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"gallows" Definitions
  1. a structure on which people, for example criminals, are killed by hanging

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He doesn't just bring gallows humor, he brings gallows rimshot.
It's not just gallows humor, it's a specific sort of developed, familiar gallows humor.
"The Gallows Act II," a thoroughly undistinguished follow-up to the 2015 film "The Gallows," seems, for much of its running time, not to have any internal logic to begin with.
That gallows humor is a very hard thing to explain.
I wanted to [show] the gallows humor and the joy.
But gallows in town squares hardly keep our children safe.
One hangs from a steel gantry as from a gallows.
Some anthropologists and archaeologists accept this analogy with gallows humor.
He brings a similar gallows humor to sex and failed relationships.
One might characterise this as black humour, maybe even gallows humour.
ON ONE online forum, the sysadmins were enjoying some gallows humour.
Where the Stack sits was once home to the city's gallows.
The victim testimony is funny, in a gallows humor-type way.
But it also brings to mind a gallows hill and Golgotha.
I'm conscious that it's gallows humor, which is necessary in prison.
Ali could go to the gallows any time, without such clemency.
The Gallows Act II Rated R for themes, violence, tired jump scares.
It determined that there probably never was a gallows at the site.
Candace lacks Peterson's sense of gallows humor and Rudolf's laid back contemplation.
Another produced an effigy of the French president swinging from the gallows.
These jobs were hard, and we leaned in on the gallows humor.
Mr. Weaver maintained good humor — albeit gallows humor — and made phone calls.
" Friday's game, he said with gallows humor, was a "great learning tool.
And, as always, she laces her tales with humor, gallows or otherwise.
Ali faced the inevitable with a sort of cheeky gallows humor, Hana says.
While the humans plan to soldier on, a gallows humor has taken hold.
She may even be heading to the gallows as you read this story.
Because it's such gallows humor, but what else are you going to do?
Some people think the cakes are a classic bit of Floridian gallows humor.
A red gallows was built nearby to show that she had been punished.
Ferociously smart and intimidatingly hip, Mr. Yazbek's gallows humor is often very funny.
Gays have also been strung up on the gallows in the public square.
The result: Fantasies of seeing Trump escorted to the gallows are officially dead.
And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
"There's a lot of gallows humor within high schools," Margolin, 16, tells CNN.
She was taken to the foot of the gallows, where he stood handcuffed.
The celebration was light, but an air of gallows humor hung above it.
This iconography appears in Böröcz's collection as part of his exploration of a gallows.
Gallows humor belongs only to the condemned, not to those jeering from the crowd.
However, recent reports indicate 33 people were sent to the gallows on Aug. 2.
Those refusing to renounce their affiliation with the MEK were sent to the gallows.
Jeremy's emotions throughout the conversation were an amalgam of nihilism, sorrow, and gallows humor.
This was a fight that, in fighters' gallows humor parlance, takes years off lives.
But perhaps the bloodiest corner of these regal hunting grounds was the Tyburn gallows.
The edict is reversed, and Haman is hanged on the gallows meant for Mordecai.
The writers and the editors and Jeff, they have a gallows humor about it.
There is absolutely trash talk, and it's a culture that I would call gallows humor.
While waiting for it to begin, employees adopted a gallows humor in the company Slack.
Get a taste for it as a child and the gallows might be your fate.
Daguerreotypomania, too, includes a gallows for engravers, whose career was seen to be rapidly ending.
Journalists, of course, are no strangers to gallows humor and might once have laughed along.
Gallows Point has a newly rebuilt restaurant and is still repairing a handful of rooms.
Personally, I would bloody bring back the gallows and hang every single one of them.
Other staffers engaged in gallows humor about the disappointing result and went off to drink elsewhere.
Dazzling the jury with his high jinks, he saved his obviously guilty client from the gallows.
Heroic improvisation and gallows humor can only get a population of 3.3 million people so far.
And he of course quips and jokes his way through it, but it's really gallows humor.
In the wings, she gives herself some tongue-in-cheek self-talk peppered with gallows humor.
My social media feeds were a mix of disbelief, gallows humor, panic, despair, and then blame.
As he stood on the gallows, the noose ready, a messenger galloped up with a pardon.
Gregory, however, thought Maggie should set up a gallows and just go full-on war criminal.
Inevitably a sort of gallows humor evolves in studying a species that seems destined for extinction.
Gallow-shaped pages appear in "Lipton, The Gallows Book" (1992), linking Sir Lipton and Stalin; they are burnt into recycled wood slats in "Gallows Drawings 1 – 21" (1994) or in "The Hanged" (1989), a 17-figure sculpture installation to commemorate the executed victims of the 1956 Revolution.
A stage stands on the site of the gallows, and food stalls where the prison kitchens were.
The "heretic" (aka revolutionary) Marthas hanging at the gallows are warnings to the rest of the women.
Through gallows humor, The Carmichael Show can find laughs in everything from police brutality to Bill Cosby.
SAM DURANT My ignorance of the meaning of Mankato gallows for the Dakota people caused this problem.
From there, it's a short trip to the gallows we saw being built in the opening scene.
For many here, slow broadband connections are a source of frustration and an inspiration for gallows humor.
She later added a photo of a stick figure hanging from the gallows, The Washington Times reported.
Two years later, the killer was tried, found guilty, hanged, removed from the gallows, then hanged again.
But member states are now hesitant to deliver that cash, lest they be associated with Tehran's gallows.
Shock, gallows humor, and defanging the alpha male in Yorgos Lanthimos's The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
But the stakes were life or death, and a vivid imagination alone was no reprieve from the gallows.
The women are shepherded into a decrepit, overrun Fenway Park, where three massive gallows have been set up.
"My usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation, and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy," he said.
As a result, wrongful convictions are not uncommon in a country that still sends people to the gallows.
Instead, some took refuge in gallows humour: think of the jobs Mr Trump's wall will create, they joked.
The gallows humor ends with the final shot revealing he was at the wrong funeral the whole time.
It has a wonderful sense of gallows humor, for instance, and the soap opera plotting is really great.
One of Washington's best-connected Republicans passes along this bit of gallows humor that's going around establishment D.C.:
Sharpe, who had once said, "I would rather die upon yonder gallows than live in slavery," was hanged.
He reflects on his relationship with Judaism and his reputation as a Casanova, flashing his distinct gallows humor.
