But every chip knocked out of the firmament of journalism matters.
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Of classics, there are, in the cinematic firmament, a finite number.
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Sure, he'd been around forever, a fixed star in the celebrity firmament.
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Sanders' travel is emblematic of his odd place in the political firmament.
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Mr. Rich's death has now become lodged firmly in the conspiracy firmament.
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So yes, he plays a huge role in the Republican finance firmament.
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Hugely politically astute, Elizabeth Tudor remains the star in this female firmament.
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There has even been some conflicting commentary in the Fox News firmament.
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Bartlet at times shows existential angst over his place in the party firmament.
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His personality reflects his dual life in New York's political and legal firmament.
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Devils have set up shop in the firmament, trading in a commodified soul.
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The first time a star in the twinkling firmament of Hollywood was snuffed out.
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His strong recent debut album, "Aria," reflects his unfaltering foothold in the jazz firmament.
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They are like meteors blazing across our political firmament at a moment in time.
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In the grunge-rock firmament, Mr. Dando was supposed to be Mr. Cobain's opposite.
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Five years ago, Mr. Spurr was an ascendant star in the city's fashion firmament.
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Founded in 1911, SNC-Lavalin is a crown jewel in the Quebec corporate firmament.
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Still, the Klarsfelds see at least one bright star in an otherwise pretty dark firmament.
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It's a remarkable feat, really, given the California Democrat's place in the national political firmament.
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All the while, there has been Kelsea Ballerini, unflashily etching herself into the Nashville firmament.
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The night one gold star shookloose from blue firmament, I learnedthey were neither star nor blue.
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She shared a firmament with others, but had for a long time no ground of her
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Although the stars didn't align, we agreed on baseball and on Brahms's place in the firmament.
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Shades of conservatism aside, the alt-right are cultural rebels and nationalists whose firmament is the Internet.
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Attendees and organizers here have struggled at times to define where Trump fits in the conservative firmament.
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And not a new title with Myst heritage — Cyan announced its new VR game Firmament last week.
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All of which would have been enough to seal Shepard's name indelibly in the nation's cultural firmament.
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Yet the fullback—and the power running game—still had a place in the league's offensive firmament.
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It clarifies the artist's position in the firmament of aesthetic pioneers like Bridget Riley and Alexander Calder.
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Experts in Washington's foreign policy firmament have raised concerns that future presidency would be catastrophic for Asia.
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The Golden Monkey wrathfully swung his massive cudgel And the jade-like firmament was cleared of dust.
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But Mr. Butler said there was also room for the Clintons in the firmament of Democratic political heroes.
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So yeah, that was what I wanted to get across in profiling the members of that cultish firmament.
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It was his and his alone, an incandescent umbilicus connecting this seven-year-old boy to the firmament.
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Thus does Jennifer Lawrence reach down from the firmament and bless projects she's not even remotely involved in.
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The deeper question is whether Apple can keep its place as the North Star of the tech firmament.
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A profanely ornate firmament raining down with the cherubic drug dealers I grew up with in the 1143s.
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He is such a fixture in the Clippers firmament that Angelenos have blended his name with the team's.
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Seeing those connections—and how your own actions fit within the firmament—obliterates the notion that nothing matters.
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As the cultural firmament shifts, he is launching his 330-acre studios and creating more content than ever.
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It took some tinkering to get these policies right, but they eventually became part of the Salesforce firmament.
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Some 150 of them dot the Earth, sniffing the air and reporting the carbon content of the local firmament.
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Foul soul, falling from Thy firmament to utter destruction: not seeking aught through the shame, but the shame itself!
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"Firmament" (1913) zooms through the universe at hyperspeed, combining known and fictitious planets together into a whirlwind of space.
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Instead of exposing them to the real world and the real night sky, the researchers created an artificial firmament.
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Joe Crowley last month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been touted as the fastest-rising star in the Democratic firmament.
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And it's less to do with his unique proximity to Trump than his place in the Washington political firmament.
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Yet reappraisal of the author's texts in the 1910s and 1920s cemented Melville in the firmament of great American authors.
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For those in Trump's political firmament, however, the damaging revelations in the Mueller report appeared not to exist at all.
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Its most innovative and global technology stars are all privately run, including the "BAT" firmament of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.
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Earlier this month SEC Chair Jay Clayton made a similar statement about Bitcoin and its place in the regulatory firmament.
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To have three films in the cultural firmament at once, he added, is "a game changer" for Oakland's film scene.
