My version of history is a history of caprice, a history of unintended consequences, of horrendous results from very minor antecedents or seemingly minor antecedents.
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And her style is nearly as invigorating as its antecedents.
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Trump's assassination of Soleimani, of course, has its own antecedents.
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What would you say are the most important of those antecedents?
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Why are these cultural antecedents so essential to supporting liberal democracy?
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There was no connection to slavery in any of these historical antecedents.
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As all music videos, "Thief" by Ansel Elgort has some artistic antecedents.
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The two historical antecedents of the past half-century offer conflicting messages.
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The infrastructure of 5G costs far more than that of its antecedents.
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Its antecedents are in the ideas of Franklin Roosevelt, not Karl Marx.
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She notes that Tyson's apology shares some noticeable qualities with its antecedents.
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Yet art never exists outside its context of conventions, traditions, and antecedents.
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But it was given as a nod to his own Welsh antecedents.
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RD: If we're looking at religious antecedents, I don't think that's a halo.
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This is an old story, with plenty of antecedents in religion and politics.
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I know that a lot of the political maneuverings in your world have historical antecedents.
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Indeed, some commentators found parallels between the vote on Sunday and its Soviet-era antecedents.
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Dr. Kazdin promotes a program called the ABCs, which stands for antecedents, behaviors and consequences.
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But, when you survey Mitski's four studio albums, a more diverse constellation of antecedents emerges.
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But he was also steeped in its antecedents: Toho monster films, Voltron, decades of sci-fi.
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Entrepreneurs, motivated by the prospect of monopoly profits, invent and commercialise products that trounce their antecedents.
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Its antecedents in the operetta and music hall traditions had largely passed out of pop consciousness.
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The ordering of Trump's antecedents is chillingly clear and willfully kooky, at least at first glance.
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But in its unilateral demolition of its antecedents, it also arrogates to itself the terms of debate.
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In fact, Burckhardt had been crafting the work for months, and had predicated it on two antecedents.
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Of course, historical antecedents play a role in the way in which our nation's institutions were formed.
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Andrew Luecke, a co-author of the recent book "Cool: Style, Sound, and Subversion," sees other antecedents.
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Jace Clayton—a musician, writer, and cultural critic—is fascinated by these digital dynamics and their analog antecedents.
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For a disruptive technology, blockchain managed to capture the imagination of investors shockingly early compared to its antecedents.
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Mr. Scorsese's contribution is notable for exuding a sinister quality akin to the Weimar antecedents of film noir.
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This is alarming, particularly among the poor, who often don't have birth certificates to prove their citizenship antecedents.
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His rounded Munna chair in rich slate-colored velvet pays homage to its antecedents while veering deliberately off course.
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The music will include zydeco along with its antecedents and influences from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and Southeast Asia.
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Like The Handmaid's Tale and its antecedents, we're asked to suspend our disbelief in favor of the book's political project.
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Although they may not look like the robots we envisioned, smart speakers do have antecedents in our cultural fantasy life.
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No manner of interesting new characters with no antecedents (Vice-Admiral Holdo; the hacker known as DJ) will prevent that.
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" Even the kind of stories that Stokes, Ramey and Rader are pushing out has antecedents in television programs like "Man vs.
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One sees pre-Minimalism, Post-Minimalism, post-Post-Minimalism, its antecedents, offshoots, and contemporaries as it unfolds over two main sites.
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The new nails are, like their more conspicuous antecedents, long and absent of cuticles, but their shape and shade is softer.
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Watching it for the first time (it's a movie I intend to see at least once more), I recognized certain antecedents.
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But none of these antecedents properly sets the tone for the way 1003 gecs rifles through ideas — rapidly, wantonly, chaotically, vividly.
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Joe Louis was born in Alabama, and was meant to have had white and Cherokee antecedents as well as African-American heritage.
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Like its finest antecedents, it wrings tears from its romance and thrills from a steadfast belief in old-fashioned, big-feeling cinema.
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But this phrasing assumes discontinuity between past and present, as if there weren't antecedents to Donald Trump in the recent Republican past.
