| 单词 | signifier |
| 例句 | With every step on those cracked sidewalks, I passed a new signifier of urban decay. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Among the elite in Pyongyang, one of the most coveted signifiers of status is an electric rice cooker. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Chandler understood this well, how the Beverly Hills mansions and Malibu beach houses are the intimate signifiers that later turn into the sepulchers, often with lingering power. How L.A. became itself: Jean Stein's new oral history 'West of Eden' 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Still, the question for many remains why clearly human or human-esque villains need to have visual signifiers connoting evil at all. Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z That he is so brazen, and that no one seems to notice, becomes a vivid signifier of both the insulation of the abuser and the powerlessness of the abused. Rafael Ygelesias' 'Wisdom of Perversity' works its way under the skin 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The label on one identifies its innards as “Bush’s Baked Beans” and the other as collard greens, understood here as a signifier of black culture. Art In Review: ERIC YAHNKER: ‘Virgin Birth ’n’ Turf’ 2012-09-06T20:07:53Z That includes these signifiers, and the bold notion that as the drama gallops toward Sunday’s season finale, Dolores is just as much of a villain as the Man in Black, and for similar reasons. The American experience, as "Westworld" 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Her fast-and-loose playing with black signifiers is the most reliable chaos in pop at the moment. Critic’s Notebook: Miley Cyrus, Secret Weapon, Blows the Smooth Out of the Summer 2013-08-30T00:01:48Z The clichéd cultural signifiers spring to mind: Flappers in bob haircuts with cigarette holders doing the Lindy hop! Cultural Studies: What Will We Miss When It’s 2033? 2013-01-04T20:48:00Z Tone indicators are paralinguistic signifiers used at the ends of statements to help readers fill in the blanks. Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help? 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z “The Witches” isn’t a hate tract; it’s just a weird stew of jokes, fantastical turns, swooping cameras, half-baked ideas and ugly signifiers. ‘The Witches’ Review: A Tale of Mice and Women, Toil and Trouble 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z An article in The New York Times once described the Hawaiian shirt as a “signifier of the style-challenged tourist.” What Do You Do When Extremism Comes for the Hawaiian Shirt? 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z His career depended heavily on performance, which allowed him to actively deploy various signifiers inside and alongside his music—signifiers of gender, of sexual orientation, even of humanity itself. The Beautiful Meaninglessness of David Bowie 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s merely a preamble for the main narrative about how two white people end up using their proximity to Emira, a young black woman, as a signifier of their progressiveness. When It Comes to Race, How Progressive Are the Progressives? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z “I noticed that it seems to have been a signifier for the idea of liberty, going back to ancient Greece, but also during the French and American revolutions.” Artist Martin Puryear Chosen for U.S. Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z What does that say of the signifier and the signified? Here and Now: Letters by Paul Auster & JM Coetzee – digested read 2013-05-26T13:00:02Z And at some point, iceberg lettuce became a signifier of taste, class, and values: deficient for some, yet irreplaceable for others. How iceberg lettuce wedged its way into American culture 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Derülo is a strong singer, though that’s the least important element of this song, which finds him stripped of any American soul signifiers and instead swimming in the world of European megaclubs. A New Global Sound: Synth, Soul and Sample 2010-03-06T00:00:00Z For the show, it was important to emphasize the control we had over the narrative through this signifier of “Pyer Moss News,” to represent taking control of the narrative and speaking to truth. When Pyer Moss Brought Police Brutality to the Runway 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Rising out of such communities are threads of goth, emo and punk in which the shaved head stands in as an aesthetic signifier. Shaved Heads Have People Buzzing 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z A tale of two exalted European city festivals begins with surprising signifiers. Why does L.A. need its own summer classical music festival? For answers, look 6,000 miles away 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Together, these signifiers of Columbia pride announce: This place didn’t just happen. Here’s a suburban experiment cities can learn from 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Though truthfully, what they revealed was more a lack of in-depth research into the signifiers than any purposeful intent. Melania Trump: Out of Africa, Still in Costume 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Indeed, tickets to big games are so expensive — sitting courtside has become such a luxury signifier — that it is striking that the clothing that symbolizes allegiance hasn’t kept up. Sports and Fashion Won Big Together This Year 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z I cannot be fully explained by historical signifiers, but I’m never free of them either. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z When telling a story through music, she contemplates melodic and harmonic signifiers as a way to reveal character. Her opera helps a Pakistani rape survivor find a louder voice 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z But while acknowledging she doesn’t have a fabulous eye for herself, Ms. Lynch has always loved fashion, and is fascinated by clothing as a signifier. Jane Lynch Finds Herself 2011-09-16T22:44:26Z Both she and her author need us to appreciate the barrage of in-jokes and up-to-the-minute signifiers, to recognize a dizzying array of philosophical and literary references, or even better, to not recognize them. So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Chest hair, that 1970s signifier of strength and virility, isn’t the sex symbol that it once was — especially in this youth-obsessed era, when even alpha males are as waxed as a figurine. | Venus in Furs 2014-03-01T11:30:43Z Here, though, much like the Louis Vuitton bag that the killer hauls around and the Cadillac he drives, Picasso is an empty signifier, suggestive of nothing beyond weird product placement and bankrupt thinking. Movie Review: ‘Alex Cross,’ With Tyler Perry as James Patterson’s Detective 2012-10-18T22:17:48Z The scene creaks under the weight of so many signifiers. The Many Violations of the Violent Birth Scene 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z And then there are the dozens of artists ripping off ’70s looks — signifiers such as wild ‘n’ wooly facial hair, rakish suits and loud-patterned shirts. Why ’70s soft rock came back, and why it’s not going anywhere 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z A celebrity hairdresser, Jon is a confusion of signifiers in dark shoes, white pants and a white bohemian-style shirt that frames his chest fuzz and necklace. One Indelible Scene: When a Woman Takes the Wheel in ‘Licorice Pizza’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The key signifiers governing his behaviour were predicated on an original debt, linked to his grandfather. Bipolar memoirs: What have I done? 2013-04-26T06:30:11Z Crosby’s work evokes scrapbooks or patchwork quilts that synthesize her Nigerian and American cultures through layers of visual signifiers, historical references and personal memories. Njideka Akunyili Crosby Wants to Take it Slow, Despite Her Rapid Rise 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z But one particular strain may be resistance to the current atmosphere of overparenting and its attendant upper-middle-class signifiers. No Kids for Me, Thanks 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Indeed, one founder of his namesake private equity firm is famous for wearing a fleece vest every day to work, and referred to it in an interview as his “signifier.” Bankers in the Age of Bernie: Do They Need Camouflage? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z But from its declarative title to its billowing songs, “Healing Is a Miracle” doesn’t shy away from new age’s self-help signifiers. Julianna Barwick Left Her Ghosts in New York. Then the Healing Began. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Isn’t what one finds funny the most particular signifier of taste, after all? What fall TV — from “Selfie” to “A to Z” — gets so wrong about the internet 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The characters have their own musical signifiers — which means, Malkki said, that “in the beginning, there’s a lot to take in, but then that is the element which makes it very understandable.” A Reigning Opera Composer Writes of Trauma and ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z But graphics, including fonts, are open signifiers – they hint at things, they don’t come down hard the way language does. Marco Rubio’s fresh new font: A close read of the GOP’s most adorable campaign logo 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The right wing resistance to emergency measures like social distancing and mask-wearing caused far too many on the left to start seeing these misery-inducing behaviors as moral signifiers instead of temporary inconveniences. "Minx" is a breezy good time reminding the left to reclaim the lost politics of pleasure 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Gloomy and vague, “Run Rabbit Run” is a moody, noncommittal tease replete with the usual spectral signifiers: clammy dreams, scary drawings, unsettling masks. ‘Run Rabbit Run’ Review: No Child of Mine 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Police brutality, which has resulted in unarmed black men being killed by police at 3.49 times the rate of unarmed white men, has rendered one’s blackness a perpetual signifier of danger. Sorry to Bother You shows why black Americans code-switch to survive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z These signifiers float free of the things they once referenced. Review | Roni Horn: Cool, collected and completely hermetic 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In my eyes, they are the best kind of hippies, even if they don’t have the hippy signifiers of my housemates – the posters and the dreads. The hippy is back: not so cool if you remember it the first time round 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z While he trained his ire on the leaders and militaries of Germany and Italy, many of his comics broadly vilified the Japanese people, relying on crass visual signifiers and other racist cheap shots. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Symbols and signifiers are essential to the Swiftian mythos, and the harder her fans scrutinize, the more so-called Easter eggs she seems to leave them. Taylor Swift’s invisible merchandise: The era of surprise song collectibles 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z It's generic angry-girl rock – not riot grrrl, because it doesn't have a polemic to back it up, just a series of signifiers to connote being born to be riled. New band of the day ? No 768: Pretty Reckless 2010-04-19T10:18:00Z The logos of bands like Black Flag, the Breeders and — of course, this being Minnesota — the Replacements serve as tokens of belonging and signifiers of nostalgia. | 'Young Adult': Charlize Theron in ?Young Adult? - Review 2011-12-08T13:00:01Z His language bristles with signifiers of provocation, but his arguments rarely breach the boundaries of acceptable, liberal-with-qualms opinion. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z As bigger-is-better signifiers of masculinity, those oversize accessories are simply transparent and ineffective. Where Have All the Cowboy Hats Gone? 2012-10-02T12:00:09Z Why are sharks, a predator most people never encounter, the default cultural signifier of evil, predation and carnage? Shark Week: why we love these vacation-ruining, 400-million-year-old millennials 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The title itself acquires multiple meanings, whether as an affectionate shorthand for kisses, a mathematical symbol or simply a signifier of the unknowable. London Theater Review: ‘Les Blancs,’ ‘X‘ and ‘Cyprus Avenue’ 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z But I agree completely that there are external signifiers that human beings, as social creatures, use all the time to reinforce community behavior. Don’t trust the religious 2012-07-02T18:20:00Z But if the casting were more diverse in general, the dark-equals-evil signifiers wouldn’t be as glaring. Devil in the Details: The Real Problem With History Channel’s Satan 2013-03-19T12:00:01Z Lyrically he leans on easy signifiers to signal his new direction: “country folk just out to raise some hell,” “an old dirt road in a town you wouldn’t know.” Playlist: Tumblr Soul, Rocker Country, Teenage Tartness 2011-03-11T15:35:16Z It's a concise signifier of what they do and how little they care about what you think of it. The eco-sex activists who want to save the world 2013-04-11T18:00:03Z An installation by Lucas Knipscher could almost be a parody of the genre of art based on cultural signifiers. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z Ochoa, who is decidedly low-key for an artist who creates so many aggressively ambitious works, sees it as a social and economic signifier. Last chance to see Ruben Ochoa's latest twist on his urban landscape obsession: Giving rust new life 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z One nice thing about Mr. Kormakur’s approach in “Contraband” is that he largely steers clear of the usual New Orleans visual signifiers, avoiding trees draped in ghostly Spanish moss and all the Big Easy rest. | 'Contraband': ?Contraband,? With Mark Wahlberg - Review 2012-01-12T23:08:20Z What are the signifiers of rock – or "rawk", as professional music journalists like to call it? The death of rock 2011-01-16T22:00:02Z There are more wonderful signifiers between "Nixon in China" and the company. San Diego Opera seizes the hour with prophetic 'Nixon in China' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z But those performances are in service of a film that uses incendiary signifiers like police brutality and rednecks dropping the N-word like forged passports into Authencityville. Despite its awards, Three Billboards is a shallow look at race in rural America 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z "The Boys," Amazon's sinister flip on the comic book genre, punctuates all of that by clothing its superheroes in visual signifiers. "The Boys": With new superhero Stormfront, fascism dons a mask and cape of female empowerment 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s naïve in its use of roots music and rock as signifiers of something true — as if the excess of years past wasn’t, somehow, its own form of sincerity. Lady Gaga’s Stripped-Down New Album Fishes for Inspiration 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z At the time, 1950s signifiers like ducktail haircuts and pink pegged slacks had scarcely been glimpsed for years outside the set of “Happy Days” or the Broadway production of “Grease.” Robert Gordon, Punk Rocker Turned Rockabilly Revivalist, Dies at 75 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Another signifier of that most plainly American ideology: independence at any cost? Headphones Everywhere 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The jacket is an object that has become a signifier — of a person but also the great leap forward that person represents. Silicon Valley Has a New Style Icon 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Under no circumstances are you to grow into a recognizable adult with a job, career, family or other signifier of functional, if flawed, adulthood. In summer films, contradictions of progress for women in full force Ours is an improbable world, in which Birkenstocks and tie-dye — once signifiers of hippie anti-style, as glamorous as trail mix — are now more chic than ever. Marcus King, a Bluesy Rocker Who Stared Down His Own Crossroads 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z But these places remain little more than signifiers. An Immigrant Family Encounter the 1 Percent in a Debut Novel 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Brownstein said Portland is not "the sole inspiration for the show," but that the city serves as a "signifier for an emotional landscape people are traversing." Hip, cage-free TV: 'Portlandia' is renewed 2013-06-12T11:57:18Z The Broadly piece, titled “In Rachel Dolezal’s Skin” is especially troubling, as it feeds into this notion that certain basic signifiers determine blackness in America. Of course Rachel Dolezal isn’t black: Her sympathetic comeback media tour proves it 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z By casting the widest possible net of pop-cultural signifiers, McGraw, one of the highest-selling performers of the past decade, reels in astounding numbers of fans. Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum bringing country to Seattle's KeyArena 2010-05-20T20:12:00Z My curls are the most obvious marker of racial difference between me and them; an unapologetic signifier of African heritage. ‘I don’t like doing this,’ my father frowned, fixing my hair. But he did it anyway 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z You might not even notice the ambulance in the right of the image because ambulances are now a bit like the Coca-Cola sign of yesteryear, an obligatory signifier of our country, instantly recognizable and ubiquitous. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z “Political Animals” is the latest signifier — alongside poll numbers, Internet memes and her former enemies’ compliments — that Hillary Clinton has really crossed the long bridge into the land of likeability. “Political Animals”: Hillary Clinton gets her starring role 2012-07-12T17:50:00Z And as she predicted, that green spine would become ubiquitous in certain circles, a signifier of a particular literary taste and sensibility. Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Still, there's no denying Houndmouth's ruthless precision in recreating their favourite brand of ragged country blues, complete with all the period details and genre signifiers you could want. New band of the day – No 1,303: Houndmouth 2012-07-06T08:00:00Z But much of today’s most prestigious art is driven more by aridly conceptual play with Modernist signifiers — Wade Guyton’s digitally composed and inkjet-printed abstract paintings, for example. Review: The Morbid Anatomy Museum Presents a View From the Subconscious 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In that shift, Wenders went from being one of the most intrepid and original directors of the time to being himself an art-house signifier. Where Wim Wenders Went Wrong 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In fact, it employs all the highs, lows and signifiers of the classic rock film. Is Robbie Williams the inspiration behind Get Him to the Greek? 2010-04-28T11:48:00Z In High Fidelity, a tale of mix-tapes and tangled relationships, the soundtrack as semiotic signifier reached a high-water mark. Soundtracks of my tears: how movie music sets a mood and sums up an era 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z It was all loaded with meaning and signifiers and shamanistic moves and God knows what. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z Her academic colleagues see the signifiers clearly enough, but can't find the beauty nor the poetry in these ancient stories. The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart – review 2013-07-16T17:25:48Z I don't know if it's possible to be racist toward a race that does not actually exist, but at minimum the Dothraki seem like a kind of grabbag of exotic/dark/savage signifiers. Game of Thrones Watch: It's All in the Execution 2011-04-18T19:00:00Z The story swings from the Nevada desert to the Indonesian rain forest to Wall Street boardrooms, and the screen bristles with signifiers of capitalist activity: meetings, phone calls, stock tickers. Review: Matthew McConaughey Mines Profane Capitalism in ‘Gold’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z I like the idea, and even more, I believe in it — not as a signifier of the death of writing, but rather of its necessary, messy and insistent life. The death of writing? Not again 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Books are a wonderful signifier and a perfect conversation starter. Writer David Levithan on LGBT books for the young 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z And maybe losing the signified for the signifier gives the novel its own totemic power. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z But the door to the W.C. often bears the sign of the pants or the skirt, signifiers that I find crude and dated. Female Trouble: The Debate Over “Woman” as an Adjective 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z In his truck, itself a signifier of Latino identity, he is reborn as “El Jefe,” conduit of all this deliciousness to white people less hip than himself. What “Neighbors” and “Chef” can teach us about white male privilege 2014-05-10T16:30:00Z Pride informed him that he planned to perform under his own name, and that he was going to avoid clichéd hillbilly signifiers like rhinestones and cowboy hats. What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z “It’s his signifier that he wants to be seen as a worker, that the artist is a member of the working class, an idea that really took root with the W.P.A.,” Where Blue-Collar Art Is Having Its Moment 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z And they’re easy signifiers, an unfinished touch to round off a slick or frilly outfit. | New York Fashion Week: Boots for Snow and for Show 2011-02-10T02:38:41Z Unfortunately, a similar blend of styles worked considerably less well for Pickwick, a bar band big on soul signifiers: raspy, falsetto vocals and "Blues Brothers" revue get-down moves. SXSW Day 3: Indians, Telekenesis, Angel Haze 2013-03-15T13:47:00Z Or warm weather could relegate pussyhats to the back of a hundred thousand dresser drawers, becoming more of a relic than a signifier. The D.I.Y. Revolutionaries of the Pussyhat Project 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The episode's fixation on cliched signifiers of "childhood innocence" feels nearly as creepy as the perp's assaults. Meet the worst new TV show of 2011: "Suspect Behavior" 2011-02-16T15:01:00Z Steve Milton, a musicologist and co-founder of the innovation and experience design studio A_DA, echoes this while viewing the tune as a cultural signifier. Why "Yakety Sax" makes anything funny and has morphed into the soundtrack of political failure 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Most of the celebrated indie rockers of the nineties were male, and the term “indie” remains a clumsy signifier for white, a fact that wasn’t lost on either of us. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It's a fantasy taking place in the daydreams of a seventysomething retired English lecturer, and The Book is its key signifier. China Miéville was the star turn at the Edinburgh International Book festival 2012-08-24T14:52:58Z And it’s unfortunate, because whatever name a person goes by after marriage, isn’t that signifier all the more meaningful if there’s at least the possibility that it was willingly chosen rather than forcefully imposed? Japanese court: Women will take their husband’s name 2013-05-30T19:52:00Z And in this new book, Chute seems aware of — and prickly about — these particular signifiers. Giving Voice to the Victims of Growth 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Why saturate the show in potentially contemptible upper-class cues and easy signifiers of coastal elitism? Perspective | In telling a Jewish story, there’s sublime (‘Transparent’) and then there’s trite (‘9JKL’) 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z “Treat You Better” is Mr. Mendes’s lovely new single, and like “Stitches,” it’s a song that highlights his maturity while constantly showing off signifiers of his youth. The Playlist: A Punk Response to Violence and Neil Young’s Return to Love 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Christian uses it to shoot videos of his sexcapades with Tara, but, more important in “The Canyons,” it serves as a signifier for the death of the movies. Movie Review: ‘The Canyons’ Is an Erotic Thriller With Lindsay Lohan 2013-08-01T17:11:39Z In the game of Remembrance of Things Past, those signifiers are sartorial madeleines. The Theme at Milan Fashion Week? Look to the Past 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z They both used practically the same garment as a signifier. The Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes and the Black Turtleneck 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z She’s less a person than a signifier — an image of idealized success put on display for the purpose of being trashed. ‘Antebellum’ Review: Look Away, Dixie Land 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Even their clothes are a signifier of where the power lies. Fraternity Misogyny Goes on Long After Graduation 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z But the clothes are just the superficial signifier of preppiness; the movies are about much more. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z To create a narrative through line for “Terms and Conditions,” the artist used the recognizable signifiers of Steve Jobs, an Apple founder, in almost every frame, dressing a character in Mr. Jobs’s customary attire. An Artist Helps iTunes’ User Agreement Go Down Easy 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Up to the end, her gorgeous, long, red hair was her signifier. 10 ways of looking at a bad haircut 2014-04-23T22:59:00Z The cultural trappings, I am beginning to understand, are just the outward signifiers of generational otherness. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z Well, maybe, but Savile’s single state was no more a reliable signifier of his criminal activities than was his flamboyant dress sense. Social Media Gossip Fuels Bigotry Amid U.K. Sex Abuse Investigations 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z This is what happens when a decade spent obsessing over the signifiers of a different decade lacks an icon on par with James Dean. Luke Perry dies at 52: Farewell to "Beverly Hills, 90210" bad boy Dylan McKay 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Seeing these events again reminded me how covering the opaque world of the Vatican so often meant reading signs, interpreting signifiers, understanding obscure statements. Reading the Signs When a Couple of Papal Pals Get to Talking 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Instead of seeing virality as a genuine signifier of newsworthiness, we need to see it for what it is—a product. What the Covington Saga Reveals About Our Media Landscape 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z They wore an assortment of punk signifiers—one man’s hair was crafted into a Mohawk, others wore combat boots. The Riots in Tompkins Square Park, Reenacted 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z "Some people understood our desire to play with certain signifiers ... but I didn't consider quite how much we would bother some people," Ezra admits. Vampire Weekend: 'People tried to pretend we were rich idiots' 2013-05-03T10:30:00Z Besides being gorgeous, then, it’s also a witty play with incongruous signifiers, a kind of a joke appealing to high-end fashion sophisticates. Cooper Hewitt Triennial Offers a Bold Look at ‘Beauty’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The signs were all around us: the knotty, urbane films of Spike Lee; the punkish bravado of Fishbone; all the artsy, middle-class kids exploring identities that weren’t beholden to readymade signifiers like “Africa and jazz.” No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z But before long, signifiers of contemporary life seep in: cellphones, Fendi, Amazon Prime. An Epic Storm Turns a Summer Holiday Into Potent Allegory 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The visual language of heavy metal is punctuated by certain age-old signifiers: denim, leather, bullet belts, long hair, black T-shirts with skeletal logos. ‘Behold Death, Darkness, Chaos and the Void’ 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z In “Psycho,” taxidermy promised a reprieve from gender binaries, the signifiers of which might be picked up or put aside like one of Mrs. Bates’s shawls. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The most common signifiers of adulthood used to be getting a mortgage and gearing up for the midlife crisis. Good sleep hygiene is the new wellness goal. Try telling that to an eight-month-old baby 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z In the way that “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” deploys goombah-ness as its regional signifier, “The Real Housewives of Miami” showcases the city’s Latin culture through predictable stereotyping. Television Review: Miami, Another Battlefront in the War Against Wrinkles 2011-02-21T23:00:11Z But with her prowess as a pianist and flexibility as a singer, her ability to infuse new-school rhythms with old-school soul signifiers, greatness always seems within reach. Album review: Alicia Keys, 'Girl on Fire' 2012-11-25T22:55:00Z This puts into relief one of #menswear’s central innovations: dressed-down clothes executed luxuriously—like an artfully distressed Japanese chambray work shirt—which assert a classless identity that is, conveniently, also a signifier of class. It’s Raining Menswear 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Dubbed the "Seven Penny Nightmare" by The Sun, the title briefly became a favourite signifier of moral decline in a scare that prefigured the Video Nasty panic of the Eighties. Time for Action: when comics hit the headlines 2011-07-20T18:00:00Z When blood spills in a vacation house, however, that dread takes on an extra layer of meaning: Wealth becomes a signifier, leaving the haves vulnerable to opportunistic have-nots. I Know Where You Lived Last Summer 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z That the three big races appropriate the argot and signifiers of the military is no coincidence. Extreme Obstacle Course Races Forge a Bond in Mud and Guts 2012-12-07T23:56:00Z Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a very specific signifier. Why It’s Time to Take ‘Rock’ Out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012-10-10T12:00:41Z Westworld was a drama all about signs and signifiers, from the discreet clues left for viewers to the legend of “the maze”. Battle of the Bastards to San Junipero: what was the best TV episode of 2016? