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"touchstone" Definitions
  1. touchstone (of/for something) something that provides a standard against which other things are compared and/or judged

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GEORGE & LIZZIE By Nancy Pearl 278 pp. Touchstone. $25.
The Doomsday Clock is another touchstone of the geopolitical mood.
Why have people adopted it as a whimsical cultural touchstone?
A touchstone was the Justice Department antitrust suit against Microsoft.
The touchstone for these should be: the simpler the better.
Journalists are trained to maintain objectivity as a professional touchstone.
Sullivan, which is the touchstone of modern American libel law.
But more than all that, she was a cultural touchstone.
A hodgepodge of touchstone years: 1974, 1975, 1976, even 1977.
It also serves as a consoling touchstone in political speeches.
He's really the touchstone of Magnum's embracing of street photography.
I've relied on it as a touchstone in my life.
Excerpted with permission by Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
It's an art photography touchstone commonly used in anti-war propaganda.
Elsewhere, the touchstone might be sectarianism, ethnic chauvinism, or tribal rivalries.
Before working at TriStar, Patmore Gibbs worked for Touchstone and ABC.
I grew up with MTV and that was my main touchstone.
"It's such a touchstone, it's such an anchor," said Larson, 71.
Published with permission from Touchstone, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
"The Twilight Zone was a touchstone in my life," added Kinberg.
He shut down Touchstone, which means he stopped making indie movies.
Disney was a touchstone for Ms. Lee as she grew up.
Fans don't like to have their touchstone cinematic experiences mucked with.
The administration's touchstone for public land management harkens back to 1872.
What might a contemporary response to this touchstone project look like?
Past Tense A brief history of the #MeToo moment's touchstone term.
THE LIFE LIST OF ADRIAN MANDRICKBy Chris White275 pp. Touchstone. $24.99.
Most significant, a cultural touchstone had turned into a trouble spot.
Is there a classic novel you return to as a touchstone?
Bloom's most important book, "The Anxiety of Influence," remains a touchstone.
That theatrical mock funeral procession became something of a cultural touchstone.
Chekhov didn't write novels but he is a touchstone for me.
Theo has no idea that his touchstone is now completely theoretical.
Victor Hugo's novel is not source material so much as touchstone.
I had started an internship the summer before at Touchstone Pictures.
"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" has become this TV touchstone.
Francis has long made environmentalism a touchstone issue of his papacy.
Oliveros seems to serve as a touchstone for curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson.
Touchstone will release This Will Only Hurt a Little on October 23.
I played Touchstone in "As You Like It." A very difficult part.
She previously worked for Touchstone TV, ABC Entertainment and Sony Pictures Studios.
We're teaming up with Touchstone to create the book of our dreams.
You were present for all of these touchstone rock 'n' roll moments.
Still, the show lived on in reruns and remains a '60s touchstone.
He was also a touchstone for both me and, later, my son.
Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
They were [also] always a touchstone for me to go back [to].
THE MAP OF SALT AND STARSBy Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar360 pp. Touchstone. $27.
It's also increasingly invoked as a touchstone for understanding our current moment.
Mr. Cooper's "7 pleasures" is a touchstone for his own birding passion.
It was one of the company's final films under its Touchstone umbrella.
He was my touchstone there, the person I saw all the time.
Sharing that disaster together was a touchstone for many of his generation.
The touchstone is the 1978 Regents of the University of California v.
Austin: That is literally the touchstone I was going to bring up.
Buffy is one of my most beloved things ever and certainly a touchstone.
That is a very, very common touchstone in how people approach their recovery.
Basically, The Picture is a pretty important touchstone throughout the entire first season.
He remains a cultural touchstone to many for his outspoken religious views, however.
She contended Republicans have failed to hit the "touchstone issues" in those communities.
But, no touchstone seems to loom over Elite more than Big Little Lies.
He created the Vulcan salute, and made the word "fascinating" a cultural touchstone.
As a result, the fourth-quarter effort is a touchstone on Obama's legacy.
It spawned many of his touchstone sculptures: constituent figures, cast in varying sizes.
Fact is the touchstone of truth; there can be no truth without facts.
The paintings of Peter Doig have also been frequently mentioned as a touchstone.
And a purpose of the horoscope at that point becomes a spiritual touchstone.
Another early album, the collaboration "Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley," became a jazz touchstone.
The toughest cultural touchstone to let go of is fried chicken, she said.
" His parents are only just beginning to understand what a cultural touchstone "S.
" Another cinematic touchstone for Gerwig was Michael Cimino's epic 1980 western "Heaven's Gate.
The E.R.A. was a touchstone of cultural anxiety when it first ran aground.
The phrase has subsequently become a well-worn touchstone among media and politicians alike.
Critics and educators praised his book as a touchstone for racial representation in literature.
The Constitution also looms large as a touchstone, to which literalists brook no challenge.
The round is joined by the UK-based Woodford Investment Management and Touchstone Innovations.
Dangerous Visions has been hailed as a defining touchstone of the New Wave movement.
The show ran for five years, and has since become a major cultural touchstone.
Landon serves as a touchstone for the two, a love language, if you will.
Did Bond ever come up as a touchstone when you were working on this?
So I need something about each character to be a visual touchstone to me.
He is a real touchstone, and will always be bigger than the music alone.
Nor does an $84.88 clear quartz "clarity necklace" or a $17.88 clear quartz touchstone.
The company has become something of a cultural touchstone since its founding in 2009.
Thompson makes it clear that Diana is the still, chill touchstone for them all.
Iraq remains a touchstone issue among Labour members who will decide the leadership contest.
It's also an excellent touchstone in understanding the social malaise of the late 90s.
ROBINSON How 'The Graduate' Became the Touchstone of a Generation By Beverly Gray Illustrated.
But Mockingbird is touchstone enough to secure her place in the American literary legacy.
A week ago, several million Australians went to the polls in another touchstone election.
Truth has always been the touchstone of our country's justice system and political life.
It perhaps also reinforced a lesson imparted in another cultural touchstone about nuclear dread.
Truthfulness, a touchstone for Robbins, inevitably became a criterion when watching the Robbins tributes.
Municipal bonds + + + + 223 213 203 228.5 % + + – 2220 22460 226 22500 % Touchstone Mid Cap Instl.
Kentucky's Touchstone Energy Cooperatives have adopted sophisticated digital online tools to showcase available properties.
But it soon became the touchstone for an emerging, and critical, field of study.
Mr. Keller's 2012 book, "Every Good Endeavor," has become a touchstone of the movement.
Truth has always been the touchstone of our country's justice system and political life.
HNTB is the designer and engineer, with Bradley C. Touchstone as its architectural consultant.
THE KINGDOM OF HAPPINESSInside Tony Hsieh's Zapponian UtopiaBy Aimee Groth 318 pp. Touchstone. $27.
There is no doubt this deal benefits consumers — the core touchstone for antitrust analysis.
"It's incredible to have this really personal touchstone with Lawrence's DNA," Ms. Gordon said.
Yet, since the dawn of antiquity, wine has existed as a romanticized cultural touchstone.
I think Obvious Child was definitely a touchstone point where they did it right.
Electorates are growing ever more secular and liberal in their attitude to touchstone ethical issues.
Or… I don't know, the non-existent pop cultural touchstone for the American fruit industry?
"I'm thrilled to be writing my first book with Touchstone," said Witherspoon in a statement.
This group has become an unwitting support system for me, and a touchstone to her.
OUR DAMAGED DEMOCRACYWe the People Must ActBy Joseph A. Califano Jr.317 pp. Touchstone. $27.
Marijuana policy has become a complex touchstone for conservatives, especially in the post-Obama era.
Little did we know what a touchstone of a song we'd pulled off that day.
And the idea is that this programme will provide a touchstone for campaigners and politicians?
His father is a managing director of Touchstone Group, a financial services firm in Manhattan.
Playing the heroine, like playing Hamlet, can be both a test and a career touchstone.
"The kind devoid of hope," Amy Stuart tells us in STILL MINE (Touchstone, paper, $15.99).
Annie, The Strokes were a huge touchstone for our age group when we were younger.
Progressive rock was another touchstone, as one can hear via "Fallen Star," the penultimate track.
These are the favorites that remain a touchstone in the face of Peak TV bloat.
George Washington is everyone's touchstone for the Revolution, and I made him mine as well.
"Jeopardy!" has since become a cultural touchstone, and regional versions appear in dozens of countries.
West is focused on Obama's actions as a political figure, not as a cultural touchstone.
Rugby, during all those years away, was a touchstone and now it's a family passion.
"I believe that military service is a touchstone for patriots of whatever stripe," he said.
He moved to England, where the work of the sociologist Max Weber became his touchstone.
"The card serves as a touchstone to confirm I haven't strayed too far off track."
"It's a difficult environment to navigate," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments.
That was a touchstone a little bit, [wanting to] do The Wedding Singer of 2007.
As a touchstone, in this election cycle, Kellyanne Conway established the gold standard for surrogate performance.
Adventure became a touchstone of computer culture and for many years defined what "video games" were.
Trial & Error season 1 was a riff on true crime touchstone-turned-Netflix property The Staircase.
MTV's Video Music Awards have long served as a touchstone for cultural issues across the globe.
What they've found is a cultural touchstone to their past -- and a path to international success.
That's not the only Hollywood touchstone at play, but to name any others would risk spoilers.
Ms. Isaacs has made diversity both in membership and awards recognition a touchstone of her presidency.
On some touchstone theological issues, the Ibadis take what modern Westerners would call a liberal line.
Sadhviji, as I call her, emerged a friend and a touchstone during my time in India.
"Most of my friends hold it as a touchstone—comfort food," he tells me over email.
And of great irony to me: Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear [Gaye's touchstone album about divorce].
These artists gave generously and truthfully through their presence, a valuable touchstone in these strange times.
The anxieties that such findings stoke have made trade a touchstone issue in America's presidential election.
In those, we discuss cultural touchstone Easy Rider, man, and the '80s cult hit Repo Man.
Was it ever conceivable that he'd become this elemental touchstone, this totem of all things clubbing?
Corporations like Touchstone Climbing, El Cap, First Ascent and Brooklyn Boulders have plans to build more.
GK: Kerry James Marshall's show was a touchstone for celebrating black artists' achievement in art history.
"The market has done a lot already," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments.
The modern touchstone for "executive privilege," as the claim is now known, is US v. Nixon.
The piece became a touchstone of performance art in part because of its sheer, outlandish audacity.
It became a touchstone for a divisive, months-long internal debate, inflamed by Google's open culture.
She claimed that touchstone part for her own, and put her mark on the whole season.
Repeat viewings helped it get recognized as a warm, moving touchstone in American households each Christmas.
Even the most introverted of us need company — some touchstone of a shared existence through time.
But for an older generation, and for some just discovering it, the film is a touchstone.
Boats, helicopters and parachutes When talk about "reusable rockets" comes up, SpaceX is the obvious touchstone.
He told The Los Angeles Times the original film had been a "touchstone" from his childhood.
Often his touchstone is the hybrid gospel-pop of artists like Kirk Franklin and Tye Tribbett.
But it was a bombshell in the abortion debate as Ms. McCorvey became an emotional touchstone.
GIRL UP: Kick Ass, Claim Your Woman Card, and Crush Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates (Touchstone).
"SALT AND VINEGAR" - A touchstone moment highlighting how Britons and continentals so often mystify one another.
That estimate — the first, and so far only, by an intergovernmental body — has become the touchstone.
"I did Horses as a bridge, a touchstone, for the future," Patti Smith said last year.
It seemed as though underground New York City hip-hop was a big creative touchstone for you.
