Jeff Goldblum is amazing at riffing and doing this stuff.
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You'll get better and you can start riffing on it.
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Theme parks riffing on existing intellectual property is certainly nothing new.
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Maybe they're just riffing absolute nonsense before the track officially starts.
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I'd just go into the studio every day and start riffing.
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Trump stepped on and off the podium, riffing with his aides.
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Almost 80 years later, riffing on reportage still pulls an audience.
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Riffing aside, the series lives or dies on the featured movies.
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And the next, riffing on her communities, TriBeCa and Tel Aviv.
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Just look at the wild success of Gosha Rubchinskiy, the Comme des Garçons-backed skater-king with his Cyrillic-printed versions, and Vetements, which has been first riffing on, and then riffing with, the classic Champion model.
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Churchman's Hardbacks show where he began to stop looking and start riffing.
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Obviously we're riffing off of a very small amount of information here.
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Mike Flynn's monotonous riffing and the stylings of a Trump Winery manager.
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Everyone should be building on and riffing off of the Inslee plan.
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She gives it her all, riffing like she's auditioning for The Voice.
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The difference is that in "Hark" the riffing has more serious consequences.
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" Riffing, Trump gave the odd response, "I think maybe you do both.
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Writing other things — particularly comedy — feels flirtatious, like we're riffing off each other.
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I'd go, 'Do that thing you do,' and then we'd just start riffing.
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When I was riffing around the office as Carson, he immediately loved it.
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She simply came up with the name Tribeca and started riffing from there.
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The result was like a super-group of brewers, riffing on new ideas.
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Riffing on erm, riffs, is not what Noisey first dates are made of.
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Along the way, he has seemed to go off-script, improvising, riffing — distracting.
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The next day she starts again, riffing and changing until something fresh emerges.
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After all, the artist has a particular talent for riffing on social anxieties.
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I plowed on, picking up the pace, gaining confidence, and even riffing a bit.
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"Don't you have enough?" she jokes, riffing on his good looks and star status.
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Why was she riffing off Kenneth Noland at this late stage of her life?
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He beautifully paid tribute to White's legacy, harmonizing and riffing on the classic song.
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"It'll sound like that," he said, expertly riffing off the mood in the audience.
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"We started riffing about the name 'Jam City' on the the plane," DeWolfe said.
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That, of course, included riffing on the infamous final shot that started it all.
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The reason why is because we did all those Cinematic Titanic [movie riffing] shows.
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These novels are thought experiments riffing on the relationship between gender roles and government.
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" She started riffing, her voice taking on a rhythmic quality: "It's really the woods.
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But as fun as this thematic riffing is, the book resists such easy classification.
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It's a very post-Overwatch experience, without riffing detrimentally on Blizzard's outstanding online shooter.
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The president wasted little time riffing on impeachment during a rally in Sunrise, Fla.
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Here Franken was riffing on the multiple lawsuits being filed against Trump's eponymous university.
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Since we're fans of these films, we hope we're respectfully riffing off the tradition.
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But one of the least gross companies riffing on Bob's legacy is House of Marley.
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It's obviously riffing on this classic Vine: ...which is probably my favorite of the genre.
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He offers personal tales as well, riffing on his marriage, fatherhood, and an extortion attempt.
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For the most part, people had a good time riffing on the now infamous photo.
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"Nation of shit!" an audience member shouts out in English, riffing off the song's title.
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But Gucci makes an argument here — that creativity is borne from riffing on existing tropes.
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You're gathering with an exclusive, elite community while riffing on ideas to help the impoverished.
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"She has to be a New England kind of hoochie woman," he said, riffing merrily.
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They're kind of riffing off of each other, and it was so exciting to me.
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Hannah's riffing off the uncooperative Grover is comedy gold, even with the undertones of anxiety.
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An Appraisal "I live, therefore I make films," Jonas Mekas once said, riffing on Descartes.
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"Make America's parks open again," Columbia Sportswear's message read, riffing on President Trump's campaign slogan.
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Buteau, who wasn't doing standup at the time, says her riffing was at all time high.
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As the guitarist for renowned psychedelic doom outfit Reverend Bizarre, his riffing provided their tectonic foundation.
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That neatly fits the world of the show, which is dedicated to riffing and improvisation, too.
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They're usually riffing on stories that would be better told as short films or traditional games.
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They read like jam comics made by multiple people riffing on what the previous person drew.
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But it was just Duquette (brother of Dan, by the way), riffing on what might happen.
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It's all but certain that the House of Cards writers will be riffing on current events.
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It was there I realized that a little riffing might be necessary to properly test jokes.
