It didn't matter that the Slants could still go by the name "Slants" with or without federal registration.
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Asian-American band The Slants can't trademark their name because it's "offensive" Asian-American band The Slants can't trademark their name because it's "offensive" This segment originally aired Jan.
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The term "slants," it said, is offensive to Asian people.
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For me, [the Slants case] is just another moment and stage.
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But it isn't just the fate of The Slants that's at stake.
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Tam, centers on an Asian-American dance-rock band named The Slants.
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The Slants were denied trademark protection in 2013, and appealed the ruling.
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Factually inaccurate sources also tend to have strong left- or right-wing slants.
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Sanders roasted McClain on a bevy of slants, curls, and stop-and-gos.
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In June 21999, the Slants submitted a 22014-page request for reconsideration that included the results of a survey designed by two university professors, who concluded that few members of the Asian and Pacific Islander community viewed "the Slants" as disparaging.
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The justices will hear a case about the Slants, an Asian-American rock band.
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But the government, in its Supreme Court brief in the Slants case, Lee v.
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His playing is full of hard slants and sharp-cornered phrases and stubborn power.
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The patent office's first refusal to register the Slants runs 20163 pages, including attachments.
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But the Slants aren't the first Asian American rock band to reclaim a racial epithet.
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Sunlight slants through the windows and smokes on the green baize of the billiards table.
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Importantly, nothing stopped Tam from exclusively using The Slants for the name of his band and from stopping others from using The Slants, should he choose to do so, by asserting a claim for unfair competition or false designation of origin under 15 U.S.C. § 1125.
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The Dykes even filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court in support of The Slants.
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Again, facts and evidence are better than assumptions and the biased slants of many media sources.
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There are a lot of credible news sources out there that just have these partisan slants.
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He wraps a microfiction around a pillar; another slants between the staircase and a closet door.
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The board said the term "slants" referred to people of Asian descent in a disparaging way.
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The Supreme Court granted certiorari to the Slants, but has declined to hear the Redskins' case.
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Neither one of these slants seemed to reflect the reality of Qatar or my own experience.
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Still, the outcome of The Slants' case would definitely have a ripple effect on the Redskins' case.
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For decades, small cities in the United States had morning and evening newspapers with different political slants.
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The Washington Redskins appealed that decision, but that decision was held in abeyance pending The Slants case.
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The appeals court put the case aside while the Supreme Court considered the Slants case, Matal v.
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We talked to the frontman of the Slants, the Asian-American rock group that brought the case.
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The Slants frontman, Simon Shiao Tam, sued the PTO after it refused to register the Portland, Ore.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor said no one is stopping the band from calling and advertising themselves as The Slants.
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Blackhorse, No. 15-1311, along with the Slants case, even though the Fourth Circuit has not yet ruled.
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We know the knots for creating shelter within trees: A-frames, slants, more elaborate designs if you're able.
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Because by 3, children at his liberal school were using racial epithets and pulling their eyes into slants.
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Last year, in the Slants case, a federal appeals court in Washington found the Lanham Act's disparagement provision unconstitutional.
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In 2011, Simon Tam, the lead singer of a band called The Slants, tried to trademark the band's name.
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So is the trademark for the Asian-American band The Slants, who were at the center of the case.
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Meanwhile, the Slants case was picking up steam and looked as though it was headed to the Supreme Court.
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Many commentators have warned of the , pointing to how news outlets spin events based on their respective ideological slants.
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The ska punk band the Chinkees, who the Slants have shouted out as an inspiration, began releasing music in 1998.
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Tam, the court ruled that an Asian-American dance-rock band called the Slants was entitled to federal trademark registration.
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Tam, you have to remember that the Slants' case originates not with a court but with a federal administrative agency.
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Matal v Tam "has vindicated First Amendment rights not only for The Slants, but [for] all Americans" opposed to government censorship.
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I never challenged these slants and didn't bother to find out if the woman in the story might tell it differently.
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Lawyers for the team asked the Supreme Court to take up their case at the same time as "The Slants" case.
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The Slants rock band, whose members are Asian-American, chose the name specifically to reclaim a term used to disparage Asians.
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While these algorithms also use data, math and computation, they are a fountain of bias and slants — of a new kind.
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I also write for Israel-based publications like The Jerusalem Post and The Times of Israel, with their differing editorial slants.
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After crossing the aptly named Division Avenue, Bedford slants to the right, putting the ramp to the Williamsburg Bridge into view.
