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Just as a slab of tofu stands in for veganism, eating meat for men stands in for consuming women.
The name of the neighborhood stands in for the name of the industry, but it also stands in for the idea of a certain coastal, urban, celebrity-adjacent culture.
Alliteration stands in for eloquence, talking points for narrative arc.
Surveillance stands in for the human footprint encroaching on the natural environment.
Thus, the clip stands in for Sepuya, metonymy for the artist's hand.
Kate McKinnon stands in for Hillary for the duration of the convention. 250.
Impressively bewigged, Gustav Leonhardt, the Dutch harpsichordist and conductor, stands in for Bach.
A zombie horde stands in for toxic conformity, a monster for unconquerable grief.
A zombie horde stands in for toxic conformity, a monster for unconquerable grief.
In the premiere, Kayla (Danielle Campbell) stands in for the Little Red Riding Hood.
Pop star FKA Twigs stands in for the lonely guy, but she's equally miserable.
In this play, it handily stands in for the ideological stakes of the voyage.
Becca's Uncle Gary, a pastor, stands in for her father for the hometown date.
The road becomes home; communing with audiences of strangers stands in for human connection.
The way disability stands in for everything you were or ever would have been.
One of NATO's standing fleets, led by a Canadian frigate, stands in for the foes.
In a documentary, she stands in for the ­camera-shy ex-girlfriend of a professor.
A relatively small repertoire of photogenic artifacts sometimes stands in for the entire Bauhaus phenomenon.
This may deter so-called "straw purchases", in which someone stands in for a debarred buyer.
Much of season 1 was filmed there, and it stands in for some parts of King's Landing.
Lovers of ascetic eating, in which a squeeze of lemon stands in for cooking, best look away now.
We only have enough room to write in NEW YORK, however, so the X stands in for TIMES.
Robert Jarvik, who developed the implantable heart, stands in for all those doing amazing work in medical innovation.
Robert Jarvik, who developed the implantable heart, stands in for all those doing amazing work in medical innovation.
As the third track on the album, "Sorry" stands in for the "apathy" stage of her wrenching grieving process.
Coase argued that the degree to which the firm stands in for the market will vary with changing circumstances.
A bungalow in the foothills an hour northwest of Hollywood stands in for the patio of Johnson's Texas ranch.
But the CD binder stands in for the physical, personal relationship my generation used to have with our music.
The full-scale town, complete with its own embassy compound, stands in for urban centers of all kinds globally.
Hurt's beautiful baritone, then, stands in for all authority figures, trying to say everything's fine when nothing is fine.
A tiny meteorite stands in for the full moon, and the new moon is represented by an empty silver circle.
It stands in for plenty of other policies that activists feel further marginalize people who aren't white, straight, male, or rich.
Thank you, Mr. Gianforte, for demonstrating so clearly the workings of prejudice: one person stands in for the entire hated category.
And after her possession, she doesn't take out her anger on her attackers or anyone who realistically stands in for them.
Here, we've got a neon-green shirt and shorts acting as the rind, while a bandeau stands in for the flesh.
Yes, you can point, if you want to, to the many iconic film monsters that Stranger Things' monster stands in for.
Just as the Incredible Hulk stood in for the menopausal woman, now an innocent child stands in for the postmenopausal one.
More broadly, Koch's dilemma stands in for a dilemma that many socially liberal, globally minded business leaders are probably having right now.
Finding (and petting!) a dog extends the timer, which stands in for the momentary relief that animals can provide in tense moments.
In her pomegranate Sriracha shrimp, tangy pomegranate molasses stands in for harder-to-find tamarind concentrate, lending pungency to the sweet shellfish.
In "Jane Baar" (1985), all sweater arms and stitched patterns lead to a child's pink jelly shoe that stands in for a vagina.
Sometimes, if an offended party hasn't actually met the offender, Ishii stands in for the offender, who then pretends to be Ishii's supervisor.
There's a curious logic to the way the lurid and memorable Jackson case stands in for so many other instances of prosecutorial overreach.
A narrator — here the actor Simon Callow — stands in for the composer, musing on the power of art as medicine for the soul.
Here's a plump, rich chocolate chip cookie with a difference: Tahini replaces the eggs, and extra-virgin olive oil stands in for butter.
Fluffy and white, it is similar to a classic cream-cheese frosting, but coconut cream stands in for some of the cream cheese.
If anything, in this Sabrina, "religion" stands in for any kind of fervent belief: a political affiliation, a social cause, sports fandom, bigotry, whatever.
We knew about ordering a burger "protein style," which is when lettuce stands in for buns, but the tomato version was news to us.