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Riffing on a meme together, in relation to a shared experience, is not exactly intellectual fireworks.
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It's strange to watch that now, just a scene of a person riffing for pure enjoyment.
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Messiaen was not solely riffing on Wagner's "Tristan" when he wrote "Turangalîla" in the late 1940s.
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"A father is a necessary evil," Stephen asserts, riffing on the rivalries between fathers and sons.
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The comics are riffing about Bernie Sanders, whom Gillis describes as Mario to Dick Cheney's Wario.
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We're getting used to a lot of filler in fashion shows, or just pop culture riffing.
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And just a few seconds after that fans started riffing online on Miller's dramatic finish line dive.
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They're all riffing off MoviePass's simple premise: Customers choose a movie, time, and theater through its app.
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In Watchmen the series, Lindelof and company constantly let viewers know they're riffing on a past product.
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That is a long time to wait before producing content that's riffing off of a viral moment.
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It is that sort of riffing on the Fab Four's work that produces most of the laughs.
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The audience was not really laughing, but the men just kept riffing on and on about it.
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Then, they play a round of "Would You Rather" riffing on the most newsworthy moments of 2018!
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Once kids master something like dressing themselves, they naturally start riffing, inventing new paradigms like ... sweater-pants.
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" Riffing spontaneously about panelists who had preceded him, Garcetti said: "It's exciting to hear about [a] hyperloop.
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A violinist riffing in the background made the setting more intriguing and Sean's bars were mercifully clearer.
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" Representative Jim Jordan, riffing like an angry auctioneer, closed the hearings dismissing them as a "darn sham.
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"Colbert was riffing," said Ms. Messing, who wore an ivory gown, cigarette pants and a metal belt.
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I have a couple of riffs on the album, but Nico and Victor are the riffing machines.
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During the toasts, West grabbed the mic from a fellow wedding attendee, riffing on his famous interruption.
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Did Rooney have a script, or is he just riffing and pointing wildly as he goes along?
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He was riffing on ads for Black Cat Fireworks, which he had played with as a child.
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The building featured Corinthian columns arranged at uneven intervals, like a jazz musician riffing on classical themes.
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"The Tomato That Grew From Concrete," @thetasteofhome account posted, riffing on Tupac Shakur's famous collection of poems.
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" As he explains over warp-speed riffing, when it comes to gambling, "the pleasure is to play.
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When she's ranting, riffing and soliloquizing, a torrent of metaphor, allusion and alliteration spills from her mouth.
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It's talk radio, so they're riffing off headlines about impeachment, Kobe Bryant, coronavirus, that kind of thing.
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"I had my reservations that Playmobil Pro might not have the same opportunities for riffing," Mizen said.
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Unless you're in that circle around Trump, unless you're in the room with Trump when he's riffing.
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But about two-thirds of the way through John's riffing, he seemed to sense something was fishy.
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We are so on the same wavelength, enjoying riffing about theme ideas (which we could do forever).
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The exterior is tres French with many of the interior spaces riffing on the extravagant Chateau theme.
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"Beyonce schmonce," she captioned the selfie, riffing off Beyoncé's now iconic pregnancy announcement from earlier in the week.
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" Then, riffing with the crowd, he added: "You're right, he doesn't trash-talk everybody -- he likes Vladimir Putin.
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The conversation began with Fey riffing on the numerous charitable causes championed by various celebrities throughout the broadcast.
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Some tagged photos online with the hashtag #RespectAriana, riffing on the title of one of Franklin's biggest hits.
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"It's gonna be great," he'd tell senators, before riffing about how "the pools" (risk pools) would solve everything.
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Synths course in and out of his riffing, giving a cool texture that glitches between heavy and poppy.
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Borrowing from classical, folk, and jazz, riffing across unpredictable chord progressions and time signatures, Genesis electrified European audiences.
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They start riffing immediately, talking about obscure bands before he gives her a demo tape with nerdy equipment.
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Overall, the new season's riffs are very much modeled on the riffing style that old-school MST23K perfected.
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Can Pottery Barn's new apothecary table (riffing on its old apothecary table) be considered reverse-engineered product placement?
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With the 10, HTC is still riffing on ideas that have been around since 2013's One M7.
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He continually veered off-message, riffing on his campaign, Obamacare, his popularity and a host of other subjects.
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Riffing on the "draw this turtle" ad has been done to death and is not an interesting idea.
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Their musical relationship helped Krallice's music grow into a dense display of layered riffing and lightning-quick drumwork.
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From Johnny Carson to Trevor Noah, talk show stars have bonded with audiences by riffing on current events.