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Sketchy or not, the bigger question is whether Jurvetson is planning to become part of the Silicon Valley political firmament.
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The church's prestige and influence has long since declined; in its place, show business and sport supply the celestial firmament.
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A year into their involvement in Mendes's system, what Wolves must establish now is where it sits in this firmament.
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Nobody in the conservative intellectual firmament is going to speak out against her, and no GOP senators will vote against her.
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In the dark days of the early naughts he was a bright spot on the prairie, a star in the firmament.
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It is vast and unbending, reminding us that we are not the lords of the universe, but atoms in the firmament.
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I'm never getting rid of this one named "Firmament RHA" that was shown at the Whitney at Philip Morris in 1995.
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Where astrology offers visual psychedelia, dream states, and oneness with the firmament, other typologies like the IQ arouse the left brain.
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Maybe you're afraid to start a business because you feel you could never compare to the brightest stars in the entrepreneurial firmament.
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Ms Lawrence is by the reckoning of some the biggest star in Hollywood's firmament; Mr Smith held that unofficial title for years.
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In Greenwich, where her family is part of the civic firmament, the topic of her association with Mr. Trump can get touchy.
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"He occupied a unique place in the fashion firmament," Simon Doonan, Barneys New York's creative ambassador-at-large, told the retailer's blog.
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The expedient answer would be to dismiss O'Rourke's telegenic political rise as an anomaly in the firmament of this state's unyielding conservatism.
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Letters Against the Firmament by Sean Bonney (2015) is published by Enitharmon Editions and is available from Amazon and your local independent bookstore.
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To look at the careers of recent MAAC Players of the Year is to understand the conference's place in the broader basketball firmament.
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Both neighborhoods had entered the firmament of the world's hippest urban precincts: "Mexico City's reigning axis of cool," declared GQ Magazine last July.
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From the depths of New York's waterways to the most distant stars in its firmament, this annual celebration offers many adventures for children.
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"This isn&apost schmoozing, but something that will ensure you look as though you&aposre becoming part of the McKinsey firmament," Bingham said.
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So, you're looking at where these restaurants sit in the firmament, where these characters sit, and what the intersection of those things is.
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Alicja Kwade's rooftop commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shrinks the firmament to human scale, questioning the limits of perception in the process.
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The usual gridlock in Washington — and the likelihood of changes in the political firmament after the election — dimmed prospects for a deal in 2975.
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For the better part of a year, Bernie Sanders enjoyed a polite if slightly bemused welcome from the non-radical quarters of the Democratic firmament.
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That plant, a bright spot in the Midwestern manufacturing firmament, will soon be joined by a $53 million Honda investment… in a massive data center.
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So, when I see you in 10 years, we could ... Who of the existing superstar firmament is gonna be a big deal in 10 years?
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The introduction of photography at the Harvard Ovservatory allowed the firmament to be captured on an unprecedented scale on eight by ten-inch glass plates.
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SUCH IS THE PLACE of the Big Apple Circus in the city's cultural firmament that former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has served on its board.
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Leading lights in the firmament of conservative conscience include the dean of conservative columnists, George Will, and former congressman and Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough.
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In the firmament of journalists many of us are blips on the horizon and don't rate a place in even the most meager of constellations.
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Letters Against the Firmament (2015) was Bonney's most expansive book to date, gathering both previously unpublished work and large swatches of The Commons and Happiness.
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A Prada backpack, especially, worn as you walked briskly up Madison Avenue, announced that your place in the firmament of the knowledge-class was secure.
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Endorsed by Goop and Tony Robbins, she's one of the brightest stars in the suspect self-actualization firmament, but she's maintained her sense of seriousness.
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For Children From the depths of New York's waterways to the most distant stars in its firmament, this annual celebration offers many adventures for children.
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To put it another way, Pratt and Russell, who represent two different generations' paradigms of slacker/dude cool, don't quite ascend to the Skywalker-Vader firmament.
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These people helped me speak a new language, and then gave me the tools to tear down the moldy firmament that had long entrapped my beliefs.
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In the past two weeks he has prodded, tweeted and shamed giants of the industrial firmament to align their business decisions with his "America First" ideology.
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To make this somewhat ... You know, most people don't have touchpoints with Goldman Sachs, most people think of it just part of the Wall Street firmament.
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Peskov has worked with Putin for years, and is widely seen as an important member of Russia's political firmament with a close working relationship with Putin.
