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"monolith" Definitions
  1. a large single vertical block of stone, especially one that was shaped into a column by people living in ancient times, and that may have had some religious meaning
  2. (often disapproving) a single, very large organization that is very slow to change and not interested in individual people

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Black hair isn't a monolith, like we as black people aren't a monolith.
"Monolith is committed to delivering the highest quality experience," an update from Monolith Productions reads.
While the black vote overall has trended toward Biden, black voters aren't a monolith, just as white voters aren't a monolith.
Start every new product as a monolith It is impossible to know the best way to divide the monolith until you can observe its usage.
The pick is only surprising to those who think of "black voters" as a monolith, and assume that (imaginary) monolith is solidly in the Democratic column.
The Monolith Air Motion Cinema Center Channel SpeakerThere is also a $300 Monolith Air Motion Cinema Center Channel Speaker that looks like it puts out rad sound.
Yes, black people are not a monolith -- but we must all be a monolith against white supremacy and the politicians who fail to speak out against it.
A Xenoblade-style RPG from Monolith Soft – Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Maoist ideology plays no visible role in the monolith movement.
The Southside is a big place and not a monolith.
Monolith Productions did not immediately respond to request for comment.
" Colbert's final pitch focused on what he called the "Monolith.
The new personnel will not make the administration a monolith.
Black gun owners are not a monolith, Mr. Smith stresses.
Never an economic monolith, today there are really two Midwests.
Strategy Explained Hedge funds are written about as a monolith.
For a start, the Gulf states are not a monolith.
But that does not mean black voters are a monolith.
Women are not a monolith — value systems run the gamut.
Like any demographic group, voters 65 and older are no monolith.
Lights coming from behind the monolith enhanced Vantablack's light-sucking abilities.
The camera is a small, white, curvilinear monolith on a pedestal.
How did it remain that cultural monolith, over a decade later?
Brewin: You're on this kind of monolith, this big, granite boulder.
Or, if you prefer, laser-cut into a giant black monolith.
"I think they're not a monolith," she said of Sanders's supporters.
It's not clear when you're treating the gang as one monolith.
We're not a monolith, and this is not a niche market.
Not long after, they were trouncing the monolith that was IBM.
Arabs are not a monolith but are routinely painted as such.
The culmination is a 56 foot-tall monolith of intertwined bodies.
"It's not a monolith in terms of thinking," Mr. Cálderon said.
And so, there's this dynamic here about ... there isn't a monolith.
Of course, American Jews, like Israeli Jews, are not a monolith.
Like the monolith it appears to give us what we need.
Like all of feminism, the fourth wave is not a monolith.
Because Blackness is not a monolith of course everyone has different tastes.
This dark monolith is the thing I've come to Detroit to see.
"Monolith" sounds like an encounter with something especially enormous, and particularly deadly.
The team at Monolith didn't even know that could happen, Roberts says.
But everybody who voted for Trump is a monolith, is a racist.
As powerful as it may be, China is not a single monolith.
As much as shooting is the objective in Monolith, dodging is, too.
Monolith hid the game's "true ending" behind completing the Shadow Wars mode.
"You can't treat this group as a monolith," Armstrong told the newspaper.
That's something I want to emphasize: The NRA is not a monolith.
K-pop, influenced by hip-hop, has become a global cultural monolith.
But it's also vital to recognize that evangelical Christianity isn't a monolith.
Talking about tech as if it were a monolith isn't entirely wrong.
But in the past ten years, the museum monolith has slowly shifted.
Muslim women are not a monolith, we need to hear your perspective.
The Best Headphones Money Can BuyJude Mansilla and his community of audiophiles over at the Head-Fi forums know a thing or two about …Read more ReadMonoprice has two planar magnetic configurations, the Monolith M560 and the Monolith M1060.
Maybe. If you're blaming Apple, though, you're barking up the wrong corporate monolith.
I know that the whole student body of Morehouse is not a monolith.
It's a reminder people of color in lower income neighborhoods aren't a monolith.
What factors led to a show about six people becoming a cultural monolith?
What was Monolith doing in 2005 that countless shooters have failed to replicate?
In some ways, it feels like the logical conclusion of an advertising monolith.
You don't ask anthropomorphic intelligence, you ask the imposing monolith that is Google.
Yes there is nuance and no monolith, but still, I have no self.
Each of these protagonists challenges the idea that Black identity is a monolith.
Back then, the role wasn't seen as quite the monolith it has become.
The firm operates from the gleaming new monolith overlooking Astor Place in Manhattan.
Evangelical voters, often portrayed as a monolith, are becoming increasingly difficult to define.
In the postwar period, Disney was nowhere near the monolith it is today.
Because when people talk about "the cartels," they aren't talking about a monolith.
DJ: The African American community has never been a monolith nor should we be.
It's more like a testimony to how powerful Disney has become as a monolith.
In the liberal community, you hate this idea of creating people as a monolith.
It's just the familiar dense monolith of technology, with the top bezel magically erased.
"But the relationship is robust, even though neither side is a monolith," he adds.
During my fifth viewing, in 1968, TMA-1 (the lunar monolith) spoke to me.
Developer Monolith Productions's newest game is set in the Lord of the Rings universe.
It should be taken as a given that fan culture is not a monolith.
"The Republican conference isn't a monolith," said Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina.
The 40-year-old bistro is an institution, a monolith that casts a long shadow.
Venture capital isn't a monolith, but startup investors are compared to lemmings for a reason.
Students gather around a replica of the monolith from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Here are some of their reflective and thought-provoking responses: Women are not a monolith.
The community of therapists, like the community of sexual assault survivors, is not a monolith.
Microservices require a much more comprehensive monitoring effort than you have had with your monolith.
The argument that Medicaid is a "big government" program — a bureaucratic monolith — is another myth.
A year earlier, Chelsea had unveiled Gazprom, Russia's energy monolith, as its official energy partner.
Jeffe, the USC professor, cautioned against thinking of Hollywood as a monolith of liberal Democrats.
As a non-expert, I often find myself imagining the healthcare system as a monolith.
Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post so that his technology platform monolith has a voice.
But in the quest to add more, the developers at Monolith Productions have diluted the experience.
Conservatives don't have to exist in a monolith and share the same brain on every issue.
He mainstreamed conservative thought in America and was finally the answer to the liberal media monolith.
It would be a shame to see that turned into another arm of the Disney monolith.
I also hope that people realize after watching this episode that Islam is not a monolith.
The thunderous monolith that is "Sunbather" hits us in the chest and no-one sits again.
"I think it's important to remember that the Latino electorate is not a monolith," she said.
The glass monolith formerly known as the Hancock Tower, for example, is the city's tallest building.
But country music is far from the politically crimson monolith it is often assumed to be.
The Mauritius I'd come to know now lay firmly on the other side of the monolith.
"Black women are not a monolith, and we all have very different experiences," Ms. Lee said.
Employer-based health insurance isn't a monolith — the cost and generosity of that coverage varies widely.
The one decipherable image is a pink, rectangular, eraser-shaped monolith that ricochets around the screen.
On top of that, Hispanics aren't a monolith: More than 22016 percent voted for conservative Texas Gov.
It's a little like "Monolith" in how it escalates, albeit without the same degree of dread attached.
After 25 minutes, the clay monolith had been reduced to a formless mass and the performance concluded.
And since the community is no monolith, maybe it's time society stops treating these women as such.
KJF: I often think when we speak to people of color, we create a monolith of resistance.
The fruit of their labor is their recently released 11-track psychedelic album, The Monolith of Phobos.
Expelled from the monolith, Mr. Simmons is undergoing recovery in a media market hungry for fresh programming.
The Catholic nuns who operate the place are not a monolith — some are kind, others horrifically abusive.
Among the most famous images is a striking view of Lower Manhattan enveloped by a horizontal monolith.
"The crosses there are much smaller than the 40–foot tall monolith at issue here," Thacker noted.
The rule of law is not a monolith, but a product of a complex interplay of forces.
"It's one of those beautiful experiences showing that groups of people are not a monolith," she said.
But Mr. Rapaport said it was conspiracy-minded to accuse the community of acting as a monolith.
The trumpet fanfare (composed by Alfred Newman in 1933), klieg lights and familiar monolith logo will remain.
The FBI isn't a monolith, and it isn't the bureau as a whole that is targeting Clinton.
Socially, the LGBTQ community is often framed as a monolith that centers on cisgender white gay men.
As Dear White People quickly underlines (and as should be obvious), Winchester's black population isn't a monolith.
After downloading the Petcube app, you can link your phone up to the monolith, accessing the device's camera.
We were going for the guitar tone from T. Rex's 'Monolith' and I think we got pretty close.
It's reminiscent of both Apple's dustbin-like 2013 Mac Pro and the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Traditionally, the political assumption has been that black people are a monolith, collectively aligned in ideals and values.
In Monolith, created by Sam Loeschen and David Carney for Ludum Dare 38, you have to go fast.
But now the company is taking that approach to higher-end audio products with its new Monolith line.
Oberlin was a monolith for Clinton, in a state that Clinton won by less than two percentage points.
A realm that once comprised countless nations has become a supercontinent, a monolith of homogenized use and mood.
Act 2: scientist takes a trip to the moon, find another monolith, which broadcasts mystery signal to Jupiter.
Same with the ship, which felt like an Easter Island monolith without a face — something timeless and vast.
On the one hand, it's refreshing to see the Chinese diaspora portrayed as something other than a monolith.
The imposing Hotel Bulgaria is another option in the center of town — a huge 216-floor concrete monolith.
These are important instances of the fact that Europe before Luther was by no means a religious monolith.
Public libraries are refuge - from, among many other things, the spread of corporate monolith advocated in this piece.
But approach the monolith and look closely, you'll see its "future", not nostalgia, that's written across its surface.
That's the benefit of being separate from a woke-monolith that would favor the forced over the honest.
And like any great monolith, Earthworks overwhelms in the best possible with with its sonic and visual beauty.
" If it works, little Paraguay may find itself listed as a "monolith in the study of overcoming corruption.
It is also an ideal viewing platform, where any vantage point offers vertiginous views of the stately monolith.
"We're not a monolith, but Hispanics generally are much more moderate than liberals imagine we are," she said.
To outsiders, it's a monolith that steamrolls entire industries and nation-states as it pursues its business goals.
Gender roles, of course, are not a monolith, and expectation can be influenced by race, culture and class.
Or even worse, they build on legacy core banking providers, with monolith systems in outdated languages (hello, COBOL).
Outside of Moonolith, Baraga is also touring Cyanometer, a monolith that captures the sky's various shades of blue.
It found massive popularity and was eventually acquired—along with Chen's first company Serious Business—by gaming monolith Zynga.