For these online communities, old city pop records would serve as a massive visual and sonic touchstone.
It didn't take long for the franchise to become a touchstone of optimism and hope for generations.
When politics professors like myself tell the story of the internet, there are a few touchstone events.
Shadow of Mordor has been a touchstone in conversations about storytelling in games since its 2014 release.
Each of the 67 works constitutes a touchstone of Man Ray's career, realized in crisp, monochrome photography.
The club became a touchstone for many gay Floridians—often the first gay club they ever visited.
Buildings or artificial environments don't have the same touchstone foundational point that we've evolved to live with.
But Beethoven's formidable "Hammerklavier" is a touchstone work that even some master pianists have been wary of.
"There's not that much to read into this," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments.
But it's hard to not connect the cause Washington is focused on with the pop culture touchstone.
The court battle has become a touchstone in a larger debate over government access to encrypted data.
Nevertheless, the association of happiness and health remains a potent touchstone in both popular and medical culture.
Kimbo Slice busting apart that one guy's eye is a cultural touchstone of the Internet circa 22.3.
In March the project got a provisional 15 billion euros ($16.9 billion) from China's Touchstone Capital Partners.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has become more than an actual historical human: He's a cultural touchstone.
Intentionally or not, it accepts reality as a touchstone, which arguably accounts for much of its strength.
It has become such a touchstone that it almost seems like another year can't start without it.
Her story resonated with others, but she felt uneasy being a touchstone for athletes struggling with depression.
An unbroken line of Supreme Court cases makes clear that the touchstone of severability is congressional intent.
Joel Perez, as the fool Touchstone, reprises that song when he woos the shepherd Andy (Troy Anthony).
"You have all these distilleries, all going the same way, so there's no touchstone," Mr. Williams said.
In Greece, the issue has remained a touchstone of patriotism, even when it isn't in the headlines.
In this Jimmy Webb touchstone, Mr. Campbell's voice mirrors the high, lonesome strings that start the track.
Trump has flouted many norms, but the question over his taxes has become a sort of touchstone.
For our founders, the touchstone of presidential unfitness to serve was always abuse of the public trust.
Something created in the name of Asians by non-Asians has become a touchstone for non-Asians.
And so, on that Tuesday afternoon in November, flanked by her husband, she returned to a touchstone.
It connects to an earlier project, "Sea Change," which remains a touchstone for many of his fans.
Bradley C. Touchstone, credited as the architect in the earlier version, was the architectural consultant to HNTB.
Her new single "Touchstone," which we're premiering above, is distinctly different than anything Jean has made before.
It is a cultural touchstone for him, almost as influential to his worldview as his Buddhist studies.
In 2001, when I first moved away, the major cultural touchstone for Australia abroad remained Paul Hogan.
From their writings, we know that Columbine became a touchstone for some of this country's most unhinged.
The British producer Joe Meek from that early 60s era was a big touchstone for the album.
Seb Westcott: I like the idea of The Simpsons as a pop-culture touchstone that everyone knows.
Look past the (kinda icky) way the series became a touchstone for Halloween costumes and fashion statements.
Robinson: How 'The Graduate' Became the Touchstone of a Generation," in which the Santa Monica-based entertainment writer Beverly Gray doubles down on the declaration embedded in her book's subtitle by inserting herself throughout the pages as a leading touchstone toucher: By "a generation," she really means "my generation.
The test plate included in Intimate Immensity is for Georgia O'Keeffe, an indirect inclusion of another feminist touchstone.
Compare his take to the portrayal of Bitcoin on another cultural touchstone on television, The Big Bang Theory.
Abraham Lincoln is a touchstone among the characters of The Hateful Eight, but he is also long dead.
"It became an emotional touchstone for everything that went into the game," Cuzzillo says of Pharoah Sanders' song.
The self-exiled Polish animator Walerian Borowczyk is another Quay touchstone, as is the Czech collagist Jiri Kolar.
The name comes from another touchstone of sci-fi geek culture: Blade Runner, and its soundtrack by Vangelis.
The Fall would later be cited as a touchstone by countless bands on both sides of the Atlantic.
The easiest touchstone for Hollie Cook's sound, though Vessel of Love arguably being a departure, is reggae music.
People here still brag about his visit to last year's Canfield Fair, a cultural touchstone in the region.
Homestar Runner is a classic touchstone of the times, deserving of a place in the Winamp skin canon.
So wherever your life takes you, I hope that Wellesley serves as that kind of touchstone for you.
MUNCHIES: Tacos are a cultural touchstone in Sweden, especially with the taco-themed Friday night family meal, Fredagsmys.
The main touchstone for me and everything that I do, is thinking about my friends in these places.
At home last year, he committed suicide, and his story has become a touchstone for many reform advocates.
My Dark Places by James Ellroy is definitely a touchstone; American Pastoral by Philip Roth is another one.
We've always thought of Refinery29 as that safe space and touchstone for our community — the family we choose.
In reality, "Seinfeld" -- which is celebrating its 30th anniversary -- helped define a generation, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone.
But he gets around his problem by taking the humane Jesus as his own touchstone of what matters.
For these small towns, Vietnam remains a touchstone, a defining moment in their history, even as memories fade.
In that article, Antunes named "Scoop" — Evelyn Waugh's bitingly satirical novel about English journalism — as a professional touchstone.
But with anti-Trump sentiment already aboil, there's every indication that the march will become the movement's touchstone.
This is a different matter from a shared pop culture touchstone, such as Top 40 songs or sitcoms.
I flew to Kashgar for a last look because it is a touchstone in my relationship with China.
But the populist mind-set starts, as it did with Reagan, with the average person as your touchstone.
Colson Whitehead: As a young African American male growing up in the 70s, Roots was obviously a major touchstone.
Every time I see a story [about police misconduct], it creates a touchstone to an aspect of my life.
In one of the movie's (often-parodied) touchstone scenes, Mark declares his unrequited love by holding large handwritten cards.
From the forthcoming book DIE YOUNG WITH ME to be published by Touchstone, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
I often turn to his work as a touchstone in times of stress, and you should too -- especially now.
Steve explained that the idiom went back to a hit novel and film and cultural touchstone in the 1950s.
While the scene has become a pop-culture touchstone, Lincoln was weary of how the moment would come across.
"One hallmark of justice is absolute independence, and that was my touchstone every day that I served," he said.
He now stands as a cultural touchstone for a new generation of performers and music fans the world over.
The RBA has singled out the labour market as the touchstone for deciding if more rates cuts are needed.
The RBA has singled out the labor market as the touchstone for whether it needs to cut rates again.
Trump's remarks on Thursday reflected his continued frustration on the immigration issue, which was a touchstone of his campaign.
It's an important touchstone for the genre, and one that Cardi repurposes for her own rags-to-riches story.
The book became a cultural touchstone, particularly among political professionals in Washington from both parties, after Trump's unexpected victory.
Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments, said he is not overly concerned about oil's latest pullback, however.
Mr. Pompeo said little about development but emphasized one of Mr. Trump's touchstone themes, a stronger border with Mexico.
Grieving families and friends — and not just his — have seen it as a touchstone after the Route 91 shooting.
About 20 million people visit Faneuil Hall every year, many of them seeking a touchstone of the American Revolution.
Perhaps their biggest touchstone is an incident that took place in Cologne, Germany, on New Year's Eve in 25.
For Mr. Rodriguez, who teaches English in North Carolina, that seminal ride remains the touchstone to his Brooklyn youth.
Professor Christensen, whose 1997 book "The Innovator's Dilemma" became a touchstone text for the business world, died on Thursday.
A common touchstone in Sunday's 77th Annual Golden Globes were the numerous calls to action following Australia's devastating wildfires.
Dungey left ABC in November 2018, concluding a professional relationship with Disney that started in 2004 at Touchstone Television.
The musical, about a plucky novice-turned-governess who fled Austria to escape the Nazis, remains a cultural touchstone.
Those brothers were the closest family each had had since Nathaniel's birth, and the touchstone in each other's lives.
His revulsion toward homosexuality, a touchstone of his world view, appeared straight out of his sheltered, nineteen-forties boyhood.
Kevin MacDonald, a retired psychology professor whose trilogy on Jewish influence is a touchstone for the movement, also came.
But while its text celebrates openness and equality, the work remains a touchstone of Western — and especially German — culture.
For at least one generation of Americans, "Friends" endures as a cultural touchstone, a glowing chunk of 1990s amber.
First released in 1993, id's cultural touchstone has remained relevant thanks to a modding scene that's still thriving today.
Then Betty has an epiphany that the cipher looks similar to her touchstone (touchstone?) and Betty and Jughead run to the library where they find Nancy Drew book she must have a connection with that helps them decode where the next attack of the Black Hood will take place…the mayor's Town Hall.
Erase it from history and what cultural touchstone does the rest of the world have left to describe Australia with?
Most college freshmen at this point are Gen Z, so memes are a great touchstone no matter where they're from.
It is the very touchstone of the American constitutional system and today that principle was reaffirmed in this historic decision.
Disney still has the rights to the story; its Touchstone Pictures produced the 2005 film adaptation, and it owns Hulu.
Has there ever been a far-right subculture that didn't have a common fashion or music scene or cultural touchstone?
It was just another cultural touchstone, something I understood was significant to many people (and reviled by many, many others).
After six seasons, Lena Dunham's Girls, the television touchstone for the millennial generation, will wrap up for good this spring.
Wade Supreme Court case whose ruling would legalize abortion and become a crucial touchstone of female reproductive rights in America.
With mid-century walls made of Texan limestone and polished concrete floors, Patika has become a touchstone for South Austinites.
Eliminating it altogether doesn't seem to be possible without sacrificing both safety and performance, both touchstone issues for EV manufacturers.
"It's one of those times where a movie becomes a touchstone in culture," said Chris Aronson, Fox's domestic distribution chief.
We're not sure if this is a meme or if it's just a cultural touchstone picture, but here it is.
He said he would initiate new sanctions on Iran, ripping up the touchstone agreement negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
William F. Buckley Jr. often cited "Isaiah's Job" as a touchstone, and reprinted it in an anthology of conservative thought.
Their long marriage has been a touchstone in his preaching, and he has used their marital struggles as teaching aids.
Wonder Woman herself became a renewed cultural touchstone, a celebration of power and accomplishment for people of all gender identities.
Mr. Trump has denounced such protests, and he has sought to make the controversy a cultural touchstone with his supporters.
That was a major touchstone for me, though the particular erotics of it weren't especially relevant to my own life.
The killings in Charleston became a national touchstone not only because they evinced such a shocking level of indiscriminate violence.
TOKYO — Like sushi, Mount Fuji and kimonos, the ancient sport of sumo wrestling is a touchstone of traditional Japanese culture.
Lincoln emerges from it as a serious moral philosopher, and the book remains a touchstone in the vast Lincoln literature.
"It's a touchstone," said Brendan McGillicuddy, 39, who has taught in the cultural studies department at the University of Minnesota.
It made major waves in rap-obsessed circles — but Minaj didn't become a cultural touchstone until "Super Bass" caught fire.
Even if someone hasn't seen it, their resistance to a cultural touchstone is just as fertile a topic for conversation.
But it was Blink-182 that emerged as a touchstone, spawning more imitators than any American rock band since Nirvana.
Doing so, says Deaf writer Sara Novic, would eliminate the single touchstone for deafness and disability for most mainstream students.
The president has clung to his surprise 2016 election victory, frequently using it as a touchstone in his political speeches.
The touchstone for this movement was the DC Comics series The Authority, by writer Warren Ellis and artist Bryan Hitch.
