EditorialMembers of the chorus wield scissors as a sound effect and dramatic tool as they perform Julia Wolfe's "Fire in my mouth," with the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall in New York, Jan. 24, 2019. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the chorus wield scissors as a sound effect and dramatic tool as they perform Julia Wolfe's "Fire in my mouth," with the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall in New York, Jan. 24, 2019. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the chorus wield scissors as a sound effect and dramatic tool as they perform Julia Wolfe's "Fire in my mouth," with the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall in New York, Jan. 24, 2019. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)
EditorialThe scene in the Morrisania section of the Bronx borough of New York where a man who officials said was in mental distress was shot by the police on Friday, April 21, 2023. (David Dee Delgado/The New York Times)
EditorialThe scene in the Morrisania section of the Bronx borough of New York where a man who officials said was in mental distress was shot by the police on Friday, April 21, 2023. (David Dee Delgado/The New York Times)
EditorialFabric scissors that Hsiu-Hui Tseng uses while sewing custom dresses for her daughter and Olympic figure skater, Karen Chen, at home in Novi, Mich., on Feb. 1, 2022. (Sylvia Jarrus/The New York Times)
EditorialHenry Segerman, a British American mathematician and inventor at Oklahoma State University, demonstrates his Kinetic Cyclic Scissors grid at his home in Stillwater, Okla., Dec. 3, 2022. (Brett Deering/The New York Times)
EditorialGiant scissors are staged for a ribbon cutting ceremony during the grand re-opening event for David Geffen Hall in New York on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialThailand: A garlanded participant in a procession during the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Town, a so-called Mah Song or spirit medium, his cheeks ritually pierced with garden scissors
EditorialFrom left: Guy Rhys, Lucie Shorthouse and Samatha Power rehearse ?Rock/Paper/Scissors? at the Lyceum theater in Sheffield, England, June 20, 2022. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Guy Rhys, Lucie Shorthouse and Samatha Power rehearse ?Rock/Paper/Scissors? at the Lyceum theater in Sheffield, England, June 20, 2022. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: Tessica Browns siblings have shown her the ultimate sisterly love - by all cutting their hair short after her Gorilla Glue disaster.