" Brian looked back at the white lady, and indeed she looked impressed by his use of the word "monolith.
Critics warned that the merger would create an industry monolith, one capable of crippling competitors in the ticketing business.
At the suggestion of a Monolith employee, I started my time with War by attempting to seize a fortress.
Instead of having a "big, bulky, and white monolith of an appliance," they chose a ventless washer-dryer combo.
I mean, anyone who&aposs spent any time in Silicon Valley, it&aposs a -- it&aposs a political monolith.
The Owen's Park tower, which served as University of Manchester's halls in Fallowfield was a 21-storey brutalist monolith.
Going around the back of the moon, they were going to say there was a huge monolith standing there.
It also may have the power of the word to finish off the era of Microsoft's corporate meeting monolith.
When people dismiss the internet as an outraged monolith, they're usually missing out on more nuances than they think.
The idea of the preyed-upon consumer controlled by the capitalist monolith is highlighted in Yoshua Okon's Freedom Fries.
The industry can be both corporate monolith and safe artistic haven; the new streaming overlords can have downsides too.
Disney is unusual in that it doesn't really have an obvious prestige TV player within its massive corporate monolith.
People see them as a monolith, or only see them as filling a gap that exists for African-Americans.
We began with Bete Medhane Alem (Savior of the World), considered to be the largest monolith church on earth.
Certainly, the Asian-American community is no monolith: Liberal Korean-American groups, for example, backed Democratic challengers in 2018.
Like the Black community itself, the Black filmscape is no monolith; Black films cover a wide scope of subjects.
Each stop tells its own story, a reminder that Africa never has been and will never be a monolith.
I also discovered that Florida isn't a monolith; it's many states in one, filled with different people and cultures.
Race veterans say that approaching this rough-and-tumble, 628-nautical-mile racecourse as a monolith can be overwhelming.
Like most human endeavours of that size, and most artistic trends, "it was not a monolith," Ms Wiedemeyer says.
Called Monolith, the satellite will test out if small-sized vehicles can carry payloads designed to study space weather.
Pressley's decision to break with her fellow members of Congress is a reminder that the Squad isn't a monolith.
He treats Muslims as a monolith, a group of millions who deserve to be banned from the United States.
Even while off, it dominates its surroundings like the monolith from 2001, inspiring similar hoots and leaping from trembling hominids.
Federalist Society members aren't a monolith, but they generally share certain ideas about how to interpret and apply the law.
Putin is often put up as this sort of central antagonist, but the Russian government is not this shadowy monolith.
Johnson asked The New York Times how Amazon's business practices weren't considered "extortion," and compared the monolith to the Mafia.
That's about 2625 times the volume of sediment contained in Australia's famed Uluru sandstone monolith, also known as Ayers Rock.
Monolith's monolith will always remain squarely out of reach, never moving closer as you avoid the game's 3D-shaded bullets.
Apple's a monolith of money and users, and thanks to Android and Chrome OS, Google is right there with it.
If you can't see it, the problem isn't some biblio-philosophical one, unfair but unchangeable in the mysterious fashion monolith.
It was certainly not going to just gobble Motorola up into its global monolith and deprive it of its uniqueness.
Now, six months after release, developer Monolith is removing both the in-game currency and war chests from the game.
In fact, we are less a monolith and more a monster sorority, patched together from disparate viewpoints and dissimilar experiences.
The latter two went bust in 2001 and WWE quickly purchased their assets, cementing its position as a global monolith.
The message from 250, eventually removed from the monolith and preserved in a local museum, elicited not a single smirk.
The striated blues and whites form an architectural monolith that seems at ease in the lonely reaches of the ocean.
A language isn't a singular monolith, but rather a complex interconnected system of components that build a way to communicate.
The military is not a monolith, and many hard-line generals would like to regain full control of the government.
One of these, "Column," a six-foot-tall monolith made of plywood, is considered by some his first Minimalist sculpture.
Nonvoters are no monolith Expanding turnout is the core of the electability argument that Sanders offers in his campaign appearances.
This group is not a monolith, but its social hierarchy often functions like the military, a university or private business.
The tech industry, after all, is not a monolith, and many engineers and entrepreneurs work on projects that help society.
But he had solid conservative beliefs and viewed the mainstream news media as a liberal monolith that wasn't for him.
The Innsmouthers aren't a monolith, but a varied group of people trying to survive in a city that doesn't want them.
They're not always cut and dried, and the critics don't speak with one voice, because marginalized people are not a monolith.
Monolith: Machine Learning Platform that helps engineers to predict the outcome of unknown, new tests or simulations by reusing historical data
Global coffee monolith Starbucks announced Monday that by 2020, it will no longer offer plastic straws at any of its stores.
Pressley's decision to break with her fellow members of Congress for now is a reminder that the Squad isn't a monolith.
It's easy for the Igbo to regard themselves as a cultural and religious monolith as long as they remain in Nigeria.
The Monolith Air bookshelf speaker In addition to the headphones, Monoprice is also releasing some affordable home theater speakers and amplifiers.
The 'Boomers' players helped open a basketball court at Mutitjulu, a remote community in the shadow of the 348-metre monolith.
They are individuals and it would be ignorance [to say] everybody who voted for Trump is a monolith, is a racist.
"Warchiefs can actually change [a fortress's] defenses," Michael de Plater, VP of creative at Monolith, said while narrating for the demonstration.
"When you think of the big monolith that's there at the moment, it's not going anywhere in a hurry," he said.
The once-Motorola is now an embattled mobile hardware division trying to find its proper place in the larger Lenovo monolith.
It portrays attackers and potential attackers as a monolith, identifiable by common features that are alien to America's non-Muslim majority.
In the end, Kubrick decided that "you cannot imagine the unimaginable" and, after trying more ornate designs, settled on the monolith.
But Trump's comments on Tuesday painted Jews as a monolith and a group that should somehow be treated differently than others.
Anybody expecting a pathological monolith gets, instead, a kaleidoscope of personalities and class, of parents — married, single and somewhere in between.
Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick imagined a scenario where some advanced intelligence life placed an information-sharing monolith in Africa.
Sales excluding passed-on catalytic converter monolith costs rose to 3.79 billion euros ($4.49 billion) in the third quarter, Faurecia said.
"I think that pundits, but also data journalists, are treating the black electorate as a monolith," Fraga said in an email.
In more contemporary times, she said, the stereotype is problematic because it flattens a massive group of people into a monolith.
We set out to prove that black people are not a monolith — we are diverse and have a range of experiences.
But while the top-level headline is that Black voters have chosen their candidate, the electorate is not a uniform monolith.
Laundroid is slightly smaller than a typical refrigerator and looks like the monolith from "2001: A Space Odyssey," except with drawers.
The Cuban government likes to portray itself as a monolith, even though some factions are more conservative than others, she said.
Elections may have shown that black voters often become an electoral monolith, but they are far from being an ideological one.
Of course, Asian-Americans are no monolith, and the term encompasses a huge range of ethnicities, nationalities, languages and political views.
" Stewart also cautioned liberals against turning Trump voters into "a monolith," or defining them all by the "worst of his rhetoric.
I'll tell you, I never had to because I think ... Look, I come from, this is also about sort of again, just like the center left isn't a monolith, the left isn't a monolith, and I come from a part of the left that has always been interested in engagement, constructive engagement, building constituencies for change.
For starters, it's likely to be a better aesthetic fit with your home than the Echo, unless you live aboard a monolith.
Black and Brown people from big, urban areas are not a monolith, and On My Block takes care not make them one.
There is an entire field of Apple criticism reserved for iTunes, a cross-platform monolith that serves a bewildering variety of functions.
First, there is this belief in an information monolith, that Google is the only lens by which we can see the world.
It's not always praise — there are pockets of dissonance that mostly serve as a reminder that no identity group is a monolith.
Otherwise, in less than a decade, a giant communications monolith would be legally allowed to do whatever it wanted to crush competition.
" In a separate tweet, she added, "Conservatives don't have to exist in a monolith and share the same brain on every issue.
You're at some vantage point beyond the Earth, and presumably it's from the vantage point of the aliens who plant the monolith.
And what we've added to that is centering the idea of intersectionalism, intersectional feminism which means that women are not a monolith!
There won't be a single answer — that group is not a monolith, and who the Democratic nominee is will make a difference.
In his VR world, the statue is a towering monolith, scores of stories high, almost sublime in its ludicrousness and monumental proportions.
A pale monolith of taro cake sits chummily among the sweets, but those are onions strewn across the top, fried until crackly.
Several new polls in California, North Carolina and Texas underscore the often overlooked fact that the black vote is not a monolith.
The 1,300-foot tooth of the monolith is painted with streaks of black and orange, and waterfalls cascade over the bare rocks.
Asian-American artists engaged deeply and creatively with Abstract Expressionism, counter to historical views of the movement as a New York monolith.
But, of course, black voters are not a monolith, and one group of black voters in particular turned to a different candidate.
"Ghosteen" is an eerie, somber monolith, a set of 11 songs that stretches over an hour and is grouped on two CDs.
Time and again, the students of Oberlin College are represented in mainstream media as a monolith conforming to illiberal values and practices.
No demographic is a monolith, of course, and Mr. Sanders's support comes with fissures along fault lines of age and educational attainment.
" She notes that while no minority group is a monolith, in Hollywood, they tend to band together "because we are racialized together.
Latinos are not a monolith, and their political decisions are also shaped by age, region, and the immigration histories of their families.
This certainly isn't the first time a fast-food monolith has attempted to distill and encapsulate their wares into the realm of cosmetics.
But let's not serve the aesthetics of plants with a sterile monolith plant neighbor that has water-filled hoses sprouting out of it.
But even Saudi Salafism, despite appearances, is no monolith, according to H.A. Hellyer, a British scholar who studies Muslim communities across the world.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to be released this fall, offered an opportunity for Monolith Productions to fill in those blanks.
Where the Death Star is a monolith, the Gauntlet works by harnessing the power of multiple stones, each powerful in its own right.
Since Gail doesn't have the $17 million necessary to save her son, she is entirely dependent on swaying one monolith of a man.
The end result: a 30 foot-high Vantablack monolith that can split in two and reveal video screens and a wall of lights.
Women aren't a monolith, and we shouldn't have to be called on via slogans to constantly prove our viability as a paying audience.
It's called LinkNYC, and each "Link" is a nine-and-a-half-foot tall futuristic mini-monolith that beams wifi signals to all.
The upshot is that the villagers want no part of India any more: the inscribed monolith is, in effect, a declaration of independence.
The problem is that American media presents Islam and its people as a monolith: They validate the view that all Muslims are homophobic.
It is a de facto endorsement of the false idea that economies and industries can be managed effectively by a central government monolith.