Luckily, the plot was discovered, and while Benedict Arnold escaped the gallows, John André was not as lucky.
I never would have used the Mankato gallows had I contacted representatives from the Dakota community in advance.
As you'll see, occasionally during quiet periods we allowed some gallows humor and personal messages to creep in.
" In an emailed statement to Mashable, Dussault elaborated on the gallows humor of the shirt: "We are from Cleveland.
" Per the Washington Post's Ashley Parker and Abby Phillip: "Some White House staffers have turned to impeachment gallows humor.
So again, it's important that we wait for more information to emerge before we walk her to the gallows.
The familiar tough talk and gallows humor among cops seem achingly poignant when the last days are at hand.
He also wants his teammate to pick him up some dinner now, too: Gallows humor is the best humor.
The gallows humorists of the day, mimicking flight attendants, told travelers to turn back their watches to the 1950s.
There are definitely moments of levity throughout the film, which are often shot through with something like gallows humor.
All this competent basketball made some Knicks fans nervous, leading to some angst-ridden gallows humor on social media.
Witnesses are very rarely called and no forensic evidence presented, raising the likelihood of innocent people going to the gallows.
It's unusually challenging to describe the movie, which veers from action to horror to dystopian sci-fi to gallows comedy.
"Scaffold," she wrote, depicts seven different historical gallows used in hangings sanctioned by the US government between 1859 and 2006.
You can be going through something so awful and still, with some well-placed "gallows humor," find a way out.
The banner was put on a frame in the form of gallows with ropes tied as hanging nooses dangling underneath.
Often observed from behind, David is a soft-spoken and stoop-shouldered, slightly creepy misfit with a dry gallows humor.
The space is grim, just the kind of place you'd imagine as an antechamber to the gallows, or to Hell.
Priebus has a healthy appreciation for gallows humor, which is not a bad thing for an R.N.C. chairman these days.
They talk about WWE hiring Nakamura and AJ Styles, Gallows and Anderson, you gotta put Mauro in that group, too.
The Connecticut Colony sent colonial America's first condemned witch — Alse Young, a resident of Windsor — to the gallows in 1647.
The work, first exhibited in Europe in 2012, depicted gallows that represented seven state-sanctioned executions between 1859 and 2006.
The suggestion appealed to Ms. Jenkins, who saw Jay's desperation and gallows humor as a refreshing change for her friend.
The flight scenes are plenty harrowing, and the gallows humor of the novel and Mike Nichols movie remains very much intact.
AT DAWN earlier this month three men were led to the gallows in Gaza, the first executions for nearly a year.
However, just because something is made to underscore a point or indulge in some gallows humor doesn't mean it can't hurt.
Evidence strong enough to send one suspect to the gallows, for instance, is deemed too weak to convict his co-accused.
Mr Matadi then watches as Kimba, wrists bound, is forced up a short ladder to the hastily erected gallows and hanged.
Reading the spin of modern-day Mad Men on this trend, it certainly feels like they are whistling to the gallows.
On his way to the gallows, it's said that Black Tom was offered a glass of wine by a local landlord.
During the trials of Salem, Massachusetts, symptoms like staring, raucous noises, uncontrolled jumps, and sudden movements sent women to the gallows.
All those captured were hanged for treason except Fawkes, who ignobly fell while climbing to the gallows and broke his neck.
"In three months, maybe, they'll find us with dog sleighs," Leonov joked (one of many instances of astronaut/cosmonaut gallows humor).
Due to his osseous tuberculosis, Ruest was transported to the gallows in a wheelchair and was hanged on July 21962, 1952.
Some White House staffers have taken to dismissing the investigation as "fake news" and using it as grist for gallows humor.
Many students, admissions officers, guidance counselors and teachers reacted to the shutdown with snark and a strong dose of gallows humor.
Gandhi declared it to be his guide — as did his assassin, Nathuram Godse, who carried it with him to the gallows.
The day after Iwao arrived there, the guards took the man in the cell next to his off to the gallows.
The structure was meant to evoke gallows throughout American history, including those used to execute 38 Dakota Indians in Mankato, Minn.
And then there's the gallows humor of laughing at a tragic event that only those too young to remember could exhibit.
The work combines the forms of seven historical gallows used in US government–sanctioned hangings between 1958 and 2006; one of those is the gallows on which 38 Native American men were hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, at the end of the US-Dakota War of 1862 — the largest mass execution in the history of the country.
The last hangman quit in 2014 without ever having to execute anyone, citing stress after seeing the gallows for the first time.
In the depths of tragedy, Notaro seems to be saying, we smile at only two things, really: gallows humor, love, or both.
HTS has erected gallows on the roundabout of one town in Idlib, to warn those who may want to abandon the fight.
He had been dragged to the gallows a handful of times before and saved at the last minute, but not this time.
In the middle of the show, there would be a gallows set up so Cooper could pretend to be executed via hanging.
Almost every week since, the state has led groups of mostly Islamist prisoners to the gallows on what activists call "Hanging Tuesdays".
In the music video, they're more interested in witch ducking, building gallows, drinking scrumpy, conducting pagan rituals, and baking bleeding deer pie.
As junior staff members panicked and breathless police officers urged us out, Senator McCain remained calm, his gallows humor in full force.
It functioned as group therapy as much as entertainment, a kind of gallows humor in the face of a campaign gone mad.
Despite this, we have been able to maintain a gallows sense of humor in an attempt to productively deal with our pain.
In Iowa, party leaders grimly contemplated the end of a four-decade run in the national spotlight with a borderline gallows humor.
I couldn't tell if that was urban running legend or gallows humor, but I was too hot and tired to research further.
The overall effect is darkly funny, but as Berlin's real gardens wither in a historic heatwave, the apocalyptic gallows humour is unsettling.
A comment about capital punishment, Durant's sculpture employs imagery from seven historical gallows used in hanging executions sanctioned by the US government.
After carding a triple bogey, Fowler, in a show of gallows humor, petitioned the rules official, Slugger White, for a rules modification.
It's gallows humor at its finest, reminding us how casually and obviously homophobic America was in the late 1990s, when ACS takes place.
The evidence is really overwhelming that having the wolf at your door, looking at the gallows, all of that concentrates the mind wonderfully.
So many died that the tumbrils used to cart thieves to the gallows were repurposed to carry orphans to the monasteries and convents.