Jackass was a cultural touchstone, a phenomenon that perfectly encapsulates the tectonic shifts in media that were awaiting our society.
The lawsuit is the latest touchstone in the debate over religious exemptions and "conscience protections" in health care and other arenas.
Accessories like the Palm Touchstone offered wireless charging capabilities way before they hit the mainstream on devices like the Galaxy S6.
But it's Fisher's wry, scene-stealing delivery in every one of her scenes that cemented the character as a cultural touchstone.
Desolate, sinister, coolheaded and conceited, Hell Hath No Fury sounds fantastic ten years after the fact, an undeniable noir-rap touchstone.
That makes the achievement of the Red Wedding as a cultural touchstone (meaning surprising betrayal and slaughter) all the more impressive.
Lord of the Rings feels like it was this enormous cultural touchstone that made one's geeky hobbies socially acceptable; even desired.
So, the 45th president doesn't need to act as a touchstone for the drugs, greed, and boys club atmosphere of 1987.
Abbott, a former state attorney general himself, has made his lawsuits against the Obama administration a touchstone of his political profile.
That's why we've partnered with Flywheel and Touchstone to give one lucky winner a jumpstart on the road to financial empowerment.
More than a quarter-century later, the first horror movie in history to win Best Picture remains a pop culture touchstone.
And Touchstone Pictures paid $50,000 to use Coldplay's "High Speed" in the Jake Gyllenhaal coming-of-age adventure-comedy Bubble Boy.
How does it feel to have created a touchstone/lesson/piece of art that's transcended a generation or two or three?
So Instead of trying to time the market based on someone's forecast, why not use your financial plan as a touchstone?
You need a vision, then, that's a touchstone: It's something you can always come back to if you ever get confused.
If you're looking for a gaming touchstone that compares to Legends, titles like Destiny and The Division may be the closest.
The question never ceases to fascinate, and despite the myriad horrors of our time, the Nazis continue to provide its touchstone.
Still, Judge Cathy Cochran of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals wrote in 2004 that Lennie should be a legal touchstone.
They both use post-metal's dynamic shifts as a touchstone, which gives the two slow-burning tracks a nice harmonic balance.
But Harry Potter is by no means the sole example of a cultural touchstone whose irksomeness is defined by its popularity.
Ms. Hogg turned a fledgling operation into a respected publication that would become a touchstone in the design world and beyond.
LN: So we've seen 1968 become a touchstone for a time when things seemed to be going completely off the rails.
"This has been mostly earnings driven and the earnings have been terrific," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments.
"To get an award like this signifies that the image is a touchstone for many," Shep Doeleman, Harvard astronomer, told Gizmodo.
It not only served as a touchstone for subsequent treatises, it was used as the basis for how trials were conducted.
But China's Taiwan Affairs Office said the "1992 consensus" remained the touchstone by which it would engage with Taiwan and judge Tsai.
For nearly 100 years, the sign has been both a fixture in Hollywood Hills and a touchstone of Tinseltown's popular culture power.
Which means, yeah, one of the touchstone design ideas in operating systems and apps today didn't come from Microsoft's best operating system.
Questions like: Why isn't there any evidence that real-life speech impediments were considered as even a touchstone for this title's development?
He was there to play his crossover hit "Rockit," an early hip-hop touchstone, ubiquitous in the clubs and on the street.
But American audiences will probably see more of a touchstone in the 1963 TV series The Fugitive and its 1993 film remake.
Excerpted from Money Diaries: Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About Your Finances...And Everyone Else's by Lindsey Stanberry, published by Touchstone.
No one -- most especially an equally reviled and "corrupt" president -- should ever be allowed to equate or minimalize such a liberal touchstone.
The idyllic image became a personal touchstone for Folds, crystalizing his view of the artist's job: to share what often goes unnoticed.
"Our show is not an adaptation, but the book is the touchstone for this whole thing," he said in a telephone interview.
King's elegant lauding of "those great wells of democracy" in his Letter from Birmingham Jail remains a touchstone in our own time.
In El Salvador the hardcore scene is concentrated in San Salvador where straight edge and youth crew hardcore is a major touchstone.
The novel's touchstone is the crushing claustrophobia of Gilead, and we get plenty of that—but events carry a sense of continuity.
Empathy can seem like the touchstone to our humanity—the driving mental process behind good deeds, a necessity for building strong relationships.
The book—published in 1998, heavily footnoted, and roundly debunked by mainstream social scientists—is a touchstone of contemporary intellectualized anti-Semitism.
Many designers like Carol Touchstone, who designed this eye-catching, textured ballgown, have been a part of the contest in previous years.
"Le Grand Amour," his first color film, included a dream sequence with a traveling bed that remains a touchstone of French comedy.
Excerpted with permission from Taking the Work Out of Networking: An Introvert's Guide to Making Connections That Count, Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster.
Crit Thomas, global market strategist of Touchstone Investments, thinks earnings estimates for big tech and the broader market are currently too high.
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Many other meats' tastes are measured on a spectrum where both ends are chicken, because chicken is familiar, a touchstone of relatability.
The violent attack became a cultural touchstone defining the power of internet culture in its ability to warp belief systems and reality.
"Lizzie," a 19th-century period drama directed by Craig William Macneill, turns on Lizzie Borden, an abiding mystery and ambiguous feminist touchstone.
These flyers really stood at the touchstone of so many points: dance, art, design, fashion—all within the New York City lens.
For me, travel will always be a touchstone where whenever things are complicated, I can go back to basics and find myself.
She returned to the piece two years ago, using as her touchstone a 1966 novel about bitter female competition by Sawako Ariyoshi.
Senator Kennedy's trip to the Delta has become a touchstone for liberal politicians, but he never said government had all the solutions.
That particular cultural touchstone provides comic grist for Anne's husband, Simon (Matthew Needham), who is as proudly philistine as he is threatening.
The Bill Murray classic is an easy touchstone, but really, each Russian Doll episode's unbreaking cycle of death and rebirth defies comparison.
There's nothing novel about scammers becoming stars; these days, the idea of the scam as a virtue is practically a generational touchstone.
Didi Chuxing's longer-term expansion is likely to be closely watched as a touchstone of the prospects of China's homegrown internet champions.
Across China this fall, the party is turning the obscure anniversary of a cherished political touchstone into a cause for passionate celebration.
Rachel Beach: Touchstone continues at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (68 Elm Street, Summit, New Jersey) through March 17, 2017.
Because it was narrated in English, it became a touchstone for recruits from Australia, Britain and North America, according to Mr. Winter.
He provides a soul of sorts, a reliable touchstone that becomes indispensable to a film's disposition, and with Arrival, Jóhannsson's excelled once again.
Again, it makes sense that The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill feels like a touchstone for this album, but the diversions are real, too.
Over the years since, being sceptical about the identity of the Romanov relics has become a sort of touchstone of zealous religious nationalism.
"Native America provides a touchstone of identity: about who we westerners are and particularly who we are not," wrote the anthropologist J.C.H. King.
Now the National Library of Israel claimed Kafka as "a touchstone of modern Jewish cultural achievement" whose documents must rest on its shelves.
Reality Bites is both a time capsule and a generational touchstone, a portrayal of the defiance of certain Gen Xers resistance to professionalism.
In this staunchly Catholic nation, it&aposs also an obligatory touchstone for self-respecting politicians and celebrities who pose for photos with devotees.
"Flint is a touchstone, sure, but so it Detroit and Newark, NJ, and so many municipalities that have a history of struggle," Pope.
We're no closer to finding the answer, since Reese Witherspoon just tossed her hat in the ring for a publishing deal with Touchstone.
The memoir will focus primarily on Witherspoon's Tennessee upbringing, but is described by Touchstone as a lifestyle book, likely tied into Witherspoon's brand.
Mass Effect and its crew loyalty missions and abilities feel like a good touchstone here; that's how your crew functions in this prequel.
The most obvious touchstone for Overwatch is Valve's Team Fortress 2, another cartoony multiplayer FPS with multiple characters, each with very different skills.
Yet the French have an ambiguous relationship with football, which has become a touchstone for wider unease about wealth, capitalism, foreigners and race.
The platano as a cultural touchstone is a hallmark of Puerto Rican cultural production, however, almost always the fruit and never the leaf.
Some Latinos have wondered why the shooting that left 49 people dead has become a gay-rights touchstone and not a Latino one.
If Skyrim is our touchstone for the depth of variety in the world, Dark Souls sets a blueprint for the perils that await.
The U.S. government also expressed "disappointment" at the result, which has become a touchstone for concerns about U.S. multinationals keeping foreign profits offshore.
Just a decade before, however, the idea that Broadway would use the penthouse of the Christodora as a touchstone of glamour seemed ludicrous.
Since its premiere in 2009, "Drag Race" has grown from minor curiosity into niche touchstone, largely by word of mouth and social media.
In more recent years, the band's dream of collective liberation has become a touchstone for artists like Kendrick Lamar, Thundercat, and Flying Lotus.
Both the Armenians, for whom Surp Giragos is an important cultural touchstone, and the Kurds have discerned a hidden agenda in the expropriations.
He provides a soul of sorts, a reliable touchstone that becomes indispensable to a film's disposition, and with  Arrival, Jóhannsson's excelled once again.
This is a big touchstone for me in terms of the new record because it's right on the edge of being complete goofball.
These songs aren't always easy listens, as they rarely adhere to a single sonic touchstone, but that's also what makes them so essential.
The pandemic has closed holy sites across the globe, but virtual reality is providing worshipers a digital window into ceremonies during touchstone holidays.
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There's also no one cultural touchstone or trauma that binds Asian immigrants: no event on a national scale that has brought us together.
But however politically divided the United States seems now, Europeans have never considered it a touchstone of stability the way they have Britain.
Over the past week, Dr. Blasey has become a cultural touchstone for women around the country in the era of the #MeToo movement.
Splash was so out left park for Disney, that it became the first film released under an entirely different studio arm — Touchstone Pictures.
In contrast, the Spirit Award that year went to "Pulp Fiction," a narrative-bending film that has become a touchstone in film history.
A voter fraud case Sessions brought against three black civil rights activists in the 1980s has become a touchstone among his liberal critics.
The group bolstered the 1977 soundtrack of "Saturday Night Fever" a disco cultural touchstone that's sold 16 million copies in the U.S. alone.
A welcome addition to the BoJack cast, Baby Ruthie was both a visual treat and a thematic touchstone for Season 6, Part 1.
He said he referred to the call as a "touchstone piece of information" to explain why Zelensky couldn't get a meeting with Trump.
The U.S. intelligence community is pushing back on a Harvard report that has become a touchstone in the Capitol Hill debate over encryption.
A high-modernist, Promethean vocabulary — by now its own kind of consensus — is her touchstone of praise: the unsettling, the rebellious, the subversive.
But at the time, the New York situation felt very special because Giuliani was such a touchstone in the debate over police violence.
In particular, Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett, who is believed to have suffered from schizophrenia, has been a touchstone for the artist.
The sex scene is so memorable, it's used as a sexed-up touchstone in Hulu's middle school-set Pen22019, which takes place in 230.
But it endures as a cultural touchstone, and that's primarily thanks to the film's now-iconic songs, and to the performer who sang them.
The game is a cultural touchstone in sports; you don't land on its cover without being a major gravitational force in the sporting universe.
"There is a narrative growing that there might be a recession in 27.75," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments in Cincinnati.
Nevertheless, the study offers a touchstone that entomologists (and paranoid laypersons) will now use to gauge their expectations about how many bugs they're sheltering.
This energy becomes embedded in a good piece of art and transforms it into a spiritual touchstone, for those who learn to read it.