But to some, the big board's inherent mediocrity was part of what they found so endearing: It is a monolith with human imperfections.
What a lack of diversity does is create a monolith of who we see on-screen, and it's a false mirror of ourselves.
He was projected onto a large monolith reminiscent of the Lincoln Memorial, while a disco ball cloaked the audience in dotted, fragmentary light.
Our cultural climate has trapped minorities in the monolith and has made us accept being visible, even if we are not fully seen.
Well. Shortly after they acquire the ship, they crash it into a floating 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith that people call Lunatic Pandora.
When she began auditioning for roles in New York, Ms. Udofia noticed that Americans spoke about Africa as if it were a monolith.
For example, Geskin claims the stainless steel frame will be a polished black, meaning the entire device will look like a black monolith.
The "Project Debater," system is a 5-foot-tall machine shaped like a monolith with TV screens on its sides and a female voice.
You'll be scaling the heights of a massive monolith one moment and stalking out a rodent around the decks of your ship the next.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of tourists clambered up the UNESCO World Heritage-listed 348-metre (1,142-ft) monolith, formerly known as Ayers Rock.
With its new credit card, Uber could make a compelling proposition for companies that want to find a way to offset the Amazonian monolith.
We will persist in our calls for equality, not just for women as a monolith but for individual women in all their intersectional brilliance.
The boy has seen the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and the device resembles the black monolith before which humanity's simian ancestors prostrated themselves.
And all of our efforts in the Senate to shed some daylight on this dark money are crashing against a monolith of GOP opposition.
The internet monolith recently released its annual Year in Search data, and it gives some clue as to what a downer year it was.
Pemex, the state oil monolith, is being forced to auction off some fields to foreign bidders, and to form joint ventures with foreign firms.
"Idol" was a monolith and a prime-time network television phenomenon, but one in which fans made the stars, not the other way around.
With no way back up the monolith they abandoned their home and moved to the 357-foot tall mesa where the village sits now.
The black/brown monolith puts everyone on the same plane in a way that can blur critical edges of our unique experiences and expectations.
Toward the end, a "2001"-like monolith hovered over a distant, luminous portal; then an inflatable tarp of garbage-bag plastic covered the stage.
It was this month in 1958 that Warren Harding, a Californian, proved them wrong, ascending the 3,000-foot granite monolith for the first time.
"The saying I like to use is, it's easy to hate a faceless monolith, but it's harder to hate a person," Cutts told CNBC.
Australia's sandstone monolith Uluru is an immensely sacred place to the local Aṉangu people, and somewhere many people have dreamed of visiting one day.
The first ever tweet—shit in every conceivable way—is a monolith-like statue to what we came from, and what we have become.
Navarro says that this cliché can cause people to view the agency as a monolith of stiff, sinister bureaucrats and sunglasses-wearing, suited men.
The women of Alabama are not a monolith, but there are forces at work determining which ones get to shape policy and which don't.
"It was just, you know, standing right next to a monolith and not really getting the scope of what this thing was," he said.
The show went through one of those periods where it became a cultural monolith, especially early in the year, when Donald Trump took office.
A genuinely creepy article on how much the monolith has on you — to help you find friends, sure, but also to monetize your life.
Some examples: Iran With a population of more than 81 million people, Iran is no more of an ideological monolith than the United States.
She knew very well that the food of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh wasn't an intensely spicy monolith, or the stuff of cheap lunch buffets.
"African art has long been seen as a monolith, but it really has many different origins," said Mr. Ojikutu, who is also an artist.
One Manhattan Square, an 815-unit monolith that looms over the Lower East Side, has become a symbol of the city&aposs condo glut.
While identity politics tends to trade in pathological assumptions of behavior, again, Black voters or women voters are far from a non-differentiable monolith.
Last month, she penned a column for the Washington Post decrying our (bipartisan) tendency to treat rural America as a racial and political monolith.
When you think about Alexa, you're probably thinking about the Amazon Echo, the tall, cylindrical monolith that first introduced Amazon's chatty assistant to the world.
Interactive Entertainment and Monolith have officially announced Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, with a new cinematic trailer.
There's an old joke that all phones now are "big black slabs" that simply aspire to look like the monolith in 7.13: A Space Odyssey.
In a separate demonstration, I watched a Monolith employee successfully claim a fortress over about 20 minutes of gameplay, and it was thrilling to watch.
Co-curated by Katy Siegel and Kelly Baum, the exhibition features 40 sculptures made over five decades, and eight paintings from the "Black Monolith" series.
The museum's mini monolith has 15 exhibits, featuring objects such as a 3D print of an octopus brain, and three tiny movie theaters playing videos.
Game of Thrones fandom is, in essence, like a microcosm of the internet at this point — something as far from a monolith as civilization itself.
Last week, we featured sales on gear from outdoor retailers who were hoping to get a jump on the creeping monolith that is Black Friday.
Rising from a lush, forested river bottom, the bare-rock monolith stands like a mini Meru between the cliffs and crags of the valley walls.
Of course, no voting bloc is a monolith and black voters in South Carolina don't speak for black voters in other parts of the country.
Others are as elliptical as Martin Puryear's 228 sculpture "Self," a hunching, black, thumb-shaped monolith of meticulously cut and finished mahogany and red cedar.
CreditCreditToya Sarno Jordan for The New York Times BALTIMORE — From the outside, Lockerman-Bundy Elementary School looks forbidding, a tan monolith built in the 210s.
To be fair, other types of benefits are still on the rise — think lactation rooms and standing desks — and the job market is no monolith.
Until it gets there, Amazon won't go the way of Alphabet; it will go head-to-head against Google's empire, multi-headed conglomerate versus a monolith.
Stranger still, the Underwood White House remains a tight-lipped monolith, despite the fact that every White House (especially ones run by weirdo megalomaniacs) has leaks.
Asians — a population of more than 4.4 billion people — are not a monolith, and our need for representation and empathy can't be addressed by nonwhite casting.
There is a long history of Western portrayals of Africa conflating its thousands of incredibly diverse cultures, creating the false sense of Africa as a monolith.
Democrats hope the failure of a handful of nominees is a sign that Republicans won't always vote as a monolith, but the numbers are against them.
"This SUV is a monolith, appearing to be seamlessly machined from one solid block," Klaus Bischoff, chief designer at the Volkswagen brand, said in a statement.
The film's place in the pantheon of black connectivity is so potent because it stands neither as past or future, but as a monolith to itself.
Their conclusion: While China's economy is slowing, it is not a monolith that booms and crashes in a cycle where all boats rise or fall together.
Adventure Time arrived on television like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and forcibly evolved the concept of what quality animated children's shows could be.
It has a wooden base that holds up what's basically a sloping monolith — a curved black something or other with no obvious function beyond looking cool.
But, but, but: Berin Szoka, the president of TechFreedom and a witness at Thursday's hearing, noted the right "isn't a monolith" when it comes to Facebook.
In an act of protest against the German quinquennial, the group Lgbtqi+ Refugees in Greece has rock-napped Roger Bernat's sculptural replica of an ancient monolith.
Spiraling ramps descend into crevices in the 6.5 acres that ripple around a central nine-ton monolith, all rising against an atmospheric view of the Catskills.
"We are not a monolith," said Mr. Suarez, the lawyer here, who is now also helping place law students from the island in schools in Florida.
The ban is intended, in part, to prevent environmental damage to the monolith, which sits inside a national park that is a Unesco World Heritage site.
The Latino vote is not a monolith; Sanders polls notably behind his national averages in Florida, where Cuban immigration has created a more conservative Latino electorate.
Geophysical survey techniques allowed scientists to first discover Superhenge and conclude that each monolith was organized in a circle with a diameter of about 500 meters.
At night, the Switch House is lit from within, a 23-story concrete monolith calling to the dignified masonry of St. Paul's Cathedral across the river.
On "Clear Monolith," a sparse and jittery start gives way to a halting dance before a blues feeling steals in and pulls the two players together.
And it's an answer to ComplexCon, the glorified mall and music festival hosted by the "youth culture" media monolith Complex in Long Beach, California, every November.
While there's no historical national data to support that claim, a Pew study last year looking at demographics among gun owners showed that they're not a monolith.
Ideological diversity is crucial, but positioning it against traditional definitions of diversity—as though hiring women and minorities means building an ideological monolith—is insulting and absurd.
The Church is not a monolith and the pull away from blessing nuclear weapons represents an internal schism at odds with its public face in recent years.
All used a color to render their position and numbers unmistakable, to telegraph a point in a visually impactful way, to render their individual selves a monolith.
He was dressed in a costume made entirely of 300 balloons — a representation of the monolith that appeared to set the events of Kubrick's movie in motion.
In fact, much like it was on the original trip to Florida, anyone in my presence typically thinks my reaction to a statue or monolith is ludicrous.
And a major centerpiece of the museum remains James Hampton's "Throne of the Third Heaven" (1950–64), a foil and found object monolith acquired back in 1970.
But this time may be different because there is a clear alternative to the coal-dominated monolith—a market-based model that is open to renewable energy.
Many assume we are left-wing Twitter warriors, bleeding-heart socialists or an ignorant monolith that cares more about the latest celebrity showdown than about substantive issues.
Amazon also edged out Walmart, one of its top competitors in the business-monolith-cum-health-care-company space, which had reportedly been looking to purchase Pillpack.
It even looks like a Tycho album, with a beautifully minimalist cover featuring a black monolith against a stark red background, white sun rising in the sky.
But I'd love to see greater daring by producers — and I'd like them to keep in mind that female theatergoers are a majority but not a monolith.
"Son preference," the idea that South Asian parents prefer sons over daughters, is a stereotype that follows Indian families, as though all Indian families are a monolith.
They try to take the fun and ... You know, I'm a Patriots fan and Bill Belichick is the most colorless, joyless, sort of looks like this monolith.
But to look at these shootings simply as a monolith is to strip the individual pain that these affected communities feel on local, personal, and family levels.
And though they are often thought of as a monolith, Mr. Frey warns that there are limits to thinking about Hispanic voters as a single voting bloc.
Evans's 1929 photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge depicts a black monolith from a low angle, emphasizing form and light rather than some vernacular truth about the structure.
Yes, it has a Latino population, but the Latino vote isn't a monolith — Florida's heavily Cuban population does not mirror the Latino population in Nevada, for example.
With each episode, Thede and her crew debunk the idea that Blackness is a monolith, declaring that sometimes diversity can mean a room filled with Black women.
I also wanted to clearly show that the former Eastern Bloc is not a monolith, but a group of very different countries, each with its unique history.
The main thrust of that National Academy report was to suggest that we should stop treating GMOs as a monolith and assess each crop on its merits.
