The film's deadpan style serves this purpose, too, foregrounding its absurdity.
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Foregrounding the words only, however, does a disservice to Clean's accomplished musicality.
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Steyer has one priority no one else in the race is foregrounding.
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Particularly appealing to Roupenian is the shock value in foregrounding female antagonists.
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A visual foregrounding of the photographs would have further enhanced their potency.
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Dolores' growth on Westworld is a very unsettling foregrounding of traditional TV character arcs.
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With this foregrounding of want, Chu defies a lot of trans theory and advocacy.
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HBO's My Brilliant Friend hits every one of Ferrante's story beats, foregrounding the wrong details.
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But by foregrounding these embarrassments, Ms. Saul creates a kind of afterimage of spiritual serenity.
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In foregrounding and illustrating this phase of Cole's career the exhibition finds its signal purpose.
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I think it's also led to me foregrounding and prioritizing music within my own poetry.
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Foregrounding her shrewdness as a reader—or her pathos as a human being—didn't much help.
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This mode feels nearly posthumous: lived through, reflected on, and just beyond the frame, foregrounding embodied experience.
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The show would win all of its stars Emmys and national affection for foregrounding postmenopausal female friendship.
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The exhibition indelibly contributes to '80s scholarship by foregrounding the talents of the decade's less-appreciated artists.
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In these images, his style comes to the surface, foregrounding how beauty can be perceived as happiness.
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In the large painting, Putin sits, hands folded, foregrounding a stormy sky and the White House itself.
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However, the most powerful way that Bailey and Barbato pay tribute to Mapplethorpe is by foregrounding his perspective.
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Sleeveless doesn't attempt this kind of verisimilitude, rarely foregrounding electronic devices or the sparse phraseology of online dialogue.
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When an artist uses a black model, she is presenting a human question by foregrounding a human presence.
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Also, over 100 artists will contribute to a benefit exhibition foregrounding the experiences of detained children, and more.
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She throws routine into relief, foregrounding moments in which "suddenly the mundane appears fearfully beautiful," and vice versa.
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By doing so, they force issues onto the national agenda, foregrounding debates that the Republicans would rather avoid.
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It is in Book Five that Knausgaard's epoch finally heaves into view, providing his granular foregrounding with its context.
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Theme music became a vital part of pro wrestling, piped in over systems and given foregrounding in television production.
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It's a straightforward cover, free from effects and loops and echoes, foregrounding Blake's piano and delicate, immediately recognizable voice.
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The wall texts guide the reader there: "Delineating the Body"; "Rethinking the Surface"; "Foregrounding Movement and Action" show up.
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By foregrounding death and performing its liturgy, Vestrini seems to seek clarity of form and message in her poetry.
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Support orthodox conservative policies while foregrounding personal qualities (young, optimistic, fresh-faced, Latino) and occasional small, counterintuitive ideological heresies.
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By foregrounding the schism between form and content, Rachel Beach is demonstrating the agitated unity of her handmade domain.
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The exhibition contains few images of bodies or prisoners, foregrounding other methods of visualizing the injustice of mass incarceration.
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Perhaps foregrounding a nonblack parent might lead to the charge that we were distancing ourselves from the stigma of blackness.
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This is not a criticism of the novel — clearly Nielsen has no intention of foregrounding gender in this particular work.
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Rather than exploring White men's theories of utopian imagination, I'm really interested in foregrounding the imaginations of artists of color.
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This time, as one might hope, it's dance guys, who set themselves to foregrounding and embellishing the groove's through-line.
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Pouyan extracts all human figures from the original paintings, stripping away their authority and instead foregrounding landscape, abstract shapes, and colors.
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One of the most striking parallels of early silent film and modern social video is the foregrounding of animals and babies.
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Zeitlin tries to remedy that in "Wendy" by foregrounding the title character and nudging the boys, Peter included, to the side.