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"Basically a lot of what you see becoming manifest in alt-right philosophy today has antecedents in Dixon's writing," Mr. Reece said.
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Here is a description from the article: Dr. Kazdin promotes a program called the ABCs, which stands for antecedents, behaviors and consequences.
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In many ways "Skull Island" looks and plays like its antecedents, despite the cosmetic tweaks, digital effects and attempts at inclusive casting.
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Many values I hold dear and see as key, nonnegotiable parts of who I am have clear antecedents in my childhood environment.
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The most recent variation on the theme, which ran in The Wall Street Journal one week ago, resembles its antecedents in many ways.
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Having dug into gun culture and its antecedents and related factors so deeply, how encouraged are you by post-Parkland gun-control activism?
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And the legislative oversight's historical antecedents stretch back even further, beyond the Enlightenment in the late 22019's through the early 1800's.
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There are antecedents: a few years ago, L.G.B.T. activists went after Chick-fil-A after its president voiced his opposition to gay marriage.
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Historical antecedents include representations in shunga, Japanese erotica that once doubled as sex education for newlyweds, and Japan's version of the Kama Sutra, Shijuhatte.
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If you've never had to contend for anything, you're unlikely to think of these protest movements, or their historical antecedents, when responding to Trumpism.
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" 'Laughing' Rats and the Evolutionary Antecedents of Human Joy?" published in 2003 in Physiology & Behavior, reported that rats would emit ultrasonic calls when tickled.
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As with many areas of his chaotic life, the new prime minister's spiritual antecedents, and his present convictions, are a bundle of contrasts and confusion.
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Snap not only fell behind historical antecedents' results but fell under the already low bar that investors set for it, regarding sequential revenue growth consistency.
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It envisages a level of state intervention in previously private industry—either directly, or through forced co-operativisation—that has few antecedents in modern democracies.
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My first blush with a real Ferrari came more than 15 years ago, in a 360 Modena, one of the direct antecedents of the 3603.
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First, while Silicon Valley and other tech regions enjoy a mostly ahistorical outlook, the antecedents of the world are always brimming just beneath the surface.
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First, he doesn't tend to handcuff together unrelated cuisines that have nothing in common except a continent; most of his dishes have discernibly Chinese antecedents.
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You hike backward along his snaking sentences, searching for antecedents to distant pronouns, while experiencing vague terrors, as if you should leave a trail of breadcrumbs.
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" Exhibit C: "We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion.
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While the tech has antecedents going back to the digital gold of the 1990s, we can start the clock with the launch of Bitcoin in 2009.
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But whether that will meaningfully resonate with buyers — whether they will take the time to read the labels and consider the antecedents and implications — is unclear.
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Darryl Pinckney's second novel, "Black Deutschland" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), too, sends its gay narrator abroad, and it, too, has a watchful apprehension of its literary antecedents.
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Watchful, bookish Cat and reckless, alluring Marlena have plenty of literary and pop cultural antecedents, but Buntin, through closely observed detail, makes these two her own.
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The exhibition — which thus became an archeological study of historical and contemporary cults — laid bare the historical antecedents of global fascist and racist policies plainly reemergent. KULT!
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That might lead to a different kind of dystopia (also with historical antecedents): one in which fast, functional transport is available only to those who can pay.
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In their basic trope of the individual confronting terrible power, one of their most striking antecedents is "Tank Man," from June 5, 1989, near Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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Even the seafood corn dog has antecedents in Seoul, although Insa hasn't yet copied the impressive Korean idea of incorporating French fries right into a corn dog.
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Matta and Neo-Popists like Kenny Scharf, who is also in the show, are direct antecedents to the scrappy, catch-all Surrealism that dominates much contemporary painting.
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The bicycle is a bridge of sorts, connecting today's residents to their antecedents, the immigrants to their native-born neighbors, and Mr. Maialetti to his artistic predecessors.
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They have antecedents in the work of Alexander McQueen, 1990s club kids, Cindy Sherman (currently posting eerie self-portraits on her own Instagram account) and Lady Gaga.
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He plays in a style guided closely by his antecedents — Ben Webster, Sonny Rollins, Branford Marsalis — but it's personal and steadfast enough to establish its own convictions.