Although Baranor is the first significant character who isn't white in the Lord of the Rings, Monolith didn't release a lot of information on him—until now.
They like to treat it as a monolith and say if you identify as a feminist, that means you must co-sign everything Andrea Dworkin ever said.
Two roof decks offer wonderful views of the city, although it's unclear why this particular monolith deserved to be a towering outlier in a mostly low-rise area.
Jeremiah and Max walked through the small, lush park where all paths led to a central rectangular reflecting pool, still and black like the shadow of a monolith.
Our hypothetical entity could function more like connective tissue than menacing monolith, putting private companies, governmental departments, non-profit organizations, and university researchers into close and regular contact.
Leullier designed a custom dolly system with PRG (Production Resource Group) for the monolith pieces to ensure they would never be in contact with other surfaces while traveling.
Odyssey's selection of Whitten's "Black Monolith" series of paintings, intended as memorials for specific individuals, all exude a magnetic force, and feel especially poignant after Whitten's recent death.
There is openly no reason for The Market to exist, other than to ingratiate an overreaching monolith to a public that no longer trusts it or likes it.
If writing independently, Lennon probably would've focused on the moon and the monolith, but Claypool made it a character study of the astronaut's fixation with this mysterious claim.
It's certainly not a great look for a monolith like Google, which — like most of today's huge tech companies — the public already questions on its commitment to privacy.
Publishing has been an essential piece of Amazon's DNA since its earliest days — but as it has with so many other categories, the company has become a monolith.
From today on, Britain will begin to extricate herself from the European monolith and regain lost self-governing authority, rather than ceding decision-making ability to Brussels bureaucrats.
It's an amazing feeling when you wander across a windy desert, with a robot dog by your side, and see a towering alien monolith just over the horizon.
At the film's conclusion, a monolith looms again, when the ship's sole survivor, Dave Bowman, witnesses the eclipse of human intelligence by a vague new order of being.
This is Disney as we now know it: the monolith from 2001 that brings us not the next stage of human evolution, but rather rigidly enforced family fun.
The mixed reaction of SBC messengers to Pence, as well as the near-unanimous support for the immigration resolution, suggests that, increasingly, white evangelicals are not a monolith.
Here in the West, their words are often drowned out by our perceptions of their oppression, freedom, and alienation within the assumed monolith of regional culture and governance.
"I remember peering into his office and seeing this monolithic pile of white paper — the inverse of the monolith from '2001' — under his desk lamp," Mr. Chabon said.
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If he falls, he dies' Alex Honnold is the first person to climb Californian granite monolith El Capitan by free soloing, something no one thought was humanly possible.
He wants the world to look back across the ages in perpetuity and see his sinuous monolith snaking across the southwestern border, a potent symbol of his masculinity.
Upon first arriving to the museum, most visitors will likely head straight for the touch-screen monolith that matches your photo with the dog breed you most resemble.
VBx 1 and VBx 2, though, don't use nanotubes at all, and that means they're a bit more durable and better suited for large-scale applications like Gesaffelstein's monolith.
Far from a monolith The white working class, which forms the core of Trump's support, is often treated as a monolithic entity, both in its beliefs and its images.
Marie like a monolith — its collection promotes the past told from the point of view of the Jesuits — transforms into a science-fiction horror in several increasingly hallucinatory sequences.
Via press release, the lingerie monolith revealed the names of which Angels would be returning to the catwalk and the star-studded lineup of performers they'll be strutting to.
" An ambient cheese listened to Yello's "Monolith," the hip-hop cheese was exposed to A Tribe Called Quest's "Jazz (We've Got)" and the techno fromage raved to Vril's "UV.
On the square outside Renzo Piano's high-tech monolith, for instance, is a painstaking recreation of Brancusi's original Ronsin studio, with the sculptures inside arranged exactly as he specified.
Decades removed from its heyday as the brutalizer of small bookshops—the inspiration for Tom Hanks's soul-destroying monolith in You've Got Mail—the store is running on fumes.
They've been protesting in front of his gilded monolith because he will not allow them to join a union, which could raise their pay an additional $3 an hour.
The common analysis is that Joe Biden has Black voters on a lock, but the electorate is not a monolith and younger Black voters tend to go for Sanders.
The approach Sharlet takes with This Brilliant Darkness is a reminder that this vast life is no monolith, only a collection of fragments that are captured but in passing.
But American Jews, far from a monolith, carry intersecting identities: We include women, LGBTQ folks, and people of color, and some of us are Sephardi or Mizrahi in origin.
From the outside, the agency may appear a monolith, but in reality, citizen scientists can play a substantial role -- perhaps none more so than in the ongoing Juno mission.
"It's Bernie's message that resonates to the economic hardships of people and not treating constituencies as if they're a monolith, as if they're a one-issue voter," Recto said.
We had rented a huge S.U.V., like a tank without the gun turret — a rolling monolith of American power — and the road to Rushmore was old, narrow and winding.
So the next time you see hear someone criticize "the media," do me a favor: Ask them to be more specific and remind them that we're not a monolith.
Emerson's instrument is a towering monolith with patch cords hanging off it like an automaton's viscera, and it highlights how the story of popular music is bound to technology.
OPEC views shale as a monolith rather than a collection of independent companies, and hopes executives will say they will keep U.S. output under 10 million barrels per day.
The one-minute spot puts Xiaomi's smartphone in the role of Kubrick's monolith, an all knowing, all seeing black rectangle that appears at various locations on Earth and other planets.
And if oil monolith ExxonMobil's stock price ever takes a major plummet, it will probably come from failing to tell its investors how climate change would wreck its business model.
The compound is complete with mock decompression chambers, space suits, living modules, greenhouses, and even a replica of the black monolith featured in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
For years, the Anangu have asked those who trek to the giant monolith to take them at their word that it is a holy place and should not be climbed.
Chin's message here seems to be the idea that any/everyone is (or can be) a work of art, or perhaps a monolith of their own perspective in life ("ME").
It's a mantra we've seen many a mainstream brand tackle in recent years, but for Sports Illustrated, a once narrow-minded monolith of beauty, it's a cultural move long overdue.
A corporation isn't a monolith — it is a collection of thousands of individuals, loose confederacies and decentralized components that have some attenuated influence, but not raw power over one another.
Don't keep breaking my heart by allowing yourself to become just another tier in the looming monolith full of dim bulb thinkers who degrade women and stand in their way.
As he was coming out of a ketamine session, his mind's eye perceived a smooth, black object that reminded him of the monolith in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Esports is so often considered a monolith — a reinvention and reconception of sport — that one can be forgiven for forgetting that there is nothing monolithic about professional gaming at all.
Coupling Claypool's ability to create characters in alternative dimensions with Lennon's skill set, The Monolith of Phobos began to take shape, each pushing the other out of their comfort zone.
Judging by a live demonstration of the series' sequel, Shadow of War, at GDC last week, the team at Monolith Productions is working on an even more compelling Nemesis System.
Mental health disorders are not a monolith and there are discrete factors involved in research and clinical purposes of various conditions like dementia, substance misuse or personality disorder, he said.
The material's ability to transcend the inanimate is one of the qualities McKinley feels sets the pieces apart from being merely sculptures, and moves them into the category of monolith.
You're probably aware that Kanye West, the rap monolith who owns two swimming pools and is married to a member of the Kardashian family, is $53 million dollars in debt.
Talk-show monolith and meme queen Oprah Winfrey says that she's toying with the idea of running for president now that Trump's proven you don't need experience to get elected.
Pornhub launched a "porn for women" category last year, but the adult content monolith certainly isn't the first or only corporate entity to identify a demand for "female-friendly" porn.
In 250, it manifests as a giant black monolith that seems to inspire humans to push past tantalizing frontiers in space, intelligence, and reality (with mixed results for the humans).
On a recent Wednesday morning at her office, on the 153th floor of a glossy Park Avenue monolith, she wore a flouncy, frilly black dress sprayed with pastel-colored daisies.
"We use this word as a monolith, 'plastics,' when in fact it's many hundreds and thousands of different things," said Gregory Bailey, a conservator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
But perpetuating the idea of Southernness as a monolith hurts all of us; it erases the identities of all of the people who have made the South what it is.
Has the media learned anything from 2016 — I mean, it's obviously not a monolith — that they will take into 2020 in terms of how to cover someone like an Avenatti?
Yet "the establishment" of Mr. Sanders's daily warnings is less a monolith than a collection of anxious officials and strategists, with wishes not necessarily decisive in a moment this chaotic.
For instance, campaigns in Florida no longer look at the Cuban-American electorate as a monolith — we know that younger Cuban-American voters are very supportive of the Democratic Party.
Because so many tales are based on something akin to Campbell's monolith, the ones that break through have to have something original, either visually or in terms of the narrative.
Netflix, like many companies in the tech industry, is funded by venture capital, which allows it to continue spending money in an effort to someday become a stable, profitable corporate monolith.
The band's headlining summer tour "The Monolith Tour," which kicks off June 6 in Canada and ends July 22 in Arizona, features opening sets from K. Flay and Walk the Moon.
A combination of Shipt's delivery services, with Google Express and its voice-enabled shopping options, provides a kind of upside-down universe for retailers that are worried about the Amazon monolith.
There is a reasonable sentiment that since not all black Americans fit into the narrative of despair that Trump describes, it's wrong of him to characterize us as a struggling monolith.
So, it takes great pains to turn a dehumanized monolith like "general homelessness" into an honest story even the most "pull yourself up by your bootstraps"-obsessed viewer can empathize with.
She says she understands the community with all of its cultural, political, and economic diversity and is able to target their needs because she understands her district is not a monolith.
With a record 153 successful launches out of 155 flights, the 125-foot-tall monolith, with its sporty teal-and-white paint scheme, is now officially a figure of the past.
Read the timelines and crossover explanations of the Metal Gear, Kingdom Hearts, or Dark Souls games to find people creating an rigid, iron monolith for these works to perfectly cohere to.
"[The marketplace] allows you to miss out on the awesome player stories you would have otherwise created, and it compromises those same stories even if you don't buy anything," Monolith said.
The Onion didn't have the details exactly right — it predicted a physical second remote, not an always-listening black monolith on your kitchen counter — but the net effect is the same.
Barrick, already the world's largest gold miner, said on Friday it considered making an all-stock bid for Newmont, a deal that would create a monolith in the global gold sector.
To date, the SEC has responded to changes in the economy by introducing more and more amending regulations, carving out niches from the overall monolith of the Securities Act of 1933.
Besides the threat of violent death, there is also the insidious, quotidian grind of unremarkable insults: stares; suspicious whispers; diminished expectations; subtle insinuations that you and your people are a monolith.
