Afterthoughts — a teaseof blossoms, fallen beforethe rise of summer.
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They're ... No, they had been afterthoughts in most big companies.
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An Alex Katz, a Frank Stella, Rauschenberg and Johns: all afterthoughts.
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While several other countries are visited, some regions feel like afterthoughts.
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Hall of famers like Peter Stastny and Bernie Federko were barely afterthoughts.
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The middle-class provisions are afterthoughts, scrounged together to meet messaging goals.
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Lights, cell service and tap water are afterthoughts for Lydia and Jose.
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Trump touches on the same subjects, but they often seem like afterthoughts.
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Sometimes the women are afterthoughts in stories of their own demise — so tangential.
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His wife and children, for example, appear in this book mostly as afterthoughts.
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And even when they do, the roles are often thin and seem like afterthoughts.
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While facts are available more readily than ever, they often seem to be afterthoughts.
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Desserts like flourless chocolate cake with green tea are not the usual banal afterthoughts.
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Serving others — works of charity — are core parts of what churches do, not afterthoughts.
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Whitehead was a prominent skater at a time when female skaters were considered afterthoughts.
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The veterans lend context to the footage, but they frequently almost seem like afterthoughts.
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The text stutters, doubles back and corrects itself — and seems to include afterthoughts, alternate lines.
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Their remaining major rivals, Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg, registered as little more than afterthoughts.
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Fitbit's focus has always been fitness, with more smartwatch-like capabilities being treated as distant afterthoughts.
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Such slogans festoon the brochures of European festivals, often amounting to little more than pompous afterthoughts.
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In some of the groups, the male performers are afterthoughts, primarily there to provide vocal percussion.
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Brought up in the theater, they all swear their film careers were more or less afterthoughts.
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All three candidates felt like afterthoughts Tuesday, despite none of them being in deep-blue states.
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Like many other forms of media at the time, even touted feminist examples, marginalized people were afterthoughts.
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The effect isn't that of a palimpsest, where the overlays indicate a history of afterthoughts and erasures.
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It's almost impossible to stay ahead of a wave of rapid change; today's heroes are tomorrow's afterthoughts.
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Despite being healthy and well short of typical retirement age, they are now treated mostly as afterthoughts.
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But roads and other infrastructure to support such development lagged, often seeming like afterthoughts to private construction.
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They are recognizable—marginally evocative of Zeppelin's "No Quarter"—and yet arcane, like shimmering afterthoughts or secrets withheld.
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The biggest publicity hit The Vanishing American Adult has received reduced the book and the author to afterthoughts.
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But more often than not, the story ends like it did for Owens and Ochocinco: legacies as cancerous afterthoughts.
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Clouds were no longer just fluffy afterthoughts, they were temperamental and majestic, with all the the complexity of nature.
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Waterston still shines as Daniels, but the others, especially Oram, feel almost like afterthoughts to move the plot along.
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What she called ''codas, afterthoughts, parentheticals, digressions, qualifications'' were often attempts to get at saying something the exact right way.
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But the David Lynch synths on "Sterling Silver" and box blues piano on "2nd Time" aren't afterthoughts or superficial additions.
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And cross-border infrastructure and energy schemes, which ought to be central to an EU budget, still look like afterthoughts.
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The Cardinals have been one of the season's biggest disappointments, slipping from Super Bowl contenders to 20123-7-1 afterthoughts.
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For the moment, at least, Warren and the other 17 candidates running for the Democratic nomination have been rendered afterthoughts.
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Players like Max Muncy and Chris Taylor, who were afterthoughts with their previous teams, have become essential to the Dodgers.
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I am not the most fashion-conscious person, so people's styles were afterthoughts while shooting on the streets; rarely the impetus.
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Chase Anderson, Zach Davies and Junior Guerra combined for 141 starts the last two seasons but were afterthoughts in the playoffs.
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Not all of Balanchine's afterthoughts were improvements, but this one is so eloquent we can scarcely imagine the ballet without it.
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They can push to have concerns addressed at the design stage, so protections are built into products and are not afterthoughts.
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Forget your wallet Apple Pay and Google Pay are still afterthoughts for most U.S. consumers, but China may be a harbinger.