In Arise From The Gallows, modern-day witches, along with Goyette, playfully enact the stereotypes of the hysterical woman, entrapping unwitting puritan men.
Other bravery shows itself through tenderness, as when an innocent prisoner devotes himself to comforting panicked men on their way to the gallows.
The job she has now, in real estate, was previously held by a college student, Sheree tells me with her usual gallows humor.
Sri Lanka's last hangman quit in 2014 without ever having to execute anyone, citing stress after seeing the gallows for the first time.
The politicians whose images were hung from the gallows were Michal Boni, Danuta Hübner, Danuta Jazlowiecka, Barbara Kudrycka, Julia Pitera and Roza Thun.
The piece depicted gallows and was intended to represent seven state-sanctioned executions, including the hanging of 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minn.
How are we supposed to laugh— can we still laugh—when we've just seen corpses swinging from the gallows in a town square?
The work, "Scaffold," by Sam Durant, is a two-story structure that aims to evoke gallows and public executions throughout United States history.
Completed in 1749, Fort Christiansvaern is a national historic site today, an impenetrable yellow structure overlooking the glittering turquoise waters of Gallows Bay.
The gallows humor and camaraderie is the closest you might ever get, in the material world, to an audience with a capricious God.
An old man of the sea in a trench coat smirks nonchalantly, seemingly unbothered by the severed head hanging from a gallows beside him.
For fans of the natural gallows humor Oh brought to Grey's Anatomy for years, don't worry about Comer getting to have all the fun.
The country's last hangman quit in 2014 without having to execute anyone, but he cited stress after seeing the gallows for the first time.
For many terrorism convicts, a stop before the gallows is on a show called "In the Grip of the Law," hosted by Ahmad Hassan.
While they were dragging her to the gallows, she was afraid that her dress might rise above her knees and expose her to shame.
Then, returning to his desk, he gave a seemingly extemporaneous monologue, veering from gallows humor to sentimentality, full of awkward pauses and deep breaths.
" Continues Vieira: "If somebody were a fly on the wall in any newsroom, they'd be shocked by the language, and by the gallows' humor.
As health officials race to contain the dangerous virus, social media users in China are responding to the outbreak with dashes of gallows humor.
His explanation of the comments, in a video that surfaced over the weekend, as "British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor" appeared to sway few.
There's no scaffold or gallows to be found, as such—but the stakes of Hierarch Square are a good enough substitute for any public execution.
But, the state's budget—in many ways, its engine for defiance—is pretty reliant on money from gallows-bound programs like the Affordable Care Act.
In her second film, "Ghost Bitch: Arise from the Gallows," Goyette expands her portrait of modern witchery with a few scenes of Puritan dress-up.
It's also, naturally, bad news for Wall Street investors, some of whom become endlessly entertaining in their gallows humor about the panic around the market.
All of his doctors told him, "if you're going to have cancer, this is the one you want," Lee says, chuckling at the gallows humor.
Before hearing about "the ceremony," or, the state-mandated rapes, gallows humor-loving Moria (Samira Wiley) suspects a turkey baster will be involved in conception.
His works are clogged with human villainy and ungodly fiends — even pastoral backgrounds include blips of horror: a distant gallows or one beast devouring another.
The gallows humor inherent in your stories seems to be a response to how bleak life is for people who live below the poverty line.
In this regard, the self-portrait of Colescott painting a female nude portrait into his late age aligns with his gallows humor and pessimistic outlook.
A change of facial expression or of background scenery could easily transform these works into gruesome horror, but instead they become emblems of gallows humor.
" Not that the onetime sheriff is exactly squeamish about hanging: He led the effort to restore Downieville's historic gallows, and his license plate reads "Hangman.
"We've developed a gallows humor about it," Ressa told me; she had talked about the prospect of prison with the three other founders of Rappler.
It was a gallows-humor reference not only to the football team but also to the weakest teams in town — General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler.
Afghan officials said that an unknown prison officer was Meena's birth father, and officials accused Ms. Gul of deliberately getting pregnant to avoid the gallows.
The objects that emerge from the fog are signposts for signposts — tarot cards, constellations, tokens, the three-line gallows of a children's game of Hangman.
Gallows humor at its best, these clever sculptures represent a provocative and engaging way our species has chosen to laugh at itself these past two decades.
Each one insists, from within its corona of cheerful gallows humor and material-centered humility, on the simple but absolutely unwavering fact of its own being.
I want three hours of Heathers but Dennings – not even a killing spree, but a dark comedy Orange special full of gallows humor and cold laughter.
Thirty-year-old Taimour Reza was sentenced to death, reportedly the first person in the world to be sent to the gallows for a Facebook post.
This regime, if actually sensitive about its "moderate" image, would not be executing women and minors, and would not be sending opposition supporters to the gallows.
His life story was as simple as an errant pitch and as complex as a man going to the gallows for a crime he didn't commit.
There's an undercurrent of gallows humour—quite literally, as members make constant reference to investing in "$ROPE"'—with frank discussion of losses and their emotional fallout.
In the spring the museum erected an outdoor sculpture by the artist Sam Durant that replicated the gallows where 38 Dakota people were executed in 1862.
Now, amid all the hand-wringing, anger and exasperation, the crisis is bolstering Brazil's tradition of gallows humor, fueling a mix of satire and existential resignation.
The Prisons Department began the recruitment process in March after the last hangman quit in 2014, citing stress after seeing the gallows for the first time.
The current research, known as the Gallows Hill Project, was about correcting the misinformation many people have about one of the most tragic episodes in American history.
The top of nearby Gallows Hill had long been thought of as the site of the hangings, but there was no evidence to support that, he said.
There's another story in "A Perfect Day," one that oozes in between the cracked walls and gallows humor and finally has little to do with this movie.
Criticism also centered on the aesthetic of the piece itself, which turns the forms of historical hanging gallows into something that looks like a children's jungle gym.
Mr Landry responded by saying that if the drugs were not available, why not use the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, or the firing squad?
Fame is a fickle food, the social media generation is quick to set up the gallows and entering the Trumpisphere may not be worth it for many.
"Welcome to ground zero," a US customs official joked on arrival, aware of the North Korean threat but laughing it off with a bit of gallows humor.
Would Nixon have complied with the court, narrowly avoiding an actual constitutional crisis, if there had not been a bipartisan group down the street readying the gallows?