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This allows Ms. Moore to move from riffing to building a character, a relationship and even a scene.
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Riffing on this trend, Warren&aposs official online store currently sells mugs that feature the phrase "Billionaire Tears."
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Ms. Coates's illuminating "Incarnations" translates this balanced partnership into performance, riffing on the structure of a classroom lecture.
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And he was just riffing on some of the things that had been happening the past few days.
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In this case, Stallone was riffing — that's what he does — and Variety turned it into a juicy headline.
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The nature and context of those remarks left open the possibility that the president was joking, or merely riffing.
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I like riffing on clichés and trying to find my own voice in what is historically an overcrowded genre.
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Former President Bill Clinton In discussing his smoking process, Obama was riffing on Clinton's famous quasi-admission from 1992.
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Riffing at a campaign fundraiser in New York on September 8, Hillary Clinton veered into seemingly dangerous political territory.
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So the gag is, you're riffing on the audiences being obsessed — and then giving them absolutely nothing. Yeah. Exactly.
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Guest's mockumentaries are legendarily unscripted, so everything you see is the work of talented comics riffing on an idea.
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We're riffing on what he does as a speculator, spending dubious money for his cosmopolitan conception of the globe.
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The president looked comfortable riffing and embellishing in front of the Cedar Rapids audience for more than an hour.
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Will people, even liberals, be interested in watching progressive shows riffing on 2018 hot button issues in 10 years?
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Klein is sharpest when riffing rather than recounting, and efforts to combine the two do not always go smoothly.
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One, riffing on Omran's officelike chair, showed him at a desk as if representing his country to the world.
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On January 28th, RiffTrax (Mystery Science Theater 3000 alumni) will broadcast a "riffing" of the film to theaters nationwide.
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To watch Cassavetes and Falk inhabit their roles is to watch two great jazz musicians riffing on a score.
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No more rallies with an unscripted Trump riffing off the cuff, where he often gets himself into trouble. 18.
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"'It's the economy, stupid,'" Trump tweeted Friday, riffing on the unofficial slogan of former President Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
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At dinner, John paid his kids a dollar for every good joke, and they wandered through riffing narratives together.
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Tinguely's work, while riffing on that of Alexander Calder, is full of dark deviations, destructive redundancies, and repeated cruelties.
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Meanwhile, his fans in Kansas have created this, riffing on his Election Night shootaround: Bernie after last night's win. pic.twitter.
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"In the future, everyone will be offended by me for 15 minutes," he wrote, riffing off Andy Warhol's famous quote.
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We love nothing more than duping, emulating, or riffing on a film that few of our audiences have actually seen.
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She scales up during the climax of the song, wailing and riffing, gospel-style, to the best of her ability.
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Back at his studio in Mont-roig del Camp in Catalonia, he pinned them to his easel and started riffing.
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Rae adds that because she's riffing on the formulas of soapy teen dramas, there'd have to be a "ho," too.
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Users are riffing on the game of the moment, or creating a new one — the weirder your contribution, the better.
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For anyone who's missing the joke here, this is riffing on an actual He-Man toy commercial from the 1980s.
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You can find countless examples of magazines riffing on rumors and nonexistent products There's nothing wrong with any of this!
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Riffing on Creed, he said: Rocky takes place in a world where white athletes are as good as black athletes.
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The clothes were simpler, riffing on Raf shapes of the past: tunics and big coats, threadbare sweaters, abbreviated pullover vests.
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New York pastry chefs and home cooks are riffing on this traditional Eastern European loaf to make it their own.
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I was more thinking of 80s and 90s thrillers—like Single White Female—but these may be riffing off Hitchcock.
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Trish Igo's Trypophobic Treasure took third place, a sculpture riffing on the rare 'fear of many small holes and circles.
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Swan's riffing is as heavy and eccentric as ever, building up to boiling points and heavy catharses like never before.
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There's a riffing, open-mic quality to the first three episodes, as if the show were still trying on personalities.
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The dynamic linocuts combine Ms. Ganesh's talents in fine art and comics by riffing on the story without being slavish.
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As both sides scramble to control the media narrative, they dismiss their opponents as mere grifters riffing for the cameras.
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Sputnik's American hosts follow a standard talk radio format, riffing on the day's headlines and bantering with guests and callers.
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At another point, the president began riffing about the various Democrats running against him before lamenting that they were boring.
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So, it's only fitting that the meal she is preparing today in her kitchen is riffing off those tired ideas.
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The original live version had more lyrics, but the album version got cut down to one verse and extended guitar riffing.
