Word of the Day puckish \ ˈpə-kish \ adjective : naughtily or annoyingly playful _________ The word puckish has appeared in 31 articles on nytimes.
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Those were puckish ways of bringing attention to serious concerns.
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It was chilly, but the gesture was also very puckish.
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But he is wilier than that, curious and surprisingly puckish.
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They are puckish, emotionally manipulative, charming, scatalogically fixated, hilarious, and resilient.
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Matsuyama has a puckish sense of humor that transcends the language barrier.
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It was textbook Donald: puckish and irreverent, uncowed and every bit the bully.
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Still, it was Darlene's puckish, wittier-than-thou smirk that epitomized her cunning.
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At 84, he is as puckish as ever — a flirt and a scoundrel.
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At his first meeting with the assembled cardinals he begins on a puckish note.
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"It's not true," said Mr. Jones, a slightly built man with a puckish quality.
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Arriving in the soaring Art Deco lobby, Mr. Theroux was in a puckish mood.
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And best of all, in truly Puckish fashion, Wayne is laughing through all of it.
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But this season's wealth of plaid takes on a rebellious, puckish spirit when clashed together.
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Ms. Jamon, with her charm and puckish humor, makes the restaurant feel like a home.
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"I like to play a few hands," said Mr. Ai, who does have a puckish side.
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When clashed together, this season's wealth of checks and tartans takes on a rebellious, puckish spirit.
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The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens provides a puckish alternative: the Caan Film Festival.
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There's a puckish wit to the assassin, along with the requisite predatory instincts necessary for her profession.
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Gothamist brought a puckish attitude to articles that were sometimes original, sometimes based on news published elsewhere.
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Those who knew him well said the gruff exterior concealed a shy man with a puckish wit.
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Cohen favors an Audenesque quatrain with none of the puckish genius Auden used to refashion the form.
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More stridently political, they're nevertheless distinguished by that same puckish, sociable New York School ethos of cultural consumerism.
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Ayoade's The Double has its puckish side, too — or at least it's more comedic than Dostoyevsky's original version.
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Amid the forbidding conditions in which he sometimes worked, Dr. Simons was sustained by his constitutional puckish humor.
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Which pediment on the building that housed a late 19th century puckish humor magazine celebrates "Wit and Humor"?
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By turns puckish and grim, "Paradise Hills" is just the latest female-driven dystopian story to hit screens.
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With the Caldecott medalist Raschka's always enjoyable watercolor art, the puckish little poem makes an effervescent picture book.
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THE death of Antonin Scalia deprives America of a brilliant legal mind and a puckish wit (see our obituary).
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The movie is a puckish poke at authoritarianism of all stripes, from the patriarchy to the Iron Curtain bureaucracy.
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" Or his puckish comment after he strikes out his dedication to the Wilde Boys: "They should be so lucky.
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"After 30 years of being in the kitchen, I wanted to try something different," he says, with a puckish smile.
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Now 57, and perennially sporting a wild mop of hair suggestive of a surprised hedgehog, he has a Puckish air.
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She was the shy one, while Chip's puckish exuberance was as expansive as the pastures surrounding their 40-acre farm.
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Squint, and you might say Don Jr. Mr. Burleigh has brown hair, hazel eyes, round cheeks and a puckish grin.
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In several standout collections for this coming spring season, designers subverted the sleeveless knit with puckish attitude and provocative styling.
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Both a mentor and a close friend, Tony has a puckish smile, piercing blue-gray eyes, and a quick, dry wit.
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Nintendo was a fun agent of chaos, a Puckish figure dancing on the periphery, but it wasn't really in the fight.
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George knows sign language and has a puckish sense of humor, and Davis' conversations with him have a rough, familial dynamic.
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The bassist Reid Anderson and Mr. King have enlisted the pianist Orrin Evans, whose puckish flow differs from Mr. Iverson's approach.
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Costa's first two features, 1989's O Sangue and 1994's Casa de Lava, are works of a puckish, preternaturally talented cinephile.
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On the first occasion, Bell fumbled with the device before turning its screen toward the interviewer, Kirsty Wark, with a puckish grin.