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He would inundate them with newspaper clippings, afterthoughts, helpful notes and suggestions for further reading as they toiled over their assignments.
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In relation to the overwhelming impact of "Lightning," with its rich colors and symbolism, the additional works seem like unnecessary afterthoughts.
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Sure, Cait is allowed to reveal whatever she wants to whoever, but the Kardashians are feeling more like afterthoughts than family members.
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As for our investment in asset protection — that is, avoiding losses — to say it was an afterthought is being kind to afterthoughts.
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The video doesn't treat its participants as afterthoughts, but rather allows the camera to linger on them and relishes in their presence.
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When exiting the booth, the illusion of Kurt Cobain as art star is broken, leaving only afterthoughts about what could have been.
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Items from the kids' menu aren't second-class afterthoughts: a hamburger came perfectly grilled, on a butter-soaked, grill-striped brioche bun.
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People of color, especially Black people who are already erased in sci-fi and fantasy, are not afterthoughts and deserve their own mythology.
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I still come across mosques that relegate women to parts of the building that are clearly afterthoughts, if not incipient human rights violations.
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"It's almost impossible to stay ahead of a wave of rapid change; today's heroes are tomorrow's afterthoughts," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
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And in a world where sexism is deemed natural, the misogynist tendencies of mass shooters become afterthoughts rather than predictable and stark warnings.
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John Kasich were both off to the side — their refusal to engage with other candidates, or criticize anything at all, turned both into afterthoughts.
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Video game narratives were, and often still are, largely afterthoughts, more of an excuse for the action than a contribution in their own right.
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I liked both of those better than I do "Paradise Blue," which so overplays its genre tropes that the characters feel like incoherent afterthoughts.
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State of the Union speeches are typically boring afterthoughts; Abrams's showed why so many in the Democratic Party see her as a rising star.
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Other Democratic candidates like Martin O'Malley and Jim Webb became afterthoughts, as the race quickly transformed into a two-way contest between Clinton and Sanders.
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But I have to say that those are afterthoughts that don't really occupy the mind in the middle of spending time with the wolves themselves.
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In a deep-red state like Alabama, general elections tend to be afterthoughts: Except in extraordinary circumstances, Republican primaries are where the winners are chosen.
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The story unfolds over months, and the life-altering events that occur are revealed slowly and by indirection, sometimes as if they were conversational afterthoughts.
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As for the other candidates, they're generally considered afterthoughts in the race, but Iowa gave them a chance to prove they could make a splash.
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AMY KLOBUCHAR and TOM STEYER Klobuchar, a senator from Minnesota, and Steyer, a California billionaire, largely appeared to be afterthoughts for most of the evening.
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But most of these elements feel like dutiful afterthoughts — or superimposed homages to other King stories like Carrie and Salem's Lot — rather than the main event.
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Most covers are afterthoughts that add bulk and ruin all the carefully considered design features of an e-reader (or tablet or phone for that matter).
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That said, there are legitimate concerns that industry players will abuse the standard creation process to ensure that privacy, transparency and openness are all distant afterthoughts.
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For Jones, this means fighting to ensure cities like Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery, as well as Alabama's Black Belt counties are not afterthoughts during appropriations season.
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All these developments from the finale — especially Alex — feel like afterthoughts; additions to an otherwise richly detailed narrative that the showrunners didn't know how to move forward.
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It examines Schmidt's life and art, particularly her use of discarded clothing and her reverence for the people oppressed and marginalized until they, too, are treated like afterthoughts.
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And the more than 1,000 people injured so far in 2016, for whom no wakes are thrown and few follow-up articles are penned, can become mere afterthoughts.
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In the "Afterthoughts" to his book about the decline of public language in politics, Mark Thompson mentions something that for me clarified the 12 chapters that went before.
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Mr. Trump is so negatively viewed, polls suggest, that he could turn otherwise safe Republican states, usually political afterthoughts because of their strong conservative tilt, into tight contests.
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You'd think this would make for an interesting cross-section of representative men, but there, you'd largely be wrong, since traditional men seem afterthoughts in their own discussion.