"The risks are still to the downside, especially now that the Fed is on hold," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments.
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Ray's 1950 film, "In a Lonely Place," about a Hollywood screenwriter (played by Humphrey Bogart) suspected of murder, was a touchstone for Mr. Hanson.
But to those who were touched by it, especially those of a generation that remembers the times it depicts, the show remains a touchstone.
Matthew Ritchie has been visualizing character-driven cosmologies for more than twenty years; Paul Chan's postapocalyptic video cycle "The 7 Lights" is another touchstone.
But in each one you see someone using a collective cultural touchstone to fulfill their own fantasies—and everyone who sees it loves it.
Though she was a real stray cosmodoggo, her afterlife has taken on a mythic dimension making her a frequent touchstone in fiction and music.
Despite these heterodox origins, the AFC would remain a touchstone for non-interventionists on the right far more than for those on the left.
That impromptu event eventually turned into Wigstock, an end-of-summer drag festival that became a cultural touchstone for L.G.B.T.Q. people in New York.
But a new opera that opened at the Met last week takes its very inspiration, if not its production team, from a cinematic touchstone.
California has been a touchstone for the Brown family since the governor's great-grandfather arrived on a wagon train more than 150 years ago.
"That Woman," of course, had been named to evoke "That Girl," Ms. Thomas's television show from the late 250s that was a feminist touchstone.
Al Sharpton, began to organize rallies and other events at the Slave, turning the building into a touchstone of black activism in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
They conceived of it as a feminist answer to the Whole Earth Catalog, the hippie touchstone which published several times between 1968 and 1972.
However, it's important to know why you're getting a hairstyle that has long been a cultural touchstone while also being the focus of discrimination.
But the group's music — sharp, sociopolitical rhymes set to impossibly cool jazz arrangements — has become a touchstone for generations of younger hip-hop artists.
Masaya Nakamura, a Japanese toy and game entrepreneur whose company's most enduring creation, Pac-Man, became a worldwide cultural touchstone, died on Jan. 224.
Stars Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin became major Broadway names, and made the show's hit, "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina," into a cultural touchstone.
In the many years since then, Mary Oliver's gentle insistence that we do not end up "simply having visited this world" became my touchstone.
Another crucial touchstone was "The Twilight Zone": It originally aired on CBS from 203 to 1964, and his mother introduced him to the reruns.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three chaotic days of peace, music, mud and free love helped immortalize the 22017 Woodstock festival as the touchstone of Sixties counterculture.
They are complex and personal and most nod to some sort of obscure historical touchstone between the two countries, or the gifter and the receiver.
The court's eventual decision -- on an issue that is a touchstone for each party's base -- will come down in the heat of the presidential election.
Instead, the series comes off as the love child of the reality TV touchstone and last year's Amazon Prime Video breakout, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Ever since worshipers have journeyed to the sacred lake, a cultural touchstone for the island's Indian emigrants and a link to their South Asian past.
And the semi-fictionalized version of the scandal portrayed on film in All the President's Men is an emotional and intellectual touchstone for many journalists.
Apple's retail footprint today spans nearly 500 Apple Stores globally and serves as an important public touchstone for the company, its products and aesthetic vision.
Since television basically rules the world these days, it's likely your favorite series might end up being your biggest pop cultural touchstone for the holiday.
Twelve years later, that fight was enough of a cultural touchstone that they rematched at a Rizin FF's first New Year's Eve carnival of oddities.
On touchstone ethical issues the practising Christians were, as you would expect, distinctly conservative, while non-practising ones were little different from their secularist compatriots.
Creating these linked ecosystems where players who prefer gaming on their iPhones can enjoy huge cultural touchstone titles like Fortnite alongside console players is massive.
More than any other artist, Mr. Bowie inspired, influenced and rerouted the course of men's wear, his alien grace a touchstone for generations of designers.
Apart from fashioning a punk cultural vocabulary including spiked hair, ripped jeans and safety-pinned clothes, his music remains a foundational touchstone for punk rockers.
Ensuring that reforms are legally binding and amount to a lasting change in the EU treaties has become a touchstone of domestic credibility for Cameron.
He's particularly proud of the high Cs he hits at the end of "Bat Out of Hell," the 10-minute epic that's become his touchstone.
McGregor-Mayweather is going to suck up all the remaining oxygen through self-evidence, a huge fight that's becoming a cultural touchstone just by existing.
A cultural touchstone for generations of New Yorkers and followers of fashion, Barneys filed for bankruptcy protection in August, citing rent hikes as a factor.
Biden is unlikely to use a Spike Jonze movie as his cultural touchstone, but he probably feels the same way as his vice-presidential predecessor.
"It helps people realize, 'I have that same touchstone and here's an example in my own life of how I've lived that out,'" Schleif said.
On the touchstone issue of immigration, Mr. Trump has capitalized by proposing to build a wall on the southern border and send Mexico the bill.
It became a touchstone for a generation of queer men, who would use the names of the characters as slang for different types of guys.
" Sports are an important touchstone for Mr. Grooms, who brought up the controversy surrounding his Marlins sculpture by saying, "Do you know about my disaster?
The obvious touchstone that many have pointed out is that regrettable Ghost in the Shell remake from this year but it's much deeper than that.
That's a big part of why the movie still holds up today, and why it remains a touchstone in the development of the superhero film.
The Handmaid's Tale has become a touchstone for many on the left—people fighting for women's rights have been donning the red robes in protest.
A reworking of "Jane Eyre" from the perspective of Mr. Rochester's mad wife, it was published in 1966 to great acclaim and remains a touchstone.
"What we want to do is make sure that that inspiration and that touchstone is available to everybody, wherever they may live in the world."
Bret Stephens In the last year there have been four touchstone elections in the West: two in Britain, one in the U.S., one in France.
Hashimoto is best known for inventing the ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A hack found in multiple video games that has became a geek touchstone in the gaming community.
"Nemo judex in causa sua" — Latin for "no one can be a judge in his own case" — has long been a touchstone of judicial review.
They are too clever not to provide a few laughs in their strip-mining of touchstone genres, from hip-hop to funk to Alpine polka.
Bellini's bel canto touchstone, set in the English Civil War, requires four supreme singers, and the Met is likely to have them for this run.
"I think [Steve] Bannon sort of laid out how this thing is going to play out," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments.
"One hallmark of justice is absolute independence, and that was my touchstone every day that I served," Mr. Bharara said in a statement on Saturday.
President Donald J. Trump will deliver his first State of the Union Address tomorrow, a touchstone from which to evaluate his first year in office.
But it could become the kind of rhetorical touchstone of his re-election campaign that sounding the alarm about "criminal illegal aliens" was in 26.
Maybe more importantly, it became a touchstone for a generation of Mexican-Americans who were unaccustomed to seeing their culture embraced by the mainstream media.
I don't believe that JonBenét Ramsey's murder is a touchstone for those types of national conversations (though I wouldn't be opposed to hearing that argument).
My phone was a touchstone, cementing me to reality, to the multiplicity of grief and outrage that gave me a respite from my own racing thoughts.
Again, Rolón has drawn the touchstone objects of home and hearth into a world where form has so thoroughly superseded function as to obscure it entirely.
When set against Russian social reality, that figure sounds low, and suggests that Russians feel a certain pressure to give conservative answers to such touchstone questions.
But, the second season of the polarizing pop cultural touchstone no longer has the luxury of being an unknown entity we can all figure out together.
First published in 1957, and now translated into English, they've become a touchstone for generations of readers, and an influence on authors such as Ken Liu.
Season 1, episode one aired on October 14, 2007, and was the start of what continues to be a cultural touchstone for the U.S. and beyond.
Even as the storyline changed dramatically, as other characters were added or removed or reimagined, the princess bit remained a "touchstone," said story artist Jason Hand.
A guiding touchstone for some has been to draw on the principles of a conservative giant: What would the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia do?
They recorded one of the most revolting sequential four records in American history through the mid-80s, with fart noises and induced vomiting a sonic touchstone.
He said that a touchstone of libertarian acceptance among the public — and by extension electoral success this fall — will be gaining access to the presidential ballot.
At a time when Harlem was still the traditional center of New York's black community, the Slave became a touchstone of black activism in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Anyone who was a kid or teen in the '90s grew up alongside the kids of West Bev, and it remains a cultural touchstone for them.
Philipp E. Scherer, the director of the Touchstone Diabetes Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and his colleagues tested the idea.
But as the years passed, it became a touchstone of their Brooklyn childhoods, and a memorable achievement during a formative and poignant time in their lives.
For some an unnecessary blemish on their rectangle of glass, for sure, but for others an important touchstone to get them where they needed to go.
The show's title comes from the address of this building, 887 Murray Avenue in Quebec City, which serves as the primary touchstone for Lepage's memoiristic ruminations.
The Disney Afternoon is an early '90s nostalgia touchstone—a two-hour block of animated cartoons that ran every weekday after school, from 3PM to 21PM.
She seems to be having a great time in the role, as does Mark Bedard, hilarious and seemingly effortless as the wry and opportunistic clown, Touchstone.
It also gave us time to let people know that a touchstone of our show is to treat veterans with respect, to treat weapons with respect.
This usage stems from old-time metallurgy, when the quality of gold was verified using the touchstone method; nowadays, I think more of Ken Kesey's parties.
The adult-targeting Touchstone division delivered a handful of blockbusters, including Signs (2002), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), and the National Treasure franchise (which debuted in 2004).
Hannah Cabell plays Rosalind, with Kyle Scatliffe as her amateur wrestler lover, André de Shields as Touchstone and the astounding Ellen Burstyn as the melancholy Jaques.
The memory of those pizzas stayed with Falco, as the memory of childhood pizza stays with every American, a touchstone of pleasure, a cheese-topped madeleine.
These are the G.E. heartland operations — machines representing the most advanced application of the touchstone technologies of the 13-year-old company: materials science and physics.
The radical KingKing&aposs "I Have a Dream," speech at the March on Washington in August 1963 serves as the touchstone for the annual King holiday.
Taking a harder line on illegal immigration, including building a wall at the border with Mexico, was a touchstone for Trump during the 2016 election campaign.
"Redneck" has a hint of pride these days, thanks largely to Southern comedians like Jeff Foxworthy who made it a touchstone of their identities and routines.
He also jammed with the English prog-jazz outfit the Soft Machine and recorded "Church of Anthrax" with John Cale, which became an art-rock touchstone.
Others argued that if self-identification were to replace ancestry or phenotype as the touchstone of racial identity, this would encourage "racial fraud" and cultural appropriation.
Video games have become an important cultural touchstone for the online age, and a common denominator for online communities that include people from around the world.
Analysis: His speech depicted socialism as a menace, alluding to both Venezuela and Democrats — a trope that could become a rhetorical touchstone in his 2020 campaign.
Hannah Cabell plays Rosalind with Kyle Scatliffe as her amateur wrestler lover, André de Shields as Touchstone and the astounding Ellen Burstyn as the melancholy Jaques.
That might have been true in Trump's cultural and political touchstone, the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan's hard-line anti-Communism defined American foreign and domestic policy.
Adam Papagan's O.J. Simpson Museum at Coagula Curatorial is baldly commercial, but it also demonstrates how much of a cultural touchstone the famous trial has become.
Rather than use its position as a cultural touchstone to advocate for our rights, the comedic duo has always preferred to use us as cheap, hateful gags.
The resulting show ran for four seasons on ABC, made a teenage idol out of Mr. Cassidy, spawned hit records and became a touchstone of 21978s kitsch.