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The creators' firmament, meanwhile, grows more diverse by the day, intensifying competition but also softening the ironclad gatekeeping laws that governed Hollywood in the late '60s.
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Believers say that technology will dramatically reduce costs of fracking wells, reshaping the financial firmament so that companies can make money, even with low oil prices.
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It's not exactly string theory: The sun is anchored in the firmament by a harpoon attached to a chain, and the moon by gossamer-like threads.
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Both have at times taken a "publish first, fill in the answers — or don't — later" approach, but they held particular, outsider roles in the journalistic firmament.
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This festival, whose home is in the southern city of Galle, has become over the past decade one of the brightest lights in Sri Lanka's cultural firmament.
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And that is a whole level of management of skill sets that you have to have in place on top of the existing firmament that we use.
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Yet for a magazine that predates "The Daily Show", the Onion and "The Simpsons", its impact on the satirical and cultural firmament of 21st century seems minimal.
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Just hours before, the scene looked the same outside of Colette on Rue Saint Honoré in Paris — before that, outside of Firmament on Mitte, Linienstraße in Berlin.
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Afro-Latin music has a reliable foothold in the BRIC JazzFest firmament: One of this year's main headliners, on Friday night, was Eddie Palmieri's Latin Jazz Septet.
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Judge Kavanaugh, a member of the football team and the captain of the basketball team, played a prominent role in Georgetown Prep's firmament in the early 1980s.
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Small boxy marks — dabs from a narrow brush — pace off distances at the sides or sneak into the fields where they sometimes resemble stars in the firmament.
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Much of it depicts God contentedly going about the business of fashioning the firmament and the waters, of creating birds and beasts and, finally, man and woman.
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Peter Mensch, a co-founder of Q Prime, has worked with stadium rock bands since the 1970s, and is candid about the band's place in the firmament.
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Eleven years later Rashad Evans feels as firmly established a part of the UFC firmament as the Octagon itself: one of those figures who's always been there.
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To the extent that he's a thinker at all, it's specifically as a kind of early harbinger of Trump's infusion of protectionism into the conservative ideological firmament.
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Part of the trouble was that despite Barrack's place in the firmament of high society, sources said, he offered none of traditional fundraising relationships that Trump desperately needed.
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At the same time, Silicon Valley's pseudo-statesmen are coming to occupy an odd place in the cultural firmament as quasi-celebrities and sherpas to our uncertain future.
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Two years later, the NRA showed that it's equally willing to protect an Establishment favorite, at least when its own place in the conservative firmament is being challenged.
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For Children It's not exactly string theory: The sun is anchored in the firmament by a harpoon attached to a chain, and the moon by gossamer-like threads.
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The annual State of the Union is the annual gathering of the firmament of our political system, of leaders all directly or indirectly chosen by the American people.
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"What could match the divine purity of a firmament packed densely and deeply with stars — and also wash away the stench of wild dogs haunting a morgue?" he writes.
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Mr. Trump's commanding back-to-back primary wins in two disparate regions of the country have forcefully shaken the Republican firmament out of a prolonged state of self-denial.
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Mr. Hancock is 76, and has long been something like the Polaris of jazz modernism at the piano: an aspirational model, a navigational point, a fixture in the firmament.
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But they arguably lie at the heart of his late œuvre, in which cypresses shake from some primordial upheaval and the firmament boils in the night skies of Provence.
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This is, on one level, hopeful—partially because it presents the notion that there's another purpose to this election cycle besides watching the firmament of democracy burn to ash.
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Because he has remained such a star in the firmament of black arts and letters, there is almost no way for an admirer not to vie with his legend.
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It might, in other words, provide the basis for another pole to emerge in soccer's firmament: not enough to compete with Europe, but to rebalance things just a little.
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For the court's conservative justices, the road to get there puts them on a collision course with the legacy of one of the brightest stars in their ideological firmament.
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That spirit of celebration and encouragement is what makes up Rainbow's firmament, which "Praying" streaks across like a bolt of furious lightning, electrifying the album but not defining it.
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The secretary's job is to be a public face of administration policy, to set broad priorities, and to advocate for his or her portfolio's importance in the larger administration firmament.
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It turns out getting the naming rights to a performance arts center wasn't just a way to etch the Axelrod name into the firmament — it's also an act of revenge.
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One of the earliest southern representations is now one of the most recognisable: Shiva as Nataraja, lord of the cosmic dance, one leg raised and "hair streaming across the firmament".
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One is destined to soar into the firmament of the year's must reads, to win accolades and well-deserved prizes, and to set a new standard for lyrical science writing.