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Together, however, they form a nebulous whole, foregrounding the passages of negative space that Burial has always threaded through his music.
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It does a good job of capturing the caustic wit of the books and foregrounding what it is that makes them timeless.
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But it does suggest that party leaders are in broad agreement that Democrats need to be better about foregrounding populist economic issues.
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The report compiles a ranking of universities, foregrounding those with a record of producing what partner Simon King dubs "quality spin outs".
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It's arguably the best painting of the exhibition, foregrounding Rembrandt's biographical and aesthetic developments with a glimpse of his late-style splendor.
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Very quickly, though, the public and the press began to interpret the highly choreographed whistlestop tour as foregrounding a Zuckerberg 2020 presidential campaign.
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But over the last eight years something very important has emerged in the way race gets discussed in America: the foregrounding of whiteness.
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But as the Bush administration wore on, MSNBC began its turn toward liberalism, foregrounding anti-Bush voices like Olbermann and eventually hiring Maddow.
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Over 100 artists will contribute to DYKWTCA (Do you know where the children are?), a benefit exhibition foregrounding the experiences of detained children.
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Perhaps that's why the trailer starts by foregrounding its setting, 1926 New York City, complete with a snowy Central Park and vintage marquees.
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It is this, as much as the brand's focus on foregrounding artisanship, and artisans, that recalls the now almost-extinct European guild system.
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In foregrounding the lazy depictions of men and women on television and in films, the move is being hailed by some as a breakthrough.
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Here it tries to spin Apple's pro-active foregrounding of apps' background tracking tactics via push notifications as "reminders" — in just one amusing rebrand.
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Foregrounding his voice, it was an oblique version of pop from an artist who'd always kept those sorts of dopamine hits at an arm's length.
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The cascading keys of "Decks Dark" build to a sinister unison groove subtly foregrounding pianos ahead of the album's belated first bit of electric guitar.
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The Picasso display is literally designed around this installation, accommodating and foregrounding Gander's work, which seems like a strange way to debut this prized collection.
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Trump, by foregrounding racial resentment in a way no candidate has done since George Wallace, is blowing that calculation up — and the Republican Party with it.
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How have you seen race erased from the environmentalism story as a journalist, and how does #NoDAPL demonstrate the importance of foregrounding race in the conversation?
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But for me, as an introduction, "Adrian Moves to Berlin" was a primer to experience the show as a personal journey, foregrounding and celebrating the self.
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A critic of Hadad's work would doubtlessly say that he has failed to equally privilege both halves of the whole by foregrounding the Star of David.
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And by foregrounding the creature's experience and delaying the violence, Bernays solicits our empathy for him — a provocative choice, as Shelley skews a lot more equivocal.
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For those who may have wondered what lies behind the bashful-virtuoso façade, the Jewish-themed program in December was a revelation, foregrounding the player's passions.
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Critical conversations, about the work of art and its makers, need to accept an urgent and continuing foregrounding of Stuart Hall's "fateful triangle" — race, ethnicity, and nation.
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Foregrounding more top-line analytics would also be good — at the moment it displays your total number of articles and gives an estimated read time per article.
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The Northeast states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) did it, but only by starting low and foregrounding the revenue and investments that came with it.
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The drawing begins to read as a landscape, and the stones' scale distorts: they become fantastic boulders and mountains foregrounding a more distant sunburst of polished gems.
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Disco balls are strung across the field, giant white balloons float through the crowd, and the six-piece band lights into a groove, foregrounding splintering epileptic LED lights.
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The first film set itself apart from other dance-heavy movies by foregrounding the narrative; it was set in the world of dance, but wasn't expressly about it.
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" Payne also argued that the focus on impeachment has allowed Democrats to put forth a unified front rather than foregrounding more divisive issues such as "Medicare for All.
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Foregrounding the absences present in spaces where fictions are staged, these artists reveal the constructs and hierarchies of culture and the context in which fiction is created and consumed.