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If Preston Manor is indeed plagued by puckish spirits (as the museum's literature heavily implies), Doreen Valiente's is not one of them.
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These alternate with witty, puckish character sketches and the occasional virtuoso breakout piece that explodes like dazzling fireworks in the night sky.
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No, he had the spotlight improbably stolen away from him by a puckish young man in a backwards hat and basketball jersey.
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The detective had an Irish face — blue-eyed, pale-skinned, puckish, her coppery brown hair shorn close at the sides into a fauxhawk.
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"This is where I get up and throw the table down and sweep out," she said with a puckish smile, pounding the table.
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Asked if she had given much thought to what she might say to him, Feng paused, and a puckish smile crossed her face.
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On October 16 of 2014, Apple announced a modest upgrade to the Mac Mini, the puckish computer that plays caboose in Cupertino's desktop train.
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America's puckish pundit in chief is weighing in on the Democrats' dramatic Super Tuesday results — and he seems to have mischief on his mind.
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Kerry's face bore a puckish grin, as if he were heading toward an ice-cream social rather than a chamber full of tiny microphones.
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Read more ReadDesignThe black hockey-puckish case of the Apple TV has largely stayed the same over the years and this edition is no different.
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But like Duchamp's "Fountain," her paranormal works hum with questions and contradictions, though her art tends to be more serious than the Frenchman's puckish provocations.
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Perhaps because she is a woman, her fierce and unapologetic intelligence has earned comparisons to a schoolmistress, but her assertiveness is more puckish than pedantic.
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Otherwise the bushy black brows would furrow, the chin would crumple and the pudgy, puckish body would start to rock, eager to get at you.
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Moreover, where Quixotic (2006), Birdsong, and Story of My Death are puckish, The Death of Louis XIV is sober with just a whiff of irony.
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By college, friends say, Mr. O'Rourke had settled on the outlines of an identity that would last: a rebel in moderation, more puckish than unruly.
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Büttner delves especially into what might have motivated the Dutchman to paint his signature imagery of puckish demons and the expanses between paradise and purgatory.
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But when asked about recent US funding cuts to the United Nations agency that runs their school, the puckish teenagers take on an altogether different tone.
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But this one is set in a nursing home, a puckish acknowledgment that everyone in the Scorsese universe has gotten a little (OK, a lot) older.
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Puckish, tiny men with impressive beards now dot American lawns, with poses ranging from elite golfers mid-swing to hooligans showing their bare bottoms to passers-by.
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On its face, the work looks retrograde; it has more akin with Jones's earliest endeavors than with the frenetic, puckish art he has made in recent years.
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Perhaps the most pop-friendly member of the puckish British dance-music clique PC Music, the producer Danny L Harle specializes in pure, clean tones geared toward euphoria.
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Still, there's some evidence that the president's magic medium is losing its effectiveness, in part because Mr. Trump's Twitter persona seems to have shifted from puckish to paranoid.
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There's also a charming awareness to Cena, albeit one which isn't always apparent; it's almost impossible to imagine Reigns working a Tonight Show audience with puckish glee like Cena does.
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While all these dances richly abound in specific dramas and suggestions, the bigger emotions they prompt derive from the felicities with which moves meet music: poignant, puckish, exuberant, by turns.
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"Mobile Worlds," organized by the puckish German curator Roger M. Buergel, is a show of rare ambition and sweep, not afraid of a few good jokes, and a little bit demented.
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The Committee answered the endless demands that it honor an American—before Dylan, the last American Nobel Laureate was Toni Morrison, who won when Bill Clinton was president—with a puckish grin.
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It is a mystery that has beguiled observers of the art world: the identity of Banksy, the puckish street artist who has maintained anonymity through more than a decade of widespread fame.
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"He's the same guy who used to drink beers with me behind the movie theater," Gomez said — still puckish and voluble, still possessed by an energy he seems to have trouble controlling.
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"It was hard to reconcile the sunny, puckish, solicitous man I met with the one described in news stories and police reports, who could be unyielding, furtive, and willfully opaque," he wrote.
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By now we're accustomed to this Puckish lad looking out at us with his can-you-believe-this gaze when his friends and family behave as stupidly as he predicted they would.