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and presidential senior adviser Jared Kushner no longer appear to be the bright stars in the national security firmament they were only a short time ago.
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Still, Brazil's status as a record five-time World Cup champion gives its leaders a special place in soccer's firmament, whether its officials live up to that role or not.
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Billions Among other things, "Billions" is a show about American aristocracy, of two men burnishing a legacy that will etch their families' names in the firmament for generations to come.
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She is obsessed over — if, in the United States at least, not exactly beloved — and fixed in the cultural firmament as America's vixen despite having a half-dozen-strong brood.
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This frightening-sounding German word translates as "top candidates", and refers to a method of choosing the president of the European Commission, perhaps the most powerful job in the Brussels firmament.
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For many women, there was a keen awareness of a major shift in the firmament when it came to gender parity, the treatment of women in the workplace and sexual dynamics.
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She also got the ball rolling on Lady Gaga's seminal place in the current music-video firmament: the twisted, Nan Goldin-esque house party known as "Just Dance" (2008) is hers.
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The administration will, inevitably, clamp down tighter on internal dissent and make it increasingly difficult for the rabble-rousers to keep their places in a rapidly changing — and less friendly — political firmament.
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Beyond being a welcome sign of the maturing technology ecosystem in New York, it's a great way to gauge which companies could be the next new thing in the New York firmament.
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" In a sign of his once-central place in the Cuomo family firmament, Mr. Cuomo once referred to him as "my father's third son, who I sometimes think he loved the most.
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On the ground, there is near-perfect unity over the view that the first priority of the entire left-of-center firmament should be to defeat the Senate GOP health care bill.
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Opposite is Tawney's "Waters Above the Firmament" (1976), a 13-foot square tapestry containing a huge circle composed of slits, their top half covered in strips of paper manuscripts painted aqua blue.
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"China Machado was one of the first great pioneers in the firmament of haute couture," André Leon Talley, the former Vogue editor at large and the fashion and style director of i.
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Written 2500,19763 years ago, it is a Chinese version of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with text that swirls like the stars through the firmament and describes the relationship between humans and heaven.
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A vote against the President on this question could hamper their future careers, invite primary challenges, isolate them in their party and put lucrative retirement jobs in the conservative firmament at risk.
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"At 91 years old, the former secretary of state, national security adviser and intellectual-cum-celebrity has come to occupy a unique place in the foreign policy firmament," Politico's Michael Crowley writes.
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The venue shuttered its doors ten years ago, its passing commemorated with a final performance from Patti Smith, one of the stars who helped cement CBGB's place in the firmament of American music.
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Her wit and his fame—as the author of "The French Revolution" (1837) and "On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History" (1841), among other books—had shot them into the literary firmament.
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It also angers the Chinese Communist Party, whose publishing establishment is determined to make Yan the kind of star whose place in the international literary firmament will reflect glory back on her native land.
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There was a time — just a few months ago, in fact — when this tournament was not an object of ridicule and scorn, when it occupied a curious but cherished niche in England's soccer firmament.
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But all of Netflix's image-boosting relies less on hard data than on selectively presented and interpreted numbers that are intended to argue a very specific point about Netflix's place in the cultural firmament.
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With just weeks left in the campaign, Mr. McCain has the opportunity to to directly challenge Mr. Trump and use his still-lofty position in the Republican firmament to begin to rebuild his party.
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Then, on Monday, we learned of the arrest of Maria Butina, who is accused of being a Russian agent who infiltrated the National Rifle Association, the most important outside organization in the Republican firmament.
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Some quality of pathos in this story of a defeated man, ground down by failure, who then soars into the firmament got under my skin and haunted me all the way through the telling.
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The kicker: These complaints are made very, very privately — a full admission if there ever was one that Saudi Arabia is going to stay part of the U.S. financial firmament and isn't worth upsetting.
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M. Dean has long been one of the brightest stars in the comics firmament; her securing of the inaugural Creators for Creators grant that funded this book was the most delightful non-surprise of 2017.
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On April 20th the commission presented Google, one of the brightest stars in the modern tech firmament, with a similar "statement of objections", as the charge sheet in European Union (EU) antitrust cases is called.
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Bloomberg, who decided to forego the Iowa contest, is running a self-financed campaign based on the central themes of competence and data -- two things that were sorely, visibly lacking in Iowa's Democratic firmament yesterday.