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CARYN GANZ "Footsteps," the song that opens Kehlani's new mixtape "While We Wait," holds the lingering afterthoughts of a breakup, with apologies, justifications and regrets from both sides.
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FOX News is making tens of millions of dollars on debates, and setting ratings records (the highest in history), where as in previous years they were low-rated afterthoughts.
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Still, this administration stands to be mighty white and male, and its few women and people of color, tend to appear in roles that feel like afterthoughts or stereotypes.
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But as has been the case with glaring frequency throughout his time in the public eye, the comedian's shows are now mere afterthoughts due to his off-stage legal woes.
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That complication is also pronounced because it is largely a flawed system that relies on facts in a way that reduces necessary emotional and psychological impressions to afterthoughts or irrelevant.
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Empathy for other people, an outspoken concern for gender equality, a recognition of the personal and professional stakes of representation: these are fundamental principles in new digital journalism, not afterthoughts.
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Why were preparations for student housing, transportation, and learning accessibility — concerns affecting predominantly low-income, international, and disabled students — conveyed merely as afterthoughts in this plan to simply "move courses online"?
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It's rare to find fish beyond the standard tuna-salmon-yellowtail-shrimp-scallop basics, and the details that truly matter to sushi obsessives — like knife skills and rice — are often afterthoughts.
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At smaller companies, these may often seem to be oversights or afterthoughts, but Zenefits seems to want to streamline the process and introduce these kinds of sophisticated corporate behaviors into smaller businesses.
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When Flint switched to water processed by Detroit in 18.13, the main motivation was to properly treat municipal and industrial waste and secure enough water for a growing population; cleanliness and health were afterthoughts.
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While these small signs do technically warn, they typically seem like afterthoughts, where accessibility gestures like strobe warning signs were added on post-hoc rather than incorporated into the fabric of the exhibition design.
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As a result, state Senator Ricardo Lara has said, they will no longer be able to treat as "afterthoughts" issues that are for the West—and ought to be for the nation—of utmost importance.
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In the final issue, predicting Superman's future, and the futures of his fellow heroes, gets as much attention as closing out the stories of Doomsday's original stars, all of whom have become afterthoughts by accident.
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However, there is a special case to be made for more biopics about Black women, especially whose who work in entertainment, where women of color are still too often relegated to the background or are afterthoughts.
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But they are often treated as afterthoughts, mass-produced wines that produce reliable profits for wine companies but never receive the attention of the chardonnay, pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon that is the producer's primary passion.
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Right now, science doesn't have compelling answers, but the unifying theme from the four study participants should be instructive: The particulars of their diets — how many carbs or how much fat they were eating — were almost afterthoughts.
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But there is no doubt that the progressive Democrats who created the now-defunct Facebook pages — and the related Twitter feeds, seeming afterthoughts with negligible reach — were trying to deceive voters about their identities and real views.
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As his administration struggles on some of the issues the mayor cares most deeply about, like homelessness and child welfare, he has found success on others — job creation, economic development — that can appear at times to be rhetorical afterthoughts.
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Nathan Proctor, the head of USPIRG's Right to Repair Campaign, told Motherboard that Sonos' decision to leave consumers between a rock and a hard place is emblematic of a tech industry in which sustainability, security, and consumer rights are often distant afterthoughts.
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Several of Ms. Bouder's clichés are thoroughly 21st-century ones: She can use same-sex partnering or make the women do the partnering, but in her work these devices look like gratuitous afterthoughts amid a piece whose gender politics are largely conventional.
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With the notable exceptions of Brook Lopez ($21.1 million) and Jeremy Lin ($11.5 million), who account for more than 40 percent of the team's payroll, the Nets are largely made up of leftovers and afterthoughts, a band of role players from the margins.
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The worst kinds of tubs are the afterthoughts: No pasture to look at — just some peeling duct tape, an amenity that my grimy Brooklyn bathtub, installed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, sometime between the settling of New Amsterdam and World War II, already provides me.
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In the past few years, almost every mass-market fashion brand we love has expanded its range to include beauty products (think: H&M and Forever 21) — really, really good beauty products that don't feel like afterthoughts, making one-stop shopping so much easier.