But in addition, she stands in for the people who interview the parents of the characters in the show, eliciting testimony about their experience.
Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) stands in for the wealthy off-worlders who have the capital to get away from the spent cities of Earth.
In this recipe, tamarind paste stands in for Key lime juice in a sweetened condensed milk-based pie with a crunchy graham cracker crust.
The character who stands in for Hogg, named Julie, is played by Honor Swinton Byrne, the daughter of Tilda Swinton (who plays Julie's mother).
The main draw of the package is getting to visit 400 million-year-old Skellig Michael, the Irish isle that stands in for Skywalker's refuge.
The FBI could have examined various maps that have been presented by the prosecutor who stands in for the United States senators on this committee.
In the case of "crush freaks," the drama unfolds as a helpless creature such as a bug or worm stands in for the foot fan.
In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to "tell stories," narrative often stands in for substance on would-be prestige shows.
Michael might be just one man, but he also stands in for every other version of himself, all those dark villains, both real and imaginary.
A blue tarp stands in for a wall that was meant to enclose a dining room but wasn't built on time for this year's gathering.
Diane stands in for a certain breed of liberal who expected to be able to take a breather, the glass ceiling shattered, the gains consolidated.
The urge that notoriously overcame Kanye West, in 2009, to hijack her acceptance speech at the Video Music Awards stands in for a national vexation.
The artists in the exhibition highlight curious and ecstatic moments in which a body becomes a thing or a thing stands in for a body.
The pure-hearted 11-year-old who Trump appears to be yelling at stands in for everyone who is living through his lies and verbal attacks.
Create a comic character that stands in for the student him or herself, and voices that students' thoughts, questions or opinions about what they read. 3.
Readily available feta cheese stands in for traditional queso fresco, which is tossed in near the end of cooking with some of the starchy, salty pasta water.
In the first law the word 'harm' stands in for many centuries of philosophical discussion, and so an answer here hinges on what we mean by that word.
The figure of the Prince stands in for both a dream — a possibility of recreating and constructing a self anew — and for the peril and weariness of creation.
One character, who refers to himself as the Escapee and is stuck in a room represented by a single wall with windows, clearly stands in for Mr. Serebrennikov.
In all likelihood, RDJ's bulky jacket stands in for the extra girth of his suit, or maybe he was just blocking this scene for a more tricked-out double.
And certainly it has the same attitude toward music, which stands in for any repressed emotion or longing, and works miracles in bringing people together and fixing any problem.
Yet it is so lushly lit by Alan C. Edwards that it easily stands in for a yacht, a Gap, a beach and, in one memorable scene, a theater.
It's clear Fogelman thinks of the saga of the Pearsons as some sort of fundamental, deeply rooted American myth — a family melodrama that stands in for all family melodramas.
Her presence in this whirlwind of murder and mayhem and druggy porn parties grounds the whole thing with some sense of skepticism, and her exasperation stands in for our own.
While volatility stands in for risk in MPT, it doesn't fully drive loss aversion or FOMO (fear of missing out), both of which can drive investors to make costly mistakes.
The bombing is cause celebre for people promoting the Union Act, which stands in for a combination Patriot Act / Brexit referendum in the politics of this alternate-universe 1980s Britain.
Fernley, who is British, often stands in for Mallya, given the owner's relatively small presence with the team at the races, and he does the tasks that don't interest Mallya.
But these days, take me to a spot with a lot of TVs and a crowd loud enough to drown out the awful blather that stands in for most commentating.
Later that day, Mr. Friend arrived on location at a three-story, Craftsman-style manor in the West Adams district in central Los Angeles that stands in for the Agape Lodge.
For his contribution in Marrakesh, Malas created a cross-shaped monolith in the Ménara garden pavilion that stands in for his real project that we will probably never see in person.
They have provided his campaign memes, and are the source of his online mascot, a white nationalist frog named Pepe who often stands in for Trump while bedecked with neo-Nazi symbols.
In that play, the character who stands in for Ms. Fornés is a dancer who is given few lines but expresses herself in eloquent movement, practicing balletic moves in her Manhattan apartment.
"Der Einsiedler," a setting of Eichendorff, stands in for the whole: fastidious sensitivity; utter refinement; getting to the heart of every word and, through every word, to the heart of the song.
In New York, Moskowitz's prominence means Success Academy stands in for charter schools writ large, and the clashes over its tactics are also about the direction of education policy in New York.
One tactic of MTA has been to highlight how water stands in for the social bonds that make collective survival possible in a region known for its harsh winters and dry summers.