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The group has antecedents in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, where its early followers traded shots with Nazis in the 1930s and fought against Benito Mussolini's Blackshirts.
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For the artists, architects and writers in this absolutely engrossing book, the "year without a summer" two centuries ago offers cultural antecedents for our present climate crisis.
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But this was still a WWE employee interviewing a WWE employee about events at WWE and its antecedents; it happened before a WWE ceremony, on the WWE Network.
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The committee and its antecedents have slowly gained powers over the past few decades since the Korean War, but this week, it suddenly gained a whole lot more.
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" Marshall therefore finds it curious that in discussions of Thomas's work amongst curators, "no black antecedents seem to arise as potential influences on the development of her style.
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For almost 70 years, the U.S. created and nurtured the WTO and its antecedents, seeking to draw all countries into this system, with its rules and arbitration bodies.
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His literary antecedents are to be found in the pages of Bram Stoker, with perhaps a nod toward Peter Ackroyd, but ultimately the book is all his own.
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According to Roberta Smith, writing in The New York Times: […] the assemblages tend to look dated, like exuberantly nihilistic juvenilia, although I suppose they are credible antecedents of goth.
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These historical antecedents are ugly and dangerous and give rise to the deepest level of concern to those of us who know this history and see the rising dangers.
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There have been some fits and starts around these issues (and there are also some historical antecedents for this idea), but what they require now is leadership and vision.
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"Bitcoin is not a bubble, albeit it has all the hallmarks and antecedents that are the precursor to a bubble," he said in an email to CNBC on Monday.
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Dylan is vague about his antecedents and birthplace, but it matters less where he has been than where he is going, and that would seem to be straight up.
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Before cabin porn and van life were hashtags on Instagram, before tiny houses were a movement, Mr. Kahn, now 2000, was the indefatigable champion of their funky, D.I.Y. antecedents.
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Their immediate antecedents are Mr. Blair and Bill Clinton, politicians who first realized the value of speaking in moral imperatives while presenting the rational cool of a business executive.
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And yet the show's most important themes — migration, debt, fraying European unity and the historical antecedents of today's populism and intolerance — are ones Athenians have reckoned with for years.
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For her, much more so than these eminent antecedents, a sense of apartness grows into a suffocating sense of irreversible damnation, a sentence on which she deliberates over and over.
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Like his Democratic antecedents, O'Connor has outraised his opponent in campaign cash, deploying that advantage early on TV ads burnishing his centrist bona fides: He tied himself to Republican Gov.
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This was of ancient vintage even at the time that the Constitution was drafted — it has biblical antecedents and pervades the British common law that underlay what became U.S. law.
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Elwyn L. Simons, an intrepid scientist known as the father of modern primate paleontology for his discovery of some of humankind's earliest antecedents, died on March 6 in Peoria, Ariz.
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There continues to be interest in the mysteries surrounding Jeanne LaMarr, which revolve not only around her boxing career and her murky antecedents, but, of course, her nephew's mysterious death.
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But for its true antecedents you have to search further back in the superhero timeline, to Lorenzo Semple Jr.'s stylish and self-aware "Batman" series from the late '60s.
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It turns out that the psychology of that is very similar across all these different contexts, antecedents and the consequence of the trade-offs that they provide for groups and individuals.
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It was only as a by-product of this miraculous act that "the Jewish people" could lay claim to their biblical antecedents, and so could lay claim to their biblical lands.
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"Al Di Qua" has other antecedents, too, from Lionel Rogosin's "On the Bowery" (1957) to the Fontainhas films of Pedro Costa — all movies about poverty that combine fiction and documentary elements.
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The designer had pulled the rug out from under the critics, including this one, who had balked last September at his Celine debut and accused him of not acknowledging his antecedents.
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Therefore, I've chosen to adopt the singular "they" when teaching about pronouns and antecedents, and I remind students to allow the use of the singular "they" when peer-editing, as well.
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Asked about the historical echoes, Peter Gelb, the Met's current general manager, said in a telephone interview that it was somewhat reassuring to see that there were antecedents for such mishaps.