One of his major projects was Fairport's 1971 concept album, "'Babbacombe' Lee," about a Victorian convicted of murder who was freed after the gallows failed three times.
The 52nd floor of the Viacom building in New York, where Mr Dauman's office is located, is a mirthless place, "like the gallows", says one former employee.
There was Eliza Fenning, a pretty young cook who went to the gallows for serving her master and his family a heaping plate of arsenic-laced ­dumplings.
In January 2016, Styles and two other Bullet Club members, Karl "Machine Gun" Anderson and Doc Gallows, left New Japan as part of a WWE talent raid.
"When I'm walking up the ramp, I'm thinking: Am I walking up to the gallows where I am going to hang myself?" he told me in 2018.
But its lyrics speak of empty disillusionment, and the refrain, "15 steps, then a sheer drop," is widely thought to refer to being hung from the gallows.
One grateful student pointed out the gallows where anti-Qaddafi protesters had been hanged, while others wondered what the United States might do to help win the peace.
Each song drips with a bit of gallows humor, playing like Galarraga loudly declaring "We're all fucked" with a crooked smile and hearty chuckle at the very end.
The name also lent itself naturally to gallows humor: Once this thing infects your computer, went a joke among security experts, it's game over for your bank accounts.
They may have felt it was a little rum to send someone to the gallows for stealing a cow, so they downgraded the charge or acquitted the defendant.
The film's dialogue was almost entirely improvised by the cast, like "Curb Your Enthusiasm" without the gallows humor, but it followed a 19-page script that Cherry wrote.
And it's been with a cast of big names leaving for WWE: AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Luke Gallows, and Karl Anderson all left and all were key players.
Being sentenced to the gallows after a unanimous "not guilty" from the jury can be one of the most traumatizing experiences one could ever go through in life.
Their actions would echo those that happened after the 1862 execution, he noted, when scavengers hunted for pieces of the dismantled gallows and gravediggers disturbed the buried prisoners.
It was the only channel that I could count on to play the video for the now baffling "Staring at the Rude Bois" by Gallows and Lethal Bizzle.
The terror and finality of death, and its aftermath for survivors, has always been at the core of Ms. Galás's music, but she's got some gallows humor, too.
You've got to realize that when I'm walking up the ramp, and I'm thinking: Am I walking up to the gallows where I am going to hang myself?
In these terms, Mr English was pushing his client to live up to his "rational" self, and to pursue the enlightened path of saving himself from the gallows.
The actor and comedian Larry Wilmore, who hosted the ceremony and brought an edgy humor to the otherwise sober event, tried to lighten the mood with gallows humor.
It's definitely heavy, but it's not sludge, and it's not pure doom, either; it's certainly not stoner rock (though it does swing like a villain from the gallows).
On the bus between locations, for instance, Shepunova handed out some novelty meme postcards MIPT had created to advertise the university's specialty fields with trademark Russian gallows humor.
Living In 11 Photos View Slide Show ' In Alphabet City, a stylishly scruffy part of Manhattan's East Village, civic pride sometimes comes with a dose of gallows humor.
The deeper meaning is in the tale of three young people trapped in crumbling rural Middle America, with nothing but gallows humor and imagination to shape their lives.
On "The Walking Dead," a new season guarantees a few things: some major character deaths, long passages of unbearably charged silence, gallows wisdom about the value of life.
Last September, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis dismantled a gallows-like sculpture after Native American leaders said it evoked a mass hanging of Dakota Indians in 1862.
Thus the area gained a reputation as a haven of free speech, eventually culminating in Speakers' Corner, which today stands close to the site of the erstwhile gallows.
Then it would have been possible to suggest, gallows-humor style, that it was Woods's allergy to Riviera Country Club, and not his back, that was acting up.
As large parts of northern China suffer under thick air pollution, Chinese people are taking to the internet with gallows humor to cope with the thick blanket of smog.
The two films, Ghost Bitch: Arise From The Gallows and Ghost Bitch U.S.A., tackle the horrors of the Salem Witch Trials and the misogyny which still permeates culture today.
Heth is an edge case, like a head on a pike, or a mass grave, or a man hanging from a gallows, a display of decay, a spectacular atrocity.
" For many terrorism convicts, a stop before the gallows is a spot on Iraqi state television, as participants in a reality show called "In the Grip of the Law.
She does not hesitate to dole out grisly punishments: She orders a young Jesuit, found guilty of treason, to be removed from the gallows and disemboweled while still conscious.
We'd spent so much time reading and talking about him that our natural defense against grief was a kind of Muzak cover version of his pitch-perfect gallows humor.
MINNEAPOLIS — The wooden remnants of "Scaffold," the gallows-like sculpture that created so much controversy at the Walker Art Center this summer, will soon be buried in symbolic fashion.
" One of McCain's favorite gallows-humor quips is to proclaim during moments of intense political strife: "Remember the words of Chairman Mao: It's always darkest before it's totally black.
The noose currently at the gallows in Colombo was imported from Pakistan 12 years ago; the government is not planning to import a 12-year-old noose from Pakistan.
That, along with picking up a good sense of gallows humor, because I knew that if I wasn't healthy enough emotionally and physically, I wouldn't suffer the most—he would.
One of the gallows replicated in the sculpture was that used for the hanging of 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota, in 1862 — the largest mass execution in US history.
It's a day that will forever be entrenched in the memory of Iraqis who watched their ruthless leader walk towards the gallows and have a noose tightened around his neck.
Each song drips with a bit of gallows humor, playing like [vocalist Joe] Galarraga loudly declaring "We're all fucked" with a crooked smile and hearty chuckle at the very end.
Coffee Talk Art Print, available on Society6, from $18.74If they're never further than 45 feet from a coffee pot, they'll probably appreciate the gallows humor of this spot-on poster. 
Refugee camps and migrant shelters crackle with gallows humor seen among soldiers and emergency room personnel -- people who live at that strange intersection of the horrific and the absurdly hilarious.
"It's a first because it was treason," de la Peña explains, noting that at the time, the punishment for women who committed treason was being burned alive at the gallows.
A short walk up the street from Mr. Guidi's hotel, the 60-room Gallows Point Resort looked unscathed but was only 58 percent filled, the general manager Akhil Deshwal said.
With its focus on one of the last masters of the British executioner's trade before it was abolished in 1963, "Hangmen" offers a perfect setting for Mr. McDonagh's gallows humor.