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But without a proper, full-on villain, as well as an adequate substitute for Robert Downey Jr.'s late, oft-mentioned Tony Stark, this comes off as a less than glittering star in the Marvel firmament.
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Despite its reputation and position in the city's cultural firmament, many New Yorkers never realized that unlike Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, which is run by an entertainment conglomerate, the Big Apple is a nonprofit institution.
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Besides, Spode lately has become engaged to one of Bertie's clingy ex-fiancées, Madeline Bassett (who believes that "every time a kitten sneezes a new star joins the firmament"), a coincidence that multiplies their run-ins.
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The symbolism was almost too precious: We creatures of the firmament finding respite from hell on Earth inside the marbled cocoon of God's house, in Rome, a city at the precise juncture of pagan and Christian history.
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A host of hand-drawn symbols dangling from the ceiling — heavily lashed eyeballs, wriggling spermatozoa, streaks of lightning — were joined in the firmament by tennis balls and rackets, hot water bottles, umbrellas and an inflatable killer whale.
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Ever since the first astronomers chronicled the traffic of the firmament, the historical record is full of those who appealed to the heavens for signs and found them in stars and supernovae, orbital ice, and errant rocks.
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Created as another way to boost Ethereum adoption and back companies to get them traction in the market, the Ethereum Ventures fund hired Kavita Gupta — a rising star in the technology firmament to run its investment vehicle.
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"I think they are probably upset and probably worrying about what this does to the firmament of their pregame ceremonies," Robert Boland, a former N.F.L. agent who teaches sports law at Ohio University, said of league officials.
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The court has assumed a place in our political firmament that is beyond anything it was designed to do and as a result, this debate does reflect that politicization, but it's already there and it's entirely improper.
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When "The End of History?" ran in The National Interest that summer, Bloom had become a star in the neoconservative firmament, and his was the first of six responses that the magazine printed to accompany the article.
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And while "Cielo," hardly unique among experimental films in taking the sky as a subject, describes the feeling of looking upward at a boundless firmament, watching it can't help but call attention to the artifice of moviemaking.
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Quite where this tournament figures in soccer's firmament is a matter of debate — below both a Premier League title and the Champions League is the correct answer, of course — but then these things are not always logical.
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After all, at the Republican National Convention he brought out celebrity endorsers like Willie "Duck Dynasty" Robertson, Scott "Joanie Loves Chachi" Baio, and Antonio "Miscellaneous Soap Operas" Sabato Jr. These are hardly the brightest stars in the firmament.
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It was written in 21985 by a veteran FBI agent, reflecting meetings that he and a fellow FBI official were having with the 22011-year-old developer from Queens, then a rising star in New York's business firmament.
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This is not in any way true, but in the era of the Bullshitter in chief in the White House it's natural that the flim-flam style of argumentation would come to increasingly dominate the entire conservative firmament.
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But a decade and a half later, all the signifiers are now mixed up: Supreme has been woven into the fashion firmament, thanks to a series of shrewd partnerships, both in the high-fashion and street-wear worlds.
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In an interview with the design podcast 99% Invisible, Wagner noted that McMansions were "too ostentatious to be considered folk architecture," which means that they aren't vernacular, nor are they part of the architectural firmament in any real sense.
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She has reigned supreme, and will always be held in the highest firmament of stars as the most exceptional vocalist, performer and recording artist the world has ever been privileged to witness (1/3) An unbelievable woman and voice.
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But even the charitable foundations which control Carlsberg, Maersk and Novo Nordisk are part of the firmament of Danish capitalism and civic life, recycling the earnings they receive from their holdings into public education, cultural institutions and research centres.
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It's worth noting that that one of the main legacies of that court was the dismantlement of key components of the New Deal, which established Social Security and other key social programs that are part of the U.S. firmament.
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The Midwest may not be known as the fashion capital of the world (or even the U.S.), but its place in the consumer retail firmament is secure through L Brands and its Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works subsidiaries.
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The desire to submit to the cosmos, to believe in phenomenal occurrences and to blame a late subway on the trajectories of stars across the firmament comes from a deep-rooted, perhaps inherent human interest in surrendering to destiny.
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After the government expanded college attendance in 1999, women began to prop up more than half the educational firmament: they make up 56% of graduates, though only 87 girls are born for every 100 boys (the world's most unbalanced sex ratio).
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And as if scoring a goal just 30 minutes after being sent onto the field wasn't impressive enough, Pulisic wanted you to know that he's not selfish, and recorded an assist to Raphaël Guerreiro to firmament a brutal 6-2 victory.