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An earlier version of a picture credit with this article misidentified the photographer who took the picture of the band Slants.
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It was time, they decided, to start taking things more seriously and file a trademark application for their name: the Slants.
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Long before Tam had even dreamed up the name "the Slants," Native American activists were gunning for the Washington Redskins' trademarks.
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The plan proposes a 10-acres sloped park that slants from the upper tier of the BQE down to the waterfront.
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The disparagement clause's fate, however, was likely sealed the moment the Supreme Court denied the Washington appeal, in favor of The Slants'.
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After Mr Stewart's rough turn at the lectern, John Connell, the lawyer for The Slants, might have thought he'd enjoy smoother sailing.
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"The people we met, I don't know a lot about their political slants but I don't think they were Nazis," Hahn said.
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There's also an argument that Twitch's community slants towards console and PC games, with mobile and casual games not taken as seriously.
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Tam, in which an Asian-American rock band won the right to copyright the name "The Slants" despite the name's offensive connotation.
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Asian-American rock group, The Slants, are free and clear to trademark their name after a Supreme Court ruling in their favor.
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Here, Slants bassist Simon Tam talks with VICE News correspondent Dexter Thomas about navigating the music industry as an Asian-American artist.
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The band's legal dispute began when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused to grant trademark protection for The Slants' name in 2013.
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As usual, Mr. Neuenfels's interpretive slants come through the most in the way he lumps groups of people together during episodes with chorus.
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Eat Here you stand at the sink, washing your plate — the light slants harder than yesterday, you realize; back-to-school weather. Caruthers!
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The case involved an Asian-American band called the Slants, whose trademark application had been denied on the grounds that it was offensive.
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The band is called "The Slants," but the members are all Asian and say they're taking back the slur and exercising free speech.
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Now, as the women's shoe industry slants from heels to sneakers, sporty options like Nike and adidas are the leading footwear options for teens.
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Many political scientists consider the House maps in Republican states like North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio and Texas to have the most pronounced partisan slants.
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It can fire new generation rail guns and lasers, and the destroyer features a new tumblehome design, where the hull slants inward rather than outward.
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The Supreme Court's decision in The Slants case does not address these similarly subjective grounds for refusal, leaving open this avenue for future registration refusals.
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Many political scientists consider the House maps in Republican-controlled states like North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio and Texas to have the most pronounced partisan slants.
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Monday's ruling in favor of The Slants would have protected the designers, since the name Blue Ivy would have been an exercise of free speech.
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Over a decade ago, I started what many have referred to as the world's first and only all-Asian-American dance rock band, the Slants.
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We had called ourselves the Slants as a way of seizing control of a racial slur, turning it on its head and draining its venom.
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Tam, who sees antiracism as a big part of what the Slants do, does not care for the Redskins or the team's owner, Dan Snyder.
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And in practice, the "substantial composite" test for disparagement turns cases like the Redskins' and the Slants' into a frenzy of expensive surveys and experts.
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" Justice Kennedy quickly pressed him on the limits of his argument, asking whether a non-Asian band intending to mock Asians could trademark "the Slants.
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In a New York Times op-ed, the Slants frontman Simon Tam argued that their case was about reclaiming the power of a disparaging word.
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The second route, called the "preferred route" by TransCanada, slants more eastward, then dips south before essentially running parallel to the bottom of the initial route.
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The Slants had sought to trademark the band's name despite the term "slant eye" historically being used as a racial slur against people of Asian descent.
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John Yang, president of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, a Washington, D.C., civil rights organization, said the Slants' motivations for reappropriating a derogatory term were honest.
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He remembers how cobblestones look after rain, how sun slants through clouds and how miserable he felt as a young man stuck in a clerical job.
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The case, concerning an Asian-American dance-rock band called the Slants, will probably also effectively resolve a separate one concerning the Washington Redskins football team.
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Tam, No. 15-153, said that the trademark law did not ban any speech and that the Slants were free to continue to use their name.
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But Warhol's happy commodifying of art couldn't sit well with her, given the ideological slants that she shares with others in her social and artistic milieu.
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But Dykes on Bikes and the Slants aren't the only people caught in the cross hairs of Section 2(a) — they're just the more sympathetic ones.
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Tam, an Asian American band goes up against the US Patent and Trademark Office, who denied their application to officially register their "disparaging" name: The Slants.