USA Hockey finally has the players to usurp the aging, decrepit Canadian monolith on the Olympic stage in both 2018 and 2022, and the NHL has taken that away from us.
The Point: Biden is the front-runner -- and still the favorite to be the nominee -- because the Democratic Party isn't the liberal monolith many people online make it out to be.
The story begins four million years ago in Africa, where a bunch of bedraggled primates are losing the battle of the survival of the fittest until a strange black monolith appears.
At Chipotle, nurses will call people to ensure they are genuinely sick and not just hungover, while a 2017 report found that corporate monolith Walmart punished employees for taking sick days.
Turkish identity generally exists as a dehyphenated monolith — aside from the case of the Kurds, who both inside and outside of Turkey have long struggled to express a separate ethnic identity.
It is made mostly of shiny, extra-tough aluminum, has the shape of a hockey-stick blade, and gleams like a futuristic monolith that primitive humans might worship in a movie.
With the selection of these artists, Hollein appears to be reinforcing his agenda to chart a course of an interdisciplinary and multiethnic direction for the Met, long a monolith of tradition.
Trump's success at carrying most white women against the first major-party female nominee showed the mistake of considering them a monolith through the all-encompassing prism of the gender gap.
"Stacked Lawnmowers" pictures four humdrum machines forming an unlikely monolith, and in "Down Box (Football #10)," a dense tangle of football players highlights the sensual appeal of a solid black background.
The first is "The Dawn of Man," in which a tribe of primates living in a prehistorical desert encounters a shiny, rectangular black monolith that emits a kind of choral singing.
For his contribution in Marrakesh, Malas created a cross-shaped monolith in the Ménara garden pavilion that stands in for his real project that we will probably never see in person.
Outside of religious circles, there is a stereotype that all Christians, particularly of the evangelical Protestant bent, are a political monolith, something the demographics of the 2017 election did little to assuage.
On Wednesday, Foster and his wife were standing at the base of the giant monolith when a 216-ft sheet of rock toppled 2100,21857 feet to the valley floor, the park said.
It's still unclear as to why this enormous monolith was unceremoniously blown to smithereens, but it's possible the dam merely served as a temporary barrier intended to balance the harbor's water levels.
Narratively, devoting some scenes to Caputo makes sense: He's the sole component of the MCC monolith who actually acknowledges the prisoners' humanity, who actively works to amplify the voices of the voiceless.
Only in 2017 did small portions of Weinstein's violence, slowly merging together to become a heartbreaking monolith, officially come to light in publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker.
It was a support network that encouraged her to live her life in public, with pride, and knock one more chip from the straight, white monolith that Hollywood, at that point, was.
Look past the perception of the industrial Midwest as a monolith of hollowed-out cities and hulking, empty factories, and you will find economic assets that can power a Midwest economic renaissance.
Earlier this year, they signed to monolith label eOne Music, home not only to metal giants like High On Fire, but legends across the board like Snoop Dogg, Faith Evans, and Bush.
If he and Senate Democrats succeed in blowing up the deal, the biggest winner will not be American taxpayers or rural residents, but Huawei, the monolith enterprise owned by the Chinese government.
Critics of Mr. Trump's comments on Wednesday argued that World War II combatant status was a bizarre subject to invoke, especially since the Kurds were — and are — stateless and not a monolith.
The fallout for Iranian politics Despite the portrayal of Iranian politics as a monolith by many Western analysts, it is highly factionalized with competing power centers and a myriad of special interests.
Already, his slender, white monolith at 432 Park Avenue is visible from New Jersey, Westchester County, and Long Island as it rises to its full height of 1,252 feet at 251th Street.
An upholstered wooden monolith by Joe Bradley, like a cross between a coffin and a phone booth for mediums, is a polite but firm reminder of the eerie transformation awaiting us all.
It can suggest that each wave of feminism is a monolith with a single unified agenda, when in fact the history of feminism is a history of different ideas in wild conflict.
It's a look that the design team knew they had to keep when they designed the new, much more powerful Xbox One X, even more of a monolith with its matte black finish.
Corporate marketing campaigns often paint queer women as a monolith and lean toward overtly tender and heartwarming depictions of women-loving women, which further stigmatizes those who reject marriage, monogamy, or vanilla sex.
The American public, including both Facebook's advertisers and its users, have come to believe Facebook is a monolith corporation that controls every aspect of a fundamental way that people share and receive information.
Women are not a monolith—there are some who enjoy getting a manicure at a baseball game; others would rather have a free beer, or attend a Q&A session with the manager.
But the poor unfortunates who have been dealt a losing hand by the genetic lottery should not be condemned to premature death because of a rigid bureaucratic monolith beholden to the status quo.
Disability is not a monolith, so I am sure that there are some disabled folk who go to bed every night praying they wake up cured and are disappointed when they do not.
From 2008 to 2016, a series of dry lake beds in Southwestern Nevada located in the Tonopah Test Range was a blind spot from the all-seeing corporate monolith continuously mapping the Earth.
In the first Jupiter's Legacy collection, some old-timey people travel to an island where aliens give them superpowers, similar to how the monolith forcibly evolves the apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Who, Elvis, Aerosmith, the Jacksons, Springsteen, Metallica and local material girl Madonna were just a few of the acts who entertained at that Michigan monolith after it opened for business in 1975.
"Monolith of Phobos," from their début album of the same name, was inspired by a fervent remark that Buzz Aldrin made on C- SPAN in 2009, about a curious rock in Mars's orbit.
While it seems easy or possible to lump Muslims into a monolith to pander to racist and xenophobic voters, the truth is that most Muslims — like any other group of people — abhor violence.
For the latest release on his long-running imprint, Adam offers up an EP by Eric van Wonterghem of the pioneering Belgian EBM group Klinik under his more dance floor aimed Monolith alias.
Background reading: It remains a big question whether Latino voters — whose variety of motivations and political interests is often flattened into a monolith — will turn out in large numbers for the midterm elections.
The low-wage workforce is not a monolith; rather, it encompasses a range of jobs taking place on farms; in restaurants, hotels, and fast-food chains; on factory floors; and inside private homes.
That's why I even struggle with being called a "trans advocate," because we cannot use my single experience, because all it does is flatten everyone else's experience and turns us into a monolith.
But for Michael de Plater, VP of creative at developer Monolith Productions, it was also a starting point — one the team is looking to expand upon significantly with the upcoming sequel, Shadow of War.
These blue screen gaffs remind us that technology isn't the infallible monolith we often make it out to be, and that behind these seemingly impenetrable technologies is that all too human propensity for error.
Instead of offering a single fix-all-your-problems monolith like OnHub, AmpliFi is a whole system, including two range extenders out of the box — and you can buy more if you need them.
Because mass cultural events are like heroin to my stupid, technology-addled brain, and if I feel left out of even the most banal monocultural monolith, I feel like tearing my fucking hair out.
LONDON — The British Broadcasting Corporation is variously seen as a crown jewel of British culture, a producer of refined entertainment and reliable news coverage and as a cumbersome monolith, burdened by scandal and mismanagement.
" After the war, Juliet goes to work for "that other great national monolith" the BBC; she produces educational radio programs for its "Schools" department, including a series called, with billboard-scale irony, "Past Lives.
The one gay monolith we have is Drag Race, something that seems to unite all gay men (and many straight teens) in a way that only divas and porn stars did in the past.
Pride in its achievements, coupled with an unshakable belief in a future under socialism, infused a letter that they slipped inside a steel capsule and placed in a hollow monolith brought to the square.
In 1981, the artist David Hammons and the photographer Dawoud Bey found themselves at Richard Serra's T.W.U., a hulking Corten steel monolith installed just the year before in a pregentrified and sparsely populated TriBeCa.
Choral declaiming, pantomime and the use of chairs to suggest most settings are also on the menu; effective as they all are, the result is a stylistic hodgepodge, whereas the book is a monolith.
The global anticorruption watchdog Transparency International describes Paraguay as a "monolith in the study of corruption," a country that offers a case study on the difficulty of recovering from a dictatorship that institutionalized corruption.
But while outsiders are often quick to view evangelicals as a political monolith — 80% voted for Trump in 2016, versus 16% for Clinton, exit polls reportedly showed — some dissenting voices have recently cropped up.
But I think treating black voters as if they're some sort of monolith creates some sort of a blind spot for those following the campaign: the wide faultline along age in the black community.
The Petcube Bites looks like a shrunken down, shinier version of the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the main difference being that the aforementioned totem did not hold up to two pounds of treats.
So a few months after his trip — around the time Alex Honnold went to Yosemite in his van and famously climbed the 3,000-foot granite monolith El Capitan without a rope — Sweat sold his Subaru.
Magazine monolith and GQ parent company Condé Nast, now under the leadership of former Pandora chief Roger Lynch, has been trying to recoup losses by cutting costs and redefining its business for the digital era.
Even though Asians aren't a monolith, we often have shared or similar experiences, and being amongst women who reflected back to me some of the things I've gone through was revolutionary in and of itself.
Fifty thousand people wander through the show venues, where you might see a cardboard box full of $10 geodes or an entire T. rex skull or a multi-ton marble monolith brought in by trailer.
Now, Apple has decided to go up against the same obstinate monolith of US national security interests that helped a Bush get reelected and turned the National Security Agency into a mythological all-seeing eye.
The two entities have been warring for a decade over how much YouTube should be paying the music labels for hosting the music videos and songs that helped turn the video site into a monolith.
Well, if it was good enough for the King family, it should be good enough for America to value enough to save as a living legacy to the idea that black is not a monolith.
Foster's design was a quartet of stately towers topped by diamond-shaped slices tilting toward the sky, a dramatic addition to the site and a gesture toward the angular monolith of David Childs's 1 WTC.
Rae Sremmurd, the masterminds behind "Black Beatles," the soundtrack of 2016's Mannequin Challenge meme monolith, are behaving as if they've just woken up in a strange flat at 2PM after a fairly hefty bender.
Rae Sremmurd, the masterminds behind "Black Beatles," the soundtrack of 2016's Mannequin Challenge meme monolith, are behaving as if they've just woken up in a strange flat at 2PM after a fairly hefty bender.
Or they might choose to highlight it alongside other "heretical" ideas from across history, showing that Christianity has never been a monolith, and that many self-professed Christians had beliefs at odds with official doctrine.
While the structure in the movie relates to the advancing and evolution of the human species, Aaajiao's monolith possesses a small, embedded receipt printer which endlessly prints out what appears to be strings of gibberish.
Two years ago, Goldenvoice — the production company behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — first tried to replicate in New York the success it had with the once-punk, now-mainstream Southern California monolith.
The setup turns on one of those alien mysteries (an extraterrestrial or a monolith or floating spaceships) that have come to Earth to wreak havoc or hatch conspiracies and force humans to make bad choices.