According to the Guardian, the gallows-humor hashtag topped the Twitter-like Weibo platform as China entered the Lunar New Year, a grim reminder of a fast-spreading viral outbreak.
It is a composite representation of seven gallows, including those used to execute John Brown and Saddam Hussein, as well as the Dakota 38, who were executed in Mankato, Minn.
Those teeming parts, which together last some seven hours, are run through with Mr. Kush-ner's arresting dialogue, in which characters dispense impassioned political diatribes and lots of gallows humor.
Even those who have managed to stay in Mr. Trump's favor, like Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, have a sense of gallows humor about what might ultimately befall them.
If one comedian's gallows humor about that topic is any indication, a deep cynicism about the depth of racial bias — in Roof's case and in the criminal justice system overall — remains.
"Even criminals dropping straight from the gallows have an undisputed claim to six feet of ground," mourned Sol Plaatje, one of the founders of the African National Congress (ANC), in 1916.
Against a shimmering backdrop of pink, blue, and orange clouds, a Haitian leader in tasseled military regalia appears victorious and resolute as he hoists his French adversary aloft in the gallows.
He said he was joking on the podcast when he discussed oral sex, saying it was no different than the gallows humor that might be used by those suffering from AIDS.
Sure, plenty of video game heroes crack wise, but it usually takes the form of Joss Whedon–like gallows quippery that customarily follows a headshot, or perhaps a good knuckle-cracking.
With a mixture of grim resignation and a dash of gallows humor, aides said that some of them had already stopped working; they were now too busy looking for new jobs.
So, here's the reality: In the President's situation, it is only the prosecutors who will get the free look at Trump's defense case, as he is led to the political gallows.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Even before the shock of last week's deadly Brussels bombings, gallows humor had taken hold in the square kilometer around Schuman Roundabout, the heart of the city's European district.
Physically, it was hardly an improvement on Guantánamo: a hall of grimy cells sat near a gallows, and a diorama in the lobby showed a hangman preparing to dispatch a prisoner.
It was Malle who, casting her in his first feature film, "Elevator to the Gallows," shot her in natural light without heavy makeup, letting her hauntingly expressive face work its magic.
In November, Olga Viso stepped down as executive director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in the wake of protests by Dakota Indian leaders surrounding Sam Durant's artwork evoking gallows.
Unlike Hell or High Water, which had its moments of gallows humor, Wind River is deadly serious at all times, with no space for any human connection other than the saddest kind.
Another hit among dozens over the decades was Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, or Elevator to the Gallows, directed by Louis Malle with a soundtrack of the same name by jazz artist Miles Davis.
He lets soldiers lock her up with Solomon Coop, who threatens her with rape and the gallows for attempted murder unless she signs over her half of Nootka Sound to the crown.
The internet seeks solace in gallows humor and routine evisceration of those who got us in this mess – and oddly, it's the perfect environment for A Series of Unfortunate Events Season 2.
Already operating three bookstores in Seattle, Portland and San Diego, the gallows humor of Amazon the bookstore killer bringing a chain of bookstores back to the U.S. shouldn't be lost on anyone.
Urged into action by her cousin, Esther plays on the king's paranoia, engaging in court intrigue to turn him against Haman, who is hanged on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.
Outside the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library featuring Gordon Bunshaft's design using translucent marble, there is an Isamu Noguchi ("Pyramid, Sun, and Cube") sculpture and an Alexander Calder ("Gallows and Lollipops").
Outside, in the courtyard near the 14 graves, stands a gallows-like contraption used for suspending prisoners by arms bound behind their backs or for dunking them in large pots of water.
Wiley, who considers himself "a field guy, not an office guy," is tall, with reddish-blond hair, and handles the considerable stress of his profession with Cuban cigarillos, gallows humor, and exercise.
If India were to start hanging people for rape, authorities would need to set up gallows the length and breadth of the vast nation of more than 1.3 billion people, Kumari said.
" Going slightly off-script and off-topic, Mr. Cruz also invoked a little gallows humor after someone's phone rang with the whistling theme from Clint Eastwood's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
THESSALONIKI, Greece (Reuters) - Printing campaign leaflets that look like funeral announcements and handing out coffin-shaped car fresheners, a Greek undertaker is using gallows humor to win votes in a city council election.
A prison official said applicants would be sought for two positions of executioner, vacant since March 2014 when the last hangman quit soon after setting eyes on the gallows for the first time.
Artwork by Grimoire World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) recently acquired four talents from New Japan Pro Wrestling which have set the Internet wrestling community aflame: Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson, Shinsuke Nakamura and A.J. Stlyes.
"The authorities' rush to send a child to the gallows in order to placate public anger is short-sighted and misguided," Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa deputy director, said.
By now, some of my colleagues are veteran chroniclers of such shootings, grimly bumping into one another with gallows humor over the past few years in Las Vegas; Colorado Springs; San Bernardino, Calif.
But after bulldozing through 30 minutes of remarks, Bush struggled to mask his own frustration as he asked the audience to vote for him Saturday in words that were dripping with gallows humor.
The last execution in Sri Lanka was 43 years ago, and Sri Lanka's last hangman quit in 2014 without ever having to execute anyone, citing stress after seeing the gallows for the first time.
There's weird comfort in the thought that the First Lady is as much a hostage to her husband's ambition as the rest of us — a textbook illustration of gallows humor if there ever was.
"The gallows used in the sculpture represent a range of executions, some nearly iconic, beginning with John Brown in 1859 and culminating in the scaffold used in Saddam Hussein's hanging in 2006," he wrote.
The Irish poet and rebel was sent to Australia in lieu of the gallows in 1867 and went on to be national hero there for his later literature and early work with civil rights.
Then there's the anxiety: With gallows humor amid a crime wave and fears of terrorism, a bingo game is circulating for people to wager on which day during the Games an attack will occur.
Black Mirror has dabbled in gallows humor before, but this time Brooker has help from acclaimed comedy collaborators Michael Schur and Rashida Jones, who wrote the script based on a story outline by Brooker.
Kerrie Aistrop, a 39-year-old mother of two, and her fellow moms exchange death-toll updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, thought-provoking tweets and a bit of gallows humor.
With the gallows humor of a seasoned journalist, Mr. Muratov was in a jovial mood and told me that he was getting a great kick out of state media's hard turn against Mr. Trump.