A larger touchstone, especially on the title track, is Frank Sinatra — though Mr. Urie doesn't have the vocal subtlety or the empathy to flesh out his emulation.
Lincoln wasn't just a regular touchstone, as an example, for the now super wealthy  Barack Obama , he was used to help get  Mr. Obama  elected as president.
Although Irish is the main language of just 0.24% of people in the province (behind English, Polish and Lithuanian), it has become a touchstone issue for republicans.
Since Samsung chose last fall to halt production of the Note7, the device has turned into a cultural touchstone, an easy joke about things that blow up.
It's a tale of two cross-kingdom organisms, one providing food and the one other shelter, and it's been our touchstone example of symbiosis for 150 years.
Her reasoning is that an international dance craze can positively affect the lives of couples and single people by creating a common touchstone and point of interaction.
Since the superstar's fatal overdose, Garcia has become a touchstone for many Prince fans, as one of the few people willing open up about the reclusive performer.
While the government encourages year-round use of mountain infrastructure, he said it is not giving up on winter sports, a deep cultural touchstone for the Swiss.
At the same time, improv relies on tropes and performance clichés to get the performers on the same page, and also as a touchstone for the audience.
Sazón: Sazón may look a bit ramshackle from the outside, but the South Austin Tex-Mex restaurant has been a breakfast taco and chilaquiles touchstone for years.
So with statement that the Trump administration was seriously considering an effort to curtail the First Amendment, the very touchstone of American democracy, there was little response.
The controversy has become a touchstone for Trump's critics, who say the president is prone to believing conspiracy theories while playing fast and loose with the facts.
Professor Sunstein developed a new interest in "Star Wars" after introducing the series to his son, Declan, 7, and witnessing how it became a touchstone for them.
Mr. Kerr was a graduate student in psychology at New York University when he discovered the subject that would become the touchstone of an influential scholarly life.
The third act of this thriller, a touchstone for Jennifer Lopez diva worshipers, is devoted entirely to a drawn-out, satisfying scene of a battered wife's revenge.
Since it was enacted in 28503, VAWA has been a touchstone for federal policies and funding on sexual assault and domestic violence, which guide local enforcement efforts.
Both authors use the founding of the United States as a touchstone and starting point for their arguments, but do they agree on one vision for America?
As Kanye continues to lead a life that's increasingly divergent from the average American, Chick-fil-A represents a common touchstone that everyone has a take on.
The nomination has become a touchstone of the #MeToo movement, a vivid reminder of the deep chasm between men's and women's lived experience of sex and power.
" The Beastie Boys later sampled a snippet of one of the album's tracks, "Shuckin' the Corn," on "5-Piece Chicken Dinner," from their 20093 touchstone, "Paul's Boutique.
Like Henry David Thoreau, one of his touchstone influences, Berry went back to the land — in his case, a farm in Henry County, Ky. — to live deliberately.
"To illustrate the point by way of a cultural touchstone: Without the unanimity rule, the play Twelve Angry Men would have ended on page eleven," they wrote.
The fundamental touchstone of Warren's career was the realization that the technical expertise of bankruptcy law experts was not going to carry the day on this issue.
It became a model for subsequent rock music festivals from Woodstock to Bonnaroo and was a touchstone moment for the fusion of rock music and antiwar politics.
She has also become a touchstone for a generation of younger musicians—the cool big sister they always wanted, as well as a self-empowered sex symbol.
The hedge fund manager invoked "early 1999" as a touchstone for today's market environment, noting in particular the copious financial liquidity and low inflation energizing risk assets.
John Bargh is a professor of psychology at Yale and the author of "Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do" (2017; Touchstone).
Ms. Davis builds her compositions on crooked patterns and splintered loops that somehow become a kind of magnetic touchstone, bringing together wildly diverse musicians in tangled unity.
The policy touched off a furious debate and became a touchstone for conservatives who saw the Obama administration as out of touch and making its own laws.
But its potential—most clearly visualized in William Gibson's 1984 sci-fi touchstone, Neuromancer—has always been there, and Oculus was the first to truly fulfill it.
Built around synths that sound like they were found in Suzanne Ciani's archives, "Touchstone" doesn't build or waver; instead, it just calmly and coolly washes over you.
Samples of the album covers photographed by Brathwaite are on display in the show, serving as an important touchstone in Black is Beautiful's entrance into mainstream culture.
The group get-togethers often extend beyond the three months off and function as a sort of touchstone for the benefits of the sabbatical after it's over.
Starbucks is typically a touchstone for consistency, a beacon of predictability we can take comfort in while the chaotic world around us threatens to swallow us whole.
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The XFL sexualized and exploited women even more than the NFL's wanton treatment of its cheerleaders, to the point that such objectification became a touchstone of the endeavor.
The cynic's view of this divide is fairly straightforward: one is a beloved-but-not-blockbuster comic book series, the other is a transmedia phenomenon and cultural touchstone.
The country has been looked on to serve as a sort of global touchstone on issues such as the importance of leaving politics out of interest rate decisions.
Fortnite is a cultural touchstone, the sort of thing that's so inherently interesting â€" for whatever reason â€" that it crosses all boundaries and seeps into all conversations.
" People have a reasonable expectation of privacy — the touchstone for Fourth Amendment protections — in those records, the court held, because they detail "the whole of [their] physical movements.
A key moment came in December when one of Mrs Foster's ministers cut £50,000 in funding for teaching the Irish language, which republicans regard as a touchstone issue.
They often offer a human touchstone for difficult decisions, give the audience someone to relate to, and (perhaps most important of all) give the Doctor someone to impress.
RA's fight with Folau has travelled well beyond the rugby pitch, however, becoming a touchstone for concerns by some in Australia that freedom of speech is being eroded.
Picabia's art was radically experimental and his persistent questioning of what art was and what it could be makes him a particularly relevant touchstone for artists working today.
Humphrey never made it to the pinnacle of American politics, but he did become vice president, and was an influential touchstone of Democratic politics who inspired many others.
She always made her shortcomings as a functional member of society a touchstone, deepening her voice by a couple of octaves in her impression of the adult world.
As he was not in Parliament at the time, he did not vote in favor of the Iraq war — a touchstone issue for Labour members — as she did.
Prime Video is merely a perk within a broader ecosystem of services, and ultimately peripheral to the key touchstone of Prime membership: free 2- or 1-day shipping.
Yet the kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III isn't quite a cultural touchstone on the level of the O.J. Simpson trial or, say, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
Wilson's revisiting of Othello as a touchstone suggests an identification with the character, reinforced by the mirror as a means of superimposing one's own image over the work.
Michael: And for every TV touchstone like the James B. Comey hearing, there were a dozen other microevents that burst and faded like a Fourth of July firecracker.
Its touchstone is the story of William Freeman, a freeborn man of African and Native American descent who was accused of multiple brutal killings in upstate New York.
Ms. Peterson, 31, is a speechwriting consultant in Brooklyn, and is an author of "Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead," (Touchstone, 2018).
Mr. Hammons is a touchstone figure for Mr. Ligon, and for many other artists interested in making work that can accommodate political readings without being confined to them.
Classic Stage Company's version, opening at the other end of the month, features Hannah Cabell and Kyle Scatliffe as the lovers, André De Shields as Touchstone and — surprise!
What seemed like a niche at the time has since become a cultural touchstone, positioning the company well to be embraced first by podcasters and then Twitch streamers.
For the Kurds, the vote was a potent and historic touchstone, a declaration to the world that they this is their moment and they are not turning back.
His nomination became a touchstone battle in a country in the middle of its own reckoning with sexual harassment and assault, often referred to as the #MeToo movement.
The game's creators call it a "dust-punk" setting—think Mad Max, but replace the cars with advanced technology, and add India as it's cultural and religious touchstone.
The confirmation hearings -- highlighted by the emotional testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, who said Kavanaugh had assaulted her at a party in high school -- became a cultural touchstone.
Where music (and particularly music videos) was once the genre-spanning language for a generation, the two entrepreneurs see gaming culture as the touchstone for a new audience.
She has some powerful words too on the modern unreflective complacency about the democratic political process, as if so-called free and fair elections were its only touchstone.
The Secretariat, a building in Myanmar's former capital where the independence hero Aung San was assassinated in 1947, is a powerful touchstone for the country's history and identity.
And body positivity as a vague concept has been a useful touchstone for plenty of people trying not to hate themselves in a world that insists on it.
" Another Modernist touchstone, early Picasso, described the essence of Cubism as a "base kind of materialism" which Clark interprets as "the Cubists wish at all costs to be low.
When else could a show about a cat-eating puppet alien not only be allowed to air, but actually become a cultural touchstone with a full line of merchandising?
In addition to being a touchstone for far-flung Wuhan natives, the noodles have become a symbol around the globe of solidarity with the people of the quarantined city.
For a generation of young, suburban, entrepreneurially aspirational girls, these books were an important personal touchstone—as well as a connection to that larger zeitgeist of business-minded women.
While Winfrey's White House ambitions are obscure at best, it seems the fictional world has seemingly also realized she is the ultimate touchstone for a sunnier, more hopeful future.
And you look back on that relationship, and it becomes sort of a touchstone for your life and how much you might have changed or even stayed the same.
Pitt — blondish, blue-eyed, square-jawed, possessed of a physique that became a touchstone for personal trainers — is one of the most movie star–looking movie stars out there.
As Amina, the fragile, guileless title character of "La Sonnambula" ("The Sleepwalker"), the Korean soprano Hyesang Park showed she has the vocal endowment for this touchstone bel canto role.
The tech giant essentially created the category by purchasing Siri, the startup behind the eponymous digital assistant, which quickly became a cultural touchstone after its release on the iPhone.
This is amplified by the culture wars between the progressive left, who treat the issue as the touchstone of virtue, and social conservatives, who dismiss trans people as deviants.
Finest's planned 100 km (60 mile) tunnel for linking Helsinki with Estonia's capital Tallinn got in March a provisional 15 billion euros in financing from China's Touchstone Capital Partners.
"It's like you're Nightcrawler from that opening scene in [the movie] X-Men 2," said Keating, referencing a cinematic touchstone that he'd return to multiple times during our interview.
As in the previous two volumes, President Obama's inauguration serves as a touchstone throughout the narrative: In a flash-forward we see Lewis, exultant at the ceremony in 2009.
The contrasts between the views of Mr. Kemp and Mr. Gingrich on touchstone issues over the years illustrate why Mr. Trump and Mr. Ryan will never be soul mates.
"Sex and the City" ran from 1998 to 2004 and became an iconic touchstone for its millions of viewers with Carrie Bradshaw's musings about sex, dating, love, and relationships.
One-third of the funding will come as a private equity investment - giving Touchstone a minority stake in the project - and two-thirds will be debt financing, it said.
FinEst Bay Area Development said it signed a memorandum of understanding with China Railway International Group, China Railway Engineering Company, China Communications Construction Company, and financier Touchstone Capital Partners.
"The touchstone is not the Constitution but the Republican Party platform," said Peter Irons, an attorney, political scientist, and the author of A People's History of the Supreme Court.
In the heated arena of South China Sea politics in China, the shoal — known as Huangyan Island here — has become a touchstone for both hawks and more moderate voices.
For the past 25 years, he has penned an op-ed column called "Touchstone" for the Spanish newspaper El País that is devoured by politicos in Spain and Peru.
But even there, it's hard for the Academy to resist a true box office sensation that garners warm reviews, then takes off and becomes a big-time cultural touchstone.
But there is one thing most everyone here agrees on: It would be terrible to see the end of Maine shrimp, a touchstone of local tradition, identity and cuisine.