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z When societies become too rich and civilized, they decline and dissipate around the edges, and they begin to adopt as new and luxe signifiers normally associated with the peasantry. | Lanvin: At Lanvin, Pricey Designs for Society?s Decline 2010-08-10T20:57:00Z Almost every protest movement has its visual signifiers: images etched in the collective memory that crystallize the causes for which they were fought. The Dress Codes of the Uprising 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s a mildly affronting experience that — as with some other signifiers of the modern world, a child’s noisy video game included — seems to help push him into nature. Review: ‘A Walk in the Woods,’ With Robert Redford, Is a Scenic Trek Spoiled 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Instead, Keoghan can’t stop piling on the class signifiers: These good folk, he says, are “sweating on factory floors instead of gym floors, and wearing work boots instead of workout shoes.” Review | CBS’s ‘Tough as Nails’ tries to celebrate hard work, but its tough talk smacks of class divide 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z In fact, the building — a former public library surrounded by a chain-link fence and overgrown with vines — lacked the conventional signifiers of a museum: the wide staircase, the tall colonnade, the pristine landscaping. Black history is vital to understanding racial injustice. But the museums holding that history are under threat. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z A vow renewal can be a signifier to oneself and to the larger community that something has endured and that there is a commitment to keep it going.” Vow Renewals: When One ?I Do? Is Not Enough 2010-09-18T00:05:00Z The taming of horses is one of art's oldest signifiers of beauty, yet their original wildness also feeds visions of raw power. Horses shaped our art of war and peace 2011-08-29T09:44:37Z In this way, camp evolved as a visible queer signifier. LGBT+ history: The story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z My skin was a signifier that carried implications, whether they were true or not, for better or worse. "WandaVision" gave us the MCU's first superpowered Black woman, which is long overdue yet not enough 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Freely changing identities, putting them on and off like clothes, may be the order of the day, if Miley Cyrus’s appropriation of signifiers from black hip-hop culture is any indicator. Art Review: The Jewishness Is in the Details 2013-09-05T21:45:53Z It’s a small touch, but a clear signifier that Lee Daniels’ Empire follow-up won’t be trafficking in the same lavishness that defines that show. Is Lee Daniels' rags-to-riches R&B drama Star better than Empire? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z These similarities suggest that Netflix is happy to focus on the outward signifiers of the genre’s success at the expense of the harder-to-nail emotional core. Can Netflix save us from the Great Romcom Shortage of 2018? I watched 11 films to find out 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In linguistics terms, it’s a sign whose signifier is malleable — the image’s meaning, thus, is created by those who share it. The rise and fall of Ken Bone: This is what happens when real humans become Internet memes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z It splices together scenes from science fiction movies in which urban landscapes are filled with stereotypical “Asian” signifiers, but the actual characters are almost exclusively white. Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z He may have given us the single glove as signifier, but he also understood the power of a well-placed pleat — especially before he began disappearing into the world of his own imagination. Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Suit is Back 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Still, there are enough signifiers of a larger story—a contemporary scene in a bar, the Mvskoke adoption of Christianity—to highlight Harjo’s two modes. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Throughout the video, Swift juggles cultural and musical signifiers with glee. Critic's Notebook: Taylor Swift's catchy, tone-deaf 'Shake It Off' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z During this millennium, in shelter magazines, designer showrooms and cooking shows, a six-burner gas behemoth became the signifier of culinary gravitas — even, if in some homes, it is rarely ignited. What we’re really fighting about when we fight about gas stoves 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z The dirty pan, the cluttered table, and the blurred chair in the foreground are all familiar signifiers of that certain feeling of relaxed torpor that descends on us when we settle in to a holiday. Panayiotis Lamprou: the casual power of an intimate portrait 2010-09-17T16:54:00Z Words, concepts and images that pervade his work have become commonplace signifiers in contemporary discourse: Valhalla, Liebestod, Valkyrie, Gesamtkunstwerk, Flying Dutchman, Nibelung, Brünnhilde, Götterdämmerung, Siegfried, Leitmotiv, endless melody, to name just a few. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Strauss Bourque-LaFrance’s assemblages, while leaning toward the rawness of Rachel Harrison’s sculpture, are similarly heterogeneous in their accumulation of signifiers, like a photograph of Mikhail Baryshnikov embedded in a lump of plaster. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z And that is part of why the relationship worked so well: It was so mutually beneficial not just as a friendship, but as a professional signifier. Givenchy and Hepburn: The Original Brand Ambassadors 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z They are the most important signifier and, sometimes, the great equalizer. Sneakers So Nice, You Can’t See the Pants 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z In their ensembles, different signifiers of fandom overlap. Art Review: Drawings by Robert Pruitt at Studio Museum in Harlem 2013-08-08T21:56:25Z Juuling upstaged smoking, and on it goes, the generations grasping for signifiers and identities separate from the adults. We killed the cigarette. What we got in return is mango-flavored nicotine in ‘party mode.’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Musically, the Outfield also fits in well with contemporary pop signifiers. Why the Outfield’s “Your Love” is the perfect summer song 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Yet they also work as celestial signifiers, made of stone quarried from this planet but standing for others, maybe from this solar system, maybe from one millions of light-years away. Celestial Visions on the Met Roof 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z But then, instead of proposing some new combination of rebel signifiers, the normcore manifesto announces that the kids are saying to hell with it all. Hipsters, they’re just like us! “Normcore,” Sarah Palin, and the GOP’s big red state lie 2014-04-27T11:00:00Z The awkward portmanteau is but the latest iteration of “-ghazi” as a signifier of all-purpose scandal. DeflateGate ... or Ballghazi? Will the new scandal suffix have staying power? 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Thus, her 20th-century readers probably wouldn’t have searched for signifiers of whiteness, the “normative” identity. Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z But using sex as a signifier of female self-alienation is already hardening into a cliche, and hardly a universally true one. Let’s have more sex in the movies – but please can it be the fun type? 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Homeownership became the highest expression of citizenship, while decor became the chief signifier of class. Review | ‘Trading Spaces’ returns to TLC, as comfortable as an old sofa 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Opera, in the movies, is all too often a signifier of something elevated and transcendent that gives meaning to our humdrum lives — you’ve seen it in Hollywood a hundred times. Perspective | When classical music becomes another character in a movie 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Name-dropped proper nouns too often feel like a pile of signifiers one step away from being shaped into sharper observations. Lorde Opts Out on the Provocatively Subdued ‘Solar Power’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The contrivances are there, mostly in the form of oddball American signifiers that dot each song with telling accents. Lana Del Rey's "Ultraviolence": Defiant seduction from pop instigator ★★★ 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z However, these food items are benign and beloved enough that they are actually merchandisable as an identity signifier, unlike, say, valium, a commonly-prescribed benzodiazepine that became known as "mother's little helper." Where are the "wine dads"? How gendered alcohol merchandise speaks to inequity in domestic labor 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z The mask becomes the first signifier of the individual. Should Masks Be a Fashion Statement? 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Instantly setting the tone, the airy lobby, which includes the requisite signifier of a cool New York space — an exposed brick wall — feels like a chic art gallery housed in a SoHo loft. New York City museum salutes the art and influence of the poster 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z When I’m writing a story, its world is thin, unsatisfactory, untrue, until I start to find my way to those details, those “small cultural signifiers.” This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley on Fiction as Anthropology 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s a campfire singalong, a signifier of tactile humanity for a singer who knows how technology both redeems and corrupts. On Khalid’s ‘American Teen,’ Songs of Young Love and Technology 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z His oeuvre is one of the great empty signifiers of twentieth-century thought. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z The signifiers may have changed, from butterflies to grapefruit but the stigma remains the same. Heavy flow: are period pants the revolutionary solution to an age old problem? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The plant felt like a signifier of my past self, and a talisman against palpable, creeping despair. Revisiting the Posy in Our Current Moment 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Or you could look at the film’s riot of racial signifiers — the musical and pop-cultural references as well as the demographics of the setting — as a form of trolling, a coy, self-disavowing provocation. Review: A ‘Good Time’ Was Not Had by This Critic 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Among white people striving to announce their wokeness, having read it became a virtuous signifier. "Between the World and Me" transforms a father's letter to his son into a chorus for a people 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z The cinematography and the blend of signifiers from different time periods make it all feel somewhat timeless. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Series Premiere Recap: Welcome to Gilead 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z But for Ellin she seems merely a symbol—not even an object of desire but a signifier of it. The Silent Women of “Entourage” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z In the corporate world, rising early has always served as a handy signifier of unbridled ambition, the will to succeed. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Rather, they draw on methods associated with commercial illustration and design in order to play with public signifiers and personal poetics. ‘Flatlands,’ Where the Familiar Becomes Hypnotically Strange 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But at the heart of it, behind the wealth signifiers, the chinchilla coats and the earnest class climbing, is a marriage and a family that’s being redefined under the societal pressures of a new environment. Jude Law, Carrie Coon on the moody marital drama ‘The Nest’ 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z This book, perhaps intended for posterity or a wide audience, passes over any stressful signifiers of the modern day, beyond Alice’s momentary frantic search for her iPhone. A Time-Traveling Daughter Just Wants Some Time With Her Dad 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z All the signifiers are there – you've got McConaughey wearing a suit in the back of an expensive-looking car, which means that he's probably a wealthy yet emotionally stunted hotshot executive of some sort. Strictly legal: will this hotshot Lincoln Lawyer leave fans cold? 2010-12-01T12:29:00Z Linklater even worked on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico for a little while, perhaps the ultimate signifier of Texas manhood. Richard Linklater: “It fit my personality to be collaborating with the unknown future” 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Before the streaming age, and before the wild proliferation of cable, there used to be more easily identifiable signifiers about what we were about to watch, based on time slot and channel, mostly. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Closed Doors is a little culpable in this regard – the early 1980s setting comes with the familiar signifiers of Chopper bikes, Spangles and a genuine sense of anticipation in the Eurovision song contest. Closed Doors by Lisa O'Donnell – review 2013-07-20T10:31:00Z He didn’t want music to become just another benign or comforting life-style signifier. The Weird and Vast and Periodically Devastating Music of Scott Walker 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z At some point, the “Unknown Pleasures” image began to feel like nothing more than a signifier, a stand-in for “cool” or, worse, “this is a thing I’m aware of.” How Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ image went from underground album cover to a piece of cultural ubiquity 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z “I want to uncover the motivations behind the hostility and resentment, the resistance really, against certain women who are cultural signifiers: the adulteress, the stepmother, the indolent, hollow wealthy housewife,” she said. Wednesday Martin Dares to Call Her New Book ‘Untrue’ 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z A range of skin tones, ages and social signifiers are displayed among the people lined up in “Eight.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z You are just as likely to see graffiti on the streets of Brooklyn as on the Web site announcing a new Brooklyn condo, an evocative signifier of urban bona fides. Before Gentrification, a City Covered in Graffiti 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Then acknowledge, a new era — which this will be — requires its own signifiers. Behold, ‘Workleisure’ 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Camp, which is meant to be a way to survive, is commodified, becomes just another signifier of knowingness, no longer a radical aesthetic at all. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z The hood signifiers ladled into the lyrics sound forced and contrived, not least because the singer sounds bored out of his skull. Real R&B fans aren't waiting for the Weeknd 2011-03-29T08:50:31Z “I’m using a signifier, Blackness, which for some people can connote serious pain,” she acknowledged. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Maybe “Oh my people” is a signifier of just how wide a gap there is between the soldiers and the civilians. Q. and A.: Kevin Powers and Ben Fountain, National Book Award Nominees 2012-11-13T17:21:36Z In Mr. McMurtry’s songs, cooking speed is roughly what slinging rock is in the rap of Jay Z or Young Jeezy: a signifier of authenticity, of demographic realness. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z According to a banker at Goldman Sachs, the idea was to play down any signifiers of employment, lest they invite negative repercussions. Bankers in the Age of Bernie: Do They Need Camouflage? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z This gap between the word and the thing, the signifier and the signified, is appropriate for Delillo, one of the masters of postmodern literature. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z No. It's an essay on matriarchs and Bond as a cultural signifier.' Q: What do Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises and a hamburger have in common? A: See below 2012-12-09T19:59:01Z Perhaps because his voice is more genre-neutral than Mr. Shelton’s, Mr. Bryan — who sings with some soul music inflections — is emphatic about his rural signifiers. For Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, You Can’t Teach an Old Country Bro New Tricks 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Students of digital communication see the emerging acceptance of whimsical signifiers as inevitable, if not always desirable. Cultural Studies: Emoticons Move to the Business World - Cultural Studies 2011-10-21T21:52:46Z Ms. Cotillard, her most famous movie role evoked by occasional eruptions of Édith Piaf on the “La Vie en Rose” soundtrack, is the film’s principal enigma and its chief signifier of emotion. | 'Inception': Decoding the Mind in Christopher Nolan?s Thriller 2010-07-15T15:57:00Z Nobody ever lets them, so it's the one deafening signifier that they're not engaged in a proper business. Is Kay Burley's new book any good? 2011-03-30T19:30:00Z Too often, he substitutes the accrual of cultural signifiers for character development, an outsourcing of observation. The Moral of These Stories? ‘You Are Not as Special as You Think’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Another signifier, I have a bad back and so did she, broken five times since a childhood horse riding accident in National Velvet. Elizabeth Taylor, always leading lady 2011-03-24T15:29:00Z The same narrow vision that keeps the dance scenes turgid also keeps Cher from being more than a mere signifier of herself; Parker’s direction doesn’t respond to Cher, it confines her. Review: “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Saves the Best for Last 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z This video is highly formal, drawing on relations between sign and signifier; it is a fairly direct critique of the domestic sphere of food production. Martha Rosler Isn’t Done Making Protest Art 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The gay signifiers in Purdy’s stories take you back to another time. Books of The Times: ‘Complete Short Stories of James Purdy,’ Literary Outsider 2013-07-18T19:56:21Z The ultimate signifier of negativity, in this case, denotes an event of heroic positivity. ‘No’: The power of one word against tyranny 2013-03-28T21:43:19Z But today the social signifiers are far more varied and interwoven, as detailed in the publication today of the Great British Class Survey, the largest such study ever undertaken in the UK. What class are you? 2013-04-03T10:54:53Z No. It's an essay on matriarchs and Bond as a cultural signifier. Q: What do Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises and a hamburger have in common? A: See below 2012-12-09T19:59:01Z "You want clear, tangible, provocative signifiers, and you want to construct them in a way that flows, but slightly doesn't make sense," says Andrews of the verbal clues. Raime: 'We wanted rawness' 2012-11-22T20:00:02Z Memory, then, is not just a signifier of the past but also of the future, a way of looking backward and forward at once. Reading -- and thinking -- about memory 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z As I’m sure you know, Portland’s kind of become a signifier of lots of different things. Hari Kondabolu: America’s smartest and funniest “mainstream comic” 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z And walking around with half your face covered by glass, no matter how swirly the screen, is a signifier for pod people. But Would You Wear It? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z In guidebooks, charm tends to be a commercial marker, a signifier for an imaginary, easily salable and consumable notion of authenticity. Review: In ‘Spettacolo,’ a Tuscan Town Where All the World’s a Stage 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. McKay is not above using paid-for female nudity as a signifier of capitalist excess, nor acknowledging, more generally, the hedonistic aspects of greed. Review: In ‘The Big Short,’ Economic Collapse for Fun and Profit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Apparently aiming for an open-ended psychological thriller, Ms. Thoman focuses so fiercely on atmosphere that her narrative isn’t just opaque, it’s a confounding collision of signifiers and symbols. Review: Secrets and Lies in ‘Never Here’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z In a way, its opaqueness was uniquely revealing; an brash signifier of the unique relationship to viewing culture and Weiner’s historical unwillingness to capitulate to fan demands. “Mad Men” spoilers, conspiracy theories, and blatant fan service denied: Matthew Weiner will keep teasing us to the bittersweet end 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Aaron Zigman’s score is a syrupy concentrate of the standard musical signifiers for sadness and longing, and I was curious to know what she thought of it. Mica Levi’s Anti-Musical Soundtracks 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Not only does the moment underline the fascination of Lecter, but it also subverts classical music’s wonted role as signifier of the good. Perspective | When classical music becomes another character in a movie 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z "Stereotypical signifiers of gothdom may not always be appropriate for us black-clad eccentrics, especially the ones celebrating their 21st birthday multiple times," she says. Forever goth: Elders not about to lighten up 2012-02-15T19:29:02Z The video featured an animated raccoon wearing a peach hoodie and drinking a cup of coffee, in a dorm room strewn with generational signifiers: houseplants, seltzer, a turntable. Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets To 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Even those of us who love guitars and drums and shouting must concede that, put down in plain black and white, those signifiers make rock music look like the David Brent of musical genres. The death of rock 2011-01-16T22:00:02Z Combs’s songs are filled with classic country signifiers — beer, trucks, a gentle yearning for the glories of yesteryear — but they’re filtered through his own lens. Can Luke Combs, Country’s Everyman, Grow Up Without Losing Touch? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But the real through line, as well, is a type of abiding darkness in these works, a critique of blackness as a signifier. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z In “East Meets West” and “The Expeditionary Series,” the arresting interest is in the convergence and clash of diverse signifiers. Review: Tseng Kwong Chi’s Darkly Comic Images at Grey Art Gallery 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z And I bring it up because I see Erickson’s preening as a shining example of why movement conservatism is more about cultural signifiers than actual politics. The war to be clown-king of the GOP circus: Erick Erickson’s spat with Donald Trump exposes the conservative movement 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Names are sneaky little signifiers, scams of history and habit. Adrift in a Ghostly Paris, With a Void in His Soul 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z His buildings were beautiful, but what were they signifiers of? Don’t believe everything you hear about ‘Call Me by Your Name’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Its name, both a noun and a verb, sounds like a flourish, but it invokes its raison d’être with a dead-simple signifier. Switch Is the Dream Console Nintendo's Been Working Toward for Years 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z If geek glasses were once signifiers of seriousness, worn by anchors or celebrities-in-confession, more recently they have morphed into an accessory. Goodbye, geek glasses: why aviators are this season’s biggest eyewear trend 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Even as the “Made in the U.S.A.” label has grown scarce, thanks to the offshore manufacturing in apparel and other industries, it has acquired cachet as a signifier of old-school craftsmanship, even luxury. ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ Has a New Meaning 2012-09-15T01:00:36Z Still, he is exceptionally present throughout, whether leaning into his self-ascribed signifiers — gay, millennial, Jewish — or describing the turmoil he appears to grapple with in real time. ‘Sugar Daddy’ Review: The Grief Comes Out in Laughs 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z While punk's external signifiers are no longer shocking, these core principles continue to inspire new generations. Punk is still the sound of youth rebellion 2012-06-01T15:39:56Z The end result, as UK cinema audiences will discover this weekend, is awash with familiar Bondian signifiers. Skyfall: A Bond aiming to please 2012-10-25T23:54:18Z Because of their connection to sport and wealth, heels went on to become a signifier of social class in Western Europe. Are High Heels Headed for a Tumble? 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z As keen pop-watchers will be well aware, this is a reliable signifier of Imminent Oblivion. Is Justin Bieber losing it? 2013-03-05T14:22:12Z But the mere naming of a colour can fall like a piece of clinker in a sentence – it is only a signifier and cannot evoke sensuous beauty. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z K.Flay has no black people or hip-hop signifiers in her videos. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z Mr. Davies, white-haired and pink-complexioned, dressed in that great signifier of British rectitude — a cardigan — was sitting in the lobby of the British Film Institute here, animated and gesticulating. Terence Davies, Unfiltered and Bitter 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z His Othello, for example, exuded a sense of natural authority without resorting to the usual manly signifiers of military toughness. Adrian Lester Finally Arrives on Broadway, via Wall Street 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z With aesthetically attuned art students as the focus, the feed is a tableau of Generation X fashion signifiers: flannel shirts, black eyeliner, bleach-blond hair, cropped tops and baggy jeans. Art School Looked Like a Lot of Fun In the ’90s 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z It was a lyric, sure, but it was also a signifier, a reminder of his core values. ArtsBeat: American Idol: The Top 4 2011-05-12T13:30:26Z The problem is the pervasive use of “ghetto” as an ahistoric cultural signifier of all things bad, broke and black: ghetto schools, ghetto jobs, ghetto names, ghetto music. ‘Ghetto,’ by Mitchell Duneier 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z He has a familiar mix of gun politic signifiers about ecological preservation, wildlife restoration, respect for military veterans, police and emergency medical workers. How Civil Must America Be? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z But while the signifiers in Mr. Nelson’s works have much to do with industrial and commercial culture, they also have another, metaphorical implication. Mike Nelson: ‘Gang of Seven’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Sorrentino’s camera glides across a landscape pocked with signifiers of European Decadence, one of the continent’s most durable and distinguished exports. Review: Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’: A Euro Buddy Film 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z It may run against your parenting or loving instincts, especially when the key signifier of someone enduring a night terror is their inconsolability, but you should not try to console them. Eyes wide shut: how to cope with night terrors 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Nor so delightful, because while a handclap in music is useful for many things, it is almost always a signifier of enthusiasm, of ebullience, of – dare I say it – happiness. Readers recommend: Songs with handclaps ? the results 2010-07-15T21:08:00Z It is full of signifiers of soul, including Hammond organ and lyrics that talk in the most predictable, rote fashion about satisfaction and celebration. New band of the day - Allen Stone (No 1,430) 2013-01-14T16:40:56Z He also plays with the signifiers of gender identity, showing men wearing makeup and other supposedly feminine things — men, ultimately, who embrace all aspects of who they are. Datebook: Intimate paintings of queer men, African blacksmiths' ironworks and an indispensable assistant's exhibit 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z An issue of E-flux Journal titled “What Is Contemporary Art?” suggests in its opening essay that “contemporary” is only a “watery signifier” that “repeatedly escapes our grasp through a set of evasive maneuvers.” Frieze New York Adds More Blue-Chip 20th-Century Art 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z These aesthetic signifiers of bohemia have become so aligned with Coachella that retailers now use Coachella in product descriptions to stoke buying impulses. The Appeal of the Coachella Way of Life 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Ki-woo crosses the threshold into another world, one of cultivated sensitivities and warmly polished surfaces that are at once signifiers of bourgeois success and blunt reproaches to his own family’s deprivation. ‘Parasite’ Review: The Lower Depths Rise With a Vengeance 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z What is it about female profanity — or her possible profanity specifically — that’s such a potent signifier? Review: The Anti-Clinton Brigade’s Four-Letter Word Obsession 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But now, on the street, especially in the Wynwood area, home to a flourishing gallery scene, “black is a signifier of ultimate cool,” Ms. Held said. What Pops in a Sea of Shrill Color? Hint: It’s Not Pink 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z