Word: theo
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...network comedy. But while there was hugging on The Cosby Show, Dr. Cliff Huxtable's love for his kids was filtered through the wry, no-guff sensibility that Bill Cosby developed on his comedy records. And the learning was literal, as the through line of the series was son Theo Huxtable's struggles with dyslexia. (The plot became poignant with the 1997 murder of Cosby's son Ennis, on whom Theo was based.) It's a sign of how quickly Cosby changed TV that in just a few years, it would be the standard that The Simpsons rebelled against...
...supposed commitment to promoting intercultural and racial understanding did not stop it from pulling sponsorship of a 2006 panel featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch parliamentarian and human rights activist whose 2004 film, "Submission," detailing mistreatment of Muslim women in the Netherlands, triggered the murder of its director, Theo Van Gogh. Despite the fact that Hirsi Ali was set to appear with several other panelists, including Ahmed Mansour, a leading scholar and defender of Islam, many students, including members of the Harvard Islamic Society, objected to the event because they found Hirsi Ali’s politics offensive. Fearful...
...Nobody Knows My Name,” “Lamp of the Body,” and “Tried to be a Man.” A nice addition to many of these songs was the incredible falsetto of a young backup singer, Theo Little.Jones’ acerbic new sound was a striking departure from the calm, natural sounds of her earlier work. Her more recent music was fused with strange electronics, and struck an angrier and more disillusioned note. Taken altogether, Jones’s newer sound seemed meant for a more contemporary audience that...
During a conversation with his cousin, Theo Faron (Clive Owen) asks, “What keeps you going?” It’s a particularly candid moment in the Oscar-nominated “Children of Men,” which takes place in a dystopian world 20 years into the future. During a visit to a gallery he owns—and which is now, in 2027, home to Picasso’s “Guernica,” the artist’s 1937 protest against fascism and political violence—Owen?...
...heat enough to melt that gold, those flower tones," Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo. "It needs the whole and entire force and concentration of a single individual." The flora he described was sunflowers, and Van Gogh is the one artist who did those blossoms justice. In Sunflowers for Van Gogh (Rizzoli; 149 pages; $25), Photographer David Douglas Duncan captures the luminous, strangely feminine character of his subjects. This glowing tribute to painter and plant offers what seem to be studies of leafy blonds singing in the daylight, mourning in the shadows and brightening the earth when there...