Rumination

...used Mississippi Delta blues, gospel, folk and traditional country music as the foundation for Mellencamp's direct, non-sentimental ruminations about the title's four topics. "I wasn't sure if Mellencamp's fans would like it," Gee says about...

In this article: John Mellencamp, Constant Spring, Ted Nugent, Life Death Love and Freedom, Jimi Hendrix, and Indianapolis

...Lansbury head the cast of the new Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music - the waltz-filled rumination on love - starting Nov. 24. Trevor Nunn directs the first-ever Broadway revival of the acclaimed...

In this article: Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music, Broadway, Angela Lansbury, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Sondheim, West End, London, and Hugh Wheeler

...by Nabokov in his endlessly inventive pursuit of complication, but it was also a sort of metaphysical statement on art and the artist, a rumination upon the inscrutable mysteries of creation. a ¢ This article was first published in...

In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura, Lolita, Charles Kinbote, and Pale Fire

All in all, though, this is a great late play, outshining The History Boys. It is an irresistibly droll and critical rumination on artistic principles, the craft of biography, public reputations and private lives, competitiveness...

In this article: Alan Bennett, W H Auden, Benjamin Britten, London, and Richard Griffiths

...dubbed "On Beauty" "Howards End: The Remake"). But as a thinker, Smith holds her own. At times she veers into learned but plodding ruminations on modern Anglo literature. More fulfilling, though, are rigorously nuanced observations based on...

In this article: Zadie Smith, On Beauty, London, The Autograph Man, Seattle Times, and White Teeth

...to unearthing neglected or rarely revived works, reveals a play that is at once a daffy family comedy, a satire about greed and a rueful rumination on loss, love and authenticity. Sidney Howard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of They...

In this article: The Late Christopher Bean, Sidney Howard, James Murtaugh, and New York City

...a book of his in frustration at his long philosophical tangents, then rushed to pick it up, compelled by the knowledge that his winding ruminations lead into stunning pieces of action. In general, the digressions are fascinating stories in...

In this article: Javier Marias, Oxford, World War I, Spanish Civil War, and Henry IV

...took him at his word when he declared in July 2008 that he would make Afghanistan his military focus. Today, Obama's extensive ruminations and consultations increasingly suggest a lack of confidence in the future course. And that's...

In this article: Barack Obama, Taliban, Afghanistan, U.S., Stanley McChrystal, Robert Gibbs, Al-Qaeda, and White House

...again. Some of his close friends are decidedly less so," writes The Post's John Wagner. "Former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s latest ruminations on 2010 were shared Tuesday during an appearance before a college class at Towson...

In this article: Maryland, Martin O'Malley, Sheila Dixon, Tax, Department of Health, Revenue, and Medicaid

...about him running for governor again. Some of his close friends are decidedly less so. Former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s latest ruminations on 2010 were shared Tuesday during an appearance before a college class at Towson University.

In this article: Martin O'Malley, Richard Vatz, Towson University, Barack Obama, and Maryland