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The climactic sequence — simple in concept but tensely staged, foregrounding the ticktock of time that's present from the opening minutes — may leave you as breathless as it leaves José.
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Foregrounding local resources would at long last make cities and regions (their vehicle fleets, their building and zoning codes, their infrastructure, their vulnerabilities) full partners in optimizing and decarbonizing energy.
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Since the launch of The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery five years ago, landscape has been a recurring curatorial theme, foregrounding the experience of the UAE both culturally and physically.
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The panel clearly had an impact, foregrounding issues such as paid family leave, domestic violence and reproductive rights in a way that had not been the case with previous debates.
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By foregrounding whiteness, we remind ourselves that race is a social construct that, for the most part, white people have used to assert or imply that white people are superior.
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I think it would be necessary even if I were from Zambia, but my foreignness is highlighting and foregrounding the need to think collaboratively across every aspect of the filmmaking.
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Depicting opposing black and white boxers, it is clear that Gericault is foregrounding an aesthetic decision to heighten the monochromatic qualities of his lithograph by exploiting the racial politics of boxing.
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"Set and Reset" is considered Brown's masterpiece, and an important milestone in 20th-century dance, for its foregrounding of perfected improvisations and "release technique"—fluid movements engaging with momentum and balance.
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Instead of a transhumanist experiment of foregrounding tech, "Device Control" is built around a fear that all these devices might actually turn us into the robots that Kraftwerk claimed to be.
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But I do wonder about her strategy of foregrounding the widely desired, voluptuous, feminine form as a means of questioning the role that anatomy plays in our conception of the human.
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" By all accounts, Dan does not undergo this process, and the foregrounding of his stubbornly American story makes little sense in a book whose subtitle promises "dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
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By privileging sound Hejinian resists rigid strictures of meaning, foregrounding physical aspects of language (such as raw sound, a vibration felt in the body and/or heard by ear) shared by all.
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Bryan Bethea, the organiser, knew that foregrounding the rapper would help to market the event, and placed a photo of him on promotional materials (even though Mr Lamar was not participating directly).
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Thanks to Donald Trump's foregrounding of racial politics and the increasing number of over white nationalists running for public office as Republicans, Kudlow's friendship with Brimelow was bound to get more scrutiny.
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Courtney's first-person narration of the opening section sets the novel's tone, foregrounding his concerns as a young black man being raised by a widowed mother in a mostly conservative Southern town.
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The piece is monumental, stark and uncompromising, foregrounding the tension created by fugal structure, in which musical themes are alternately presented by different instruments, while the others play contrapuntal harmonies and rhythms.
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While this smart, timely and riveting novel addresses all of these profound questions, Ahmadi keeps the philosophy tucked neatly between the lines, foregrounding the emotional questions that drive Opal and her friends' story.
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Since, they've been among the most reliable purveyors of Latin rock, often foregrounding issues around immigration, social justice and worker's rights (the band's members first met while trying to unionize a community center).
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Her strummed country-folk band unfolds in weird directions, revealing miniature pocket orchestras and pop-up choirs before reassembling into a different ensemble altogether, foregrounding strings or Hawaiian guitar, cogs whirring, gears flying.
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The works mark a departure from abstraction into a more documentary-style of figurative drawing, foregrounding yet again her commitment to using art as a vehicle for propelling issues related to social justice forward.
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The institutional complacency, foregrounding institutional complicity, underlies the hypocrisy of those who are willing to call out their enemies concerning political blunders but fail to hold their friends to the same standards of accountability.
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Lawler's foregrounding of the provenance of her own work in a corporate collection can be seen as the ultimate conceptual roll-up of her lifelong involvement with the ownership and societal function of art.
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All the while a two-channel microphone setup picks up each and every tongue click and mouth sound, foregrounding all the unsettling ephemera that major media companies usually try to cut out of their interviews.
