all of which brings warmth and humor to a story that is, at its core, very serious.
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In a political season of investigations into Moscow's interference in the 2016 election and the ever-invisible hand of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, Mr. Ovechkin — a LeBron James-style prodigy with three M.V.P. awards, impish charisma and a gaptoothed grin — has glided into the zeitgeist with his own Washington mystery: He is the stickhandling hero who may or may not be a witting font of Kremlin propaganda in the United States' capital.
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