Two questions immediately emerge from this miasma of bad behavior: 1.
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Most medical professionals believed poisonous vapors, or "miasma," were to blame.
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I think it gets pulled down in the miasma of Washington politics.
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I have less confidence about what was real in the miasma of Whitewater.
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No. We have many problems, but we're hardly living in a miasma of despair.
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He sank in the miasma of his own contradictions without even sighting his Normandy Beach.
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And what is so constructive about this miasma of hatred which you see all the time?
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Credit-rating agencies are warning that the banking miasma is a threat to India's sovereign rating.
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The miasma of pollution is so pervasive that locals find it coming out of their mouths.
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It's easy to see these stories as symptomatic of our general miasma of fakery and doubt.
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For the Russian government, the current miasma of American politics represents the best of all possible worlds.
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Eventually, the accused are hoping the miasma will dissipate so they can move on with their lives.
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We think of the world as this screaming, disastrous thing—a nonstop miasma of events and movement.
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This show oozes swamp vibes, breathing deep from that deep green miasma and exhaling it into every scene.
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I could begin to enter the painting through my eyes — and they certainly pulled me into their miasma.
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Yet emerging from the miasma, the UK enters a geopolitical landscape hard to imagine when all this began.
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After last night's heavy rain, it is worse than ever, a miasma rising from the soil like ether.
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These were not silvery, romantic mists slinking through latticed rooftops; this was a miasma of damp and despair.
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Public transit systems in cities like New York and San Francisco are stuck in a miasma of delays.
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Rather he tries to create a miasma of doubt around what the proper role of the press is.
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Our planet is nothing but a swirling miasma of chemicals, many of which are naturally trying to kill you.
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But she couldn't vote for Hillary Clinton either, unable to condone the Clintons' miasma of financial and ethical cheesiness.
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Does it not create a continued miasma of questions about the industry's ability to put planet ahead of production?
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Now you can write in MIASMA/PLASMA crossing ALMS/AXIS at the top, because what else could it be?
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The miasma of warped masculinity that blankets Sean Brosnan's Louisiana revenge tale, "My Father Die," is well nigh impenetrable.
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Fake-news hucksters, political Newspeakers, subversive reality-hackers, trickle-down deconstructionists–they're clogging the Internet with a miasma of disinformation.
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The left&aposs miasma of contempt may feel cathartic, but it is the best thing that ever happened to Trump.
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I think that's what we started doing with the "Miasma" video, where we spent the money on a bar tab.
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Miasma, a company in Chicago, which has been staging them seasonally for the past four years, is adding more dates.
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The intelligence community has only been pulled further into the political miasma since Ratcliffe was last floated for the job.
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Even for a sophisticated tech company like Microsoft, singling out individuals in the digital miasma has proved just about impossible.
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More broadly, the sunny Obama optimism of "Yes, we can" has faded into a rancorous miasma of distrust and dysfunction.
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But there they are: a McMahon-scented miasma of mediocrity, draped over the thrill and hope of WWE's New Era.
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Several of the assembled critics, writers, and fellow photographers talk about the miasma that photography fell into in the 1980s.
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While the market always has "unknowns" to contend with, two key events in the next month could explain this neutral miasma.
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Robbie has emerged from the miasma of Suicide Squad and The Legend of Tarzan smelling more or less like a rose.
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But to the rest it's just a way to thicken the miasma of malfeasance they've wafted around the Clintons for decades.
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Using the simplest of settings — and familiar genre devices — Mickey Keating's horror outing "Darling" manages to conjure an effectively unsettling miasma.
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As grindingly sincere as it is wildly misbegotten, this is a melodramatic miasma of white tears falling amid unspeakable black suffering.
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The far regions like Darfur and the contested border areas are regularly prey to a miasma of militia and army violence.
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Yet, in the little corner of the window that evades the tacked-up cloth imitating a curtain, the miasma lifts a little.