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Signs are hand-lettered; there are plenty of chairs for contemplation and ladders for climbing; and, whether by accident or puckish design, the crime section stops short at a fittingly dead end.
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His puckish and popular press secretary, Pierre Salinger, continued press briefings, but some journalists worried that the president's televised press conferences gave him too much power to communicate directly with the people.
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Intended as sculptural explorations of the still life painting tradition, and reminiscent of Robert Rauschenberg's "Combines," these works evidence Martha's puckish compositional sense and his facility for lateral thinking across artistic media.
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Rosemary Wells, the founder and curator of the now-defunct Tooth Fairy Museum, thought that belief in a magical being who needed those teeth for her own puckish reasons served to comfort children.
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However, the Tesla CEO is currently embroiled in a legal fight with the SEC — a fight that started over the same puckish Twitter feed that is now home to this bizarre Harambe tribute.
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"This music, reggae, is the only music that I know right now, that have been surviving for the past 60 years without any major record label," the singer explained, grinning with puckish pride.
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Someone took a picture of him, puckish grin on grizzled face, leaning on the railing, with Streep tilting her head toward him, sorority-girl-like, the blue fibreglass whale hovering in the background.
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If he's there, he'll share the backstory of his most famous shot, "Hidden Smile," a close-up of a puckish woman in a conical hat covering her forehead and mouth with her hands.
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Eva Salina lent her poised, lustrous voice to complexly morose songs from the Balkans in a duo with the Serbian-style accordionist Peter Stan, who backed her with oompah chords and puckish, skittering obbligatos.
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Standing there, you realize that Goff's designs possess a beauty and rigor that gets obscured by their playfulness; he's like Twain, another quintessentially American genius, with a seriousness lurking just beneath his puckish surface.
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But Mr. Nanjiani builds the bit artfully, aided by a stealthy persona that comes across as perfectly ordinary until he deploys a puckish smile, revs up his adenoidal whine and gets his heavy eyebrows dancing.
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Guillermo's del Toro's The Shape of Water, an interspecies romance, earned an impressive 13 nominations, while The Florida Project, a story about a single mother in poverty and her puckish young daughter, garnered just one.
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On the top floor of this sturdy townhouse on Madison at East 2212rd Street (which she shares with another dealer, the puckish Frenchman Emmanuel Perrotin) is an exhibition by the young German artist Hans-Christian Lotz.
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During the Supreme Court confirmation proceedings for Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, Mr. Kennedy seemed to rankle some Republicans by sporadically venturing off message, including a puckish question about whether the judge had ever been to Russia.
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In search of improvement, I considered the lead of the antic, puckish chef Danny Bowien, of Mission Chinese in New York and San Francisco, who put a recipe for beef and broccoli into his 2015 cookbook.
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"The flipside of the American dream [is] the American scheme," a wall text pithily observes in describing the portrait of the "confidence operator" Amos Leeds, a puckish character who calls to mind the Duke from Huckleberry Finn.
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This vignette of feudal life has hardly changed in a century, except for one thing, says Ehtehsham Laleka, a puckish 30-year-old, whose family owns 7,000 acres of land in this southern region of Punjab province.
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They both peaked at the roughly same time—back in a golden age of Ralph Nader and No Logo, when Michael Moore seemed more like a Twinkie-addicted puckish prophet than a crabby, fibby annoyer-in-chief.
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Despite the Friars' puckish vulgarity — or maybe because of it — their Manhattan headquarters, a six-story landmark townhouse known as "the Monastery," has long been a cradle of celebrity, and the club's roasts are the stuff of legend.
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A soft-spoken 55-year-old with a puckish smile and iron resolve, Mr. Daunt steered Waterstones out of a death spiral by rethinking every cranny of the company, from small (those shelves) to large (the business model).
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A soft-spoken 55-year-old with a puckish smile and iron resolve, Mr. Daunt steered Waterstones out of a death spiral by rethinking every cranny of the company, from small (those shelves) to large (the business model).
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This sudden, major gap between what Vargas Llosa says and what he does reminds me of a conversation we had about his puckish character Fonchito, a boy with the face of an angel and a taste for Egon Schiele.