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Every day, as if tracing the rise and fall of the sun through the firmament, concentrations of special timekeeping protein complexes surge and ebb inside nearly every cell in your body, in a sinusoidal curve that repeats itself every 24 hours.
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An essay in The New York Times in 1899, when Kipling was still in his prime, predicted his sticking power, and seemed in particular to get to the heart of how he would secure his place in the firmament of childhood.
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While there may be no perfect analogue in the American and European firmament of musical heroes, the national outpouring that followed his death brought to mind the instant tributes and responses to the deaths of Michael Jackson, Prince and David Bowie.
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Billions "Axelrod Hall will not be named Axelrod Hall forever," I predicted in the recap to the second episode of "Billions," when Bobby moved to buy the naming rights to a symphony hall and etch his name in the firmament.
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What's weird to me is that it appears Bannon's quotes on Trump to Wolff have had a far more profound effect on his role at Breitbart -- and in the conservative firmament more generally -- then when he was fired by Trump!
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Hosted by Kirk Franklin, once a genre disrupter and now part of the firmament, the ceremony celebrated several rising talents, including Jonathan McReynolds, a purveyor of a soft-soul take on gospel that's come into favor over the past few years.
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Why does any of this matter — aside from the irony of these public employee unions having achieved pride of place in the conservative firmament, while Republican governors and legislatures are moving quickly to disable public employee unions they find troublesome?
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ATLANTA — When Trentavious White, a rising rap star known to the world as Bankroll Fresh, was fatally shot here outside Street Execs Studios, the brightest stars in the hip-hop firmament offered their condolences: Big Boi, Lil Wayne, T.I., 2 Chainz.
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For Americans used to sharing the sports firmament with a constellation of compatriots, it can be hard to grasp the intensity of the spotlight that the No. 21986 ranking attracts in sport-crazed countries where worldbeaters are farther and fewer between.
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The scene encapsulates what "Game of Thrones" has become, as it begins its last fire-belching spin around the HBO firmament Sunday: a dragon-delivery device, a collection of spectacular images, to which character, complexity and conversation have become secondary.
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KNOWN, like Donald Trump, as the presenter of a local version of "The Apprentice", a reality-television show, João Doria entered Brazil's political firmament last year when he was elected mayor of São Paulo by a huge margin over his nearest rival.
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I don't feel that I need to dive into what it's about, given its nosebleed seat in the video gaming firmament, but the dynamic between the player character and his closest companion-cum-essential transport, a horse called Agro, stuck with Ueda.
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The removal of Ailes and O'Reilly -- not to mention the defections to NBC of Megyn Kelly and Greta van Susteren -- raise questions about where in the conservative firmament Fox now stands, and whether it can retain that primacy without its brightest lights.
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Maybe Europe's elite clubs — who had, after all, conjured an idea for what the Champions League should look like that was eerily, entirely coincidentally, similar to the idea UEFA is currently workshopping — are in danger of overestimating their own place in the firmament.
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"Without him it's unlikely there would be the Ramones, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, New York Dolls, so many acts now so well established in the music firmament but 40 years ago just whispers," the critic Roger Friedman wrote on the website Showbiz411.
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But the 26-year-old's trademark smile was back in place by the time she articulated her thoughts about the sobering 6-4 6-2 semi-final defeat - along with the conviction that her ascent through the tennis firmament is only just beginning.
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Solitude, reef, star These which gathered, drew resonant And plumped the naked canvas of our craft The first trio of words is clear enough—a metaphor for the poet as lonely pilot, navigating hazardous waters with his eyes fixed on the firmament.
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It is hard to imagine that any man or woman since the dawn of intelligent life has not gazed out at the sky on a moonless night, wondering how it came to be and what is our place in this vast and wondrous firmament.
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But the image of a giant disco ball hung in the firmament—that icon of humanity at its silliest and most joyful—raised questions that won't go away: Why are we indignant over an orbiting objet d'art but not over, say, yet another TV satellite?
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It stood for "There Is No Alternative," and sought to explain in four letters why so many investors kept putting money joylessly into stocks in recent years — supposedly because central banks had banished safe returns from the financial firmament with interest rates near nil.
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Since its debut in 20143, Trump Tower has belonged for New Yorkers to the same galaxy, if not the same constellation, as the Plaza, the United Nations and Donald J. Trump himself: part of the urban firmament, perhaps, yet largely irrelevant to daily life.