To the Editor: Re "The Untapped Power of Rural Voters," by LaTosha Brown (Op-Ed, June 10): Rural voters are much more diverse and open than people tend to think; they are not a monolith.
On the easier end, you might customize your visuals, or on the extreme end, you might build incredible props and light shows, like Daft Punk's legendary pyramid, Gesaffelstein's Vantablack monolith, or Prydz's multi-story Holosphere.
Another monolith appears on the moon, and yet another in orbit around Jupiter, where an astronaut named Dave Bowman connects with it after subduing a neurotic computer, the HAL 9000, which has murdered his shipmates.
Rural America is not a monolith, but a majority of rural counties fit perfectly into Mr. Trump's preferred demographics: They are largely white (96.2 percent in Van Buren), and rates of educational attainment are low.
One of the many divine accidents of her career occurred when she discovered glacial erratics — immense angular rock slabs — on a collector's property in California and incorporated them into her "San Anselmo Monolith" (2007-10).
Of course, "the party" is less a monolith than an unruly collection of fiefdoms, none necessarily powerful enough to make candidates or voters come to heel through sheer force of will or strongly-worded-statement.
"There's no such thing as the New York Times" is a pretty common response to criticism from inside the newsroom, and if that's a bit defensive, it's also true; the paper is not a monolith.
Read more: The pressures of designing a world-class embassy Inside the glass monolith, tiny stars adorn the windows and internal gardens feature everything from cacti to ferns, in an homage to America's varied landscape.
Since Australia's rusty-red monolith, Uluru, was handed back to its original owners in 1977, the Anangu people have welcomed visitors to walk its 9.4 kilometer (5.8 mile) circumference and soak up its spiritual presence.
The giant monolith, a UNESCO World Heritage Site formerly known as Ayers Rock, will become permanently off limits to climbers from Saturday after a decades-long fight by the Anangu people, the traditional owners of Uluru.
In 2006, a massive monolith of the Aztec earth goddess was discovered nearby with an inscription corresponding to the year 1502, which is when the empire's greatest ruler and the last of the brothers, Ahuitzotl, died.
Since its founding in 2011, Magic Leap has cultivated an enigmatic image that CEO Rony Abovitz compares to the black monolith from 20133: A Space Odyssey — "where it's anything you want it to be," he says.
The blistering time of 483 hour, 58 minutes and seven seconds capped weeks of practice and a few stumbles on the so-called Nose route that runs up the middle of the 3,000-foot sheer monolith.
It hangs from the ceiling like a monolith and, at a distance, has the visual effect of sempiternity: a morass of rainbow tubing emerges from the darkness, endless not like a tunnel, but like a portal.
As Theodore R. Johnson, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and an expert on black voting behavior, points out in his research, black Americans are an electoral monolith out of necessity.
These voters, far from a monolith but united on some key issues, will cast their ballots in Texas exactly seven months after the deadliest anti-Latino attack in modern American history took place in El Paso.
He joined the Obama campaign, tried being a titan of legacy media, and then, last year, made waves as he called for the dismantling of the very social media monolith that had made him a multimillionaire.
The museum is Liu's second; the first, the Long Museum East, a ten-thousand-square-metre granite monolith east of the river, opened in 20143 and contains Chinese antiquities and works by prominent contemporary Chinese artists.
Perhaps, some suggest, the end of NYFW: Men's as a corporately funded monolith may also mark its rebirth as a proving ground for the scrappy independent labels that have been its driving force in recent years.
Andrew was later found dead at the foot of the monolith by Yosemite park rangers and a search and rescue unit, while Lucy was airlifted to a local hospital with a fractured skull, according to KSEE24 News.
During that news cycle last week, I think there was a risk of treating it as Joe Biden versus the rest of the Democrats, who are a monolith and they're all exactly the same on this issue.
The book looks inward and outward, both intimate and expansive — highlighting the shared frustrations and fears of fighting prejudice and systemic bias, while shouting what should be obvious: Mexican immigrants (like any population) are not a monolith.
The monolith of the mainstream media is no more—thousands of different perspectives vie for attention, and if politicians try to spread drug-related panic, scientists, experts, and journalistic debunkers like me can reach large audiences rapidly.
Despite its elegant stone entrance festooned with cherubs and its Art Deco appointments, the Christodora, like the public housing projects a few blocks east on Avenue D, is an imposing brick monolith in a low-rise neighborhood.
The Bolívars are the latest iteration of what was once the marquee youth orchestra of El Sistema, the publicly financed Venezuelan arts education monolith that has been praised for helping raise thousands of children out of poverty.
Interspersed among them are 18 of his paintings from the last four decades, including his often astounding "Black Monolith" series — a group of 11 homages to important African-Americans that this show unites for the first time.
At times, the distortion skews bluntly comic as when, after she's committed, Sawyer sits at a table partly obscured by an absurdly large coffee mug that looms in the frame like a threat (or a wee monolith).
Independent voters are not a monolith but they have proactively chosen not to identify with the dominant two parties in our politics -- and their opinions usually track national opinions more closely than either Democrats or Republicans alone.
To a casual observer, the art world probably looks like nothing more than a corporate monolith producing easy profits for auction houses, galleries and collectors, all attracted to the sale of art for its potential investment opportunities.
But only if you look for them: Once, you'd turn onto 53rd Street and search for the modest swoop of Durrell Stone's canopy; now just keep your eyes out for the cantilevered steel monolith (can't miss it).
But both deals were eventually opposed by regulators, which said a Deutsche Boerse-NYSE marriage would have created a near-monopoly in European futures, while a Nasdaq-NYSE tie-up would have created a U.S. listings monolith.
He says he is proud of how the Food Ranger portrays Chinese people as buoyant, garrulous, and, most importantly, different from one another — given how the population is often painted as a grim monolith by the West.
Yesterday Team Liquid owner Steve "LiQuiD112" Arhancet announced the creation of a new eSports team for Firaxis Games' Civilization VI, filling a void in the eSports scene with all the surprise of a monolith materializing before squabbling primates.
Poverty is not a monolith—there are levels to it, and Jenkins' trained eye draws out subtleties in the experience of his film's characters that render it much more vivid, tragic, and affecting than they might be otherwise.
But these are the same folks who are drawn to open-backed (like the $7503 Grado SR2750e) or planar magnetic headphones (like the $21000 Monolith M-22) which do sound great and don't have to be super expensive.
A creative powerhouse will pass into the hands of a regulated monolith that lays copper in the ground and has a quarter of a million staff, none of whom gets paid to discuss plot twists and dolly shots.
" Not only are diversity advocates not a monolith, but, as author and CAKE Literary cofounder Sona Charaipotra told me in an email, "The idea that marginalized voices on Twitter actually have the power to 'censor' anyone is laughable.
That's part of why the Apple Watch looks the way it does: it's a sculpted black monolith, whose darkness spills over the edges and either blends into a black metal frame or contrasts nicely with a lighter color.
As part of that update, Monolith is also revamping the notoriously long and grind-intense Act IV. "This portion of the game will be improved with new narrative elements and streamlined for a more cohesive experience," it said.
The offices, inherited from the business that poisoned the site, provide a spectacular view of Mt. Garibaldi, which rises to a snow-covered point, and of the Chief, a granite monolith that's British Columbia's answer to El Capitan.
Leaders install a monolith, and the smallest changes require a committee decision, plus weeks of testing and debugging to make sure that fixing the daylight-saving-time problem, say, doesn't wreck some other, distant part of the system.
Australia's world-famous Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, will be closed to climbers from 2019, its management board said on Wednesday, ending a decades-long campaign by Aborigines to protect their sacred monolith in the Northern Territory.
It's a gigantic concrete monolith on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, with sliding exterior walls and an aluminum rolldown gate made by a company that normally supplies shipyards, according to the website of Polish architecture firm KWK Promes.
"Women as a monolith is actually a subtle form of misogyny, and it's been pushed by frankly, I hate to say it, but it's been pushed by a lot of professional females in the industry," Ms. Conway said.
But it didn't really need more than the 252-foot-long tablet, produced in collaboration with the design firm Bureau V, that lies on the floor like an Arthur Clarke monolith that's been reimagined in sinister Macintosh white.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of people are rushing to climb Australia's Uluru, ignoring the calls of indigenous people to stay off what they consider a sacred monolith, before the ascent is permanently banned at the end of the month.
It was a concrete monolith with a vocational center and auto shop in one wing, where everyone was white, only a handful of kids were on the college track, and nobody was made to feel like a criminal.
There are strong arguments to be made for every case, but despite so many opposing characteristics, they tend to be referred to as a monolith -- not individuals so much as component parts of a vast, unprecedented money machine.
The left, apparently a bigoted monolith, has decided that climate change is a fact above interrogation and those who caution any sort of temperance are dismissed as wild climate deniers, as traitors and infidels to the cause of environmentalism.
But the reality of a primary campaign, especially one that damages him among the party faithful and shows that his support is not a monolith, is something that he and his supporters should have reason to be concerned about.
The outpouring of support by Argentina's Catholic illustrates what we know is true — contrary to what both the secular left and the religious right would have you believe Catholics are not a monolith in their views on abortion rights.
On May 21, the grassroots organization Lgbtqi+ Refugees in Greece carried off artist Roger Bernat's 110-pound, plastic and fiberglass replica of an ancient Greek monolith known as the oath stone, upon which council members once swore their vows.
Let's be clear: The media does not act as a monolith, and any suggestion that there is some secret pact among the major cable news outlets to keep their money-maker in office is the stuff of conspiracy theorists.
A chunk of rock broke off the face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Thursday afternoon, injuring one person a day after a massive slab fell from the towering monolith and killed a tourist, park officials said.
That may be an agreeable prospect for anyone who imagines they'll never want a smartphone that isn't branded by Apple, but ceding more of your life to yet another gilded monolith in Silicon Valley — well, we wouldn't recommend it.
SYDNEY, Australia — Hundreds of Australian Aboriginal leaders gathered on Friday at Uluru, a massive sandstone monolith in Australia's central desert, to call for a road map to a treaty and to enshrine an indigenous representative body in the Constitution.
But rank-and-file Republican voters are not a monolith, and when separated out by age or how conservative they are, the survey showed that a majority of some Republican groups want more government action to limit climate change.
And details of his career — four Most Valuable Player Awards, seven N.B.A. scoring titles — were close at hand, literally and figuratively through Sports Reference, a monolith of sports data websites that just happens to rent space from the church.
"I think Asians are not a monolith, you can't lump them all together," Constance Wu told Rolling Stone prior to the film coming out, anticipating the knock that Crazy Rich Asians might leave some Asians and Asian Americans feeling left out.