In the decades since, the massacre at Hue has become a touchstone and a flash point for debates about the war, both within Vietnam and in the United States.
The underlying court agreed with Oracle, in large part because the court found that coming up with the APIs involved creative choices — and creativity is a touchstone of copyrightability.
Ron Miller, Walt Disney's son-in-law and former president of the company, wanted to make more live-action movies with adult characters, and launched Touchstone as a result.
IS THIS KIND OF CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE MOMENT WHERE YOU'RE TRYING TO DO THIS FOR MICROSOFT'S EMPLOYEES AND PERSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS SAYING, LOOK, HERE'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO?
It also means blues, zydeco from bayou country and a Jazz Fest touchstone, the gospel tent, where singers, preachers and choirs of everyday worshipers belt out praises and gratitude.
If you've forgotten the true meaning of Leap Day, it's time to get in touch with your inner Leap Day William and revisit this essential cultural touchstone from 2012.
Mr. Hunter's lyrics, often dreamlike variations on the American folk tradition, meshed seamlessly with the band's casual musical style, helping to define the Grateful Dead as a counterculture touchstone.
Along with neon, leg warmers and big hair, it's a touchstone of that decade, remaining relevant long after its contemporaries have been relegated to theme parties and time capsules.
Whether the MCU is a 23-piece collection of cinematic tales or a decade of theme park rides, few come close to the cultural touchstone the MCU has left.
Six decades after "The Sound of Music" debuted on Broadway, it remains a cultural touchstone in community theaters, in books, on streaming services and inspiring an Ariana Grande video.
Kate Brown has just announced a plan to ban offshore drilling along Oregon's coast, the Taylor oil spill is poised to remain a painfully relevant, if not overdue, touchstone.
And Lewis was frequently cited as one of the touchstone examples of this trend, perhaps because she was vocal about how quickly her words had been appropriated from her.
Her failed 2016 campaign has not: Rather than a touchstone for a new crop of female candidates, it's become a byword for the fate that they hope to avoid.
Finding the best gifts can be complex -- it should be personal and most nod to some sort of historical touchstone between the two countries, or the gifter and the receiver.
The T-1000 blob-terminator seems like a too-easy touchstone, but when it comes to autonomously reconfigurable robots―machines that become other machines at will―it really is perfect.
Less than two months later, the photo would grace the cover of Abbey Road, transforming the humble zebra crossing into a tourist mecca, and Macmillan's photograph into multi-generational touchstone.
But as a touchstone tracking the rapid evolution of how we communicate in the 21st century, this is possibly one of the most powerful acquisitions the museum has ever made.
Ryan Cash sees these launches on iOS of "full games" as they exist elsewhere as a touchstone of sorts that could legitimize the idea of mobile as a parity platform.
Inside a former home electronics store in downtown Vancouver, the 219th edition of New Forms Festival, the city's touchstone event for electronic music and multimedia art took place last October.
The video comes from the fine folks at WoodRocket, a porn production house that has basically cornered the market on hyper-sexual, zeitgeist-aping parodies of every pop culture touchstone.
Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments, said there are concerns the Federal Reserve may not be able to raise interest rates twice more, as it had previously forecast.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has singled out the labour market as the touchstone for whether it needs to cut rates again, after easings in both June and July.
The proposed law would permanently repeal the rule, which has been used by U.S. presidents for decades to signal their stance on abortion rights, a touchstone issue in U.S. politics.
By taking on a touchstone Verdi baritone part, Mr. Domingo was asking fans to indulge him in fulfilling a lifelong fantasy, one for which his voice was not really suited.
Anti-fossil fuels advocate Bill McKibben said the pipeline couldn't pass "a climate test" and the Center for Biological Diversity has made DAPL a touchstone of its aggressive climate campaign.
Without even trying, The Americans has become a cultural touchstone — but if it embraces the political mood of the moment too much, it risks ruining its distinct, carefully modulated tone.
A touchstone of the late 23s for many gamers, it was a bridge between the hacker culture that birthed video game emulation and the cultural phenomenon retro gaming later became.
Creating substantial roles for minority actors became a touchstone of Vampire Cowboys, which Mr. Nguyen co-founded in 2002 with the director and fellow comic-book lover Robert Ross Parker.
A prize might have been nice, but he didn't need the festival's blessing; "Do the Right Thing" became a cultural touchstone, an essential work in Mr. Lee's enduring, electric career.
The latest series B round, announced on Monday, was led by German wholesale and food retail giant Metro Group, asset management company Woodford Investment Management, and tech investor Touchstone Innovations.
Days before the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show, Porsche turned its L.A. Experience center into a media extravaganza to introduce the brand's spiritual touchstone: the all-new 911 for 2020.
France's energetic young president, Emmanuel Macron, has made lightening the code — a touchstone of French economic life for over a century — the centerpiece of his promise to revitalize the economy.
His dismissal proved polarising, igniting a debate that travelled well beyond the rugby pitch and became a touchstone for some in Australia who felt freedom of speech was being eroded.
Although its origin in the family is distanced by time, buried beneath the experience of the lazy weekend brunches of the succeeding generations, Spam functions as an unchanging, replenishable touchstone.
She said membership in any one group shouldn't be a touchstone for nominees — and that when it is, you can get a roster of judges that doesn't look like America.
Although its origin in the family is distanced by time, buried beneath the experience of the lazy weekend brunches of the succeeding generations, Spam functions as an unchanging, replenishable touchstone.
Dr. Needleman was working at a community psychiatric clinic in North Philadelphia after medical school when he met a young man who would become a touchstone for a crusading career.
The Hockney painting, for example, appears five minutes into the first episode of the series, in Bojack's home office, cementing itself as a visual and cultural touchstone for the show.
I was obsessed with the song "Oleo Strut" for a very long time and it remains a huge touchstone for me when trying to accomplish a lot with very little.
Saturday's protest over a multimillion dollar power line, which demonstrators wanted to re-route through two provinces with large Hazara populations, had become a touchstone for a wider sense of injustice.
Most 18- to 29-year-olds cite sport shooting as their principal reason for firearm ownership, indicating that guns are as much a cultural touchstone in the US now as ever.
Unfortunately, this preference truism is a double-edged sword, and, through no fault of my own, I'm left with fewer cultural touchstone than most to help me bond with other humans.
A paragon of dark teen comedy, Ghost World is a touchstone for a certain type of disaffected teenager, the sort that disapproving adults might call too smart for their own good.
More than two decades after its last episode aired, "The Golden Girls" remains a cultural touchstone, and helped turn now-95-year-old Betty White into one of America's enduring sweethearts.
The movie was also a flop (opening in July probably didn't help), but in the years since, it's become a generational touchstone, and Billy has become one of Jones' signature roles.
It is unsurprising, then, that the majority of her work treats the body as a touchstone to recontextualize or recast the politics of gender, identity, and sensuality within the gallery space.
If there is anything approaching an emotional touchstone in her slim catalogue, it's a song called "Mama Don't Worry (Still Ain't Dirty)" a ditty about not letting your transgressions define you.
Her first novel, ''Valley of the Dolls,'' remains a pop-culture touchstone: a gleefully salacious story of friendship, sex, backstabbing and pills (or ''dolls'') that won famous fans and detractors alike.
In the immediate aftermath of the election, the ACLU became a touchstone organization for progressives (from people on Twitter to celebrities) to broadcast their support for and call for donations to.
Likewise, she shows the dancers historical footage — Whitey's Lindy Hoppers are a touchstone — yet the most important thing, she explained, is getting them to move as their bodies want to move.
Starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz, the film is the final DreamWorks title being distributed by Disney through its Touchstone label with future DreamWorks movies going out through Universal.
It famously signed Alanis Morissette, whose first album, Jagged Little Pill, was both a commercial juggernaut with lifetime sales at over 15 million copies, and a cultural touchstone for a generation.
Since school lunches are an important touchstone of nutrition for many American children, getting the act passed became a key focus of Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign to fight childhood obesity.
Starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz, the film is the final DreamWorks title being distributed by Disney through its Touchstone label with future DreamWorks movie going out through Universal.
Fans of the show on Twitter were quick to express their surprise... .. both that the teacher is gay and that the show -- a cultural touchstone for many millennials -- is still running.
If an experience like Kids came out as a diskette for early '90s PCs and Macs, I think it would be a minor cultural touchstone on the order of Flying Toasters.
As with his touchstone "I'm A Man, I'm 40" explosion years ago, it was difficult to tell what Gundy meant, but easy to tell that he was extremely passionate about it.
So when an unexpected opportunity arose to spend her year living in the famed Palazzo Rucellai — a touchstone of Renaissance architectural history — though pricey for an academic, she seized on it.
A feminist touchstone, "Jeanne Dielman" has often been discussed within a theoretical and political framework (voyeurism, the male gaze) that can feel as mechanical as a 101 intro to cinema studies.
"The onrush of product will not be checked," writes James, conscious that — even as he draws together the touchstone shows for his book — the whole consensus is starting to come apart.
Even though I didn't play much as a kid, Pokémon is a cultural touchstone of my youth, something that stoked a sense of nostalgia — and something I suddenly became invested in.
Azerbaijan has long stood apart as a touchstone for interfaith and multicultural harmony, and considering the status of global human relations, the implications of that example have never carried more weight.
"I'm seeing more stories about the market with a negative tilt to them and I think they're echoing what investors are thinking," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments.
It's a staple in the bathrooms of A-listers and Instagrammers alike, a product now sold everywhere from Whole Foods and Urban Outfitters to Walmart and PacSun — a true cultural touchstone.
The touching "Hey, kid, catch!" ad actually started airing in October 1979, but the exposure it got from Super Bowl 14 turned it into a touchstone, provoking several parodies and homages.
Though the race is not a touchstone in his country, it was a major story in the Soviet Union at the time and a topic he is asked to revisit often.
It's also been a touchstone for people close to the ball world, and those who have come to know ballroom through the film, to see themselves honored on the big screen.
For decades, the Gwich'in have led the Native opposition to drilling, arguing that opening the 1002 Area could affect the porcupine caribou, a major source of food and a spiritual touchstone.
When she attended her first expo, she was grateful for the chance to revisit a touchstone of her childhood, but also delighted to learn about tea varieties she'd never encountered before.
The players in Augsburg were too young to have witnessed the 1980 Miracle on Ice, the single greatest cultural touchstone of American hockey, but they knew all about it, of course.
But it's not the only cultural touchstone of an earlier time -- my time, as it happens -- that you can still find every night on TV, and that is having an anniversary.
"Métamorphoses nocturnes" is a taut and seething one-movement work from 1954, a repertory touchstone and as fine a music as any to put a young group to the test. (chambermusicsociety.org.)
The chain became a popular cultural touchstone known for its welcoming atmosphere; its ample menu of roadside staples like hash browns, eggs, steaks and waffles; and its all-day, everyday service.
Celebrated hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones recently invoked "early 19993" as a touchstone for today's market environment, noting in particular the copious financial liquidity and low inflation energizing risk assets.
That's because Walmart has long served as a touchstone or proxy for "real America" -- one often seen as anathema to liberals, coastal elites and others who might push for gun control.
I return to "The Myth of Sisyphus" over and over as a kind of touchstone: Meaning is found in the struggle, not in victory; in the process, not in the outcomes.
That vision changed Ginsberg's life, and Blake became a touchstone figure for many radical American artists of the 1950s and his destroy-all-tyrants radar continued to burn through the 1960s.
Since the show is a dark, complicated, tortured-family mystery set in Hong Kong, his name can't help but call to mind the neo-noir touchstone "Chinatown" and its doomed Mulwrays.