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Were Mr. Anaya to win, it would crown a vertiginous rise to the top of the Mexican political firmament, a climb driven by a consummate political savvy — some say genius — and a ruthlessness that has stunned even the most seasoned political operatives in Mexico.
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Leonnig: I sense both from people close to him, and from just watching Bolton navigate this, is that he always was thinking about how he was going to remain a part of the Republican Party firmament and not be a person who was running in to testify.
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"Caroll was an artistic genius whose kind and loving view of the world helped shape and define Sesame Street from its earliest days in 1969 through five decades, and his legacy here at Sesame Workshop and in the cultural firmament will be unending," the statement said.
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"Caroll was an artistic genius whose kind and loving view of the world helped shape and define Sesame Street from its earliest days in 1969 through five decades, and his legacy here at Sesame Workshop and in the cultural firmament will be unending," the Sesame Workshop said.
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The Fortnite phenomenon — the wildly popular battle royale game from Epic Games — has manifested itself in concerned articles and cultural shoutouts, and now has sealed its place in the cultural firmament by wrapping up its first "World Cup," which saw the company give away $30 million in prizes.
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From viral TikTok sensation to music's number one smash hit, "Old Town Road" has taken the top spot in music's cultural firmament relying on an incredible Nine Inch Nails sample, some old-fashioned controversy (it was barred from country music charts) and a remix with Billy Ray Cyrus.
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The famous stylist and one-time judge of America's Next Top Model has earned a reputation for turning his clients into internet darlings, their looks immediately absorbed into the mercurial firmament of digital opinion and rendered instantly into virtual iconography, from street-style blogs to fan art and memes.
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"What events occur between now and November 8th, what the debates look like what kind of terrorism activity -- there are all these kind of things that are out there in the firmament that can have an impact on what people end up doing in Election 2016," Beck said.
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The Carpetbagger "You probably know me as 'that guy from that movie,'" the actor Sam Rockwell said during his opening monologue on "Saturday Night Live" last month, taking a sly jab at his place in the cultural firmament: a familiar face attached to a not quite as familiar name.
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Playing the original Sonic today, though, makes it abundantly clear how this game stole a march on so many other platform titles of the time, and why it formed the foundations of a franchise that, while not flourishing in the 21st century, remains a presence in gaming's middle-mainstream firmament.
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The Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C. will open its doors next week, ensuring that Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, will not only be involved in January's inaugural — the hotel is on the path of the parade — but will also be part of the Washington firmament for many years to come.
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For millions of Americans, her place in the firmament is fixed and the decades-long run-up to the 2016 election, with its unexpectedly rancorous primary and the lingering email server scandal, has cemented many of the less pleasing impressions of the former first lady, senator and secretary of state.
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For most theatrical releases, A21.5 would spend roughly 224 percent of its marketing money online, using data and analytics to stitch films into the social media firmament in ways that prompts movie lovers to feel a sense of discovery and pass the message on organically — persuading fans to persuade one another.
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For those who enjoy watching the night sky for pleasure it would surely be sad, for it would more than triple the number of man-made objects in the firmament and thus further degrade the natural beauty of the heavens—a beauty already diminished in many places by light pollution from the ground.
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George Howard, an associate professor of music business and management at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, said in an interview that the music industry could be seen as "a microcosm of our country": "Any institution that is founded upon a firmament of endemic racism and misogyny ultimately crumbles," he said.
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" Although he may have been referring to physics, perhaps this can also apply to the good energy that may result when people connect through language; for Tesla, who is reported to have been fluent in eight languages, has also stated, "..we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable.
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It's what they watch from morning to night, and even as the network has endured a surprising amount of turmoil in the 22016s (the departure of founder Roger Ailes under a cloud of sexual harassment accusations, the firing of longtime figurehead Bill O'Reilly), its position in the media firmament has remained roughly steady.
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But under that model, even if it succeeded as a financial proposition, Trump would be forfeiting the hope of anything close to Fox-size viewership for his nightly fireside chats; he would risk becoming a niche celebrity even within the conservative firmament, which might be fatal to any permanent "leader of the opposition" ambitions.
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Trump may or may not be serious about delivering on his campaign promises to deport immigrants, build walls, restrict freedom of the press, and lock up his political opponents, but even the man's most ardent supporters must admit that his petty vindictiveness is the one fixed star in the shifting firmament of his policy pronouncements.