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Others seek to categorise the miasma differently: eg, as racist, economic, cultural and religious; or explicit and coded; or soft and violent.
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I suspect what Claytt refers to is the space this exhibition occupies: critical awareness, in the miasma, but not fully of it.
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The internet-ad auction firm Overture, the photo-sharing service Flickr and other promising start-ups simply were clouded by Yahoo's miasma.
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Infection spreads by "pernicious qualities in the air;" this was written back when the miasma theory of disease was all the rage.
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We followed him onto Ninth Street and then to Bainbridge, which was by then flush with the flow and miasma of Philadelphia.
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With irreverent humor and searing insight, Finley tackles our current political miasma in her latest theatrical work, The Expanded Unicorn Gratitude Mystery.
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All of a sudden, in the midst of a tough workout, Kirk found himself caught adrift in the existential miasma of it all.
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This miasma of inflammatory rhetoric, propaganda, and real and fake news has made a mess of the Filipino political discourse and the Philippines itself.
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It all adds up to a national miasma that drains many people's daily sense of well-being no matter how much the economy grows.
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The arm is built with a force system, to measure the suture tension, and STAR handles the miasma of pink with its super-vision.
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" Or "The smell of boiling pitch from the Arsenal has scoured away the tideland miasma, and Crivano tucks his sudarium back into his doublet.
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Some of her live sounds — including gentle whispers and back-of-the-throat clicks — were blended with prerecorded tracks in a surround-sound miasma.
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Where a road might appear open on an electronic map, it might in reality be under a miasma of smoke too painful for breathing.
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And to gain power, both Democrats and Republicans have enforced illusory binary coherence on the otherwise incoherent miasma of voters and groups in society.
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The secrecy "did throw sort of a miasma over the program," Perry recalled, noting there were rumors that Darpa was involved in weather-altering research.
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On a hillside above the Russian River, a broad and menacing band of fire is turning a blue sky into a gray miasma of soot.
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And here are some thoughts on our current miasma of tribalistic partisanship, which now touches and transforms everything in our public life — even the weather.
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These tracks represent not an abandonment of the mutant soul of Untrue but the refinement of Burial's ability to sonically capture the miasma of depression.
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The miasma of misinformation prompted Varley to indulge in what he calls "a social experiment," though others might identify it more accurately as a hoax.
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Gravediggers placed a thick cap of soil over these coffins, likely to quell the stench of death and contain the "miasma" thought to transmit disease.
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Arriving at a cool Corot nude in a darkling landscape or a crisp Picasso nude combing her hair was like gulping fresh air in a miasma.
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Radioactive miasma infected the air, the soil, and residents, causing birth defects and thyroid cancer in infants, and inflicting future generations of livestock with grotesque mutations.
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But they're part of a larger miasma of unethical behavior that's surrounded the Trump administration and raised questions about its commitments to ethical norms and guidelines.
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For the sake of the ever-shifting disabled community then, we need to begin a conversation about this complicating reality and the social miasma it generates.
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But as these images suggest, living in this miasma has become for many residents a routine to be endured, even defied with an outdoor fox trot.
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More than 20 cities have entered a state of red alert since Friday evening, implementing emergency measures aimed at cutting emissions that feed the toxic miasma.
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But unlike her heroes Agnès Varda or Wong Kar-wai, she hasn't yet learned to make the idiosyncratic miasma of memory, feeling and observation sustainably cohere.
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And though the miasma of racism and discrimination has long engulfed the economic, social, and political institutions of our country, physicians remain insensitive to structural racism.
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So the central government's bias is to set indirect-tax rates high lest it miss its fiscal targets, and this urge is leading to the possible miasma.
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Scientists had switched miasma theory of disease for germ theory: they understood that many diseases were caused not by "bad airs", but by microscopic organisms like bacteria.