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Maynard's argument is similar to that offered by The Slants, a Portland, Oregon-based Asian-American dance rock band, which failed in 2013 to trademark its name.
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It also doesn't help that studies have shown the news often slants negative because people are often more drawn to depressing stories, often without even realizing it.
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Refinery29's audience slants female, so under the merger content will now reach a "total youth media audience" with increase focus on nonbinary consumers, the company said.
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"It is pretty obvious if you scan the headlines of major newspapers that the coverage slants negative in a way that is so offensive," she told me.
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"We had called ourselves the Slants as a way of seizing control of a racial slur, turning it on its head and draining its venom," Tam wrote.
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At this point, Austin is a slants-and-screens guy who is prone to dropping the ball—not exactly what you want in your passing game's primary target.
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The Falcons don't really have a true broken-tackle threat in their proper receiving corps, so short slants remained short and easy yardage was hard to come by.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy asked the band's attorney, John Connell, whether a group of non-Asians using the name The Slants to mock Asians could be denied a trademark.
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The team's appeal, also on free speech grounds, is on hold in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, pending the outcome of The Slants' case.
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Because the two lines bring attention to the outer top lid and inner bottom lid, they are almost parallel in their downward slants, creating a doubly lengthening effect.
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When I back away from a poem I back away at that exceptional moment it begins to come together under my attentions and other slants of propitious light.
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The band added that it should win on its First Amendment argument and two others: that the law is unconstitutionally vague and that "the Slants" is not disparaging.
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If the justices agree to hear the Slants case, the petition said, they should hear the Redskins case, too, even though the Fourth Circuit has not yet ruled.
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The Slants had attempted to trademark their controversial name back in 2011, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shot them down based on the name being disparaging.
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In that case, an Asian-American rock band sued after the government refused to register its band name, "The Slants," because it was seen as offensive to Asians.
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If a band consisting of non-Asians had tried to register "The Slants," the government reviewer would likely have failed to interpret the term as offensive to begin with.
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The case centered on an Asian-American band called the Slants that had lost its trademark protection, even though it said the name was not intended to disparage anyone.
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And it is the official opinion of the office that the name of Tam's band, "the Slants," disparages a group of people that includes Tam and all his bandmates.
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First of all, for all its concept-y scoops, slants, and edges, the Terzo Millennio is unmistakably a Lamborghini, especially when you look at it dead on from the side.
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The Washington Redskins football team, which was stripped of their trademark on the same grounds last year, have hitched their wagon to The Slants' case, much to the band's dismay.
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The bottom line: Freedom of expression and protection of the oppressed can coexist, if people take the example set by The Slants and do the work to defend them both.
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The case in question involves a Portland-based band called The Slants, who were denied a trademark because their band name is a racist term for people of Asian descent.
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If the court, however, agrees to hear an appeal from the federal government in The Slants' case, the Redskins want the court to hear its case at the same time.
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Earlier this year, the Washington Redskins asked the court to take its case challenging the PTO's decision to cancel its trademark if the court agreed to hear The Slants' appeal.
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You'll want to revisit them over and over, and see how you'll react to them under different circumstances, different slants of light (that's why I read "The Midnight Zone" three times).
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Interactive Brokers founder Thomas Peterffy, a Donald Trump supporter, on Monday blasted The New York Times for what he considers coverage that slants toward Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
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Indy's unit — coordinated by former Dallas linebackers coach Matt Eberflus — is built around the same zone concepts and D-line slants and stunts that Cowboys coordinator Rod Marinelli has long favored.
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The Washington Redskins will now enjoy the benefit of using "®" in connection with the team's name, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court and a little known band called The Slants.
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Beckham also said the Giants coaching staff tended to look to him only on third downs, running the same slants so frequently that the defense would call it on the field.
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The case was brought by the Slants, an Asian-American dance-rock band that had chosen its name — a familiar slur against people of Asian descent — to defuse its negative power.
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But look a little closer and you'll notice that the Throttleshot Blitz (see below) looks like it's an upside down pistol and the rest of the blasters have a design that slants.
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Then in 22017, an examining attorney at the USPTO told Simon Tam, the Chinese-American frontman of the dance rock band The Slants, that his band name was disparaging to Asian-Americans.
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The opinion was a victory for an Asian-American musician who named his rock band "the Slants" in an attempt to take back a term that was once directed as an insult.
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Instead of calling for the ability to record and playback an event we want permission to offer our own slants on events, no matter how far removed we are from the action.