A few of the lesser characters do possess traits that might have been mined for humor but instead are allowed to stand as signifiers of a vague intention to be funny. | 'Something Borrowed': New Lovers and the Old Triangle 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z People pick out a very particular outfit with a lot of signifiers to go and stand in a line. Where Sweats Are Cinched and Air Jordans Are Art 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Instead he’s a conceptualist who approaches clothing as adornment, as artifact, as potential signifiers of ambition, anxiety, desire. A Costume Designer With Low Budgets and High Style 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In each case, the source genre is denuded, reduced to an unobtrusive lilt — reggae as signifier, not engine. Ariana Grande and Fifth Harmony Are Songbirds With Clipped Wings on New Albums 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z That's partly because the musical signifiers they use were desperately tired even before the pair alighted on them. LMFAO: Sorry for Party Rocking ? review 2011-07-14T14:30:01Z Their music, at its velvety smoothest, features a bit of flute and a lot of sax, that quintessential '80s instrument and signifier of dolorous sophistication. New band of the day (The Hics 1,554) 2013-07-16T14:55:34Z As with any signifier, meaning is determined by the beholder as much as by the object itself. ‘Hooded; or Being Black for Dummies’ Review: A Tragic Pageantry 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z So I thought of rose petals, because roses are such an important signifier of emotion. Sasha Velour: ‘Drag is darkness turned into power’ 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z The Aussie’s hair was too pretty to be hidden under a hat, and as he ascended the country and pop charts, his name proved a signifier of things to come. Where Have All the Cowboy Hats Gone? 2012-10-02T12:00:09Z It lacks hip-hop samples, electro beats or any other hollow shorthand signifiers artists use to indicate a Dramatic Change in Direction. ‘Wilder Mind’ is the de-Mumfordization of Mumford & Sons 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Some critics have expressed Boston-fatigue, taking the accent as a generic signifier for white ethnicity and urban grit. The Blinding Cinematic Whiteness of “Black Mass” 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z His use of the slur echoed the callous and unthinking way in which many white Americans toy with the signifiers of Black culture with no sense of their history. The Morgan Wallen Conundrum 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The use of marriage as the signifier of mental health is pretty easy to disprove. Sexual adventures in therapy 2013-02-05T01:00:00Z “It’s often in the music for British or British loyalist characters that we see the most signifiers of European music,” she said in an interview. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z In the dominant culture's imagination Cleopatra is a paragon of attractiveness, and that same culture devalues Black beauty even as it appropriates its signifiers. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Though saturated in classic soul signifiers – call-and-response vocals, tambourines and handclaps augmenting slinky bass lines, guitars that played accents and clipped grooves more than long lead lines – Saadiq took some detours. Raphael Saadiq makes soul music feel like new 2011-06-05T18:19:13Z This Mandela is removed of his humanity and touted as an abstract signifier of moral righteousness. Nelson Mandela vs. his hagiography 2013-12-21T16:30:00Z The style of mustache was a clear class signifier. Cue the 'staches and suits 2011-12-21T20:23:03Z In each instance, Ms. Goldberg challenges and expands our ideas of blackness by conjuring up an audible signifier typically identified with whiteness. When Black Performers Use Their ‘White Voice’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z In Ms. Dorrance’s hands, even literal signifiers of grief — faces buried in hands, heaving chests — somehow don’t read as clichés. Review: Martha Graham Dance Revisits a Classic in Gala 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z I added only a few things, like signifiers of time to make clear distinctions and the associations to go from one stimulus to another — that was very much in the editing process. "Mothering Sunday" director on challenging politics through intimacy: "Nudity levels out classes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Without these signifiers of politeness, I might feel that I’m playing against not the girl from Pinkberry, or a retired teacher, or a down-on-his-luck country-western singer, but instead some humanoid without a soul. First Person: Sheltered by Online Scrabble?s Anonymity 2011-09-16T23:02:17Z Though “Squeeze” may embrace genre signifiers like double kick drums and slap bass, it’s far from a typical metal album. Sasami Wanted to Appropriate White, Male Music. She Landed on Metal. 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z And both of those words are very unstable signifiers. This Artist Proposes a Community Space ‘to Dream, to Imagine’ 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z One of the great paradoxes of modern consumerism is that these goods are mass-market signifiers of exclusivity, tokens of aristocratic populism. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z You see some of the same bands over and over, and hear the same gimmicks and retro signifiers, and things start to blend together. ArtsBeat: Sharon Van Etten at South by Southwest 2012-03-16T07:35:24Z They want their children to grow up well-versed in ballet and other outward signifiers of culture, such as poetry, theater and music. How to Parent Like a Russian 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Vidal and Buckley were authentically important and interesting writers and thinkers, but sitting under the lights they were, above all, celebrities, signifiers of their own distorted individuality. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In the absence of more visible luxury signifiers, supplanted this year by less showy, more leisurely styles, a cloth coat, she said, “is really your opening statement.” Don’t Count Out the Cloth Coat 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Wolff includes few signifiers of class or taste. In ‘Carnality,’ a Wild Ride Fueled by Rash Decisions 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z But there’s scant evidence of that in this clumsy pastiche, which relies on unimaginative video projections and clanging dialogue signifiers to denote time and place. Theater Review: ‘Forever Dusty’ at New World Stages 2012-11-21T21:57:24Z Romeo's name has been changed to Gnomeo as a signifier that he's a garden gnome and not the heir to a powerful post-Renaissance Italian dynasty. Gnomeo and Juliet: a gnome by any other name ... 2010-09-29T09:38:00Z She wears a Phi Beta Kappa key on a necklace, an exclusive signifier of excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z In reducing individual men to types, Fischer pokes fun not only at the pseudo-scientific urge to pathologize them, but also the way gay men used fashion as “signifiers” for one another. 1970s gay street fashions and other vintage discoveries in 'Photography and Language' 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z Philosopher Slavoj Zizek has written about this — specifically, on how Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” has repeatedly served as an empty signifier, “a symbol that can stand for anything.” Authoritarian hold music: How Donald Trump’s banal playlist cultivates danger at his rallies 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Still considered a signifier of classic professionalism, it also connotes efficiency, old-fashioned gender-blurring and a reprieve from the ubiquity of dresses because for a while, there were so, so many dresses. Perspective | The message from the Paris runways is simple: Buy a suit and get to work 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Tejera’s play, light on plot, rests on unraveling the uneasy dynamic between the three, and on the meticulousness with which the playwright renders the petty signifiers in their world. ‘Toros’ Review: Why Are We Still Friends? 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z His winged cherub logo, which appeared on everything from T-shirts to shopping bags, quickly became a signifier of progressive taste and spirit. Retail Legend Elio Fiorucci Dies at the Age of 80 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z “Suckerpunch,” her new album, smacks away indie signifiers: Out with the guitars and the earnestness, in with bravado, beat drops and Auto-Tune. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z It surrounds Alice and her family with the signifiers of a perfect, privileged life: impressive jobs, well-raised children, a Manhattan brownstone and a lovely beach house, neither one too showy. In ‘Still Alice,’ a Professor Slides Into Alzheimer’s 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z And often enough, the music in such scenes is used as a signifier. Perspective | When classical music becomes another character in a movie 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Part of her staging flaunted signifiers of the terrorist era. Music Review: M.I.A., Sleigh Bells and the Hard NYC Festival 2010-07-26T01:21:00Z But it’s something more: Boston is the leading cinematic signifier of whiteness, of white ethnicity and ethnic solidarity outside the South and without the taint of white Southern revanchism. The Blinding Cinematic Whiteness of “Black Mass” 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Whoever among us is still here, it seems certain that we will still be living with the insidious and inescapable word “Tuscan,” used as marketing adjective, cultural signifier, life-style choice. Under the Crushing Weight of the Tuscan Sun 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z It’s possible to say something about someone’s economic and class status — their privilege, to lay down a more woke signifier — by their familiarity with international airport codes. ‘Turbulence’ Is a Quick Trip Told in Connected Flights 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z It is the signifier George hopes to be called himself, the legacy he wants to leave behind. Paul George is thinking about the end and wants to be a champion before he's done 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The phoniness of the operation is plain from the beginning, with set dressers planting stereotypically Mexican signifiers like a burro figurine around the living room as the cameras begin to roll. ‘Dream Hou$e’ asks: Would you cash in by selling your childhood home? 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z With absolutely no signifiers that the building used to be one of Seattle’s hottest restaurants. As ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ turns 30, we revisit its famous Seattle locations 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z They and the other members of the American neofascist movement and larger white right are stand-ins, placeholders, symbols and signifiers, who are part of a much larger system of corrupt power. The GOP's criminality goes international 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z The three-word rallying cry that followed has become a unifying signifier of success for a franchise that had spent the past 16 seasons living a miserable, combative and losing existence. Kings end 17-year playoff drought with a Game 1 win over the Warriors 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z They are real admirers of signifiers who bubble up out of the racist swamp for whatever reason. Dangerous radicalization of American white youth now a national security threat 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z The 2021 pilot’s opening scene, drenched in cultish signifiers of feminine innocence going to slaughter, follows a barefoot and bleeding girl in a white nightie running through the snow. Review | Has ‘Yellowjackets’ bitten off more than it can chew? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The elements that make up the story can be easily identified, but the sum of its parts becomes a sort of floating signifier, refusing to be pinned down. How a Mexican-born debut novelist created a beautiful monster 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z “We’re calling upon the sheriff to outlaw tattoos, unprofessional logos or other signifiers depicting violence — no new tattoos, no smoking gun tattoos, no Fort Apache logos, no ghetto birds, logos,” Deixler told the commission. Civilian oversight commission calls for sheriff to outlaw deputy gangs, ban their rituals 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Food touchstones like fish fries, pierogies and the “ cookie table ” — a western Pennsylvania wedding staple — became signifiers of identity. Need a Lenten fish fry? Let an interactive map point the way 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z A house is not a home, as the song goes, but for astute production designers, houses and other architectural signifiers can go a long way toward building out the hero’s emotional landscape. How these teams bring the actors home without saying a word 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Instead, traditional gender signifiers fetishized as erotic fixations by a heterosexual patriarchy are amplified to a stunningly absurd degree. Commentary: How the aesthetics of drag drive the bigots mad 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The brand’s Purple Label — the signifier of the very top tier of Ralph Lauren products since 1994 — will now have to be white, in order to comply with the dye requirements of the certification. Recycling cashmere — How Ralph Lauren is working to combat fashion waste 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z She added staff and technology and trained the Atlanta Police Department on identifying gang signifiers and writing gang warrants, resulting in what she says is a 300 percent increase in the department’s gang warrants. She Took On Atlanta’s Gangs. Now She May Be Coming For Trump. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Related: A new book, “The Status Revolution,” argues that class signifiers have flipped. Your Wednesday Briefing: China’s Dual Crises 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z “While that is a small share of their overall capital, that is an increasing number and an important signifier of where they are headed.” Exxon’s Own Models Predicted Global Warming—It Ignored Them 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z But all those signifiers of gender are ultimately costumes, regardless of who puts them on. Commentary: How the aesthetics of drag drive the bigots mad 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z We can work out that the book is set in the 1990s because we know that Giovanna was born in 1979 and is 12 when it begins, but Ferrante provides no specific cultural signifiers. Not ready to leave Italy after 'The White Lotus'? Netflix has the show for you 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z While the third act still plunges us into more chilling waters, Baumbach guides us with familiar signifiers. Page to Screen: An exuberant 'White Noise' reinvents Don DeLillo — and Noah Baumbach 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The sociologist Stuart Hall described race as a “floating signifier.” A Field at a Crossroads: Genetics and Racial Mythmaking 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The palm, a contentious signifier of L.A., is a ubiquitous, nonnative invasive species brought to the city decades ago to solidify the myth of Los Angeles as a “semi-tropic” paradise. In artist Maria Maea's hands, the palm is much more than a plant — it's a medium 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Because these slogans and signifiers are part of a larger fascist imaginary, the facts and specifics do not really matter. Of course Trump wants to "terminate" Constitution: He wants to seize power and rule by force 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z “What was really disturbing was the guns became kind of a signifier for political reasons,” he said, adding, “It was just about pure intimidation.” At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z And despite the title, one never sees an actual female body; instead, it’s conjured constantly through signs and signifiers. Mary Kelly’s Revolution Is Ongoing 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z A Black model in a double-breasted suit jacket, a cowboy hat and boots throws numerous social signifiers into a blender in a way that speaks to California’s reputation as the cultural final frontier. Why is Ralph Lauren so good at ‘prep?’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z That’s how I view Santa, as a cultural signifier of consumption. A bilingual California poet honors migrants — both the living and the dead 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Moreover, his chosen material — adobe — brings to white box gallery spaces the brownness of earth and the scent of soil, along with its attendant signifiers of labor and connection to place. LA Vanguardia: The Latino innovators, instigators and power players breaking through barriers 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Velasquez said we need a system where you’re alerted any time someone uses your identity signifiers, like your Social Security number, to create a new bank account or open a line of credit. There are no perfect solutions for identity theft. But experts and a victim have ideas 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Biden, who isn’t shy about using his Scranton roots as a cultural signifier, ran ahead of most Democrats on the statewide ballot in 2020. Biden hopes to boost Fetterman in Pennsylvania, midterm turf where the president feels at home 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s a moment that has come to stand for me as a signifier, an emblem of what changes when one’s parents grow old. How Lynne Tillman's 'Mothercare' helped me face my aging parents' future 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z For Hsu back then, the music you liked or the vintage sweater you wore were vital signifiers. How a Bay Area-raised critic captured 'the banal ecstasy of friendship' 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Marine Corps should be allowed to prohibit Sikh personnel from wearing beards, turbans and other faith-based signifiers when joining boot camp, so the matter is far from settled. Advice | Is it legal to deny a promotion to someone with a beard? 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z He wears large hoop earrings and sports a thick mustache, a purposeful mix of historically male and female signifiers. You, too, can be touched by Çedouze 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Soviet symbols no longer refer to a country that ever existed: they are mostly empty signifiers of something to be despised, myths of pure villainy. Perspective | Why Gorbachev’s death feels like it’s part of an alternate history 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z This time they underwent a “whitewashing experiment,” removing indications of Blackness from their home and replacing them with signifiers that a white family might live there instead. Home appraised with a Black owner: $472,000. With a white owner? $750,000 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Thomas captures the beauty of informal expression through visual signifiers — line, shape, color and texture. Can abstract art help us learn how to accept suffering in a spiraling world? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z “It’s policy as a signifier of whether you’re part of the in group or the out group.” What Liz Cheney’s Lopsided Loss Says About the State of the G.O.P. 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The chief signifier at birth was microcephaly, unusually small heads that hinted at the devastating brain damage the virus caused while they were still in utero. The Forgotten Virus: Zika Families and Researchers Struggle for Support 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Siemens, whose products are used to equip factories, buildings and transport networks, is seen as a signifier for the broader industrial economy. Siemens' writedown pushes company into first loss since 2010 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Like so many Americans, she worked right through it, seated at her desk surrounded by the signifiers of productivity: binders, pens, pastel Post-it notes. How Covid Did Away With the Sick Day 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z In some posts, gang leaders flash cash, gold chains and blinged-out watches, signifiers of a lifestyle that is far out of reach for the great majority in this impoverished nation. Haiti’s gangs use TikTok, Instagram, Twitter to recruit and terrorize 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z And they pile on arbitrary signifiers of luxury until they achieve the mute hysteria of elegance, a deafening silence of imagination. Can anything stop Rick Caruso from turning L.A. into the Cheesecake Factory? 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z “Spewing conspiracy theories and bench-clearing nonsense around mass shootings, elections and coronavirus is becoming a tribal signifier for some on the right.” Opinion | America’s Human Sacrifices 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z “In north Georgia, the semiautomatic rifle has replaced the flag as the primary signifier of a particular congressional candidate’s political alignment,” Lytton said. Maker of rifle in Texas massacre is deep-pocketed GOP donor 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Especially not parents, for whom that specific set of signifiers has a particularly horrific resonance. Commentary: Why the Onion's take on the Uvalde shooting captures every parent's worst nightmare 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z All the old signifiers, the ones linking public prominence and political progress, are slipping. The Psychic Contortions of the Black Mogul-Entertainer 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The phrase has become what is known in linguistics circles as a “floating signifier,” Dr. Leiserowitz said. There’s a Messaging Battle Right Now Over America’s Energy Future 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Whether he was writing about film, literature, music or pop culture, he made us the Big Idea to contend with, rather than an ornamental signifier of Blackness relegated to the footnotes. Who will inherit Greg Tate's mantle of Black cultural critic-in-chief? I have a candidate 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z These numbers and their pictorial signifiers have been critical for informing our behaviors over the past two years, but they hardly capture the full significance of the crisis and its many snowball effects. COVID’s Uneven Toll Captured in Data 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Pandemic signifiers predominate in Beijing, from Plexiglas at dining tables to the masks that several figure skaters wore at practice Tuesday. Within the Olympics’ ‘closed loop,’ Beijing is seen only through a window 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z It would be years before “Black” ceased to be offensive and became our chosen descriptor; a signifier of unity. Column: What Martin Luther King taught me about 'good hair' and Black pride 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z In each section, Yanagihara has an anthropological brilliance for compiling and disseminating objects, signifiers, settings. Review: Hanya Yanagihara's new novel proves her reputation for 'empathy' is all wrong 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z This is a device more often found in children's literature, a signifier of a heavily anthropomorphized animal world, but Carson's intentions were in the opposite direction. Rachel Carson’s Explorations of the Sea, the Human Relationship with Elephants, and More 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z This is the only conclusion one can draw from his psychologizing account of her work, which turns even her lightest on-screen gestures into plodding signifiers of anger and grief. Perspective | Three things Aaron Sorkin doesn’t understand: Comedy, sitcoms and women 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z For the French, these signifiers of what critics in the UK and US have termed "woke" are all very new and unfamiliar. France resists US challenge to its values 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z For a country constitutionally preoccupied with happiness, the print has proved a useful and recurring signifier of optimism, especially when it seems furthest from reach. When Polka Dots Signal Both Optimism and Disquiet 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z He wasn’t known for his mastery of fashion’s technical skills, but he understood popular culture and what it meant to move through the world using clothing as a signifier of belonging. Perspective | Virgil Abloh’s wondrous success 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The artist’s hand as a signifier of unique, individualized identity — of emotive autobiography — was highly prized in the Abstract Expressionist art that immediately preceded Minimalism. In 1997 Jim Isermann slipcovered a Minimalist cube. The rest is queer art history 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The right-wing propaganda machine's version of "critical race theory" is a lie, an empty floating signifier that can be made to mean almost anything the propagandists and their audience want it to. "Critical race theory" is a fairytale — but America's monsters are real 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z What makes this development more striking is how sustainability isn’t simply an amenity or signifier of corporate responsibility, but a core feature of its financing plan. As Risks of Climate Change Rise, Investors Seek Greener Buildings 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Even the network’s name was a signifier of a sea change: “We originally didn’t call it ‘Fox,’” Ancier says. Rivals mercilessly insulted Fox. Now it's a lesson in how to launch a TV network 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Actual things happened on that day — tall buildings fell down and nearly 3,000 people died — but those became secondary to 9/11 as a sacred signifier, whose meaning is fixed in place. Too soon, or too late? Who got canceled after 9/11, and why 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Like nearly all political analysis in our perishing republic, it's focused on symbols and signifiers, and not at all on the actual substance of politics. Beyond the crisis of democracy: Does anyone still believe in liberalism? 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z This image, suggesting intensity, focus and isolation, has become a key signifier of filmmaker Paul Schrader. Tiffany Haddish and Oscar Isaac on sex scenes and COVID filming for 'The Card Counter' 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It’s a curious thing for a metropolitan area that’s so often accused of being obsessed with youth to be accumulating the signifiers of musty age. L.A.’s dad hat obsession is the city's biggest experiment in being totally washed 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z “It’s such a fraught, unspoken signifier of whether you do or don’t fit in.” A Wall Street Dressing Down: Always. Be. Casual. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z But it’s still true that being on a broadcast television show called Meet the Press has a lot of signifiers. Chuck Todd on why Meet the Press can’t survive on just one platform 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z He entered the N.B.A. as a rail-thin prospect, drafted outside of the top 14 picks, a grouping known as the lottery that is seen as a signifier of impending stardom. The Milwaukee Bucks Win the N.B.A. Championship 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Why do we so commonly assume that material wealth is a clear signifier of worth? Opinion | Is it time to limit personal wealth? 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Bennett still wears a small yarmulke, or skullcap — in Israel, normally a signifier of devout Orthodox Judaism — which clings to his bald pate in a precarious manner that even admirers sometimes lightly mock. He 'won the lottery' of Israeli politics. But Naftali Bennett remains an enigma 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Black hair, too, requires special ministrations — not simply because it tends to be texturally dense, with tight coils, but because of its historical status as a social signifier. How Botanical Oils Won Over the West 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z You have access to the signifiers and you can keep people in or out of that room. Chuck Todd on why Meet the Press can’t survive on just one platform 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Quickly, though, people began treating it as a signifier of status — proof that you mattered enough for others to care whether you were really you. The Oldest Productivity Trick Around 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Masks are “signifiers of shame and submission,” he said, blaming mask rules on “power-drunk politicians.” Column: The Tucker Carlson mystery — how does his show survive without major advertisers? 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z It just feels like a wasted opportunity to show Jordan in full expectant father mode instead of just fast-forwarding through loaded signifiers to get to a motive. Review: Michael B. Jordan seeks revenge in ‘Without Remorse’ 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z It is hard not to notice the emergentes as they embrace the outward signifiers of Orthodoxy. Why are so many Christians in Colombia converting to Orthodox Judaism? 