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The neurotransmitters that mediate emotion, awareness, and the creation of meaning are amines—such as serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine—which evolved from the same molecular antecedents as many plant-messenger molecules.
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But it's also a bewildering viewing experience, one best undertaken armed with a bit of knowledge regarding gothic horror antecedents and strong commitment to rattling your psyche and grossing you out.
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This is the danger of being such a good visual producer: the stories become all we want to see, and their antecedents lose their grip on our feelings and our political will.
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It was this common thread of religion, Biblical archaeology, and an genealogy that in part piqued the interest of those back home who wished to see antecedents of Christianity in the region.
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Though they looked loyal to their antecedents almost to a fault (both house and historical time period), the heaviness had been leeched out of the garments by the skills of the atelier.
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Flattening current events into a stream means living in a perpetual present, where events are disconnected from their antecedents and where history is counted in minutes and days rather than in months and years.
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Haydn is often called the father of the string quartet, and even if some musicologists have cast doubt on his paternity by pointing to antecedents, his importance in creating the form cannot be overstated.
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Ninja skills were already part of the martial arts for hundreds of years, beginning in earnest in 15th Century Feudal Japan with its antecedents being traced back to the 12th Century (thank you, Wikipedia!).
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And with Rio's Refettorio (or dining hall, with antecedents in Milan and Bologna, and a dreamed-of future sibling in the Bronx), he is taking on world hunger in a classically Bottura-ish way.
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While Duan and Moss may view transformativeness as the new black of fair use, examination of the actual fossil record reveals a high degree of inventiveness in connection with their claim about historical antecedents.
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Once in the Gulag, he is accused, after standing in for the company commander, of an "inappropriately convivial approach to work," which is seen as being due to his non-proletarian ("petty bourgeois") social antecedents.
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But the advent of multiracial democracy in the Southern states inspired a wave of terrorist opposition by the Ku Klux Klan and kindred groups, antecedents of the Klansmen and neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville.
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In a recent study I published with the Task Force along with a team of graduate students, we examined antecedents, consequences, and antecedent-behavior-consequence patterns that occur around student verbal aggression directed toward teachers.
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This tendency can be frustrating — and one begins to suspect it is a crutch, since our current spate of anarchists, populists and terrorists are so much less theoretically minded and articulate than their antique antecedents.
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"I am certain that I have never covered up or obstructed justice and I will comply with my responsibilities as a citizen to provide all of the antecedents necessary to get to the truth," Ezzati said.
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Antoinette Nwandu's solution in this searing drama is to weld the story of two black youths in a city like Chicago to spiritual antecedents including enslaved African-Americans, biblical Israelites and Beckett's hobos Vladimir and Estragon.
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Jobs guarantee proponents themselves are fond of citing the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps programs as antecedents of their thinking, but these programs fell short of offering a universal employment guarantee.
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It's got cinematic antecedents — the "creation of BOB" sequence reminded me of the lengthy creation of the universe sequence from The Tree of Life, and there are shades of 2001: A Space Odyssey in there as well.
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The first, at Tate Modern, explores Mr Tillmans's more recent experimental work, from his dramatic colour abstractions to his still lifes of kiwi fruit lobsters and cigarettes, which owe a debt to their 17th-century Dutch antecedents.
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The radical newspapers of the late '60s weren't entirely new: antecedents abound, from the underground correspondence of the American Revolution to the abolitionist newspapers of the 19th century to the workers' papers of the 2313s and '30s.
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But there is something instructive in the fact that, in the 20th century, Modern architects — from Bruno Taut and Frank Lloyd Wright to Walter Gropius — toured Japan and discovered, or so they thought, the antecedents of Modern architecture.
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At any moment, elements of these antecedents may erupt through the skin of the modern tale, as if to say that the current crisis for young black men is a tragedy too big for one era to encompass.
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Whether or not they made the connection, upwardly mobile shoppers around the world have most likely consumed one or more of the following, all arguably with antecedents in the bougie back streets of Sydney or Melbourne: Designer denim.