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In his first extensive interview in years, Depp talked about his legal troubles, and the wild slants of his career these past few years, but he refused to mention Heard by name.
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But the Chinkees' influence persists not just on American bands like the Slants, but overseas as a counter to saccharine and non-confrontational K-pop, which is East Asia's dominant musical export.
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The Washington Redskins asked the court in April to hear its case if it also agreed to review a similar case involving a band called The Slants, which is did last week.
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The Supreme Court in 2017 unanimously struck down a similar ban on derogatory trademarks in a case involving a Asian-American dance-rock band called The Slants, also on First Amendment grounds.
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Anyone who looks at the piles of dictionary screencaps in the Slants case might very well be concerned that the patent office is not currently designed to produce subtle, socially aware judgments.
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The court's decision in the case, concerning an Asian-American dance-rock band called the Slants, will probably also effectively resolve a separate one in favor of the Washington Redskins football team.
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The Slants' victory sparked a national debate over the ownership of language and resulted in the Department of Justice ceding in a case brought by Washington, DC's football team over trademark registration.
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Washington was making a similar argument in an appeal on the cancellation of six of its trademarks, but while announcing it would hear The Slants' case, the Supreme Court declined to hear Washington's.
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Where the Slants are Killers-esque, the Chinkees' sound is more reminiscent of the Specials (who Park is still listening to these days, along with ska legends like Desmond Dekker and Prince Buster).
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The Washington Redskins team has asked the Supreme Court to hear its case challenging the cancellation of its trademark, pending the court's review of a similar case involving a band called The Slants.
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Political agendas, partisan slants, a porous line between journalists and publicists (who call themselves journalists), anonymous reconstructions, conspiratorial tones and little accountability for false reports have riddled the credibility of the Italian press.
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In 2015, an en banc panel ruled that the disparagement clause of Section 19903(a) is unconstitutional under the First Amendment and tossed out the trademark office's determination that "the Slants" was unregistrable.
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Tam, the court held it was unconstitutional to refuse to trademark the Asian-American band name "The Slants," because a clause in the federal law governing trademarks violated the first amendment of the Constitution.
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In "Pasha 2" (1989), he positions two large-scale photographs atop tasseled pillows, sitting on a Persian carpet on a platform that slants it several inches off the floor (much like Vito Acconci's "Seedbed").
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" That was after an early decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that denied the rock band, The Slants, a trademark registration because a bureaucrat said that it was "disparaging.
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The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Asian-American dance-rock band The Slants in striking down a provision in trademark law that banned the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) from registering disparaging names.
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When the sun slants through a bay of small arched windows in the morning, it casts the room in a nearly identical chiaroscuro, which migrates into the dining and living rooms throughout the afternoon.
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Simon Tam, front man for The Slants, "the first and only all-Asian American dance rock band in the world", sought to trademark the band's name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
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That case involved the efforts of an Asian American band called "The Slants" to register its name in an effort, according to its front man Simon Tam, to culturally reappropriate a derogatory term for Asians.
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The board said the term "slants" referred to people of Asian descent in a disparaging way and cited Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, which bars it from registering scandalous, immoral or disparaging marks.
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The U.S. government argues that The Slants can still use their band name without a registered trademark and that the Lanham Act is an important law that protects states from having to approve disparaging terms.
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She is depicted as a stick figure with two small slants for eyes, a rendering that reads as a reclamation of Asian stereotypes by the director Ann Marie Fleming, who is also of Chinese descent.
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There are ways to save the Slants that don't also save the Redskins, the most obvious of which would be for the Supreme Court to redefine "disparaging" in a way that makes room for reappropriation.
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If nothing else, the court can use Mr. Brunetti's case to sort out just what it meant to say in the 2017 decision, which ruled for an Asian-American dance-rock band called the Slants.
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In the case of Simon Tam, "The Slants" was refused repeatedly, with the examining attorney citing sources like Urban Dictionary and a blog post about Miley Cyrus pulling her eyes back to make fun of Asians.
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Although the justices declined to take up the Redskins appeal, last Friday they announced they would take up a similar case involving an Asian-American rock band -- called "the Slants" -- that seeks to register its name.
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Still, the justices didn't seem convinced that they should side with the government and reverse the lower court ruling siding with The Slants Justice Elena Kagan grappled with why the law only applies to disparaging terms.