He established Touchstone Pictures as a vehicle to release films that were targeted at adults, scoring a quick hit with "Splash" (213), a romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah.
That day, I clearly remember us talking about Marilyn Manson's video for "The Dope Show," a major touchstone in our never-ending quest to differentiate ourselves from our uber-preppy surroundings.
That's because popular culture is both America's greatest common touchstone and one of its great indicators of identity: This kind of person likes Beyoncé, and this kind of person likes Nickelback.
Jessica Roth, a spokesperson for publisher Touchstone Books, declined to provide a preview copy of the book, but confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Tuesday that the description of the passage was accurate.
Since the athlete is purposefully trying to trick the jurors in the Bakers' lawsuit, and therefore us viewers, it's good to have at least one reality-ensuring touchstone among all the lies.
The hype was helped by Grande's teases on social media, which hinted that the video would be a homage to Mean Girls, a movie that has become a cultural touchstone for millennials.
After the actress' character, Edie Britt, was killed off the show in 2009, she led a lawsuit — which is still ongoing — against Disney, ABC, production studio Touchstone and show creator Marc Cherry.
Since the entire season has been building to some sort of showdown between men and women, the country's first woman president's election seemed a fitting touchstone for the show to comment on.
The immigration issue has been a touchstone of Trump's throughout his campaign and the early days of his administration, centered on his promise to construct a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Peak season is approaching, when these crustaceans are at their largest and most plentiful, so I was keen to reach Hawk's restaurant, which is widely considered a touchstone of this gastronomic genre.
A '70s pastel study by Paul Cadmus, an early touchstone of gay art, hangs alongside photographs documenting groups dedicated to women's consciousness-raising, sex on the New York's piers and political activism.
Roberts's vote to save the ACA's individual mandate in 2012 is a touchstone for liberals who hope he may stave off the conservative bloc's most sweeping decisions in the decades to come.
The ruling clears the way for the state to move ahead with long-stalled prosecutions in a case that has become a touchstone in the emotional national debate over race and policing.
But this month is the 50th anniversary of the premiere of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," which ran on PBS for more than three decades and became a cultural touchstone for generations of children.
That case should serve as a touchstone for those who are saddened and outraged by the Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Trump's ban on admitting people from selected mostly Muslim countries.
Speaking of quizzes, I took the pop quiz about car care at the beginning of Patrice Banks's GIRLS AUTO CLINIC GLOVE BOX GUIDE (Touchstone, paper, $25) and scored my personal best: zero.
The majority of islanders are ethnically Chamorro — the indigenous group that has lived on the island for thousands of years — and their culture is a touchstone for the islander's way of life.
Officer McDonald became not only one of the most revered figures in the Police Department's history, but also a touchstone from a time when the city was struggling with soaring murder rates.
Though much of Mr. Missé's magic comes from his feet and his phrasing, a touchstone of his style comes from the high, gentle placing of his right hand on his partner's back.
Before it became a pop culture touchstone of twist contests, fictitious Bible verses, and foot massages, some viewers in the 90s were less than impressed with Pulp Fiction when it initially premiered.
"Central Park Five," a 2012 documentary by Sarah Burns, David McMahon and Ken Burns, and this year's Netflix docudrama, "When They See Us," by Ava DuVernay, made the 163 case a touchstone.
Though it uses the idea of debate as a touchstone — and ends, deliciously, with a live one — it's really about how we come to question our most bedrock assumptions about the world.
Now Charlamagne, who is in his late 30s, has written a book, "Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It" (Touchstone), that seeks not to tear down but to lift up.
As someone with roots in central Ohio who grew up on hot dogs, Doritos and ranch dressing, she is a deep fan of packaged food, and the supermarket remains an inspirational touchstone.
William Friedkin's faithful movie version, released in 1970 and starring the entire stage cast, turned it into a touchstone of gay style and suffering for gays and straights well beyond New York.
And the breadth and duration of this boycott, whose success caught many by surprise, showed just how many whites were committed to protesting their sense that a cultural touchstone had forsaken them.
This trilogy became a countercultural touchstone, and its intermingling of real research — Weishaupt, the founder of the real Illuminati, is a character — with fantasy helped put the Illuminati back on the radar.
The cars are not a metaphorical stand-in for black folks (crushed cars=crushed people); they function more loosely, like a touchstone, raising subtle questions about loss, labor, presence, and the future.
In 1980 he released the gloriously raunchy "Rapp Dirty," which he said he had written more than a decade earlier, and which became a touchstone for a future wave of profane, eccentric rappers.
By offering their lives up for constant consumption, and closing the gap between fandom and stardom, a creator attracts and earns trust from their fans, who rally around them as a communal touchstone.
But that doesn't answer the central question that still lingers among scholars and poets: Is "Casey at the Bat" just a cultural touchstone, or is it actually worthy as a piece of art?
"Today's CPI number won't take a quarter-point cut off the table but it does create some doubt about what happens after this month," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist with Touchstone Investments.
Since magnets aren't really a good option for holding phones securely at an angle anymore (RIP Palm Touchstone, the OG wireless charging pad), for me the Samsung pad is the next best thing.
So, treachery of memory aside, Hardware feels like a pretty solid touchstone for World Wide W.E.B.—the blistering new album by New York City dystopian techno-punx, L.O.T.I.O.N.—out today on Toxic State.
Even more so than those films, however, Black Panther has become a cultural touchstone for moviegoers, and, hopefully, a wake up call for Hollywood, which has traditionally shied away from diversity in film.
Known for his witty quips, bold swagger, and growl-like chuckles, Ian Malcolm has become a major cinematic touchstone since Goldblum first played the character in the original Jurassic Park, released in 1993.
As the latest edition of a 22017-year-old and endlessly beloved science fiction franchise, the highly anticipated project marks CBS's first return to the legendary cultural touchstone in more than 20 years.
All six of the lead actresses, including Kristen Bell, Jada Pinkett Smith and Annie Mumolo (who, with Kristen Wiig, wrote "Bridesmaids," a comic touchstone for this film), are working parents in real life.
Mr. Douglas's work is currently on display in an exhibition at Manhattan's Urban Justice Center, and it remains a touchstone for many younger artists looking to marry their practice and their social consciousness.
Photograph by William Mebane for The New Yorker For dessert, a coffee panna cotta played on another Rhode Island touchstone: "coffee milk," which is nothing more than cold milk mixed with coffee syrup.
The Mantle is one of those albums I will always cherish and point to as a landmark musical touchstone in my life, and I can't thank Agalloch enough for bringing it into existence.
But another lesson from California Street is that public tragedies can create ripples and echoes that linger for decades—a quarter-century later, it remains a touchstone for many California gun-control activists.
The move is well timed for her to promote a new memoir: "Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead — My Life Story," which Touchstone will publish in April.
In fact, The Dark Knight — the rare blockbuster with big box office, great reviews, and cultural touchstone status to not get a Best Picture nod — is the exception that proves the rule here.
A lot of these old comedies are on Disney+ courtesy of Touchstone Pictures, a forgotten distribution label from Walt Disney Pictures that dealt with mostly live action and adult films, with adult humor!
There are few concessions made to non-Thai audiences, apart from an occasional footnote to explain a touchstone of Thai culture and a list of botanical names at the end of the book.
Since starting in the United States two years ago, Tab has set out to become a touchstone for the 18-to-22-year-old demographic it believes is underserved by other news organizations.
A onetime Cummins chief executive, J. Irwin Miller, had a defining role in shaping the cityscape, not least with his own home, Eero Saarinen's Miller House (1957), considered a touchstone of midcentury design.
As relations between the U.S. and Russia – the world's second largest crude producer— have hit a nadir, Saudi Arabia is a touchstone of America's limited ability to exert influence over the oil cartel.
It has been said that Picasso encouraged friends to use it as a dart board, but for the rest of his life, the painting occupied a place in his home, an ambiguous touchstone.
She said that the inauguration had turned her into a touchstone for young people who are unsure of how to come out, but she doesn't want her actions to be seen as political.
Although decades have passed since the end of Franco's rule, he remains a contentious political touchstone in Spain, which is heading to its fourth election in four years after a prolonged government crisis.
It is also a vivid warning of the glacier's predicted disappearance, a devastating consequence of climate change in a nation where these slow-moving rivers of ice are a cultural and social touchstone.
Chebli has the right idea: Bring Christians, Muslims, Jews and Germans of all faiths or none at all together in the process, with educational trips to the camp memorials serving as a touchstone.
According to a 2015 survey by Touchstone Research and Greenlight VR, 95% of people were aware of VR, and 55% of those said they were likely to purchase a VR device in 2016.
This isn't necessarily the "core theme" or anything like that, but it is a sort of touchstone, a thing to return to, again and again, so the series doesn't lose sight of itself.
Tamberelli, who got his start on Nickelodeon touchstone The Adventures of Pete and Pete, joined the cast in the fourth season, only to be hazed as the new kid during table reads and rehearsals.
Although the FBI was able to open the San Bernardino shooter's phone, the incident is still a regular touchstone for law enforcement officials who argue that encryption is thwarting their ability to catch criminals.
Saturday's protest over the route of a multimillion dollar power line, which demonstrators wanted to re-route through two provinces with large Hazara populations, had become a touchstone for a wider sense of injustice.
As an homage to her Southern roots, Witherspoon is writing her own lifestyle book which will "celebrate the American South's signature style, grace, and charm," the publisher Touchstone announced Thursday, according to USA Today.
Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, which won the award for color cinematography the year of its nomination, has far outstayed that year's Best Picture winner, Marty, as an acclaimed and beloved cultural touchstone.
But South Africa remained the touchstone for Sandler's family life and he would often return to visit those activist relatives who remained to help shepherd the country through its early years as a democracy.
In the decades since, the invasion has become a touchstone for the leaders of Britain, the United States, France and other western countries who will gather in Normandy next month to invoke the heroism.
Children can survive without money or security or safety or things: but they are lost if they cannot find a loving example, for only this example can give them a touchstone for their lives.
In Tuesday's speech -- which one senior White House official told CNN was heavily influenced by Bolton -- Trump said he would initiate new sanctions on the regime, crippling the touchstone agreement negotiated by his predecessor.
"That book is one of the things every South African has in common," he said, alluding to Alan Paton's heartbreaking and prophetic 1948 novel, "Cry, the Beloved Country," which is still a touchstone here.
If you haven't seen it, here it is: The image, taken by photographer John Moore, showing a girl crying as her mother is searched has instantly become the touchstone of the family separation crisis.
Often referred to as the moment baseball lost its "innocence," the Black Sox scandal remains both a pop culture touchstone and a favorite subject of baseball historians, rife with funky details and unanswered questions.
Whether you had the classic '70s illustrated cover or one of the more modern photo covers featuring pointedly modern youth, your copy of the novel was likely an important touchstone during those awkward years.
But her personal relationship with Mr Johnson has long been poor, and her brand of liberal Conservatism—she regularly cites Sir John Major, prime minister in 1990-97, as a touchstone—is suddenly unfashionable.
Nka became a touchstone in debates about art and postcolonialism, and it led the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York to invite him to be co-curator of an exhibition of African photography.
Cassius did not have the kind of hits that other groups in the scene, like Daft Punk, recorded, but its debut album, "1999," released that year, was seen as a touchstone of the genre.
Over the years, a welter of American women have been identified as the model for Rosie, the war worker of 1940s popular culture who became a feminist touchstone in the late 20th century. Mrs.
But Vanity Fair also published touchstone images (including Caitlyn Jenner's first public photographs) and broke major news, not least in 2005, when the magazine unmasked the identity of the famed Watergate leaker Deep Throat.