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Without bargaining power, men in the slaughterhouse's miasma were assigned simplified, repetitive tasks, to ensure their constant fungibility and low value, which in turn reinforced their powerlessness.
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I started writing this newsletter in the weird liminal space between Australia and the United States, caught in the 24-hour miasma that haunts the travel home.
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It was her shock that moved her to rapid action and she said the current "miasma" informed her improvisational language of roiling calligraphic brush strokes and erasures.
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Or, maybe it has to do with confronting a tendency to project present-day anxieties onto the past through the miasma of a historically white-washed genocide narrative.
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Since then, many others have risen to the challenge, and posted photos on Twitter of upright spoons, wedged in the dense miasma that is Ooiwatei mud-based ramen.
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At times, Ryder feels a bit lost in the show's overall miasma of events, and she's the one character the writers never really get a firm grasp on.
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We're beginning to get a more detailed picture of the miasma of fear hanging over immigrants in the Trump era, and the ways it's seeping into daily life.
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On the largest American bases, like Camp Victory in Baghdad or Camp Anaconda near Balad, a perpetual miasma lingered over the tents and trailers, reeking of burnt plastic.
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Behind us, the sky was obscured by an eerie miasma: black smoke gushing from oil fields that ISIS had set alight when it quit the area, in August.
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" Indeed, from the moment it was inserted into the Constitution, the pacifist clause has been fluid, with the historian John W. Dower calling it "a miasma of ambiguity.
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This is his refrain, spoken loud enough and often enough to break through the grim miasma of American national politics at last, starting in the 2016 Democratic primaries.
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Or, anyway, this is the conclusion at which my mind—polluted and amphetamized as it is by too much time in the NBA take-miasma—arrives too quickly.
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In the 19th century, for example, Britons feared that a noxious "miasma" of bad air would seep into their homes when indoor plumbing was connected to new public sewers.
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For instance, it was not only believed that miasma caused disease, but that the type of illness one procured had to do with one's moral sensibilities and bad habits.
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In the age of AI, the next "grab them by the pussy" video will be even more easily shrugged off as a fake under a miasma of reasonable doubt.
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If Trump is the swanning, aging diva in the mansion, trapped in a musty miasma, Steve Bannon must be Max, the German director turned butler who massages Norma's ego.
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But it was an arresting miasma — one that raises the question of how much new insight into spatial audio may yet come from composers who are also virtuoso improvisers.
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While Trump may take comfort in having wrested control of the GOP, elected Republicans labor under a miasma of dread as they stare ahead to midterm elections in November.
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DANAKIL DEPRESSION, Ethiopia — In oppressively dry heat and a miasma of sulfur and chlorine, the rocky landscape sprouts patches of neon green and yellow that resemble oozing scrambled eggs.
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But Price's conflicts of interest are part of a larger miasma of unethical behavior that's surrounded the Trump administration and raised questions about its commitments to ethical norms and guidelines.
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Satellite photos of northern China regularly show a miasma of smog centered on the province, home in 2013 to the six most polluted cities in the country, according to Greenpeace.
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But those questions, to be clear, are not at all comparable to the corrupt miasma hovering over the Trump Foundation, which indubitably abused charitable contributions and should warrant criminal investigation.
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We don't want our society to go down and down and down into some miasma of anti ... no privacy and we're staring at phones and we're being taken advantage of.
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After a brutal start to the year, professional investors find themselves in a miasma of confusion and loss — which could lead to even more dramatic moves in the sessions ahead.
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The miasma of fear that is created by voter suppression is as much about terrifying people about trying to vote as it is about blocking their ability to do so.
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And through this black miasma, one small corner of the galaxy twinkled, offering hope, restoring an audacity, fight and sense of storytelling that had been atrophying in the Democratic Party.
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Unfolding over one acutely distressing workday, "The Assistant" is less a #MeToo story than a painstaking examination of the way individual slights can coalesce into a suffocating miasma of harassment.