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It slants groundward at a 26-degree angle and is equipped to generate the maximum amount of solar power, which will help the building eventually pay back all the energy that was used to build it.
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In that way, El Camino tries in two hours to give us a counterpart to Walter White's existential evolution — fitting, since the show always posed Walt and Jesse as following parallel paths but with diametrically opposed slants.
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The court on Thursday took up eight new cases, including another intellectual property fight over whether the Oregon-based Asian-American rock band The Slants can trademark its name despite the term's history as a racial slur.
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"For me, it's about the right for marginalized communities to say what's best for themselves and not have some government agency make that decision for us," Simon Tam, the founder and bassist of The Slants told Crosscut.
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The Supreme Court has made an inspiring decision in The Slants case in that it protects all of our rights -- not just the rights of an eminently likable rock band and a somewhat less-than beloved football team.
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The Redskins asked the Supreme Court on Monday to have their case heard alongside that of the Asian-American rock group the Slants, who are trying to trademark their own name by challenging the same piece of law.
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The decision, concerning an Asian-American dance-rock band called the Slants, was viewed by a lawyer for the Washington Redskins as a strong indication that the football team will win its fight to retain federal trademark protection.
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It belongs to Mr. Gilliam's "Beveled-Edged" series, in which he slants his stretcher bars at a 45-degree angle, making them instantly visible to the viewer and adding an element of bulk or boxiness to the painting.
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The Slants were initially refused a trademark because the United States Patent and Trademark Office considered the band's name, as it did with "Redskins," to be disparaging and thus in violation of the disparagement clause in the Lanham Act.
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As if to bless the bloody scene beside it, Buren's cascading, soberly-striped and mirrored "Pyramidal, haut-relief – A223, travail situé" hangs low on a black wall that gently slants towards the carefully, evenly illuminated "Judith and Holofernes" painting.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor said no one is stopping the Asian-American rock band at the center of the case from calling themselves "The Slants," even though the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) denied their request to trademark the name.
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The eight justices heard arguments in a case involving a Portland, Oregon-based Asian-American dance-rock band called The Slants that was denied a trademark on their name because the government deemed it offensive to people of Asian descent.
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This case has been most people's introduction to the Slants, and some people's introduction to the racial slur "slant," a term that originated when English speakers sought an abbreviated form of "slant-eyed," which is as old as the 1860s.
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Two recent petitions have asked the Supreme Court to sort out whether the Washington Redskins and an Asian-American dance-rock band called the Slants have names so offensive that they should be denied the protections of federal trademark law.
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Investigators have found hundreds of Facebook and Twitter accounts, more than a thousand examples of WhatsApp messages sharing suspicious materials, and a hodgepodge of dodgy websites that launder varying degrees of misinformation — whether conspiracy theories or polarized slants on the news.
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Last year, the Asian-American band the Slants won a yearslong battle that ended up before the United States Supreme Court, affirming their right to trademark the name, which draws on a demeaning stereotype about the shape of Asian eyes.
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How do you reconcile the idea that while this decision is a win for the Slants, it could also help the Redskins and others who are not trying to reclaim terms, but are profiting from names that others may find offensive?
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The problem is that in the Slants' case, the trademark office has come to look a bit like the popular image of the T.S.A.: a bureaucracy of bored enforcers just trying to churn through the queue and get through the day.
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The subsequent back-and-forth was as unbalanced as it was with the Slants, with Dykes on Bikes submitting interviews, declarations from L.G.B.T.Q. community organizers, photos of Pride parades and pages upon pages of emails from lesbians voicing their support.
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The band's trademark was denied because the PTO held that it disparaged Asians and Asian-Americans, however the Slants argued that the name was specifically chosen as an attempt to "reclaim" the term, and that the disparagement clause violated the first amendment.
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The Court agreed to decide whether a federal law barring trademarks on racial slurs violates free speech rights in a case involving an Oregon band called The Slants that could impact the high-profile dispute over the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins.
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The court could well follow the course it took in 2017 when it struck down a similar law forbidding the registration of "disparaging" trademarks in case involving an Asian-American dance rock band called The Slants, a name trademark officials deemed offensive to Asians.
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In the Slants' campaign to receive their trademark, they invoked a long history of cultural re-appropriation of stereotypes by Asian-Americans, from the Slant Film Festival to the popular blog Angry Asian Man, as avenues for tackling discrimination and engaging in racial discourse.