But far from a monolith, these Asian students come from a variety of backgrounds, neighborhoods, and cultures, though most are low-income (Bangladeshi-Americans are among the poorest in NYC of any ethnic group; one in three live in poverty).
I have no idea if anyone ever read them, because they were a digital monolith — an attempt at writing that existed outside any real community or ecosystem, except maybe my parents and the real-world friends I showed it off to.
"Deep red" Idaho is peopled with pockets of deep conservatism, but it's no monolith: Trump won only 60% of the vote in Bonneville County, for example, in part because 20% of the vote went to anti-Trump, Mormon independent Evan McMullin.
It required the team to visit Surrey NanoSystems in person, pitch the idea, create the set, have each block of the monolith sprayed with 70 layers of Vantablack in a special application room, and construct handling systems for the finished set.
However, the Gülenist construction of Turkey is a stale monolith without historical fluctuations where restaging is not a maneuver but an act of foundation in itself: The performance of culture is as good and true as the promise of culture.
He writes: There is a reason why, in all the Gamergate rhetoric, you hear the echoes of every other social war staged in the last 21.5 years: overly politically correct, social-justice warriors, the media elite, gamers are not a monolith.
The film's answer is to avoid taking on religion in the abstract, representing it not as a monolith with constructive and destructive capabilities but, instead, as a tool used by individuals as they attempt to navigate single moments in their lives.
After all, Amazon knows when it's got a winner on its hands, and, as Google and (likely) Apple rush to bring their first offering to market, the online retail monolith is already on the second generation of its third device.
One other digital component is a reflective Kubrickian monolith that rises and falls from the landscape, a nod to the organic and digital facets of the video, the acoustic and the electronic in the music, and the title of the album.
Just as we were getting ready with this episode to introduce our "Black is not a monolith" theme, Kanye West went way out of his way on TMZ to show that black people aren't even on the same page about slavery.
In just 18 years it has helped Alphabet/Google (the parent company of YouTube) create a $495 billion dollar oligarchy, doing so on the backs of artists who create the professional content that make Google the technological monolith it is today.
Sitting at the intersection of the hypnagogic pop scene of the late '20133s and the incoming vaporwave movement of the '10s, Replica stood alone as its own strange monolith, inviting us to get lost in its maze of faded cultural debris.
Her path (which is still continuing) mirrors the tale of the banking industry as a whole, spanning decades as numerous institutions were ultimately merged up into one financial services monolith employing 240,000 people with a market cap of $241 billion.
I have to confess, the tendency of many Americans to collapse black and brown into an ethnic monolith — a single political idea, a single struggle, too often fused by media and activists into a single phrase — has made me uneasy.
And immigrants aren't a Democratic monolith by any means, considering that Trump — despite his anti-immigrant rhetoric and hardline positions on immigration — carried more of the Latino and Hispanic vote in 2016 than Republican candidate Mitt Romney did four years prior.
Plenty of those traveling supporters might have envisaged their team taking on Barcelona or Real Madrid, one of the aristocrats, instead of the Belgian champion — a club of stolidly proletarian mien housed in an unlovable concrete monolith of a stadium.
"We want to push back against the idea that Muslim women are a monolith, and instead showcase how we come from all walks of life through time and place,"Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, the site's founder and editor-in-chief, told Refinery29.
It almost feels like cheating to send a classic pop song and one of your own biggest hits on a collision course, but few remixes have ever felt this weighty—like a monolith slammed down in the middle of the dancefloor.
And as the byproduct of an independent animation studio fighting desperately against the Disney monolith, even while acceding to the formula Disney built, Thumbelina is fascinating — especially now that, with the advent of Disney+, Bluth's great escape attempt has finally failed.
Page Boy eventually sold to Mothers Work, which was later renamed Destination Maternity, a monolith in the maternity space known for its offshoots A Pea in the Pod (its "luxury" line) and Motherhood Maternity (a label with the "lowest prices around").
While there's no way to catalog the specific stressors that affect such a wide swath of cultures and countries—and it would be disrespectful to consider the category of "immigrant" itself as a monolith—there are fairly universal cultural barriers.
In a game that makes choice and player alignment with characters and emotion and tone into a monolith to worship, it seems that robbing a player of any and all of that is a ridiculous and backward thing to do.
Yang Jiechang's black-on-black "100 Layers of Ink" (1994), a glossy drawing of a crinkled monolith made by saturating rice paper with ink until it buckled, could hold its own in a gallery of postwar American or European abstraction.
"It's not enough to be 'pro-women' or to simply read more women, because women are not a monolith, and plenty of women participate actively in the oppression of people of color, trans people, nonbinary people, women, and others," she said.
Now, it's the outcry of a culture that wants to Make America Great Again, to turn back the clock so that no one outside a monolith can exist within its borders: not gay people, and not black and brown people either.
The Detroit dancers end up on the stairs of the Masonic Temple, a towering monolith that still holds the vestiges of what Brown considers a kind of elite patriarchal society that has long controlled the flow of finance and societal power.
But with the September expulsion of Open Markets and its director Barry Lynn from New America under pressure from search advertising monolith Google, anti-monopoly activists have newfound independence, and a growing list of friends that includes members of Congress.
Every moment Don grabs his alter, and speaks about black folks not being a monolith, or confronting racism with an exposed cheek, blah blah blah ("dignity always wins"), forces everything within me to not roll my eyes back to the point of pain.
Austrian photographer Gisela Erlacher focuses in particular on everyday life beneath the overpasses, rarely showing the elevated traffic, and sometimes even cutting off the frame so all you get is a huge concrete leg stabbing into the ground, suggesting the monolith above.
They purport to represent "the suffrage movement," which was not a monolith, but a decades- long sprawl, a tangle of people and ideas, often in conflict with each other, leading, by 1920, to passage of the amendment giving women the right to vote.
By far the most ridiculous of the Rocky films, Rocky IV sends the mumblemouthed boxer into the Soviet Union to avenge the death of Apollo, who died in a match against Ivan Drago, the Russian monolith of a man played by Dolph Lundgren.
To mark the change - and reduce real estate costs by 10 million euros (8.78 million pounds) a year - Orano will move out of its prestigious Paris headquarters, a distinctive black-slab skyscraper inspired by the monolith in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".
A black monolith, shaped like a domino, appears at the moment in prehistory when human ancestors discover how to use tools, and another is later found, in the year 22001, just below the lunar surface, where it reflects signals toward Jupiter's moons.
The Democratic Party is, as some political scientists put it, a "coalition of social groups," ranging from Planned Parenthood to teachers' unions, rather than an ideological monolith; there's nothing comparable to the array of institutions that enforces purity on the other side.
Throughout the postwar years, Mr. Belyayev watched life in Cherepovets improve, and it was as the 25-year-old deputy head of the city's Komsomol committee that he helped write the message that was placed in the monolith there back in 1967.
The design is intended to convey scope but also, more ambitiously, to reshape a Southern landscape awash in Confederate symbols by asking each of those 800 counties to claim a duplicate marker and erect the six-foot monolith on its home soil.
It doesn't have a coveted ROG logo to slap on every device marketed to gamers, but its new gamer laptop, the Odyssey, has an inexplicable center hinge that makes the screen loom over the keyboard like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I had never read Erich von Däniken's book ["Chariots of the Gods"], and that's the first time I had ever heard of the ancient astronaut theory [which posits that extraterrestrials brought their pyramid- and monolith-building technologies to Earth during prehistoric times].
While Christmas tree delivery is clearly useful for the elderly and others for whom Christmas tree farms may not be physically accessible, does it not also smack of a corporate monolith trying to grasp at yet another precious facet of the human experience?
When my husband and I checked in on Thursday evening, the W, a half-moon shaped monolith visible for miles down the Barcelona esplanade, seemed like a regular hotel (albeit, one with a vast wall of red and silver sequins in the lobby).
The North's relations within its allies had fallen so low by 1968 that it was engaging in border skirmishes with the Chinese while also alienating its other allies, and yet the United States continued to negotiate as if it faced a unified monolith.
SYDNEY, Australia — It is an unusual sight for the famous but remote sandstone monolith known as Uluru: dense lines of eager climbers snaking up its reddish-brown surface, headed toward the peak of a rock sacred to the Indigenous Australians who live nearby.
Second, the bigger impact of the Google advertising monolith is the extent to which it has swallowed a disproportionate slice of the growth in digital advertising generally, relegating many once promising and highly popular ad-based online businesses to the dustbin of history.
To me, it all seemed pretty much beige until, at the Grand Canyon, I opened the app and watched the brown monolith reveal delicate shades of pink, green, orange and tan, its layers displaying hundreds of millions of years of geological history.
And so a slew of companies like industry monolith the Knot, Zola, the six-year-old e-commerce wedding registry site, and other boutique startups promise to cater to the whims of millennials, by shifting the mundane, difficult parts of a wedding fully online.
An opening scene makes use of archival footage from 1964 of the transport of a monolith of Tlaloc, an Aztec god of water, lightning and agriculture, from the village of Coatlinchán to the new museum in Mexico City, where it was to beautify the entrance.
MELBOURNE/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Canada's Barrick Gold Corp said on Friday it considered making an all-stock bid for U.S. rival Newmont Mining Corp, a deal that would create a monolith in the global gold sector and likely push smaller peers to start buying each other.
It's executed with a seamless blend of archival footage and Forrest Gump-style visual effects, putting us on the actual set of 2001 as Kubrick decides how to shoot the famous Moon monolith sequence, with Johnson's character later hitting the auteur up for his autograph.
For example, you can apply for a new account from within the Apple Wallet tab, and the card itself is a sleek, titanium monolith with your name engraved on it, but not an account number (the account number is available in the Wallet app).
According to a report in the New York Times, I, born in 85033, might not be a Millennial but rather a member of a Generation Z. So we don't adhere as closely to stereotypes as some would like, and we're certainly not a demographic monolith.
Frost made his mark in Yosemite during what climbers call the park's golden age, in the 21958s, when a loose confederation of them forged new routes up rock faces like El Capitan, a 21966,21979-foot-tall granite monolith and proving ground for rock climbers.
Running from the landmark Opera Tower, a 23-story beachfront monolith that has seen better days, down to Banana Beach, a laid-back sunbathing patch with a volleyball court and beachfront bar, it was blighted by construction sites, empty lots and low-slung buildings.
"We need to get back to work," Rami Malek's Elliot says, before being cautioned by the illusory Mr. Robot (Christian Slater) that Elliot's battle against the corporate monolith E Corp (and, more broadly, the entire institutions of finance and government) is ultimately a futile one.
Describing a Comcast that has "pivoted" from being a traditional cable and entertainment provider to a technology-focused monolith, Roberts — whose company is still in the throes of bidding on European cable giant Sky — said his focus has turned to innovation, content and connectivity.