Iran continues to send juvenile offenders to the gallows despite a decades-old pledge to not use the death penalty against people who commit a crime while under the age of 18, Amnesty International said.
As far as the deep bleakness of the book, it's in there, but I think there is a brand of gallows humor present as well, the kind that maybe helps sustain people through tough times.
If all you need from the new "Roseanne" is Ms. Barr's materfamilias sarcasm, the crack team of comedy actors surrounding her and an update of the show's working-class gallows humor, it has you covered.
On the night before their date with the White Walkers, they wallowed in the cost of this duty, indulging in gallows humor and fellowship to distract from the undead hordes bearing down on the castle.
The gallows humor about the AK-473 was that if you dropped it in the mud, you could pick it up, bang it against a tree to clear it, and it would start firing again.
A tour of this bleak yet fascinating relic provides a glimpse of convict life over the years: pitch-black solitary confinement cells, subterranean tunnels leading to a courtroom, the gallows where 1503 prisoners were hanged.
The play here, as on Broadway, may wear out its somewhat self-consciously in-your-face welcome, but the sweet-faced Mr. Melling and his authentically accented colleagues do its gallows comedy and its darkness proud.
The wood that formed its composite of seven gallows — re-creations of those used for as many executions sanctioned by the US government — has been removed, and its concrete base and steel structure will go next.
And while there's some gallows humor in a government deciding to ban something innocuous like dancing, it provides the gives the player justified, if illogical, reasons to throw people out of their complex and into jail.
Part of "what distinguishes 'Memories of Murder,' setting it apart from rank-and-file thrillers, is its singular mix of gallows humor and unnerving solemnity," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times.
The earliest documented ghost at the residence is named "Yankee Jim" -– a convicted criminal who was hanged on a gallows off the back of a wagon until he was finally pulled off and strangled to death.
Earlier this month the painter Sam Durant acknowledged his "grave miscalculation" in creating a gallows sculpture in Minneapolis intended to rebuke an act of genocide against 38 Dakota men, after Native communities called the work insensitive.
The last one, P.S.U. Premasinghe, 45, landed the job five years ago but resigned in shock at the first sight of the gallows at the main prison in the capital, Colombo, days after he began training.
It's unusually challenging to describe the movie, which plays out like a particularly bonkers episode of Black Mirror crossed with a Western, and which veers from action to horror to dystopian sci-fi to gallows comedy.
His indulgence of what he might have seen as a bit of gallows humor was also a mistake, says Tod Burke, a professor of criminal justice at Radford University in Virginia and a former Maryland police officer.
This creeping sense of dread—which makes me prone to gallows humor when not simply looking at the floor, after someone asks me how climate programs will fare under Trump—makes the job that much more challenging.
As for that action, it produces a few highlights, the best being a rescue from the gallows with a swiveling guillotine as part of the bargain; and the worst in a frantic sequence featuring a runaway bank.
The dance is accompanied by Miles Davis's score for " Elevator to the Gallows " (1958), and deepened still further by the light—or, rather, by the failing of the light, which turns Hae-mi into a semi-silhouette.
Essentially a perfect pop hit, "Beat Your Heart Out" embodies all the silliness that comes with an inflated crush; Dalle switches from speaking in parables and gallows imagery to cliché ("Baby, you make my heart beat faster").
WARSAW — It may have been a political protest, but it came across like a death threat: Pictures of six Polish politicians were strung from a makeshift gallows in a public square in the southern city of Katowice.
Originally constructed in 1912 as Lead's town hall, the building was used for several purposes over the years including the mayor's and treasurer's office, a jail, judge's chambers and even gallows, which were directly behind the building.
Superheroes are powerful and beloved, held in high esteem by society at large; the idea that a normal black person could experience such a thing in America was so far-fetched as to effectively constitute gallows humor.
Best known for his work with Silver Jews—a band he formed with Pavement's Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich in 1989—Berman spent 30 years mining gallows humor and tack-sharp poetry from despair and muted desperation.
That was the case at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis last year when it showed Sam Durant's gallows-themed "Scaffold" — an attempt, the artist said, to address the state-sanctioned hanging of Dakota men in 21920.
Inspecting the collections of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the archivist reminded me that the Bauhaus was forced to leave the city because of the rise of the political right — "just like today!" she cried, with gallows cheeriness.
Over the course of the year, the Salem Witch Trials saw nearly 200 people accused of practicing "the Devil's magic" and claimed the lives of 19 on Gallows Hill before the chapter of terror came to a close.
One of the gallows the piece represents was used to hang 38 Native men in Mankato, Minnesota at the end of the US-Dakota War of 1862, the largest mass execution in the history of the United States.
Ravel proves a supreme colorist in the work's three movements, based on poems by Aloysius Bertrand: "Ondine," with its billowing, watery flow; "Le Gibet" ("The Gallows"), desolate in its inexorable tread; and "Scarbo," named for a tormenting dwarf.
In the legal profession, the sardonic "Queen for a Day" description of such an important process is a form of gallows humor deriving from the name of a popular television show, whose heyday was from 1956 to 1964.
But don't be fooled by the gallows humor of chapter names like "Sieg High" and "High Hitler": This is a serious and original work of scholarship that dropped jaws around Europe when it was published there last year.
While Kavanaugh won't be headed to the gallows, this modern-day witch hunt not only causes him and his family to suffer for the years to come, but will set a terrible precedent for future Supreme Court nominees.
At once a satire of 1980s consumer culture and a terrifying horror film, "American Psycho" isn't for the faint of heart, but is worth a watch for anyone who's a fan of gallows humor and slick 80s aesthetics. 
And the Ministry of Justice and Prison Reforms decided this week to import a new noose; the one at the gallows now was brought in from Pakistan 12 years ago and has never been used in an execution.
"Elsa" who faced the blizzard in a long, flowing blue dress and a silver wig, single-handedly helped pushed the police vehicle out of the snow – much to the excitement of those taking shelter at The Gallows, a gastropub.
The Washington Post reported that a group of men, led by an anti-Islamic nationalist, brought the gallows out onto the street outside of an event where Khan, the city's first Muslim mayor, was giving a speech on Saturday.
MIAMI — In the gallows humor of Florida politics, the joke among campaign staffers and news reporters has been running for 18 years, ever since the traumatic presidential election of 2000: Don't make any plans for immediately after Election Day.