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Despite the series heading, Lock's novel engages not merely with his American antecedents but with decadent fin de siècle art and modernist literature that raised philosophical and moral questions about the metaphysical relations among art, science and human consciousness.
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What distinguishes "The End of Eddy" from its autofictional antecedents is the urgency with which Louis seeks to separate himself from his previous self, a desire so intense that the novel can be seen as a kind of wake.
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Molineaux's antecedents are the story of legend, as Brian Phillips revealed in his essay, "A Fighter Abroad," but what is best known about the man comes from our friend, Pierce Egan, and his tireless coverage of Regency-era boxing.
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To the extent that he has antecedents, it's figures like the myth-theorist Joseph Campbell and the poet Robert Bly, whose "Men's Movement" in the 1990s was a Jungian stew concocted as an antidote to fatherlessness and extended adolescence.
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Philippot is an architect of the attempt to rebrand the party by shedding its Fascist, anti-Semitic antecedents (Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine's father, called the Holocaust "a detail" of history) and replacing it with France-first economic nationalism.
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This uncommon conception of aesthetic assemblage offers a suggestive vantage point from which to contemplate its historical antecedents, from Picasso's incorporation of objects such as newspapers onto canvases, to Robert Rauschenberg's combines, to Arte Povera's quotidian repurposings, and beyond.
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And it is one that leaves its mark on Mexico City to this day in the form of apartment buildings and grand private homes — neocolonial structures whose immediate design antecedents lie not in Mexico, but, ironically, in the United States.
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To Western rock fans their clearest antecedents are Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai, two bands principle songwriter Ilwoo Lee is happy to claim as influences, in addition to Black Sabbath and Metallica, but the group's Korean roots run deep.
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And so, while Makonnen is a distinctly 21st-century artist, saturated with information at all hours of the day, he quickly synthesized all of it (street rap, 80s pop, slinking R&B) into a sound that has few clear antecedents.
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He shows its origins in the special Parisian artistic world where cabaret culture and circus met high art; reveals compelling antecedents in toys that Calder would have known as a kid; and then documents the circus's return to actual toy-making.
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For their part, the House managers prosecuting the case have made their arguments in mostly legal terms — beginning with constitutional language, history and antecedents; drawing on impeachment precedent; marching through the evidence of the president's conduct, in sometimes excruciating detail.
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" Muldoon demurred, saying that the narrative voice at that point wasn't purely Conroy's, and that Joyce was summoning a blizzard of historical antecedents, including the Bret Harte novel "Gabriel Conroy," whose action begins in 1848, with the words "Snow. Everywhere.
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In this movie, the theater and the living quarters above it are occupied by a dysfunctional bohemian family whose artistic and sociological antecedents go back to the 1936 Kaufman and Hart comedy "You Can't Take It With You," if not further.
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In this movie, the theater and the living quarters above it are occupied by a dysfunctional bohemian family whose artistic and sociological antecedents go back to the 1936 Kaufman and Hart comedy "You Can't Take It With You," if not further.
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The collages of the Russian Constructivists, particularly Aleksandr Rodchenko and Liubov Popova, which both link and contrast the curved surfaces and contours of the human machine to the angularity of modern technology, are not-so-distant antecedents of these stirring works.
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"A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey" is the title song of her new album, and with its six-beat pulse it is at once African, Minimalistic, percussive and rootsy — aware of its antecedents and not daunted by them.
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With a few outstanding exceptions, like "Tick-Tock Jelly Clock Cosmotron," which features a colorful game board and its own scratching, wheezing audio accompaniment, the assemblages tend to look dated, like exuberantly nihilistic juvenilia, although I suppose they are credible antecedents of goth.
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Unlike some of his antecedents in the realm of immaterial art — such as John Baldessari and Joseph Kosuth, who were interested in meaning rather than product — Sehgal does not avoid objects as some kind of Marxist gesture aimed at critiquing the art market.
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According to Nick Reisman, a reporter for Spectrum News, among the numerous visual antecedents of Cuomo's design was a 1900s campaign illustration for Nebraska politician William Jennings Bryan, known as the "Bryan Octopus" for its characterization of big corporations as a greedy cephalopod.