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Speaking, as Barrett Watten does in his ruminations on the movement, of "a foregrounding of language as opposed to reference" is not helpful, since reference is merely an aspect of language and not outside it.
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This act of theatrics sets the tone for many of the pieces that follow, foregrounding the pleasure and power of the masks that we don to perform versions of ourselves, both on the page and off.
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Animal rights activists have done stellar work in foregrounding the question of…Read more ReadTo explain these apparent behaviors, a subset of scientists known as plant neurobiologists has argued that plants possess a form of consciousness.
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In foregrounding the history of this overlooked place on the sidelines of the Biennale, the exhibit made a point of reclaiming queer history and made a case for its place as a topic in contemporary architecture.
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Foregrounding the struggle of black women by allowing them to tell their own stories of perseverance, Anderson uses a combination of on-the-scene footage with reflective voiceover and interviews conducted after the strikes had concluded.
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But in telling the tale of the work's production, foregrounding its religious function, and noting the vital importance of preservation efforts, it presents the whole ecosystem surrounding and supporting the existence of these objects of luminous beauty.
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The movie seems fine with preserving and foregrounding other religious ideas: Figures like Buddha still get quoted in the movie, and there's some religiously oriented language about becoming one with the universe, alongside a smidge of yoga.
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Much contemporary rap on the charts inhabits a silly, childlike aesthetic, or at least a preverbal one, foregrounding backup vocals and ad-libs that tend toward absurd inarticulate noises, skrts and skeets and blats and blams everywhere.
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Viewing the work of unconventional contemporary masters, such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose films can cut from one narrative to another and another, without foregrounding or explanation, helped release Joseph from Western ideas of how to tell a story.
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Through some extraordinary process, the Irish-born Gough becomes Emma and not Emma at the same time; that is, she knows how to play Emma's lies without foregrounding them or trying to make us comfortable with Emma's psychology.
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The show combines contemporary artwork, archival material, and media installations to present a complex portrait of the unrest and its aftermath, foregrounding the perspectives of people from the area who lived through and were affected by these events.
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This seems to me to be a wrong-headed confusion in which her foregrounding of the importance of female agency and the freedoms available in a homosocial female space are interpreted as essentialism, rather than as celebratory acts.
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I sit in my office and stare at the Carrie Mae Weems pictures I have printed out and framed on my wall, from her famous Kitchen Table Series, a suite of photographs foregrounding Weems' body at a dinner table.
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"Beggar" (1926) focuses on an elderly man's quizzical gaze and serene dignity while foregrounding the dispossessed man's contiguous space: the sooty pavement on which he sits; the iron gate looming behind him; and the brickwork pillars boxing him in.
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And while, as Moore insists, there may have been other factors than the eschatological at play in Trump's decision to move the embassy, the foregrounding of Jeffress today is a powerful nod to the efforts of Christian Zionists worldwide.
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His proposals to guarantee free child care and pre-K and six months of paid parental leave, for example, are common-sensical in many other countries, and foregrounding them could win over "anxious suburbanites" who lean toward Mr. Biden.
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A piquant wind blows through you as you ponder the poking device directly linking the humanoid sexual system's electronic signals to some pitiless bio-controller probe, foregrounding the frailty of human flesh when pierced by the somber impregnability of technology.
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Feminist artists in the 1970s used performance as a means of confronting the traditional role of the woman as the passive object of male desire in Western art and deconstructing this naturalized position, foregrounding women's agency and authorship in the process.
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Likewise, as the shimmering, golden Balenciaga boots she wore to a recent appearance in Brooklyn attest, she need not shy away from glamor by foregrounding her appreciation of the middle-class, attainable fashion of J. Crew and White House Black Market.
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Over the course of the record's 14 tracks, he veers between smirking video chat interludes ("Skype"), ipecac acid tracks, borderline electroclash ("Frankie"), and Mark E. Smith-sampling EBM backflips ("Junk"), foregrounding the lysergic, technicolor joy that unselfconscious electronic music can offer.