Game of Thrones has no shortage of complicated sibling relationships, but none compare to the toxic, seething wasteland that stands in for Sandor (Rory McCann) and Gregor (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) Clegane's brotherly bond.
This sexual humor also surfaces in Handjob, in which a giant female hand reaches down to pull a lever that stands in for the penis of a naked man lying on a bed.
Once again, The Girlfriend Experience might be the clearest example of this: It's a film where money almost literally stands in for sex, and once the money dries up, the sex does too.
Dr. Bob, for instance, Abigail and Megan's willing confederate and the slavelike sexual partner of both sisters, stands in for Edmund, Gloucester's scheming bastard son; like Edmund, the doctor is secretly plotting usurpation.
Other times, a single shot stands in for an entire sequence of events, forcing us to fill in the gaps with our imaginations and rendering some images much more frightening as a result.
From afar, the horizontality of the work stands in for the chain and is powerfully striking; up-close, the individual billboards are surprisingly anti-monumental, as they are precariously perched on easels with wheels.
In Öğrenci's film, a sententious shot of an oud floating in water stands in for the importance of the instrument for a group of Iraqi refugees the artist met while on residency in Vienna.
There, no outrigger dangles from the ceiling, and an animated underwater video screen stands in for the tanks of live fish at torchlit palaces like the dearly departed Kahiki Supper Club in Columbus, Ohio.
An Appraisal When a musical hero of towering influence dies, the urge is to go straight to the tape: recordings, footage, a captured moment that stands in for the unwieldy fullness of a life.
This is an interesting idea, one that's present in what a lot of people assume about fiction, which is that one character "stands in" for another, and that novelists are always basically writing autobiography.
Since the inaugural address stands in for that year's State of the Union address, it's important for the president to communicate an understanding of the issues and to propose some kind of solution for them.
Director Phil Abraham almost perfectly apes the film's famed shower scene, only now the victim is a man who stands in for all the horrible things men have done throughout the course of the series.
Xie spoke Mandarin at home and learned English in school; that banal "Hello" sign, aimed at the Chinese tourist, stands in for the inextricable weave of greeting and parting that makes up Xie's emotional landscape.
In fact, in my work I've critiqued it as being this sort of canonization of a certain set of cultural expressions, often by white gay men, that then stands in for all of gay culture.
Currently though, the term stands in for a range of different things: On the one hand stories crafted expressly for deception or financial gain, on the other, inaccurate journalism or critical views of the administration.
But this longing for a payday was really just a mix of two stories in my head, turning the money from the father into something that both conquers the pain and also stands in for it.
What happens next is at turns mortifying, horrifying, and deeply sad, but it stands in for what this show does so well: hilariously depict characters who find ways of making their pain lash out at others.
In another scene filmed at Wilton House, which stands in for the Queen's private sitting room, the tables are covered in family photos that actually feature the young actors that played the main characters in flash backs.
One needs only to look at a number of other New Directions anthologies, where a seasoned translator is placed next to a writer without foreign language skills, and a very suspect version stands in for the original.
Idina Menzel takes on the Bette Midler role of C. C. Bloom, the brassy singer-actress, and Nia Long stands in for Barbara Hershey, the princessy lawyer, in Allison Anders's remake of this Garry Marshall tear-jerker.
In "A Quiet Romance" (2017) the pinks and whites of a conch — its stout and beveled shell dwarfing a pearl-like moon — are set in an all-over violet backdrop that stands in for sky and sea.
The impact is overwhelming and somewhat numbing, but the urgency of the work is palpable, as the accumulation of objects stands in for the masses of refugees and the flood of information that has drowned out their identities.
The veteran — mirrored in a nearby 1916 medical illustration by Rodin for facial and jaw reconstruction — stands in for the many disabled soldiers roaming the streets of Berlin or hidden in hospitals outside the city after the war.
Castoreum—a classy, antique-sounding word, jazzed up by its neat near-rhyme with "santorum"—stands in for all of the bizarre, filthy, and perverse things that "they," the corporate monsters of processed snacks, are doing to your food.
Reminiscent of a science lab filled with samples of soil, or a stage with drums poised on metal stands, Bopape's installation presents an innovative repository of earth that stands in for a utopian idea of a united African continent.
At its best, as in Al Said's "Al-Muntassirun," this feeling stands in for and encompasses so many contrasts — local versus pan-Arab identity, civil versus religious society — that a single canvas becomes an open portal to the infinite.
"The detective in noir sort of stands in for all of us in the sense that he's not an activist, he's not a crusader on the barricades—he's a regular person just doing his job and making a buck," Norton said.