It's going to be a touchstone for the little kids whose schools have closed just as it is for the college students sent home when they expected to be spring breaking and senior springing.
But it's even more significant as a touchstone moment for the fusion of rock music, antiwar politics and the millions of young people like Baker, who that summer provided the driving force behind both.
" She joined Disney in 2004 as an executive at what was then Touchstone Television, where she helped develop "Criminal Minds" for CBS and played a major role in the early production of "Grey's Anatomy.
I never read Little Women growing up (the boys in my middle school were pushed to read Hatchet and Call of the Wild), nor have I seen the iconic 1994 Winona Ryder-led touchstone.
On camera and in fiction, the mobster has spent almost a century evolving into an array of familiar forms; a collection of touchstone characters as recognizable to us as those of Homer or Shakespeare.
I like the idea behind the psychotherapist Winifred M. Reilly's IT TAKES ONE TO TANGO: How I Rescued My Marriage With (Almost) No Help From My Spouse — and How You Can Too (Touchstone, $24.99).
Modern Love In this week's podcast, the actress Ruth Negga ("Loving") reads "My Touchstone and a Heart of Gold," the story of a woman who realizes that loving her means loving her tortoise, too.
"He's targeting so many things that are important to the base, from climate change to social programs to the way he talks about touchstone cultural issues," said Colm O'Comartun, a former DGA executive director.
Democrats view the new Trump-era document as a touchstone in the nation's centurieslong struggle to define and apply the most charged tool the Constitution provides to Congress: the power to remove a president.
The Tale is not easy to watch, but it's a vital touchstone for a culture trying to come to grips with the role abuse and assault has played in far, far too many lives.
Along with such keyboard titans as Professor Longhair, James Booker, Huey (Piano) Smith, Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint, the doctor was a touchstone, a resource and a musical landmark for the city he called home.
Though his name is not a touchstone for the general public, he's managed to cast a long shadow over theater, criticism, and the arts, laying the groundwork for the bewildering violence of films like mother!
This past week, Nike made a bold move and launched a redesign of the touchstone running application from scratch, renaming it Nike+ Run Club, rearranging some previously existing features, introducing new ones, and removing others.
Hauer deserves credit for this monologue in more ways than one: he famously rewrote part of the original script, improvising to give it the dramatic significance that made it a touchstone for so many people.
But it is a touchstone for 90s sci-fi horror, so get ready to see characters get fucked up in multiple dimensions then want to continue your descent with Cube 2: Hypercube and Cube Zero.
The film cost $200 million to produce, leading many to predict a historic box office disaster, but "Titanic" became one of the top-grossing films of all-time and a cultural touchstone of the era.
Billy Zabka, left, and Ralph Macchio reprise their roles in the new series, called "Cobra Kai," which begins with a flashback to the climactic scene in the 1984 movie, which became a pop culture touchstone.
Touchstone Pictures removed the game of street chicken from every print it had, but the scene in question is on YouTube, with context and an outright "Don't Try This At Home" warning from the uploader.
He's like a touchstone that you return to again and again, letting his warm presence reassure you that whatever is happening on screen, no one you care about is truly hurt, physically or in spirit.
The choker in question is one of the relics you can find during play, many of which dramatically shift how you play the game—think of Binding of Isaac's items, if you need a touchstone.
Here you feel the organic shapes and mind-bending distortions of 163s art and architecture as well as mirrors that recall Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," which became a psychedelic touchstone for that era.
But Amazon's reimagining of Peter Weir's seminal 1979 film Picnic at Hanging Rock flies in the face of this presumption, reading instead like a reclaiming of the iconic touchstone that explores girlhood through women's perspectives.
Released March 31, 1989, the film has remained a cult classic and pop culture touchstone over its three decades of life, and is being celebrated with the Heathers 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Steelbook, out now.
In some states, Democrats have made Republican opposition to protections offered by the Affordable Care Act a top talking point; in others, like Arizona, education is becoming a touchstone after teacher protests earlier this year.
Still, many business leaders are shrugging off otherwise troubling developments like a nasty trade war, labor shortages fueled by restrictive immigration policies, and cracks in the postwar order and America's touchstone alliances with remarkable ease.
Created on a shoestring budget of approximately $27,000, Buddies was at once a formally experimental two-character play, a heartbreaking cry for visibility for those afflicted, and a touchstone in the history of LGBTQ+ film.
Roderick Kiracofe, the author of "The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort," recalls the popular exhibition "Abstract Design in American Quilts" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971 as a touchstone.
Yet many Western analysts believed that he sought a less confrontational relationship with the United States than other powerful figures in the Iranian hierarchy, for whom hostility toward Washington was a touchstone of ideological purity.
"David has been an amazing touchstone for a lot of artists," said Mr. Ligon, who said he first became interested in working with light after seeing Mr. Hammons's "Concerto in Black and Blue" in 2002.
In 1961, when she published Julia Child's much-rejected manuscript for "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," Ms. Jones could see what others could not: that cooking would soon become a cultural touchstone in America.
Even before the ad, Ms. Johnson was already something of a touchstone for Mr. Trump, who invited her to attend his State of the Union address last year and highlighted her story in his speech.
The touchstone of a successful outcome for the United States would include Kim's agreement on a concrete plan to completely and irreversibly dismantle, under international supervision, North Korea's plutonium and uranium enrichment facilities at Yongbyon.
Harris' record as AG, especially when it comes to criminal justice, has been a controversial touchstone in her campaign so far, and she's been criticized for defending California's death penalty against challenges in federal courts.
"We had such a huge run up in 2017 and early 2018 that the market pretty much discounted everything was going to come down the pipe," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments.
Patricia Nell Warren, whose 21953 novel, "The Front Runner," was one of the first widely popular books to feature an open romantic relationship between two men, becoming a literary touchstone for many, died on Feb.
One of the first rock groups to combine American sounds with lyrics in their native language, Happy End remains a touchstone in how city pop musicians would reinterpret American music to discover their own national identity.
It has been a touchstone for me throughout my life, and I have found myself returning to it again recently as I think about what is an inflection point in the life of this wonderful company.
Since the publication of Mr. Bemelmans's first book, in 1939, the Madeline series has become a cosmopolitan cultural touchstone, the first step on the path to bona fide Francophilia for those who have never visited France.
"I have been up to this point, pretty adamant that a trade war is going to be much less of a war and more of a skirmish," said Crit Thomas, global market strategist at Touchstone Investments.
The Cup of Nations has long been the touchstone for all this emotion and now, expanded to 24 teams and moved to a new mid-year slot in the calendar, it is touching ever more people.
Ryan's quietly subversive art, which miniaturizes the heroic scale of Abstract Expressionist painting in ways that can make you feel even smaller, and awed, when beholding her work, offers a touchstone for interpretations of the show.
They're concepts the artist gravitates to for their transitive properties, crossing cultural and political divides and offering an accessible touchstone for American audiences who are largely disconnected from the realities of life in the Middle East.
Hotel San José Lounge: The Hotel San José has been a touchstone for the South Congress area for years, and their garden courtyard is still one of the most pleasant places to drink in the city.
"If Mueller decides to send a report to Congress, perhaps through (Deputy Attorney General Rod) Rosenstein, the Road Map would be a vital touchstone for the public and Congress to assess his actions," the group wrote.
Since the 1980s, the group's writings have emphasized the heterogeneity of Caribbean history, the fundamental contiguity of life and literature with ecology, and a tradition of oral storytelling that has become the touchstone of Chamoiseau's oeuvre.
Yet the 22015 horror-comedy film What We Do In the Shadows has become such a cultural touchstone that FX is launching a new TV series adaptation on March 220, to the delight of fans everywhere.
The political opposition that prompted Amazon to walk away from building a corporate headquarters in New York City featured a touchstone of the progressives' economic agenda: ending tax policies that unfairly reward and pamper the wealthy.
The film anchors itself mostly on two figures, Parsons School of Design Professor David Carroll and ex-Cambridge Analytica employee and ostensible whistleblower Brittany Kaiser, with a cast of other touchstone figures like Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr.
Video games do it, too: BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk compared Mass Effect 2 to Empire when teasing that sequel, and game designer Antoine Thisdale told Polygon it was a touchstone when promoting Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
A touchstone of the American filmic tradition, The Fugitive tells the story of Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), a man wrongly accused of his wife's murder and pursued by a US marshal played by Tommy Lee Jones.
His touchstone for thinking about politics is the riot, which he presents as the incipient form of a new mode of cooperation in which the dispossessed threaten to break and reappropriate the supply lines of global capitalism.
The relentless wrangling over utopia remains relevant for Cuba's many contemporary artists who choose to remain on the island — even as, or perhaps because their markets are global — and for whose work the revolution remains a touchstone.
Such races have long been considered a touchstone achievement for those known as marathon swimmers, who complete routes far longer than the open-water races held at the Olympics, which are a mere 252 kilometers (19993 miles).
It is the touchstone network for the Resistance movement on social media, which is itself tightly wound around allegations of Russian plots and "collusion," and its stars look likely to become kingmakers in the coming Democratic primaries.
They all said the same thing: They grew up with Pokémon as this sort of cultural touchstone, a shared moment of nostalgia that was instantly accessible to them in ways that other, newer franchises may not be.
His career as a producer was on the rise — he oversaw the big-budget boxing feature "Play It to the Bone" (Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas) for Touchstone — but what Mr. Chin really wanted to do was write.
A better approach is to treat the show as the significant artifact that it is, a cultural touchstone and a TV game-changer whose strengths and flaws alike continue to inform what we see on TV today.
Naomi Parker Fraley, 96, the real "Rosie the Riveter" who became a 1940s pop culture icon and a feminist touchstone; Hugh Masekela, 78, a South African trumpeter, singer and activist whose music symbolized the anti-apartheid movement.
She praises the musical "Hamilton" — where a choice seat costs as much as a mortgage payment, and where Vice President Mike Pence was booed — as the kind of unifying cultural touchstone Americans so desperately need right now.
Indeed, the symbol of the mountain has become something of a touchstone for her, one that's directly informed her newest piece, "Lost Mountain," which will open in New York at La MaMa the weekend of May 16.
She is the author of "Sunday's on the Phone to Monday" (Touchstone, 2016) and teaches fiction and poetry at the Writer's Village at Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, N.Y., and at the Gotham Writers Workshop, in Manhattan.
Hentoff and Barrett were just among the longest serving of a list of writers far too long to assemble who made The Voice, over several generations since its 1955 founding, a touchstone for against-the-grain journalism.
Adani has been working for a decade to obtain approvals to develop the project in the remote Galilee Basin, but the process has been slow as the mine has become a touchstone for concerns about climate change.
What is surprising is that "Grandison" was, of Richardson's novels, a particular touchstone for Jane Austen, who (her nephew recounted) could describe with exactitude "all that was ever said or done" by each of its many characters.
"Love Island" is a product of the zeitgeist for many reasons — the show peddles its own makeup line and populates itself with minor Instagram influencers — but it is the absolute surveillance that makes it a cultural touchstone.
"Love Island" is a product of the zeitgeist for many reasons — the show peddles its own makeup line and populates itself with minor Instagram influencers — but it is the absolute surveillance that makes it a cultural touchstone.
Following six friends in their 22s living in New York City, "Friends" became a cultural touchstone of the 215s — all while leaving millions of viewers wondering how exactly the characters lucked into such an amazing Manhattan apartment.
The stage continues to catalyze and connect in Call & Response as it becomes the touchstone for a larger group exhibition of visual art by Romare Bearden, Chakaia Booker, Tony Cokes, Saffell Gardner, Allie McGhee, and Tylonn Sawyer.

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