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And Ross Douthat says that absent a major witness turning on Trump, the inquiry has the potential to devolve into a vague miasma of scandal that lacks any sharp narrative.
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I went through the most remarkable 45 lines from the 45-minute interview, but suffice it to say that it was a miasma of conspiracy theorizing, fact-free "analysis" and martyrdom.
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""According to the old theory, the same evil miasma could be expressed in one individual as a lung disease and another as a stomach complaint, depending on their constitution and circumstances.
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What is Christmas, after all, but minuscule moments of fleeting pleasure, tinged with nausea, all wrapped up within a gaudy foil pretence at goodwill before a miasma of sticky fingered greed?
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Mr. Blake has worked a smart array of subtle variations into his sound: delicate, high-voiced, musically spacious to the point of near-transparency, ebb-tide to the point of miasma.
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Before he died, Beau Biden told his father he wanted him to run partly because he didn't want the White House to fall back into the miasma of Clinton family values.
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The miasma of fear that is created through voter suppression is as much about terrifying people about trying to vote as it is about actually blocking their ability to do so.
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His beautiful soup, once the pride of countless villages, was awful, a miasma of dirt and ash and shit and, despite the best intentions of most of the villagers, it was inedible.
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So integral is pizza to the experience that the Long Island City location goes through nearly 300 pies a week, creating a miasma of dough and mozzarella that rivals restaurants in Italy.
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The miasma shown is similar to Calamity Ganon's aura, and the placement of this corpse seems to coincide with a legend told to us by our friend Kass, the wandering Rito minstrel.
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Stacy eventually breaks free from a miasma of people with their agendas and intentions opposite to hers by finding her own island in Ratner, who's also grown more comfortable with being himself.
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"According to the old theory, the same evil miasma could be expressed in one individual as a lung disease and another as a stomach complaint, depending on their constitution and circumstances," writes Goodman.
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The premiere episode takes on a particularly bleak subject, the systemic rape of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a miasma of violence perpetrated by men foreign and Congolese, armed and civilian.
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Five officers in Dallas lie slain by a sniper, and a toxic miasma of demagogy and xenophobia threatens to asphyxiate our democracy, pumped out by an orange-hued, straw-haired figure of malice.
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It represents the fact that at heart, when the miasma of theorizing and extrapolating and intellectualizing clears, soccer is a simple equation, one in which the team with the best players generally wins.
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" She added: "The miasma of fear that is created through voter suppression is as much about terrifying people about trying to vote as it is about actually blocking their ability to do so.
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But there was something different about seeing Giggs spit bars to a heaving miasma of people this far from the capital, not all of them Londoners, and seeing them spit those bars right back.
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They come upon an altar with a desiccating corpse contorted in pained expression, barely restrained by a bright blue force, all while it secretes a miasma that threatens to leak outside the unlit chamber.
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"The miasma of fear that is created through voter suppression is as much about terrifying people about trying to vote as it is about actually blocking their ability to do so," Abrams said Sunday.
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" The video was released by Adult Swim, who attempts to put Cyriak's mind-exploding animation into words, calling the video, "an LSD-nightmare miasma of cat limbs and teeth fractalizing into feline Cthulhu-esque monstrosities.
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And in a year where women have faced our fair share of frustrations and obstacles, Iris' tirade is a cathartic repudiation of all the the toxic men who made 2018 a roiling miasma of despair.
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After Dodge's death, someone convinces the world that terrorists have dropped a nuclear weapon on the town of Moab, Utah, largely destroying people's trust in both the internet (referred to as the "Miasma") and reality.
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Anecdotal evidence is not to be taken very seriously, but artistic evidence is the best kind we ever get—Dickens saw far more deeply into that Victorian miasma and its causes than anyone else did.
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We were losing the ability to make credible commitments ... at the same time, we had to be careful to avoid confrontations for fear of being unable to sustain them in the miasma of domestic suspicion.