WATCH THIS: Game of Thrones' Top 10 Game Changing Moments   Then, head to Castillo de Almodóvar del Río, which stands in for House Tyrell's castle, Highgarden, and Alcázar of Seville, the filming location for House Martell's Water Gardens in Dorne.
"This ruling is a disaster for the government which one-sidedly stands in for the greed for profit by the carmakers while leaving 10 million owners of manipulated diesel cars alone," said Juergen Resch, managing director of Germany's DUH environmental lobby.
At the same time, Johnny stands in for every African American who embarked on the Great Migration — the exodus, beginning in 1915, of millions of blacks from the rural, agrarian, Jim Crow South to the urban, industrial North, specifically to Chicago.
Cured local bluefish stands in for imported anchovies in a bracingly original interpretation of puttanesca sauce in which the flavor of each ingredient — garlic and tomato and chiles and bluefish and razor-thin shavings of green olives — was clear and distinct.
So, if you want to play—but not pay—like a pro, you use a proxy card: A homemade simulacrum of a costly, unowned card that, with two players willing to shake on it, stands in for the real thing.
Inspired by the youthful spirit of Nele Ost, 33, his daughter turned colleague, he has instead gravitated toward commonplace materials, like the show's plastic tubing, which stands in for the jungle vines to which orchids cling in their natural habitat.
The titular poem is long and fragmented: "Poetry v prose" is the first in a long list of dichotomies that collapse onto each other, and the arbitrary hierarchy of the animal kingdom stands in for the arbitrary hierarchy of nations.
But it's also key to the movie's knotty, complicated politics, in which Wakanda is the US, but also isn't the US, but kind of is, but only in certain ways, while Killmonger stands in for both black revolutionary movements and American imperialism.
Networks stand in for community; encryption, in owned and operated services like WhatsApp, stands in for guarantees of liberty; newsfeeds become sources of diverse information, including ads, yes, but also calls to register to vote — to apply elsewhere what you've increasingly experienced online.
In the book's most interesting chapter, Nochlin assesses the lesser-known naturalistic painter Fernand Pelez, whose bewildering "Grimaces and Misery: The Saltimbanques" depicts tired, underfed children performing in a Paris sideshow, a spectacle of misère that stands in for the impoverished city.
In an irreverent choice for a holiday intended to honor the fallen, the Nitehawk's Memorial Day brunch screenings will be of "MASH," Robert Altman's 2255 sendup of the lives of army medics during the Korean War (which effectively stands in for Vietnam).
As the first visitors streamed in with the soft opening, the usual knot of tourists was less than a mile away, taking pictures of a brick building at 90 Bedford Street that stands in for the "Friends" apartment house exterior on the show.
Veronica stands in for Sierra on a date and keeps telling him he's crazy every time he almost sees Sierra lurking in the shadows; Sierra and Veronica switch off mid-kiss in a moment that seems to be of, uh, dubious consent at best.
Case in point: after a solo vocal number, one of the performers (a perfunctory "observer" who stands in for the audience and later executes a single ballet move) jumps up from a spotlighted seat in the auditorium, clapping and cheering wildly for his co-star.
Hahn's frenetic energy in this scene stands in for that of all women who have decided they are tired of living in a man's world and demand to be heard, but who also are trying to square this deep frustration with a libidinous thirst.
Social Animals, the feature-length debut from documentary director Jonathan Ignatius Green, stars three kids: self-taught New York street photographer Humza Deas, dancer and aspiring fashion brand mogul Kaylyn Slevin, and Ohio high school student Emma Crockett, who stands in for the everyman teen.
Its baroque, nearly psychedelic lyrics, in which a cake left in the rain stands in for the end of a love affair—its sweet green icing flowing down—have haunted and provoked listeners for decades; their reactions have, in turn, haunted and provoked Webb.
Being a "Republican" or a "Democrat" isn't just a political affiliation; it's a catch-all identity that stands in for all of these distinct identities, a master category defined by views on race and multiculturalism that has come to encompass all sorts of other groupings.
Instead, it attenuates them — a brutal slap across the face, you suspect, stands in for more instances of physical abuse — and casts many of Maud and Everett's difficulties as personal ordeals, playing down the institutional forces, like an orphanage, that discreetly hover in the background.
But the letters retain the religious associations of scripture for the Egyptian artist Omar el-Nagdi, particularly alif, a sharp vertical stroke like a lightning bolt that starts the alphabet and the Arabic word for God and occasionally stands in for the numeral one.
And then the rest of the time he was kind of just putting his hands on a green block of foam that stands in for the dragon's nose and the rest of it is up to him to imagine what his scene partner is doing.