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the band The Slants earlier in the day, finding that a clause that blocked the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) from registering trademarks that may disparage or bring into contempt or disrepute any person violated the First Amendment.
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This has led to the growth of whole networks of comedian-led podcast networks like Riotcast, who bring together a completely diverse group of hosts from all political slants, races and sexes (to include prominent Transgendered adult actress and talk show host, Bailey Jay).
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A U.S. appeals court has turned down a request by Asian American rock band The Slants to force federal officials to take action on its bid to trademark its name, even though the court in December declared a government ban on offensive trademarks unconstitutional.
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" The Slants, he said, are hardly the first rock band to reclaim "stigmatizing labels" in order to "throw them back" in others' faces: "I grew up with bands like the Queers, Pansy Division — groups who take it and flip these assumptions on their heads.
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Dozens and dozens of them exist," The Slants bassist Simon Tam told VICE News correspondent Dexter Thomas in Baltimore, MD. "Most of them are held by Caucasian people who either are using it, quote-unquote, in 'a neutral sense' or in a denigrating sense.
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On January 18th, in Lee v Tam, the justices considered a case involving "the first and only all-Asian American dance rock band in the world" and its quest dating back to 2011 to trademark its name, "The Slants", an appropriation of an anti-Asian epithet.
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You have the chance to examine, side by side, the four — count them, four — alternative endings that Williams proposed to the director Elia Kazan for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," each of which slants the play toward slightly different degrees of optimism, cynicism and resignation.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Within the chaos of a city, filled with walls that appear bleak and gray because they block the sun, we have set aside certain spaces, glittering under slants of canyon light, where the solitude of urban life breaks for communal play.
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The Supreme Court followed a course it took in 2017 when it struck down a similar law forbidding the registration of "disparaging" trademarks in a case involving an Asian-American dance rock band called The Slants, a name federal trademark officials had deemed offensive to Asians.
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Tam was brought by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — headed until June by lawyer Michelle Lee — which wanted the court to uphold its decision to deny a trademark application filed by Simon Shiang Tam, the frontman of an Asian-American rock band called The Slants.
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The stories of the Slants' and Dykes on Bikes' struggles with the trademark office are cringe-worthy because they're stories in which a stolid bureaucratic agency must grapple with one of the more complex questions of our modern age: whether a marginalized group can take a slur back.
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While the justices refused to hear the team's appeal, the issues it raises are part of another case that the court last week agreed to hear involving the Oregon-based Asian-American rock band The Slants whose bid for trademark protection of its name was denied by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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By the end of the hearing, it seemed clear that while a majority of the court is hesitant to go as far as Mr Connell in forcing the patent office to accept nearly every application that comes its way, the justices are deeply sceptical about the rule that led it to rebuff The Slants.
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" The group, whose latest release is called "The Band Who Must Not Be Named," first had its trademark rejected in 2010 on the grounds that it was hurtful to a stigmatized community; the Slants contended that the name was simply reclaiming a weaponized term, and that marginalized groups should "determine what's best for ourselves.
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After all, there are dozens of registered trademarks for items called "Slant" -- including 4418371, for "Non-metal building materials"; 4123704, for "Skateboards, skateboard wheels sold both separately and together with the skateboard as a unit"; there are intraocular lenses and tweezers trademarked as "Slants" -- even creative enterprises, like the Slant ad agency and "Slanted" online journals.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - (This April 17 story has been refiled to add dropped word in paragraph four.) A new Trump administration report on international compliance with arms control accords provoked a dispute with U.S. intelligence agencies and some State Department officials concerned that the document politicizes and slants assessments about Iran, five sources with knowledge of the matter said.
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" Stephen Holden, in a 1990 review in The New York Times of Mr. La Rosa's engagement at Rainbow and Stars in Manhattan, wrote: "Boisterously exuberant and remarkably unsentimental for a singer who came of age with romantic balladeers like Tony Bennett and Vic Damone, he approached almost everything he sang with the easygoing confidence of a raconteur providing illuminating slants on familiar stories.
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Its dignified stoic firmness suggests to me that deep long-lasting love can take on the dimensions of sublime, cosmological immensity, as expressed by John Coltrane in his 19643 ecstatic masterful opus A Love Supreme, where the emotive concept slants towards the ancient Om. Given prime placement nearby is the splendid, sleek carving "Orestes and Pylades" (first century BCE) by Pasiteles, a Greek from Magna Graecia who became a Roman citizen active in Rome in the first century.
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