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Whatever their ideological antecedents, and however little sympathy they might have for Islam, the staunch Republican conservatives who sit on the USCIRF are obliged ex officio to stand up for oppressed Muslims in China and, say, Myanmar; that is more than many Muslim governments do.
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When: November 10, 2017–January 6, 2019 Where: National Museum of the American Indian (1 Bowling Green, Financial District, Manhattan) While contemporary Native art practices are often characterized in terms of their traditional antecedents, the 10 artists featured here explore indigenous issues via new media.
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In the same way as antecedents for Donald Trump can be found in Roman tribunes and Nazi demagogues but not in any previous American president, you will search the historical record in vain for persuasive evidence confuting that nihilism in this country is something new.
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If Mr. Marlantes wishes to address the negative effects of Vietnam, he needs to look to the antecedents in the cynical behavior of the political elites of both parties as they dragged their feet in responding to the civil rights struggles in this country.
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The name is often translated into English as "the science of healing," and the present form of the discipline's founding text, "The Four Tantras," is attributed by many Western scholars to a 12th-century Tibetan physician, with antecedents stretching to the eighth century or earlier.
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" In his writing about burnout, Cohen is careful to note that it has antecedents; "melancholic world-weariness," as he puts it, is noted in the book of Ecclesiastes, diagnosed by Hippocrates, and endemic to the Renaissance, a symptom of bewilderment with the feeling of "relentless change.
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As they report this week in Nature, there are animals now scampering around cages in their laboratory whose maternal antecedents are egg cells derived not from the ovaries of their mothers, but from body cells (known as somatic cells), in this case from those mothers' tails.
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When access to the face is denied, our attention is heightened and we see everything else more clearly — the landscape, which is a character in itself, the body which absorbs and expresses the landscape and every circumstance, each gesture reflecting the antecedents and playing out histories.
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It evokes the Old Masters whom Kerry James Marshall remixes throughout his many large, narrative paintings of black figures both contemporary and historic, as well as his mastering of that history — his ability to not simply refer to those antecedents, but to claim his place among them.
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Rather, we can trace its antecedents to the funky, shaped, theatrical, baroque canvases of Elizabeth Murray and Frank Stella in the 1980s, both of whom had major exhibitions in New York in the past two years, at Pace Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art, respectively.
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If that belief has plenty of historical antecedents — from Helenio Herrera of Inter Milan to Matt Busby of Manchester United — then it has found its greatest modern expression in Guardiola, designer of the first truly great team of the 43st century, the Barcelona of 2008-2012.
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Green rooftops have some historical antecedents in the city: The Ansonia, on the Upper West Side, kept 3003 chickens on its rooftop farm in the early 20th century, with eggs delivered daily to the tenants, according to "The Sky's the Limit," a book by Steven Gaines.
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Marini is a member of an exotic tribe known as West Coast Straussians: a student of Harry Jaffa, who was a student of the opaque but influential political philosopher Leo Strauss, and who sought to draw out connections between the American republic and its classical antecedents.
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With antecedents in British and European social democracy — the lectures and work of the socialist William Morris, the utopian ideas swirling around the Bauhaus in 1920s Germany positing that design should reflect a society at its most efficient and egalitarian — modern industrial design had a revolutionary mission.
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Though few stores like it existed at the time (10 Corso Como in Milan was the only one) the idea had antecedents in Paris's "Drugstores" of the 60s and 70s—the city's first 24-hour shops, where one could eat and buy books as well as pick up medicine.
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"One of the oldest and most consistent findings in studies on the correlates and antecedents of porn use is that people who are more religious tend to watch pornography less often," Samuel Perry, the study's author and an assistant professor of sociology and religious studies at the university, told Broadly.
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Ultimately, Simon offers no more queer representation than hyper-mainstream antecedents like Will Truman (Eric McCormack) in Will & Grace, upstanding gay lawyer, or Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) in Philadelphia (1993), upstanding gay lawyer: a poster boy for well-behaved deviance, never forcing straight people to look directly at the boundaries of their world.
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What the intellectuals did not see clearly enough was that Fox News and talk radio and the internet had made right-wing populism more powerful, relative to conservatism's small elite, than it had been during the Nixon or Reagan eras, without necessarily making it more serious or sober than its Bircher-era antecedents.