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Hofstadter described a miasma of "conspiratorial fantasy" that had coursed through American public life since the earliest days of the nation, a litany of feverish plots involving the Bavarian Illuminati, the Freemasons and Jesuit priests.
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Like China, Thailand seems to be going through the same cycle: denial of a chronic problem, ineffectual solutions and then a sudden realization that the chemical miasma isn't going to magically disappear without coordinated policies.
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Instead of clearing the air, the election left the original, unhappy miasma intact: a society fed up with austerity, sensitive to the iniquities of global capitalism, but not quite brave enough to leap into the unknown.
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The environmental cost is depicted, as always in Skylines, as a kind of dull miasma, but you won't see anything that approaches the vistas of destruction that photographer David Maisel captured and collected in Black Maps.
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Electricity generated from coal is the biggest source of the greenhouse gases that lead to global warming, and pollution from such plants contributes to the miasma of smog that has blanketed much of China this winter.
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The last time Biden thought about running, in 2016, he was in a miasma of grief about Beau, his oldest son — the former Delaware attorney general whom Joe Biden fervently hoped might be president some day.
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Amidst a miasma of flare smoke and a chorus of boos, hisses and chanting, it is held aloft by the thick, tattooed forearms of a man who resembles a darts player that never quite made it.
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I live day-to-day in a permanent miasma of fear, calculating my risk every time I download an app, connect to a new wifi network, or visit a site with an out-of-date HTTPS config.
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It's a genre that allows me to put a nice, ugly face on the miasma of even uglier feelings that stir in my head, and lets me deal with them in a way my lizard brain understands.
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He promised to be a dealmaker, but his impulse to belittle his opponents and the miasma of scandal and leaks surrounding Russia's role in the campaign have made the chances of cross-party co-operation even more remote.
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Like every man in the movie, Rell falls for the cat and — after rising from a miasma of pot smoke while flanked by posters for "New Jack City" and Michael Mann's "Heat" — names his fluffy new friend Keanu.
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At the end of a new promenade of white stone, the $65 million Museum of Tomorrow juts out over the miasma of drug-resistant disease and human waste where the Olympic sailing competitions are set to take place.
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Instead, I spent my morning inside the exhibition's control room in the back of the hall with one of its French operators, a miasma of computer screens, a school of half-deflated fish and the yeast in question.
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Everyone has to wear a cool-looking gas mask to protect themselves from a toxic miasma that will turn them into even more unhinged immortal zombies than they already are, but absolutely no one has to wear pants.
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Ever since Election Day, they have operated in a strange moral and intellectual miasma that's led them to forget all that and invest their energy in defending him, believing that to be the best path forward for American conservatism.
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" In an interview with The New York Times, a reflective Affleck said he didn't like to talk about his personal life "because it ends up being in the record somewhere, in the great miasma of junk on the Internet.
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The revelations were not so much about the countercultural miasma of drugs and mischief and alternate realities it depicted; my older sister had introduced me to pot and my older brother had a psychedelic band called the Naked Afternoon.
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Popcast Listen to this week's podcast | Subscribe: iTunes | RSS | Stitcher| Audioboom In pop music it was the week of gray English miasma: sudden releases of new records by James Blake on Thursday, May 5, and Radiohead on Sunday, May 8.
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An international team of prosecutors from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine painstakingly investigated the case for years, gathering missile fragments, cellphone intercepts and witness accounts, helping to dispel the miasma of lies and conspiracies hanging over the attack.
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As a veteran, I inoculated myself to the clunky "pursuits" tab through use of its previous iteration, a screen where bounty and questline were thrown into an indiscernible miasma of things that I'll tell myself I'll get to but probably won't.
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Her film stands out not just because it offers a female gaze on toxic masculinity, but because it genuinely seems to be seeking a solution, rather than simply dwelling in the miasma of dashed dreams, violent tempers, and fragile egos.