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According to the LVMH-owned luxury e-commerce site 24S, it looks a lot like a pair of simple brown corduroy pants, updated with puckish illustrations of flowers and fairy-tale frogs by the Brooklyn-based designer Emily Bode.
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For a similar effect, consider a slightly more subdued but equally puckish option, such as a pair of block-soled Chelsea boots (like the above from Alexander McQueen), or move beyond footwear and try an extra-long belt with metal grommets.
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But Barack Obama's puckish, intensely competitive former campaign manager, arguably the most successful Democratic strategist of his generation, offered a who-the-hell-really-knows shrug when asked to offer a similarly precise estimate of Clinton's odds of beating Trump.
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It has been one of the smallest exhibitions in the museum's history, comprising a single work of art: a fully functional 18-karat gold toilet, designed by the puckish Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and installed in a single-occupancy museum restroom.
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From a child unboxing toys to the delight of toddlers around the world to a puckish Swedish gamer with millions of teenage fans, running one's own virtual TV channel online can be worth tens of millions of dollars to a lucky few.
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That's also why, during live filming, as the cameras were trained on Cohen and seated guests Kelly Dodd, of Real Housewives Of Orange County, and Brandi Redmond, Real Housewives Of Dallas' top Jesus juice drinker, Morgan bemusedly created her own Puckish mischief.
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Sunday Routine The artist Daniel Arsham is one half of a design team called Snarkitecture, so it should come as no surprise that his work — which includes sculpture, movies, set design and collaboration on music videos — has a puckish sense of play.
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If you're puckish afterward, get a sandwich from the "cross-cultural" pop-up concession of Gaddy Lane from Brooklyn; for more fortification, you're a 10-minute walk from Raoul's, still an art-world favorite, which serves a hallowed burger au poivre at lunch.
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Still, in case anybody missed the symbolism, it was the voice of God, belonging to African-American Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman (who once played God in a Jim Carrey comedy) who, with a puckish grin, announced the climactic shock of "Spotlight's" unexpected triumph.
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But after a year in which Ms. Warren so often set the pace of the primary, sending policy plans into orbit and selling puckish apparel like a "Billionaire Tears" coffee mug, some veterans of losing campaigns wonder if her best 2020 moments have passed.
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Over the course of his nearly two-decade run, Hamill mastered the character's giggling menace and loaded, purring contempt ("Beneath this Puckish exterior lies the mind of a genius years before my time!" he gloats, in "Return of the Joker"), constructing an interpretation both entertaining and unnerving.
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While many of Day's early films found her playing variations on the same "type" — the likable young singer with a puckish sense of humor — she began to stretch herself in the 1950s, taking on the occasional dramatic role, as well as starring in musicals that were more broadly comic.
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The mirrorworld, that global layer of data driving augmented reality, will finally leap past Pokémon Go and Minecraft Earth to become a ubiquitous, useful infrastructure: AI-powered avatars (some corporate mascots, others puckish indie counterbalances) will populate public spaces like discreet concierges, supplying everything from directions to sightseeing tips.
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But vague hacking aside, the now-adult but still puckish writers at this website used their time in the presence of nascent technology for everything from sending hundreds of blank pages to printer to jam up the network, to covertly installing better, funner games on school property—in my case, Snood.
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Though neither Friedman or Thiel appear to still be involved, Quirk, a middle-aged man with the puckish, spiked hair of an eternal frat boy, maintains his role with the organization as what he calls its "Storyteller-in-Chief," and became a co-founder of Blue Frontiers, its entrepreneurial sister company.
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Cumming Sr. makes a brief appearance at the start of this book, too, sneering at the little plastic Kodak camera that his son wins in a church raffle: "Get on with that grass" — an instruction to which the rest of the book might be said to raise a puckish middle finger.
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A few elements were less successful, such as Loge's staging; though he was played with Puckish humor by Norbert Ernst, the choice to have him static for long periods, suspended on a slope with a fiery projection behind him, felt directionless compared to the dazzling style of the rest of the production.