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Amit Shah, the prime minister's confidante and the country's home minister, led a highly divisive and sectarian campaign foregrounding Hindu nationalism and demonizing the city's Muslims, and tried to paint the opposition Aam Aadmi Party and its leaders as treasonous.
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I'm foregrounding my background here because I don't think my reaction to Jojo Rabbit makes much sense without it: namely, that I felt like there were almost two radically different halves of the film, one much better than the other.
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The new clip — which expands on the teaser trailer we got back in December — is, perhaps unsurprisingly, dripping with spectacle, foregrounding the lavish settings and CGI-infused world building that any sequel to Ridley Scott's dystopian classic would have to feature heavily.
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Produced by Awful cohort Ethereal, "Best of Me" replaces the yearning warmth of the original story song with a chilly indecisiveness, foregrounding the hesitance of the song's narrator to fall in love rather than all the messy feels Mýa tapped in her version.
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So many of the initiatives that are changing culture right now incubate on social media before bursting into public consciousness — from the rapidly changing popular understanding of transgender politics and gender fluidity to the foregrounding of women of color within the modern movement.
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Indeed, the show's crossover from "hit" to "megahit" so neatly aligns with the addition of these two women to the cast, and the subsequent foregrounding of romantic plotting, that it seems likely that a portion of its audience was drawn to them.
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I tiptoe along the line between cultivating free expression and foregrounding social justice all semester, my worries unfolding in real time as I scan my students' responses to discussions of asymmetric polarization, institutional gaslighting, MAGA conspiracy theories, and myriad other political flashpoints.
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By foregrounding the schism between form and content, Beach is demonstrating the agitated unity of her handmade domain, an oasis of light and color rimmed by a jagged borderland, where the world we live in can be glimpsed, teasingly, just beyond our reach.
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Although she had already painted a number of works commemorating Native American history and people, like Sacajawea and Chief Joseph, in the early '90s she began incorporating the Cherokee language into her work, foregrounding her identity as a member of the tribe.
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Though Corbyn is much further left than Sanders is, both share the same insurgent approach to politics: an attempt to win over a center-left party to their relatively much further left-wing approach, and to do so by foregrounding populist economic appeals.
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Meanwhile, the more conventional piano loops in "Wait" and "Rover 2.0" spin with martial regularity, providing consistent musical baselines Blocboy's playful rhythms and subtle electronic vocal flourishes, foregrounding his enunciated raps while turning the ad-libs into a murky vocal hall of mirrors.
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Ever since Jesse Saunders changed the entire world with 1984's futureshock of a record "On and On," American house producers have never shied away from foregrounding vocals, never feared marrying the abstraction of electronically derived music and the naturalism of the human voice.
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It's the skills, stupid Besides the government foregrounding artificial intelligence (via official press briefing) as a technology it views as promising for fueling future growth of the UK's digital economy, the strategy puts marked emphasis on tackling digital inclusion in the coming years, via upskilling and reskilling.
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After stretching her style in several directions—from the maximalism of White Teeth to the minimalism of NW, and several shades in between—she has found an authorial tone that seems to keep falling away, foregrounding characters whose radical instability makes them all the more vital.
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By foregrounding pundits and commentary instead of journalists and reporters actually uncovering new stories, Fox News costs far less to run than its broadcast journalism competitors, an advantage that its competitors have emulated via the growth of pundit-based programming and decline in firsthand reporting across all television news.
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By consciously foregrounding and exaggerating these elements, "Adore" announces itself as the album's Philadelphia Soul Ballad — just as "Housequake" announces itself as the album's Old-School Funk Dance Track, "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" as the album's Singalong Arena-Rock Anthem, and so on.
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The report's top-line recommendations boil down the more fleshed out concerns in the meat of its chapters, and end up foregrounding encouragement at greater length than concern, as you might expect from a science academy — though the level of concern contained within its pages is notable nonetheless.