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In looking at "Smokey on the Yellow Chair" (2016), I'm really trying to look out of it, because the room has such a miasma of chaos that it is one of the few places my vision can settle on and not despair.
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It's easy to see that era of football violence through the narrow lens of Britain's contemporary social miasma (industrial upheaval, unemployment, and all the worst excesses of the Thatcher premiership), but bloodshed in the beautiful game was in fact a pan-European problem.
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The air vents had been opened for the warm summer night, so the strains of reggae wafted from the auditorium across the landscaped grounds, accompanied by a sweet miasma of legalized marijuana from hundreds of Boulderites picnicking and sipping wine beneath the stars.
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Chicão's operation was small, just him and a three-man crew, but in half a year it had torn a chunk out of the forest the size of five football fields: a miasma of muddy pathways, water-filled craters, and fallen trees.
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However poorly executed, the attempted smearing of Ms Nixon illustrates two disparate truths about New York politics: some strange Albanian miasma follows around Andrew Cuomo, the sitting Democratic governor who is vying against Ms Nixon for his third term; and Jewish voters are quite important.
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Codexes are more like computer programs given life than aliens, flickering beings of orange light that emanate from a hovering metal brain, able to teleport around the game's levels, split themselves into two, and call down clouds of explosive purple miasma on your forces.
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Well over a decade in the making, the new value-added tax promises to subsume India's miasma of local and national levies into a single payment, thus unifying the country's 29 states and 1.3 billion people into a common market for the first time.
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Editorial In his final State of the Union speech, President Obama endeavored on Tuesday to lift Americans above the miasma of a brutally negative presidential campaign to reflect on what the nation has endured and achieved since he took office in the midst of a dire recession.
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That fluorescent synth bridge, which still catches me by surprise, became all the sweet, bleary Sunday afternoons, mushed together in a miasma of grass and cans and crunched up rizlas and trying not to glance at your phone screen but feeling a lurch every time you do.
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"The Chase" (1946), adapted from a novel by the crime writer Cornell Woolrich (also the source for "Phantom Lady"), is one such noir, a miasma in which more than one character seems to suffer from amnesia and the narrative structure suggests a dream within a dream.
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Mr. Trump steered clear of reporters, shedding no light on the miasma of questions about his knowledge of payments to a pornographic film actress, Stephanie Clifford, after a series of conflicting statements by Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of the newest members of the president's legal team.
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A clean-up, by way of sewerages, cemeteries (an idea pioneered by the French to move dead bodies to the verdant, peaceful countryside for eternal rest—and quickly adopted by the English), public toilets, washhouses, and piped in water rather than wells dug next to cesspools, all reduced miasma.
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For those looking for something different in the miasma that is 2019, it's been clear for some time that Greta Thunberg is an inspirational figure whose passion for action on climate change has motivated many, and might even get those who have long ignored the problem to act.
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For reasons that aren't entirely clear and still don't feel real, Britney had willingly decided to leave her plush, 20-acre mansion in Thousand Oaks to perform "Work Bitch" and more to a miasma of sweaty, gurning people trapped inside a huge grass pen in south east England for Brighton Pride.
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The current approach — of piecemeal measures, a miasma of games played without fans (including Paris Saint-Germain's victory over Borussia Dortmund) and ad hoc cancellations — cannot hold, not least because Rugani's positive test adds weight to the argument of the various players' unions that their members should not be presumed immune.
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" Because Republicans have been so successful in shrouding the origins of the Russia investigation in a miasma of misinformation, I hope some talented filmmaker makes a movie out of the new book by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, "Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump.
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His descriptions show off a horrifying landscape: Everything was shrouded in a leaden miasma, an amalgamation of the white mist generated by the boiling aqua regia in the acid baths and the black smoke from the unceasing burning of PVC, insulation, and circuit boards in the fields and on the shore of the river.