Assing shielded him when he was on the run from conspiracy charges in connection with John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, when he came within a hairbreadth of being captured and marched to the gallows with his revolutionary friend.
Coal-black gallows humor and a rising body-count punctuate the silliness inherent to the fish-out-of-water story, especially since that "fish" is a man capable of extreme violence and the "water" is LA's vapid acting scene.
Mr. Durant's wood-and-steel scaffold, made in 2012 and previously exhibited without incident in Europe at venues including Documenta 13, is a composite of the gallows used in seven United States government-sanctioned hangings from 1859 to 2006.
But on Sunday, there was no doubt that the talks over the late budget — already the latest in Mr. Cuomo's tenure — had been a grueling reminder of the sometimes-challenging work of governing, and an inspiration for gallows humor.
All of this requires vigilance in protecting gains we've made, but a sense, yes, of equanimity, a sense of purposeful calm and optimism, and a sense of humor—sometimes gallows humor after results like the ones we just had.
The Balladeer's three portraits in song are as catchy as musical theater gets: the one for Booth a banjo tune, Czolgosz's a common-man anthem, Guiteau's a hymn of uplift — after which he is literally uplifted, on the gallows.
Yet the "whole magical art" is definitely lopsided into the darkest of arts, from sigillary nude body art to necromancy of gallows corpses to Devil pacts, and its content seems intended to thrill the reader with its transgressive themes.
The Baghdad government is believed to be holding thousands of ISIS men and women behind bars, has sentenced more than 300 locals and foreigners to death on terrorism charges – and wasted no time in already sending dozens to the gallows.
A tip for Trump's America For much of the evening, though, gallows humor reigned, as the comedians joked about how Trump might enforce a ban on Muslim immigrants (hint: bacon cheeseburgers) and whether there will be WiFi in Muslim internment camps.
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This past January, the WWE raided the company's roster a day after the annual Wrestle KingDom event at the Tokyo Dome, poaching top stars Shinsuke Nakamura and AJ Styles as well as its tag-team champions Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows.
Next to shots of labor camps, people being weighed down by kettlebells in pools, a bunch of Handmaids lined up on the gallows, and Aunt Lydia, who somehow got hold of a microphone, the trailer teases Offred's (Elisabeth Moss) freedom.
The mullahs have also proved their "sickening enthusiasm" of sending juveniles to the gallows, all in violation of international laws and respecting no bounds in this regard, said Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Middle East and North Africa Program Director of Amnesty International.
In 2017, the artist Sam Durant's "Scaffold" went on view in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden of the Walker Art Center, approximating the form of a gallows where 38 Dakota people were massacred on the order of President Lincoln in 1862.
She returned with the current copy of The New Yorker and started reading out loud from his now-legendary story "Don't Eat Before Reading This," in which he detailed the realities of a professional kitchen with gallows humor and scientific precision.
Unlike those blond babes (like Roxie Hart, the floozy in the musical "Chicago") who were cleared of homicide by all-male jury trials, Sabella, an Italian immigrant who was as plain as a mud fence, was destined for the gallows.
On the way to the gallows, the sheriff says that sometimes, in shootouts with desperadoes or when wrestling cattle rustlers at the edge of a cliff, he suffers trepidations, and he wonders if the schoolmarm is feeling anything like that now?
THIS MORTAL BOY By Fiona Kidman One December night in 1955, a 20-year-old Irish immigrant named Albert Black, wearing heavy boots to make his hanging snap, shuffled to the gallows of a dark prison in Auckland, New Zealand.
Rockstar Games teased new game modes, races and cars coming to its popular GTA Online, including two new Adversary Modes called Resurrection — "a gallows humor take on dodgeball" — and an homage to top-down 2D GTA games appropriately called Top Down.
Turning a virus that's killed nearly 8,000 people, especially in China and Japan, into a cute anime girl is insensitive to that reality... but it's also a way people have chosen to cope using gallows humor and a horny anime drawing.
Hasina's government, which began her term in 2009 cracking down on Islamist groups and sending top leaders to the gallows for war crimes during the 1971 independence war, is seen by some as increasingly high-handed after nearly a decade in power.
On my third visit to the exhibition, I began to appreciate, if that is the right word, the placement of the belts, passing over the gaps between the stretchers so that, from a certain angle, the wood seems to form a gallows trap.
"Busted: Wikileaks caught me doing phone calls while getting married in an election year," Rabin-Havt, a former Harry Reid staffer who now hosts a show on Sirius/XM radio quipped, adopting the gallows humor of many Democrats with exposure to the hack.
The mullahs have also proved their "sickening enthusiasm" of sending juveniles to the gallows, all in violation of international laws and respecting no bounds in this regard, according to Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Middle East and North Africa Program Director of Amnesty International.
This anarchic D.C. death/crust outfit released their most recent album—the sinister, spine-crushing Corpse Fortress—back in March, but they've just released a chilling new video rife with witchcraft, gallows, and ritual murder that I wanted to share with y'all.
Party veterans responded Wednesday with a mix of anger about the damage they saw Mr. Trump doing to their party's reputation and gallows humor about his apparent inability, or unwillingness, to run a credible presidential campaign in a year that once appeared promising.
I could picture my old friends, numbing themselves to the banal brutality of the world with liquor and gallows humor, enraged at having been fucked out of a quality of life their parents had known, which itself wasn't that great to start.
Like Mr. Puiu's depressing 2006 masterpiece — "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," a portrait of a dying man being callously shuffled from hospital to hospital as he expires — "Sieranevada" has an unsparingly cynical view of the world leavened with a dry gallows humor.
On Capitol Hill, while members of Congress have taken pains to present a calm front, a newfound sense of dread has quietly set in — as much among senior lawmakers as among low-ranking staff aides — manifesting alternately as manic denial and gallows humor.
All of Conor McGregor's humming of historical feats, his rhetoric of record-breaking rumbles and his guaranteeing of the gallows approaching for Rafael Dos Anjos has been in vain, as the UFC lightweight champion withdrew from their March 5 super fight this morning.
Oliver Cromwell was buried here in 1658, after he helped dethrone and execute King Charles I. But three years later, after the restoration of the monarchy, his body was dug up and hung from a gallows at Tyburn, London's main public execution site.
Steltner, who has served for more than a dozen years as the spokesman for the Berlin state prosecutor, resembles a detective out of classic crime fiction: crisp suit, wavy gray hair and a gallows humor that comes with having seen it all.