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With vibrant color, the paintings transferred to ceramic not only capture the exteriors of the grand, palatial homes in the historic West Adams neighborhood that extends from the station (West Adams homed wealthy white estates before the Great Depression) but also depict scenes of interiors, foregrounding domestic life.
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The Paris Climate Agreement was historic for bringing the needs of both developed and developing countries to the table while foregrounding the communities at the front lines of environmental destruction, and it set global benchmarks to reduce or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions while incentivizing the expansion of renewable energy alternatives.
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With the rights of immigrants and refugees under increased attack, the art world has mobilized to raise awareness and achieve change: a group show at Hunter East Harlem Gallery spotlighted works by artists applying for an O-1 visa; more than 100 artists created works foregrounding the experiences of detained children.
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In many ways, those two songs laid the groundwork for Houston's future projects; the gospel of "Jesus Loves Me" preceded her full-length pop gospel album and movie The Preacher's Wife, and her collaboration with and foregrounding of other black women's voices hints at her role in reshaping the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack.
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Then again, it's also quite likely that the Trump administration limps along, making a series of small-scale pro-business regulatory changes written by industry lobbyists while foregrounding the "immigration crisis" as the defining fight of our time and going to war with the media to distract from the unpopularity of such changes.
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There are so many foregrounding steps that get us to the fact that allegations of sexual assault brought by women are both working to delay and complicate the confirmation of a man to the Supreme Court who would create long-lasting legal impediments to all kinds of gendered, racial, and economic equality.
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Finally, what I think really bugs the cognoscenti is his stance as a fundamentally traditional artist intent on foregrounding the expressive capabilities of paint and graphite, just as the poets who have been his lifelong friends (Ron Padgett, Robert Creeley, David Shapiro, Vincent Katz, and many others) are intent on plumbing the expressive potential of words.
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Paradoxically, it was Bowling's inclusion in an exhibition of Black American art, Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern in 19803, which brought his work to the attention of a much wider audience British institutions have also been foregrounding older African American artists, with recent exhibitions of work by Senga Nengudi at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, and Faith Ringgold at Serpentine.
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The album lifts off with the suitably slow-building "Colossal," a pulsing space anthem fit for a sci-fi soundtrack, but finds its catharsis on the singalong chorus of "Grouch" and the uncharacteristically tender "Control Me." While TR/ST's dance sensibilities still permeate, the focus has shifted a bit, foregrounding the brutalist, post-apocalyptic synths and putting Alfons' signature, sneering voice at the center.
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Similarly, in the Tower of Babel exhibition, the English-only platform of the global art world is undercut by foregrounding the linguistic and national diversity of the artworks, which are mixed together on the wall, instead of being divided by their three countries or languages; the juxtaposition of these silent, separate interlocutors echoes the patterns of the landscape at the end of the Tower of Babel story.
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The tension in his carved book figures, like "Untitled (Witness series 14)" (2013), is less dramatic but more technically impressive; it rests on Botha's ability to create a human bust with depth and a sense of interiority while also foregrounding the object's materiality — that is, the fact that he has taken a saw or sander to a stack of books pressed firmly in a vice.
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In fact, Briggs's book, in its elegance, humility and foregrounding of intellectual curiosity, effectively encourages just the sort of subtly nuanced thought that is surprisingly absent from Moser's reductive and misrepresentative review, which only compounds the prevalent general misunderstanding of translation as a "concrete art" and aids in the vilification and dismissal not only of Briggs but of translation itself along with translators, in a way that has consequences for what and how we read.
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"Resonance II" (2016), occupies a conceptually and spatially transitional space in (the third ear): hung on the farthest back wall of the gallery, smaller (at 19 by 2913 inches) than the black works, but larger than the 8-by-6-inch watercolors that round out the show, it works as a kind of oblique master key, foregrounding the colors that seeped from the edges of the black works; collapsing the scale but retaining the planar dynamics.
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