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But this miasma of futility—causing the U.S. to miss the World Cup for the first time since 211—was only the endpoint of a long series of felonies and misdemeanors over the last 43 months in Columbus, Ohio, and in San Jose, Costa Rica; in Harrison, N.J., and in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
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The LeBron James era in Los Angeles began, predictably enough, with all the flash and drama of a Hollywood blockbuster: a home-court introduction from rapper-actor Ice Cube, a slew of replay-worthy dunks, and an end-of-game fracas against the Rockets that culminated in a miasma of ejections, suspensions, and fines.
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"... Rather than drawing conclusions about who was vicious or righteous -- or lamenting the political miasma that makes the question unanswerable -- it might be better to stop and look at how film footage constructs rather than reflects the truths of a debate like this one," Ian Bogost, an author and game designer, wrote in The Atlantic.
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In addition, if the artist wanted us to more fully sense the soul-deadening miasma of these kinds of places, In Polite English might have benefited from installing some old, threadbare carpeting (instead of using the bare concrete floor of the museum), and perhaps a few office chairs and other indications of that state of being.
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Here, Taylor sticks to vocals, and is joined by guitarists Karl Sveinsson and Giovanni Infantino, drummer Callum Cox, and Oliver Edward Turner on bass Together, their take on the genre is more orthodox than one might expect, offering predominantly straightforward though heavily atmospheric (think plague miasma rather than gossamer Cascadiana) black metal, with a heavy, stinking tinge of decrepit death metal.
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Occurring between those two phenomena, there was a brief but enthusiastic propagation of bands who tried on the murky and obscure end of old school death metal—bands like Grave Miasma, Dead Congregation, and Necros Christos took on the gurgling sound of Pennsylvania's Incantation, and made it sound so vile and cavernous that it skirted the line between ambient music and death metal proper.
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From the intense, extraterrestrial synth crashes of "Hot Pink" to the glossy, 80s-style choruses in "Snakes & Ladders" to "Falling Into Me," which was out earlier this year, and which basically feels like three pristine pop songs melted then moulded together to form a super song, I'm All Ears sounds like a miasma of emotions colliding with a sprawl of technology, topped off with the glittering energy of youth.
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And somehow they are always leaving the cubicle door banging just before you make it in but never making themselves known to you, and sometimes the shits are present—bobbing there, brown and proud, staring at you like it has eyes in, forcing you to flush it—and sometimes the ghost of it is there, just the marks down the bowl, but there, in the air, a miasma.
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The fact that members of his family and inner circle were willing and eager to meet with Russians promising hacked emails, the pattern of lies and obfuscation from the president and his team thereafter, and the general miasma of Russian corruption hanging around Trump campaign staff — all of this more than justifies Robert Mueller's investigation, and depending on what his team ultimately reports it might even justify impeachment.
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Only a pure, crystalline eye, opened wide by a lifetime of traveling the world, could see through the miasma and get to the deeper truth underneath all of this sports noise: Justin Bieber, pop star of note, has spent his entire adult life flying around the world, attending high level sporting events, singing anthems, shaking hands with athletes, sitting courtside, and, probably, playing in weird underground celebrity blood games.
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Truly underground, sometimes: in 1858, the pundits and politicians in Britain were obsessing over the British government's takeover of India from the East India Company and the intentions of Napoleon III, yet the really big thing was the construction, with the supervisory genius of the great engineer Joseph Bazalgette, of a sewer system to protect London from its own waste, and so arrest the smelly "miasma" that had come to crisis conditions that year.
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Her seven studio albums spanning 15 years, from 1995 until 2010, are monumental in their influence—to read a brilliant deep dive on the Swedish musician's artistry, peep this recent Guardian longread—but in the years since, she's also amassed a slower, more cult sort of following: one that exists on dancefloors (often queer ones), in dark basements dappled in pink and blue lights, in the spaces between sadly swirling your drink with a straw and deciding to knock it back, returning to the hot, heaving miasma of bodies beside you.
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