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If you have championed this kind of art, it probably means that you have aligned yourself with capitalist aesthetics, whose maxim is the more the art resembles the collector — polished surfaces, copies of historical antecedents, efficient production of signature products, spin-offs for the fashion conscious, and egregious profit margins — the better.
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While the chorus rehearsed, the featured act of the evening, the trio Brother Sun, conducted a sound check in the church's Asbury Hall, running through bits and pieces of an eclectic songbook of traditional and original tunes, which drew on Appalachian airs and their Irish antecedents; the music of the church, and the blues.
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The relationships between characters are defined only through slow accretion; the shifts between present time and past time aren't delineated; and antecedents are often so buried that, in certain scenes for example, the reader has to sit for a long time with the text to puzzle out to which female character each pronoun "her" belongs.
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They did not, however, come with the right to drive squad cars, arrest white suspects, conduct investigations or set foot in the main police HQ. Boggs and Smith, like their historical antecedents, may only patrol black neighbourhoods, while some of their white counterparts look for opportunities, real or confected, to discredit or otherwise dispose of them.
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An independent scholar who has lived and worked in the United States since the mid-21999s and has been based in New York for many years, Tomii has focused on the artists and art movements of post-World War II Japan, carefully classifying their evolution and ideas, as well as their constituent parts, antecedents and relevant affinities.
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So while the shapes spoke to couture's ancestral antecedents, with enveloping Poiret-like shawl collars, cocoon and trapeze volumes, molded corseted and peplum skirt suits and lavish bows at the throat (even feathers, lace and brocade), they were realized in entirely counterintuitive fabrics: foam and nylon and what looked like insulation and mattress ticking married to organza and tulle.
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Some of the more prominent antecedents to Stonewall include the 1959 trans and sex worker-led riot at Cooper's Do-nuts in Los Angeles; the 1965 civil rights-inspired sit-in and protests led by gender non-conforming teenagers at Dewey's Lunch Counter in Philadelphia; and the trans and sex worker-led riot of 1966 at San Francisco's Compton's Cafeteria.
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On the Runway Vetements, the upstart collective built on a combination of elevated grit and Martin Margiela antecedents that has become the darling of French fashion, has proved influential in any number of ways, inciting a renaissance in the industry's fascination with street style and the exaggerated silhouette that culminated in one of its founders, Demna Gvasalia, being named artistic director of Balenciaga.
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Hugh Ryan was inspired to write "When Brooklyn Was Queer," his boisterous, motley new history, when, a few years ago, he set up an amateur museum of local queer history in his Bushwick loft — he prefers the term "queer" for its chronological sweep and denotation of gender and sexual nonconformity — and noticed that queers in Brooklyn today know little about their antecedents.
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Some members of the cast of "The Inheritance," Lopez's six-and-a-half-hour doubleheader about the AIDS generation and its antecedents and successors, are so young that the Broadway production — after a world premiere in London last year — asked that battle-scarred survivor Edmund White to attend a rehearsal and answer questions as if to provide proof that the gay past exists.
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Aside from some flame-red leather motorcycle pants worn with a houndstooth blazer, it tipped a bit too far into Shakespearean re-enactment territory — at least until a gold-embroidered evening skirt with a simple silk blouse, molded red velvet trouser suit and series of gold-and-glass embroidered gowns tore free of the heavy hand, and fabrics, of their more costume-y antecedents.
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At a time when challenging gender stereotypes is the watch-phrase of the day, the show on Wednesday was the smartest commentary on the subject yet — in part because it turned the issue on its head: Instead of putting men in women's wear, it put women in men's wear, simultaneously underscoring how much the antecedents are intertwined and demanding a reassessment of the suit.
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For this reason, in my mind, they're directly linked with Heaton and Cocker, and with no antecedents in guitar music (though there's an argument to be made that there's plenty of similarly elevated ordinariness in the UK's other great love, grime), it seems fair, almost ten years since their break-up, to memorialise them as what they are: British rock's last great kitchen sink dramatists.
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