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Mr. Makavejev was, as The Nation once put it, "the brightest star in the avant-garde firmament" in the early 1970s, thanks to movies like "Man Is Not a Bird" (1965), "Innocence Unprotected" (1968) and especially "WR: Mysteries of the Organism," a brash hodgepodge that was a darling of the 19903 Cannes Film Festival.
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Related Link: SAG Awards 2017 noms: The list "Tomlin has been a cherished star in the entertainment firmament since she joined the groundbreaking television series 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In' in 1969, when it was rated the No. 1 show and watched by over 25 percent of all American television viewers," a statement from the SAG Awards said.
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And yet she was a very late-'22018s depiction of what feminism meant, clawing out a place in the news media firmament with guts and gusto, and she would be damned if she was going to give up one iota — especially not to the younger, less bold, less brassy women trying to climb the ladder behind her.
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According to the story, these celebrities, the majority of whom are represented by WME-IMG, will bring not only their money but their promotional muscle to bear on the UFC, bringing our beloved sport firmly into the mainstream firmament to take its place alongside the NFL, the NBA, and Major League Baseball in the American imagination.
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Within 24 hours, the team will have tracking information from Norad, and within another day or two we will all be able to look at the project website or the Starwalk 2 app on our phones, then up at the sky, and see Paglen's latest provocation tracing its course across the firmament for all the world to see.
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The Marston-produced The Wound and the Bow is also something of a collaborative effort; its lyrics were penned by McMasters's sister, poet Antonia McMaster, and the album includes various sonic contributions from the likes of Nick Podgurski (New Firmament, Feast of the Epiphany), Jim Mroz (Lussuria) and Chris Latina (Private Archive, Article Collection), amongst other luminaries.
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During an interview on the Russian radio program Moscow Speaking earlier this week, Dmitry Nosov, a member of Russia's lower parliamentary house, the State Duma, made a pitch to Conor McGregor urging the UFC featherweight champion and pound-for-pound brightest star in the MMA firmament to drop his beloved Ireland and become a Russian citizen.
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I'm not saying we're on the eve of a revolution, but there's no way to look at the existing right-wing firmament, from the lowest to the highest, and not see that it's become a victim of its own success, in part because it hasn't had a serious, profound left-wing challenge in at least half a century.
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I know it's water I'm looking at because of the lines of striation created on its surface throughout the image, but the sky and lake are melded so seamlessly the rational part of me can't parse what is truly up and what is down, what is here and what is there, what is ocean and what is firmament.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads EAST HAMPTON, New York — What is one to make of those occasions when a seemingly disparate group of ideas, events, actors, and ambitions comes together in the firmament of the ever-permutating world of art and culture, those moments of confluence that some Zeitgeit-watchers point to as evidence of the spirit of the times?
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Williams also suffers from chronic status anxiety, despairing over the slow start to his film career (which doesn't achieve box-office liftoff until "Good Morning, Vietnam" in 1987), and, even after he has become a bona fide movie star, fretting that his place in the comedy firmament is being usurped by some upstart — say, Jim Carrey during his "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" ascendancy.
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Khan, a self-made billionaire known for his extravagant mustache, promised in a statement that he would be a respectful custodian of Wembley should a deal go through, a nod to the arena's importance within England's sporting firmament but also an early salvo to assuage the likely critics of a deal to transfer into foreign hands a stadium that many consider a national heritage site.
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I have of late, (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition; that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire: why, it appeareth no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
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The band's got a new split cassette with the malignant Californians in TEETH coming out on October 6 (preorders are live now) The release will come via dark music blog Cvlt Nation's newly-christened record label arm, grimCVLT, and features a passel of new Barghest tracks, their first new recordings since a 2015's Weeping Firmament EP. Their continued take on black metal is hostile, virulent, and complex without sacrificing bullheaded intensity.
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The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has a tricky balancing act with each year's telecast: How can it create a show that scores cultural-relevancy points and takes a snapshot of the previous year or so in music yet also honors those musicians who helped lay the groundwork for the form, who are crucial to the Grammy firmament in large part because of the way their conservative voting patterns often define who wins what?
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And while there is little doubt that the actor, who died Thursday at the age of 82, earned himself a fixed place in the entertainment firmament with a long career that — begun in television's early days — brought him mainstream success as a half-Comanche blacksmith on the series "Gunsmoke" and later as the title character on the clunky police drama "Dan August"; acting cred for his breakout role in the 1972 film "Deliverance"; and an Oscar nomination for his turn in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 "Boogie Nights," it was with his 1972 striptease for Cosmopolitan that he effected true cultural change.
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