Describing a Comcast that has "pivoted" from being a traditional cable and entertainment provider to a technology-focused monolith, Roberts — whose company is still in the throes of bidding on European cable giant Sky — said his focus has turned to innovation, content and connectivity.
Burnham argued that construction of sections of border wall, or border barriers, wasn't a monolith — these were individual projects being funded by money that was appropriated by Congress to the Defense Department and now was being appropriately moved around under authority that Congress gave the department.
Aiming to break away from the amorphous Indian-bhangra-Bollywood monolith that is often projected on Desi communities, the band formed two years ago and started covering folk songs from the sub-Indian continent, but adding the garage-punk sound of their South Asian diaspora mashup.
FilmStruck wasn't the only casualty of the recent merger between AT&T and Time Warner: Last week, the newly minted monolith closed down the on-again, off-again digital comedy platform Super Deluxe, while the popular Korean-language provider DramaFever was axed just a few days prior.
"FILM," the installation Ms. Dean made for Tate Modern in response to her existential epiphany, is a silent, 11-minute, 35mm looped film on what appears to be a giant vertical strip of celluloid, projected onto a 43-foot-high monolith in the London museum's Turbine Hall.
It faced some construction delays over the past few months but now rises like an Olympic-bannered monolith where Avenida Princesa Isabel dives into the famous crescent-shaped promenade along Avenida Atlântica, with its iconic swirl of black-and-white stones and its coconut-water stands.
Below me was a freshly paved road crawling with weekend traffic — a frightening number of R.V.s and S.U.V.s and double-decker tour buses, their windows sealed tight, and a column of grumbling Harleys — and beyond that, through the heat glare, the soaring, extraterrestrial monolith of Balanced Rock.
The court has upheld the public display of religious symbols before: a Nativity scene in the company of candy canes and reindeer in a city park and a Ten Commandments on a monolith on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol surrounded by many other historic monuments.
Contrary to the notion of China's censorship apparatus as an all-powerful monolith, the effort to get an exhibition past cultural officials is often a constant negotiation and balancing act that can depend on factors including which authorities are in charge and what the local situation is.
Per the announcement, Facebook (the parent company) will be adding the new logo to the various services it owns, like WhatsApp and Instagram, in the form of a "From FACEBOOK" tag at the bottom of various pages to constantly remind users that the corporate monolith owns them.
Worse yet, imagine being dragged to a derelict shopping center in Monolith Software's overlooked horror gem Condemned, swarming with lunatics, being told to LEAVE by means of blood scrawled on a mutilated body thrown down the escalators at you, and then finding that the dummies are alive as well.
Theoretically I'd enjoy the desecration of sacred cows, as when "Hallelujah" becomes a dance banger complete with Europop hook, but the song selection irritates not so much for projecting reverential nostalgia but rather for its treatment of the past as a monolith and its consequent failure to engage.
As an outsider to Wakanda and a black character getting acclimated to a new world filled with other black people from a different culture, Queen Divine Justice could offer an amazing perspective on various aspects of the African diaspora, proving further illustration that blackness is not a monolith.
Though he would not have wished for it, Wilkinson's thesis crawled out of the abstract after Election Day and now simmers palpably in the streets, manifest for his audience at the gathering, which is itself a microcosm—despite assumptions of a red-meat monolith—of a crazy-quilt democracy.
Behold: You can spot the monolith in its charging station pretty much as soon as you enter my apartment, and besides serving as a great conversation piece, it also informs all my guests that I am serious about playing PC games, specifically from the comfort of my couch.
It was a combination of things the investigators could prove and things they wished to be true, and it relied primarily on a host of assumptions about Russia that were advantageous for Ukraine to promote: Russia as a monolith, with all power flowing in and out of the Kremlin.
"All of us in the studio are really, really big Lord of the Rings fans, frankly; it's something where [we take these new creations] very seriously ourselves," says Andy Salisbury, a community manager at Monolith who went to Brazil to promote the new Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
Despite the rising monolith of religious conservatism against LGBT rights under President Donald Trump, strategists within this movement tell BuzzFeed News they've been working with Senate Republicans to introduce a bill this year that would both create new federal LGBT rights and add religious exemptions — an alternative to the Equality Act.
Many of the Anangu themselves live in a trash-strewn community near the rock that is closed to visitors, a jarring contrast to the exclusive resorts that surround the monolith, where tourists seated at white tablecloths drink sparkling wines and eat canapés as the setting sun turns Uluru a vivid red.
His longer works, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rendezvous with Rama, Fountains of Paradise, and Childhood's End, begin with simple, straightforward events—like the discovery of an alien monolith, the arrival of an extrasolar object, or the arrival of an alien spacecraft—and lead characters on remarkable, transformative journeys.
Thanks to the rise of the smartphone and tablets, the popular image of a computer has shifted from that of a whirring monolith tucked away in an office to a slick, unobtrusive, endlessly accommodating machine that's at home in every scenario, from the bus to the dining table to the toilet.
A long line of paintings hammers in the self-portrait's limited range: Whether it's Lyonel Feininger as a translucent monolith in 1915, Otto Dix in 1926 and Rudolf Wacker in 1927 in nearly identical tan suits, or Lovis Corinth's sensitive, gray-tone treatment, there's an unrelenting sameness about the underlying project.
Cranes dip and dive in every direction; to the east, the Shard, an overwhelming ice pick of a skyscraper, dwarfs the Victorian roofs of the surrounding neighborhood; to the west, the pregnant monolith of One Blackfriars, a 50-story mixed-used building, looms over the Thames like an alien mother ship.
Hall H, prepare to go upside-down: With a year under its belt and a new season right around the corner, Netflix is moving into the big kids' room, bringing Stranger Things and a couple of original films to the 6,000-seat monolith where so many Comic-Con legends are born.
Gazelle Amber Valentine, Edgar Livengood, and their dogs are perpetually on tour; since 1993, they've traveled around the country in an RV, and highlight each of their live shows with what they call a "White Wall," a ten-foot colossus of speakers that stands behind them like an intimidating sonic monolith.
At a time when socialism is back in the news, to the horror of the mainstream media, the exhibit Monuments Should Not Be Trusted at Nottingham Contemporary is a reminder that a radical left-wing state need not be a monolith, and that social realism only tells half the story.
As I've argued before, much of our contemporary conception of the Catholic Church as this kind of historic monolith is rooted in the church of the 19th century: a time when the church was already redefining itself in opposition to so-called "modernity" precisely by becoming more conservative and codified.
"'Deep red' Idaho is peopled with pockets of deep conservatism, but it's no monolith: Trump won only 60% of the vote in Bonneville County, for example, in part because 20% of the vote went to anti-Trump, Mormon independent Evan McMullin," Anne Helen Petersen recently explained in a BuzzFeed piece on Reclaim Idaho.
"Woman in the Moon" reaches its emotional peak midway through with the rocket launch — a full-scale media event complete with search lights, a grandstand, a frenzied crowd held back by the police, and, as the full moon rises, the unveiling of a huge silver rocket, as godlike as a Kubrick monolith.
Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has everything: peculiar billionaires, a once-adored startup turned monolith, a political mercenary who resembles a Bond villain and his shadowy psychographic profiling firm, an eccentric whistleblower, millions of profiles worth of leaked Facebook data, Steve Bannon, the Mercers, and — crucially — Donald Trump, and the results of the 2016 presidential election.
There are no overt suggestions that the faceless "Tourist" figures mean harm — whether they are themselves the tourists, or they represent a kind of monolith-as-destination-point for tourism, or perhaps the discard engendered by tourism as an industry — or that the "We" in "We the People" intend to exclude you, the individual.
After Zuckerberg summoned a collection of right-of-center mavens to his Silicon Valley throne room — er, boardroom — for an airing of grievances, one of the participants, Glenn Beck, criticized his fellow conservatives for treating Facebook like a left-wing monolith, rather than an open platform that has served many conservatives (himself included) very well.
These concepts found their way into the cinema — into the soft plastic finishes of the circular, rotating space station in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," where it was the antithesis of the sourceless, death-bringing black slab monolith, itself almost the clone of that icon of corporate Modernism, Mies van der ­Rohe's Seagram Building.
In the years since, and especially in the last decade, the art world has transformed into a global monolith: there are now galleries with hundreds of employees and branches across several continents, businesses that have grown into international corporations overseeing the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars a year (and in some cases more).
Studio KO also constructed a few small structures around the property: a laundry room, with a black-and-white mural that the British artist Luke Edward Hall painted across one wall; a churchlike office pavilion with a curvilinear ceiling and wide bay doors; and a three-story concrete cube that appears as some Kubrickian monolith.
To create his Monolith Series, a set of 80 tiny cups, pitchers and dishes made from the rock, he collaborated with an artisan in the remote town of Combarbalá, where internet access is scarce, by sending sketches to the craftsman on the local bus, then receiving prototypes back, weeks later, on the return route.
Grandstanding by the government (blimpishly labelling as "British values" principles like tolerance that are in no sense autochthonous), as well as by some Islamic bodies (the Muslim Council has railed unhelpfully against Prevent) and the press (prone to lazy talk of "the Muslim community" as an indivisible monolith) steers British Muslims away from anti-extremism initiatives.
Not quite an outpost of a tech monolith or a new startup but what you came upon was The Glass Room, a pop-up exhibition organized by Tactical Technology Collective, a Berlin-based non-profit working to promote technological activism, done in collaboration with Mozilla, the non-profit behind the popular web browser of the same name.
Known for its stunning cliffs, burnt-orange sunsets, and bubbling waterfalls, Yosemite is one of the most widely-renowned and popular national parks in the US. Yosemite's El Capitan was featured in the 2018 Oscar-winning documentary "Free Solo," but you might also recognize the monolith as the default background on many generations of Mac computers.
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It's a massive monolith of company that paid an ad agency a lot of money for a spot that's "interactive" and "cool," playing on the announces of countless people who've had Echo triggered by Amazon commercials, not to mention the apparent waking nightmare that is the life of anyone named Alexa over the past couple of years.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's refreshing to be reminded that New York's Museum of Modern Art wasn't always the formalist monolith that its pluralist detractors have made it out to be, and that its current expansion, which dedicates a healthy portion of floorspace to performance, is less a reinvention and more a return to its roots.
She is the daughter of Mary Ellen McAuliffe Valliant and Bruce J. Valliant of Grasonville, Md. The bride's parents are the founders and managing partners of Valliant & Associates, a wealth management firm in Chestertown, Md. Mr. Watson, 25, is the lead knifemaker at Monolith Knives, a company in Charlottesville, that specializes in handmade culinary and field knives.

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