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As you'd expect, these are feigned to perfection by Blanchett, though the film doesn't allow her portrayal of Hepburn to be much more than a star turn, and we are left wondering: Could Blanchett conjure up the spirit of her predecessor—that earthy air, both queenly and puckish—without recourse to impersonation?
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To go back to our discussion of what this means for American literature—would you say this is a puckish capstone on a certain era, that era being the annual speculation that one of the (mostly male) giants of American literature who achieved prominence between the 1960s and the 1980s would win the Nobel?
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads GRENOBLE, France — Antoine de Galbert, the peckish and puckish-looking French art collector who recently closed his gadfly Maison Rouge art space in Paris is back on the scene with Memories of Travel: The Antoine de Galbert Collection, a show of his cross-generational collection at the Musée de Grenoble.
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The two biggest warnings from everyone from puckish near-villain Demi Burnett to low-key front frontrunner Tayshia Adams has been that Cassie Randolph and Caelynn Miller-Keyes — two of Colton's favorites — are either "not here for the right reasons" or simply might not be prepared to get engaged to be married at the end of season 23.
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The puckish filmmaker — although he was often in the public eye, he also went out of his way to avoid celebrity and publicity — made Letter to Siberia (24) and Sans Soleil (22007), the latter a landmark in the tradition of essay filmmaking, one that is booming right now in contemporary cinema with films like What Now?
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That's one reason the French animated film April and the Extraordinary World is so surprising and satisfying: it takes up the outsized creativity and puckish humor of the best French fantasy comics, but couples it with a straight-line plot that makes surprisingly logical sense, at least for a tall tale featuring lizards in robot suits and an immortal talking cat.
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Most of us do not know Daniel Day-Lewis, nor is he the sort of person to be photographed at the Malibu Country Mart, but we have an impression of him from his choice of characters and what he brings to them: a puckish charisma and a scene-devouring devotion to craft, but also, in his less adrenalized performances, something finer.
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The landscape is dominated by merry pranksters with a Dadaist bent, including its chief provocateur Maurizio Cattelan, 260, whose puckish work includes "La Nona Ora" (250), a sculpture-cum-installation of a lifelike, full-size Pope John Paul II felled by a meteorite, and "Daddy, Daddy" (22018), in which a Pinocchio puppet floats face down, presumably drowned, in a fountain.
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The papers of Abbie Hoffman, the puckish activist who gained a national reputation as a radical hippie, make clear the extent to which the tumult of that era regularly swirled around him: the showering of the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills, the nomination of a pig as a presidential candidate, the turbulent demonstrations that rattled the 19873 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi wrote and starred in What We Do In The Shadows, which raised awareness of Waititi outside of his native New Zealand (Clement had already enjoyed international success with Flight of the Conchords) and reintroduced him to new audiences as the lovable, puckish agent of comedy chaos he's become today — and no one can be mad at the silly-but-smart vampire movie that led to Thor: Ragnarok.
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But read it straight through, as I just have, and I think that you will find that he came to the '80s art scene late, as a black-sheep, puckish novice, five years after the transgressive epoch-defining Colab exhibitions, such as the Times Square Show and The Real Estate Show and the openings of ABC No Rio, Fashion 时装 Moda МОДА and Group Material — where art was being inseminated with the Dionysian, the social, the political, and the economic.
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The memo, which was first reported by The Daily Beast, prompted a puckish response from Deadspin's staff members Tuesday: They only published articles having little or nothing to do with sports, including a post about a pumpkin thief in Washington, another discussing the virtues and demerits of various wedding dress codes (keep it simple, the author urges) and a resurfaced long-form article on an obscure German actor who played a villain in "Ghostbusters II." The sole exception was a post about the booing of Trump.
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In typical fashion, Richard D. James released some puckish product information that reads, in part, "The Aphex Twin Cheetah EP uses digital sound generation techniques combined with wave sequencing technology to bring you sounds with movement and depth rarely found on records today… To assure you that your Cheetah EP will give you many years of enjoyment, please be sure to read the owners manual carefully before attempting to operate the Cheetah EP." The Cornish creator today upped the ante with a video for the single "Cirklon3 [ Колхозная mix ]".
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