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Traditional broadcast media or cable news has all of these signifiers. Chuck Todd on why Meet the Press can’t survive on just one platform 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z What is signified is conditioned by the context of the signifier, but so too is the form of the signifier. Bayern v PSG was pure footballing fun – until you delve beneath the thrills | Jonathan Wilson 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z When done willfully, it’s a conscious decision to weaponize one’s name — a deeply personal signifier of ethnic background and family lineage — against them, othering and invalidating them in a culture that already upholds white supremacy. Commentary: The casual racism of mispronouncing an Asian person’s name 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z On the right, it tends to involve exaggerated machismo and embrace of working-class signifiers. Opinion | America Has a Ruling Class 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s a useful signifier of how close the landmark healthcare measure has come to repeal in the years since its enactment in 2010. Column: Jonathan Cohn's history of Obamacare shows how our political system is broken 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z A heavily insured signifier of spiritual depth is clearly not the same as spiritual depth. Perspective | The spiritual transcends wealth, power and even art in this Mughal masterpiece Structural racism is a very important concept, but it is now becoming an empty signifier. After Trump, the crisis: White America at the historical crossroads 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Others felt that there wasn't much subtext to the post, but rather that it served as a signifier of their ability to still work together. Kristin Cavallari, Jay Cutler pose for photo together months after announcing split: '10 years' 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z This informal picture, against a backdrop of pink and green fabric that alludes to the colors of her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, lacks any of the signifiers of authority and grandeur. Perspective | Vogue got too familiar, too fast 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Other brand signifiers in which his company had a hand include the bubble logo used by mobile phone company O2. Martin Lambie-Nairn: Designer behind famous BBC and Channel 4 'idents' dies 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z A heavily insured signifier of spiritual depth is clearly not the same as spiritual depth. Perspective | The spiritual transcends wealth, power and even art in this Mughal masterpiece The commission said Uber could protect victims’ anonymity by providing a code or alternate signifier in place of the victim’s name. California fines Uber $59 million, threatens license over refusal to hand over sexual assault data 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The denial of climate change has become a cultural signifier, the policy equivalent of a gun rack in a truck. Opinion | Horse-race political analysis is important — and flawed. We need more moral journalism. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z It could be used as “a visual signifier for a house pest,” for instance; or to symbolize “something that’s hard to get rid of”; or, naturally, “to reference a survivor in a nuclear winter.” The cockroach emoji proposal is a story about texting through the apocalypse 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Seven months after the “Pierrot” premiere came the riotous one in Paris of “The Rite of Spring,” robbing “Pierrot” as the signifier of a musical revolution. Schoenberg knew. When the world goes mad, send in the clowns 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z While that would most likely be the case, it is also true that the Trumps don’t seem to care about the traditional status signifiers of Manhattan society. Will Manhattan’s Elite Really Spurn Ivanka and Jared (and Their Money)? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Is it some kind of class signifier in the Mushroom Kingdom’s dystopian monarchy, to signify servitude to Princess Peach? Fun guy: is that Toad from Mario’s head or is he wearing a hat? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z “It’s the idea that if you don’t see it, you can’t become it. TV is often the first signifier to children that their dreams are possible and their truths are something not to be ignored.” How 2020 rocked the gentle world of children’s TV like never before 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z His muscles – the signifiers of his masculinity, the linchpin of his performance – shrivel and die, and he is just a human being again, vulnerable to life and pain and human feeling. I had the best body I've ever had – so why did I feel so much shame? 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z “It’s a recipe where charm and originality come from taking a traditional dish and swapping out its signifiers with ones that seem new,” Birdsall writes. The Evolution of the Onion Sandwich 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z The word “evil”, such a childish signifier in public discourse, was well chosen; my own thoughts seized on it as precisely the right word to describe the author of the piece. Is Trump, finally, managing to repel even his own supporters? | Emma Brockes 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z As distorted through the white gaze, these things become bugaboos or empty signifiers, interpreted however the white right chooses to. The Trump regime defends racism: At least they're being honest for once 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z That phrase is really just a floating signifier that means whatever the America right and Fox News types want it to be. Man-baby smashes democracy: Daniel Drezner on our "Toddler in Chief" 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Now, across the coronavirus-haunted United States, those words are a signifier of existential dread, a political lightning rod, a confounding multiple-choice question that has no real right answer, but plenty of wrong ones. 'Not knowing, it's just killing us' — parents, teachers wrestle with reopening schools 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Well-designed studies show that discrimination against various signifiers of “blackness” persist in our labor markets. Opinion | How to explain systemic racism to non-liberals like me 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z But Trump has taken that solipsism to the stratosphere, asking rallygoers in Tulsa to choose him over their health, possibly their lives, recklessly turning a medical necessity into a tribal signifier. Opinion | Trump, Not So Statuesque 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z To that extent, Black Lives Matter exists as a floating signifier that can find a home in most European cities, and beyond. What black America means to Europe 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z But the front row is a powerful signifier of status: being there means you are one of the most important people in fashion, and this kind of validation still matters to him. André Leon Talley: 'My story is a fairytale, and in every fairytale there is evil and darkness' 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z The shelters were once signifiers of fringe prepper communities worried about the coming apocalypse. The doomsday bunker market is thriving amid the coronavirus pandemic 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z These photographs and installations pick apart the signifiers of race and play with ideas of self-presentation. Datebook: A poignant and fantastical immigrant tale lands at REDCAT 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Fabrics are pinned to the cardboard, heaped atop and wrapped around the structures, not in the literal manner of clothing but as a discontinuous kind of adornment or signifier of identity. Review: With paint and antique textiles, artist Marley Freeman weaves intimate mysteries 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The coloring-book rooster is merely an echo of an echo, a signifier absurdly distant from the hectic, strident reality of the animal itself, so incidental, in this context, to its own representation. A Sculptor of the Female Gaze 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Beyond these more obvious, ready-made cultural signifiers, psychedelics helped catalyze the 80s British rave scene, facilitate Bob Dylan’s more introspective lyrical turn, and helped Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis throw a legendary no-hitter. Psychedelics have lost their cool. Blame Gwyneth Paltrow | John Semley 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Most elite marathoners work closely with physiologists and are studied for genetic and performance signifiers, metrics with technical names like VO2 max. Can the King of Ultrarunning Conquer a Race as Short as the Marathon? 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z In using DNA ancestry tests, we reduce the culture and lived experience that have long defined ethnicity to a biological, racial signifier that is neither especially relevant nor particularly accurate. Perspective | Can DNA tests tell us who we are? Only if we’re racists. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Their dreamy love songs signify classiness, and signifiers of classiness – suits, cars, jewellery, handshakes – are what make Scorsese’s corrupted worlds go round, rather than the hard work of genuinely classy behaviour. Musical notes: Scorsese, Madonna, and the awfulness of millennium pop 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Waters’s subjects have always been the signifiers and manners of American class, and Mortville is a uniquely American dystopia. Letter of Recommendation: John Waters’s ‘Desperate Living’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “She brings the signifiers of sewing as a low art — something that is not recognized as a high art — and elevates it into the language of contemporary art,” says Martinez. This artist's work crosses borders. So does her 25-year retrospective 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s as old as time, even when it involves cellphones, drones and other modern-day signifiers. Review | Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Misérables’ gets a starkly contemporary update in France’s exhilarating Oscar nominee. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z And they hear on the news the market's up, market's down, and that's the big signifier. Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson: "F**king hating" Trump is the key to winning in 2020 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z So issues such as gun control or climate disruption — instead of being matters requiring debate and offering the possibility of compromise — become signifiers of cultural identity. Opinion | Can hate drive out hate? MLK Jr. would disagree. 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z That is the signifier of a good book. The 2010s in books: 10 titles from Washington-state authors that defined the decade 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z That would be England's version of the Big Sort, in which geography, educational level and generational identity — along with race, of course — become the dominant social dividing lines and political signifiers. After a big win for Boris Johnson and Brexit, British left faces the darkness 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z To British audiences, Grant’s voice and other class signifiers suggested that he was a handsome, modernizing Tory—a David Cameron before David Cameron. Hugh Grant Is Living His Best British Election 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Food preferences then become a kind of class signifier, a nicer way of saying “No poors, no fattys.” Why are people on Tinder swiping right on Kombucha and 'realness'? | Jessa Crispin 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z A red dress, of course, has long been one of the cinema’s most vivid signifiers of desire — and danger. Review: Eccentric horror of ‘In Fabric’ and ‘Little Joe’ finds menace in everyday objects 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “The change in spending patterns among the rich are probably the biggest signifier of class divide in America today,” she said. Wait a Minute. How Can They Afford That When I Can’t? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z She’s also a Los Angeles original, a vivid signifier of the place and how it operates. Opinion: Angelyne's status as an L.A. icon deserves a reboot 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The paintings resonated with Victoria Gitman’s exquisite portraits of vintage beaded and feathered handbags in their invocations of hand labor, signifiers of female identity and adorned surfaces as second skins. Review: Takako Yamaguchi turns white and gray paint into illusions of startling intensity 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Then there’s that other kind of age gap, with the freaky gendered socioeconomic dimension – where snagging a much younger woman becomes as much a signifier of male success as a mansion or a Porsche. Let’s stop praising men who deign to date women almost their own age | Barbara Ellen 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The signifiers of wokeness – beyond being a once-useful term misappropriated from black American vernacular – apparently represent that of deeper thinking, inquiry and action, but can just as easily be used to paint a deceptive veneer. Jane Fonda is white, wealthy and privileged – and she’s using that power for good | Jonno Revanche 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z But for a disillusioned voter who can’t stomach the Democratic field, Yang evades other key signifiers, too. Andrew Yang Knows How to Fit In. Somehow That’s Making Him an Outlier. 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Of course, Apple’s originals get the prime real estate, and it’s perhaps no surprise that Apple’s design elegance handles the signifiers for its original content with grace. Gaming the streaming menu: Our digital mood board 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Those terms are just vague signifiers standing in for other things. Impeachment in the hall of mirrors: Will this battle save democracy — or end it? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Even so, these experiences made me feel “different”, but they were not signifiers of my blackness. The beauty industry is still failing black women | Funmi Fetto 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Lopez captures an era in which marriage equality has been secured while gay signifiers have been blandly absorbed by the mainstream. How Matthew Lopez Transformed “Howards End” Into an Epic Play About Gay Life 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Or sometimes it means stripping back some of the obvious signifiers of a kitchen. One-Step Makeover: How a new backsplash can dramatically transform the look of your kitchen 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z It’s more signifier than signified, more symbol than referent. Ninja’s first book isn’t literature — it’s a brand extension 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “It was more hidden with signifiers and coded with connotation, rather than being upfront and transparent like artwork today,” said Barilleaux. Transamerica/n: celebrating the underrepresented history of trans art 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The announcement offers a green light to start layering the unborn person with signifiers: to plan outfits and decorate rooms, to imagine bonding rituals, to project your own insecurities and unfulfilled longings. When Gender Reveal Videos Go Spectacularly, Cathartically Wrong 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z As an impartial BBC journalist, Gardner avoids the usual Boris signifiers in characterising his hapless politician, but there’s a discernible relish to the descriptions of his humiliations when held captive. Prose and cons: Boris Johnson’s long history of fictional cameos 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Against this background, women-only spaces are a powerful visual signifier of change, positioning women as symbols of the new Saudi Arabia. An 'oasis' for women? Inside Saudi Arabia’s vast new female-only workspaces 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Pandemonium at VidCon is generally a good signifier of what people actually care about. TikTok took over VidCon, and YouTube is next 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z They’re very aware that they’re disseminating signifiers — products they believe would signal things about African identity to people in African American communities. Artist Rashid Johnson is preparing for two major museum shows on one leg 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Even the old pink-or-blue shorthand has given way to amped-up gender signifiers and strangely lurid themes, like “Rifles or Ruffles?” and “Guns or Glitter?” When Gender Reveal Videos Go Spectacularly, Cathartically Wrong 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z You don’t wonder about the wearer’s intent, her deep-seated feelings about cultural signifiers. Editorials from around New England 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z When I was ranting to a friend about how infantilising these toddler-esque signifiers are, they suggested that maybe I’m not a visual person. Why I hate emojis | Suzanne Moore 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Plus, if nothing else, one of the greatest benefits to “Deadwood: The Movie” is revisiting a series that carries signifiers of a different yet equally wide-open time on television. Review: ‘Deadwood: The Movie’ marches bittersweetly to the brutal beat of time 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s about what the materials and signifiers say. Artist Rashid Johnson is preparing for two major museum shows on one leg 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z But there was an ugliness in what became a narrative arms race, with its own clichés; for creators, merely showing violent misogyny, however shoddily, sometimes seemed to double as a signifier of artistic seriousness. TV’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z As for the desert kingdom of Agrabah, it has become a glittering cornucopia of Arab cultural signifiers, overflowing with confetti and flowers, jewels and spices. Review: While far from vital, ‘Aladdin’ isn’t the disastrous Disney-Will Smith remake you feared 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The school building is being recommissioned by Seattle Public Schools to accommodate population growth, in yet another signifier of the city’s rapid change. Nordic Museum’s success validates vision 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z A show of paintings and drawings by Pecou, rendered in a bright color palette, explore the signifiers of trap music, including lyrics, fashion and attitude, all mixed with elements of African spirituality. Datebook: Painter June Edmonds imagines flags inspired by black history 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z So a lot of the signifiers and materials I work with speak to that global distress. Artist Rashid Johnson is preparing for two major museum shows on one leg 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Moreover, Bengalis still cue their gender in myriad ways other than pronouns; women are still looked down upon for having feminine signifiers. Actually, We Should Not All Use They/Them Pronouns 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z A new show of paintings and drawings by Pecou, rendered in a bright color palette, explore the signifiers of trap music, including lyrics, fashion and attitude, all mixed with elements of African spirituality. Datebook: Daniel Gerwin puts parenting on canvas in a new show at River gallery 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z “The unfortunate reality is that there are not many unions left in the garment industry and so the name was cultivated as a signifier of well-made and aesthetically timeless goods,” explains a spokesperson. Don't be fooled: Joe Biden is no friend of unions | Gabriel Winant 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z “The gun is a signifier, a symbol — a very real and ugly symbol, but still a symbol in a poetic matrix,” Wright said. Chekhov’s gun control: Seattle directors wrestle with staging violence in the age of mass shootings 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The resolution points to potential models in New Zealand and Alaska, which both created signifiers that indigenous people may place on their art as a mark of authenticity. Who owns aloha? Hawaii eyes protections for native culture 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Paris is habitually a signifier for the secular world of romance and adventure, so using the cathedral more explicitly is not an obvious choice. Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z She is both a relic of a yearned-for past and a signifier of a desired future. All hail Michelle Obama: like Beyoncé, she has fully upstaged her husband | Yomi Adegoke 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z As Africans, hair is one of the main signifier of our race and speaks directly to our identity and status. Fighting 'uniform hairstyles' in Kenya 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z But he’s still wrapped in Gen X signifiers. Perspective | Beto O’Rourke is a walking, talking Generation X cliche 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z For instance, the idea of turning the "OK" gesture into a white nationalist signifier was floated in early 2017. Decoding alt-right violence in Christchurch 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z He’s a comedy signifier, most famously lampooned by Will Ferrell on “Saturday Night Live” for many years, but he also seems to be in on the joke. Opinion | Ken Jennings: What Alex Trebek Is Really Like 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z "Thug" functions as a powerful signifier and object in America's collective subconscious. Who are the real thugs in America? Right-wing terror and the Trump era 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z In the opening minutes, the signifiers seem scrambled, as though in a nightmare. Revisiting the American Nazi Supporters of “A Night at the Garden” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The way in which race and thinking about race, signifiers of race, open immediately onto theatricalizing of race, performance of it, by crossing over to put on blackface. Ralph Northam and the History of Blackface 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Roitfeld poured all of her personal style preferences and signifiers — double-breasted cuts for coats; muted colors; liquid fabrics — into an eponymous collection she did for Japanese fashion chain Uniqlo in 2015. Karl Lagerfeld taps Carine Roitfeld for his brand 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z They are signifiers of a “loss of a national ‘we’ and national control — all the things we’ve seen erupt in a huge way.” Opinion | The Real Wall Isn’t at the Border 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Pretty soon, there were jackdaws all over the place, with their schizophrenic late-capitalist accelerated signifiers. Does Journalism Have a Future? 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z A small change, perhaps, but a signifier that Mr. Pollard fully belonged to the ranks of New York’s Bravest. A Funeral for a Young Firefighter on the Cusp of ‘His Dream’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Calling him “Dr. Quantum Optics,” University of Rochester physicist Joseph H. Eberly described Dr. Glauber as “the signifier for an entire field.” Roy Glauber, Nobel-winning physicist who applied quantum mechanics to optics, dies at 93 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Let’s wait and see, huh, but safe to say the result of today’s visit to Cardiff City shouldn’t be treated as much of a signifier in the grand scheme of things. Cardiff City v Manchester United: Premier League – live! 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Though many nonreligious Chinese celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday, she said the ban on Christmas displays reflects “increased hostility” toward signifiers of Western culture and Western values. Chinese City Bans Christmas Displays Amid Religious Crackdown 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Ten years on from its unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia, Kosovo is still lacking many of the signifiers of statehood. The army dreamers enraging their Balkan neighbours 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The Kennedys, a family of wealthy patricians and politicians with a home on the Cape and all the rest of the cultural signifiers of the Wasp élite, were Irish Catholics. How Not to Mourn the Aristocracy 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Be careful, though, because whether you drove, flew or took the train, the conversation could easily veer into a debate between cousins about whether the way cars function as a signifier of wealth is problematic. Opinion | Safe Topics to Discuss This Holiday Season 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Not just because of its conspicuous size and weight but because it seemed like a signifier for visions of tranquillity from bygone times. Reconsidering the Harp 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z In August, Northampton’s branch of Marks & Spencer, the department store that is a quiet signifier of British middle-class respectability, closed down. Britain’s Austerity Has Officially Ended—and Yet It’s Still Going 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z One such spot, at Ernutet crater, showed signs of organic molecules—common in the outer solar system and not a signifier of life. After visits with Vesta and Ceres, asteroid-exploring Dawn spacecraft is about to go dark 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z It stands as an important signifier of the starting point of African American history. Melania Trump visits Ghana slave fort 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z In Japan, many critics saw the rise of dating sims as a signifier of alienation, a retreat from human relationships in a machine-mediated society. Can you fall in love with a scripted robot? A growing number of app gamers are 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z It’s easy to dismiss those signifiers as demographic cliches, but in this case, they are more than mere consumer choices. Inside the manipulative, tricky, devious, world-saving plan of the Environmental Voter Project 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Though the signifier denoted biracial individuals with one white parent and one black parent, it was grouped—along with any individual with even “one drop” of black blood—in the category with black populations. What Role Should Race Play in Medicine? 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z But what is important, whatever the name, is that “democracy” is the signifier around which these struggles are articulated, and that political liberal institutions are not discarded. Populists are on the rise but this can be a moment for progressives too | Chantal Mouffe 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Indeed, we largely consider insects dirty and drawn to decay, signifiers and carriers of disease; we call them pests, a word whose Latin root means plague. Why Aren’t We Eating More Insects? 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The artist has built a fantastical immersive environment inside the museum’s Grand Avenue location inspired by aspects of Afrofuturism and colloquial signifiers of black identity — a clever reimagining of the white cube. Datebook: Lavish life in Renaissance courts, a history of body ink and unseen Irving Penn 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z He sees restitution of objects taken during the colonial era as a crucial step in that evolution: The objects are signifiers of stolen pasts. European museums may loan back some works stolen from former colonies 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The artist has built a fantastical immersive environment inside the museum’s Grand Avenue location inspired by aspects of Afrofuturism and colloquial signifiers of black identity — a wry reimagining of the white cube. Datebook: Full-moon performances inspired by gender, the art of transformation, hallucinatory dance 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z It didn’t cost much, and I intended to wear it on Halloween — a signifier, I hoped, of Bob Dylan circa “Blonde on Blonde.” Letter of Recommendation: Used Clothing 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z For many years, it was also — in the eyes of some of its fans, though by no means all — a social signifier. In Russia’s Archives, a Soccer History Cloaked in Contradictions 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Brand names pop up as cultural signifiers, as do the movies and TV programs that the narrator watches over and over during moments of wakefulness. A young pill popper sleepwalks through a ‘Year of Rest and Relaxation’ 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The artist has built a fantastical immersive environment inside the museum’s Grand Avenue location inspired by aspects of Afrofuturism and colloquial signifiers of black identity — a wry re-imagining of the white cube. Datebook: Police violence paintings, a gallery's 25th and enduring images of a photojournalist's life 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Pants are associated in Myanmar with Western culture, and are often a signifier of wealth and education. For Rohingya refugees, pants are a status symbol 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z “In an era of shorter attention spans, there’s a greater need for surface-level signifiers that are less and less nuanced,” says JT Nero, one half of the roots duo Birds of Chicago. 'They put us in a little box': how racial tensions shape modern soul music 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z It’s as if the filmmakers are rotely checking off a list of Jurassic Park signifiers, and their apathy is palpable. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a stunning disappointment 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z It took away one of the signifiers of difference between the old guard and the new, and replaced it with an olive branch of similarity. Mark Zuckerberg’s I’m Sorry Suit 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The turtleneck was a “signifier,” harking back to the true original genius, Jobs. The ‘trust me’ theatrics of tech’s T-shirts and turtlenecks 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z But these days, ad agencies are using classical music as more than a jokey device or a signifier of wealth and sophistication. Selling Products With a Swelling Score 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z During the recording of their new album, Franklin found herself trying to avoid those very signifiers. 'They put us in a little box': how racial tensions shape modern soul music 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z |
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