The Girl in the Spider's Web provides all the necessary backstory in flashbacks, along with an early scene in which Lisbeth exacts revenge on a bad man who never abused her but stands in for a host of others — the men who hate women, in other words.
In "The Last Day of Martin Luther King" (1992), a somber black and white tiger made of painted mop strings stands in for the murdered civil rights leader, while the four spindly, brightly colored "All the Cats in Town" (1993), interlocked like a puzzle, strut and pose with attitude.
Meanwhile, some celebrated Philadelphians make rather undignified cameos: The face of Benjamin Franklin, as seen on the $100 bill, graces a pile of bath towels, and William Penn, on the Quaker Oats box, stands in for the "tumbling clown" in a scaled-up version of that children's toy.
He's a stock character that stands in for the ways that video games wrap themselves around contrived circumstances and thin characterizations to create their bosses and bad guys, the paper-thin forces of antagonism that exist to be solved over a couple attempts at a pulse-pounding encounter.
This in fact is a privileged mode of representation in Picasso's paintings that year, as seen in the excellent "Femme au fauteuil rouge" ("Woman Sitting in a Red Armchair"), "Le Rêve" ("The Dream") and "La Lecture" ("Woman Reading"), where the crease of an open book stands in for Walter's vagina.
Its examinations of the Catch-22s built into the endless war on terror are frequently incisive, and in Carrie, it's created a character who neatly stands in for America itself — trying to atone for some of the most awful things it's done, but sloppily, and mostly to cover its own ass.
Guided vacations company Brendan Vacations has put together a travel package that lets Star Wars fans visit the actual earthly location that stands in for Luke Skywalker's hideout introduced at the very end of The Force Awakens when Rey (Daisy Ridley) meets Skywalker (Mark Hamill), and featured in The Last Jedi, out now.
But Walmart is worth examining because its employees are trying to do something about it, and because how Walmart's workers are treated and paid stands in for bigger questions about who benefits from economic growth, what sorts of responsibilities companies have to their workers, and what constitutes a living wage in America.
The business with Chris' dead phone and repeatedly unplugged charger stands in for a lot of what he experiences in Get Out: it seems controlling and malicious for someone to mess with his battery life, but he can't entirely prove they're doing it on purpose, and just bringing it up makes him feel paranoid.
It is by no means the best winner of even this decade, but it stands in for something that there's far too little of nowadays: a smartly told, straight-ahead story, aimed at providing a simmering, fascinating true story for adults (who aren't guaranteed to go out to the movies anymore the way, say, teenagers are).
The movie is semi-autobiographical — the teenage boy at its center, also poised on the brink of becoming a man, stands in for Mills at the same age — but it would be better to think of it as an autobiography of a cultural moment, driven by three stellar performances by Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, and Elle Fanning.
His baby shoe stands in for a singular baby, and he photographs it with care and reverence that we can safely assume that the baby did not receive upon arriving to the US. The shoes at the USHMM ask us to recognize mass trauma; Kiefer's baby shoe asks us to acknowledge the losses faced by individuals.
De Palma adds hints of "Vertigo" and "The Birds" (Staten Island's hilly coast stands in for San Francisco) as well as music by Hitchcock's longtime collaborator Bernard Herrmann, but he gives them a political twist by way of Grace's reports on police brutality and her suspicion of official indifference to Phillip's death on the ground of race.
Something insists on the level of the body — it hasn't quite turned into psyche yet, he says, versus something caught in the psyche – your mind goes GURGH, and then turns it back into body and the body stands in for psyche, and in fact, that's when it's analyzable, not when it's a series of conscious anxiety thoughts run rampant.
The show is propelled by the feisty, hormonal outrage of its young protagonists, and the best moments occur when the dialogue is dramatized, as in the tirade lobbed at an audience member who stands in for a chauvinistic and insensitive father, or the scene where the girls don fur coats and ape the mannerisms and opinions of the conservative upper class.
Take the teal paper with horizontal rows of circular billows of smoke that form the word "freud" in lowercase script at the end of the line: this stands in for the story of an engraved cigar box given to Sigmund Freud in the early 1900s, passed down to his daughter, then to another psychologist, and finally to the Jewish Museum in New York.
Emily Thornberry is a good parliamentary debater (and outshines Mr Corbyn when she stands in for him at prime minister's questions); Sir Keir Starmer has transformed himself from a lawyer who happens to be in the politics business to an accomplished politician who happens to know a lot about the law; Hilary Benn and Yvette Cooper have a rare ability to articulate a moderate position in an age of polarisation.

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