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Women are the fastest growing segment of America's prison population, but because they are typically not the first image that comes to mind when someone thinks of an incarcerated person, they are often afterthoughts in policy discussions about ways to fix our broken system.
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It was important to me that the non-central parts of the puzzle not just feel like afterthoughts, which is why I left long slots running through it, grid-spanners on the top and bottom, and additional stacks in the upper-left and bottom-right.
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Hackles rose; not necessarily at the story's readers, but at the literary culture that makes it so easy to skate by on knowing the three short stories everybody reads in 10th-grade English, and to treat the great short stories that are written every year as afterthoughts.
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That's because the massive online retailer once again posted its largest quarterly profit in history — $2.5 billion for the quarter — on the back of two businesses that were afterthoughts just a few years ago: Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing unit, as well as its fast-growing advertising business.
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Showbiz Pizza banked on kids and parents wanting the animatronics front and center instead of the framed afterthoughts of Chuck E. Cheese, and so flanked the stage with full-sized characters Fatz Geronimo, Duke Larue, Mitzi Mozarella, Rowlf Dewolfe, and Billy Bob Brockali (a nod to Robert Brock).
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A range of factors go into making the Iowa caucus so influential, from the media hype ("the winners get tons of excited coverage, but the losers become afterthoughts," Prokop explains) to donors and activists (who "look at the Iowa results to judge whether the candidates they're supporting are still viable").
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Leaders of Europe's domestic leagues fear the changes could reduce their competitions to fourth-tier afterthoughts behind the three European competitions, while small and medium-size clubs have expressed concern that their fans would no longer have the chance to dream of even competing against the continent's biggest clubs for Europe's biggest prizes.
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What unites the developers mentioned in this article is the time and effort they have committed to ensuring that the characters in their games are not treated as afterthoughts; as NPC number 28, as that default and thoughtless shade of brown or black that game technology thus far has put forward as the status quo.
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Angie Han, Mashable: With all of the above going on, Wonder Woman's villains can't help but feel like afterthoughts – as if, after completing a really thoughtful script about a goddess who's forced to reckon with the nature of humankind, the writers were told that they had to include some superpowered baddies for merchandising purposes.
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This sequence feels like a resetting for her character, a pullback to the colder, more rational, more calculating Cersei she will have to be if she intends to be a suitable opponent for Jon and Sansa's faction in the North and Daenerys in the South, let alone those Dornish afterthoughts and Oleanna Tyrell's infinite supply of low-key awesomeness.
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"The Alienist" has often been so focused on its central murders that its other acts of violence feel like afterthoughts — most notably the sexual assault against John arranged by Captain Connor and Paul Kelly, which at least gets alluded to by Kelly during their carriage ride, but which doesn't seem to have affected John at all.
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Other episodes in the miniseries were directed by Anthony Hemingway and Boyz n the Hood's John Singleton, and both men turn their episodes into riveting chess matches, with lots of close-ups of lawyers strategizing and contemplating each other's weaknesses, to the degree that victims Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman almost become afterthoughts during the trial — just like they were in real life.
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Dan Barber, the chef of the Blue Hill restaurants in Manhattan and Pocantico Hills, N.Y., has made it his mission to try to rescue foods considered afterthoughts or undesirable, like fish skeletons, stale bread and vegetable peelings, all of which could be found on the menu at his wastED pop-up, which took place in New York in 2015 and again earlier this year in London.
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Why does the green rug in "Green Rug" (1976), like the moon in "Moon," get top billing, when the eye is drawn first to the (literally) rail-thin pair of naked legs appearing in sitting position from the left, and the two most loaded elements, the pile of shoes on the rug (evoking the Holocaust) and the cat-of-nine-tails jutting in from the right (redolent of the Passion of Christ) come across almost as afterthoughts?
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The architect Samuel G. White, who is involved in efforts to evaluate and renovate the library adjacent to the Hall, said the Hall of Fame was "an afterthought" — and, speaking of afterthoughts, this is probably the moment to note that his great-grandfather designed the Hall, the library and the rest of the campus for N.Y.U. His great-grandfather was Stanford White, who was famous as an architect and infamous for an affair with a woman who later married a jealous industrialist named Harry K. Thaw.
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