Olga Viso, whose last year at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has been mired in conflict over a sculpture that depicted gallows, will step down from her position as executive director at the end of the year, the museum announced Tuesday.
In Ms. Nwandu's play, which opened on Monday at the Claire Tow Theater, Moses and Kitch are a dispossessed team like Vladimir and Estragon, stuck in an existential cycle of hopelessness they try to master with gallows humor and jags of deluded optimism.
The Walker's executive director, Olga Viso, expressing deep regret at the "anger and sadness" that "Scaffold" had brought to local Native Americans, quickly agreed with Mr. Durant to remove the gallows structure from the sculpture garden — a space where children often play.
A lot of the political humor that doesn't come from fan-fave contributor Vic Berger is gallows-y in a way that can feel cheap, even market-tested, leaning hard on the internet's favorite mode of speaking — existential dread and off-hand quips about doomsday.
At a time when one would think Iran after the nuclear agreement with the international community would begin to wind down its human rights violations, especially the use of executions, recent reports indicate 33 individuals were sent to the gallows on Tuesday, Aug. 2.
Walker spiced it up at times with references to lawsuits multiplying like "Star Trek" Tribbles, a joke about an argument not passing the smell test being like having his face pushed into a "cow patty" and a gallows-humor reference to his late grandmother.
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet.
This week, the group released a dramatic promo video for their lead single "Deutschland," which portrayed members of the band at the gallows with nooses around their necks, dressed like prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp with one even donning the yellow Star of David.
One year after Olga Viso said that she would step down as leader of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in the wake of conflict over a sculpture that depicted gallows, the center on Tuesday has chosen Mary Ceruti as its next executive director.
But in the first six episodes made available for review, it verges on that territory, from an excruciatingly long sequence of dozens of people being led to a gallows to another (in the same episode) of a woman being handcuffed to a stove with an open flame.
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti—who rose from provincial obscurity to dominate his country and wage war across the Middle East, becoming the scourge of three American presidents, ally to another, and, finally, the most prominent casualty of the war on terror—ascends the gallows.
Occasionally news of Christina trickles back to us: she waters with her tears the places where men are accustomed to sin; she goes to the gallows and suspends herself among thieves; she enters the graves of dead men and there makes lamentation for the sins of men.
In 22019 alone the world witnessed in all-out shock how the mullahs sent nearly 1,000 people to the gallows, as reported by Ahmed Shaheed, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, adding last year marked Iran's highest number of executions in nearly 30 years.
IN 1978, a year before the Iranian revolution overthrew the shah and an Islamic republic was declared, the artist Ardeshir Mohassess drew a cartoon showing a king in a turban and sash hanging from the gallows, as a crowd beneath him presents itself to the viewer's eye.
Five years ago, the St. Catharines-bred champs of Canadian post-hardcore announced they were calling it a day after guitarist Wade MacNeil accepted a job fronting UK hardcore act Gallows and guitarist/singer Dallas Green opted to pursue his wildly successful solo project City & Colour full-time.
The now dismantled "Scaffold," which referenced seven historical gallows, including one that hung 38 Dakota warriors at the end of the U.S. Dakota War, had enraged local Native communities, and questions of Durham's Cherokee identity caused members of Native communities both locally and nationally, to further distrust the Walker.
After a found-footage-style prelude establishing the telekinetic, or whatever it is, power of the play-that-kills called "The Gallows," the movie, written and directed, as the first one was, by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, brings us into a fresh world of high-school drama.
In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living humans!" writes investigative journalist Nellie Bly in her 1887 exposé, Ten Days in a Mad-House, which gives readers a revelatory view into a New York City "lunatic asylum.
Paris-born, Moreau was a trained stage actress and member of the Comedie Francaise before receiving critical attention for a pair of 1958 films, both directed by Louis Malle — Elevator to the Gallows and The Lover — before capturing international acclaim for her role in Truffaut's Jules et Jim.
There was gallows humor, but we -- we never had that fire snuffed out and that is a point of pride for me because what that tells me is there's a whole generation of people who worked in this administration who are going to keep on doing stuff... AXELROD: Yeah.
But it's a grim gallows chuckle, because we live in the decade of the dick pic — an age where one man's inability to keep it in his pants, and the technology that enabled him, literally changed the course of history by helping elevate Donald Trump to the White House.
At the crack of dawn that day, at perhaps the exact moment that a Taliban elder was opening my prison door to set me free, hundreds of miles away, a cell door in Rawalpindi was opening and the executioner was readying the gallows to hang my father's assassin.
At the headquarters of the SOMA educational organization, the artist took responsibility and assumed a massive oversight by himself and the museum leading up to the installation of the work, which alludes to seven historical gallows used in hangings sanctioned by the US government between 1859 and 2006.
With the blessing of artist Sam Durant, the museum allowed for the destruction of Scaffold—a 2012 sculpture resembling the gallows used for a number of executions, including that of 38 Dakota Native Americans in 1862—by the Dakota people who protested its installation in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
"Scaffold," a wood and steel structure depicting the gallows used in seven historic hanging executions sanctioned by the US government, was dismantled after members of the Dakota Nation objected to its portrayal of the structure used to hang the Dakota 38 at Mankato, Minnesota following the US-Dakota War of 1862.
" Though recent albums have focused more on relationships than social commentary, Political Radiohead made a timely return on last year's A Moon Shaped Pool, loaded with all-too-apropos political paranoia: "Stay in the shadows / Cheer at the gallows / This is a round up / This is a low flying panic attack.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Disappearing Acts, the Museum of Modern Art's second Bruce Nauman retrospective in a quarter century, is a repackaging of an artist whose propensity for Neo-Dada stunts in the late 1960s evolved over five decades into fatuous gallows humor and an inexplicable obsession with torment.
Against all blackly comic odds, there was a soul to be found coursing beneath the convulsive gallows humor of Martin McDonagh's "Hangmen," by some measure the best new play of the year and doubly welcome for returning Mr. McDonagh to the London stage for his first local premiere in a dozen years.
On the pre-show, Bobby Roode will host an open challenge to defend the WWE United States Championship; Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson will face The Revival; and Kalisto, Lince Dorado, and Gran Metalik will face TJP, Gentleman Jack Gallagher, and Drew Gulak in a Cruiserweight Division Six-Man Tag Team Match.

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