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It shows, in a record that shines some light amongst the dirty riffing, rather than cloaking everything in a dark cloud.
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"If we elect Marco Rubio, every day will be a great day in America," Haley said, riffing on her signature phrase.
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Earlier this month, the actor posted an Amanda Show photo on Twitter, riffing on the "name a more iconic duo" meme.
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So I'm feeding my unconscious material to work on, releasing it completely, and then opening my mind and riffing on it.
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There's even been an episode of that show riffing on the idea that Russia has a salacious, compromising tape of Trump.
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In its eagerness to riff, the company bypasses the foundation of its show, and the riffing has nothing to stand on.
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It was better, we felt, because we were able to riff off of her instead of her riffing off of us.
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Sweetin and dance partner Keo Motsepe created a parody video riffing on the famous Full House theme for their DWTS intro.
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All of these companies are essentially riffing on the same theme, but all of them put their own spin on it.
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But as the medium has evolved, the trope of a host riffing on ad copy is no longer the only option.
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"Chinatown's f—— nuts," Gillis said to co-host Matt McCusker in the clip, which shows them sarcastically riffing with one another.
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And in Sophia (played by the "Tomorrowland" star Britt Robertson), the show is riffing off a real-life, flawed, female boss.
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And they are riffing, really, on the example set by Trump himself: that joke candidacies can be laced with serious potential.
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Or you could join us in our Wednesday tradition here and cook without a recipe, simply riffing off a narrative prompt.
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Last week, Biden set off a furor in the campaign by riffing on his work with Southern segregationists in a fundraiser.
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From phat-riffing industrial metal to beat-centric techno bangers, you never know what you're going to get with these guys .
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To improve Bluetooth, platform vendors like Apple and Google are riffing on top of it, and that means they're building custom solutions.
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Riffing on civility, Biden told an audience of about 100 people Tuesday night that he is uniquely able to bring people together.
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Fans of the show are already predicting the show's new tagline, riffing off season 1's "Welcome to your tape" opening monologue.
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You might feel, I could've used 15% more Captain America there, but, like, you'd be riffing as opposed to telling a story.
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Now its lead designer is riffing on that idea in Miami, using a 503-mile strip of land beneath the city monorail.
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Now its lead designer is riffing on that idea in Miami, using a 10-mile strip of land beneath the city monorail.
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By riffing on memes, trends, and current events — and interacting with readers — Pornhub stays relevant and continues to build an engaged community.
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The shuffling rhythms and wah guitars mingle with wailing brass, driving forward insistent, riffing vocal melodies, never quite letting the listener settle.
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In the Bronx, Port Morris Distillery is riffing on the old-school secret stuff and bottling up New York-made artisanal pitorro.
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" Riffing on the Ronald Reagan slogan of "Morning in America," the strategists said this period is more like "happy hour in America.
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There were toasts with a crowd-pleasing (if prudently priced) malbec and puns riffing on "singular value decomposition" that elicited much mirth.
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Owlchemy Labs wrote the brunt of the storyline, with Roiland riffing on their scripts inside a personal recording studio in his garage.
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Each installment of this monthly event screens a movie while subjecting it to the riffing talents of a guest panel of comedians.
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The clip shows Bullock and Couric riffing on the movie before the host asks what it was like working with Nicole Kidman.
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The narrator then promotes a site-wide discount on dried seeds and nuts, riffing a Chinese-language expression for watching drama unfold.
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The narrator then promotes a site-wide discount on dried seeds and nuts, riffing a Chinese-language expression for watching drama unfold.
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I can't tell you how many games I've played in the last decade that are clearly riffing on Thirty Flights of Loving.
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All of them have done segments riffing on the election—and, more specifically, taking Trump to task—but which has done it best?
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Almost immediately after the game, Lockette posted this Steve Harvey meme, riffing off the comedian's erroneous turn hosting the Miss Universe pageant recently.
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Lil Wayne makes cases for all of the above here, and it comes out of him simply riffing on a couple silly lines.
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"You gotta give yourself permission to take time for yourself," Brown urges, riffing on one of costar Jonathan Van Ness' eminently quotable lines.
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It's such a beautiful peek into behind-the-scenes Kendrick, laughing with friends, riffing on a chorus and crafting a song from scratch.
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In the editorial world, creative conversational riffing is everything, and the eureka moments that could spawn the next issue's cover story are rare.
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In this turbulent election year, it shows Duke riffing off lines from another blonde dude with strong '90s ties who's currently dominating headlines.
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Cheerfully riffing on the time a significant portion of the drama club held an intervention to get me to eat an animal cracker?
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Can we expect more episodes like the one riffing on the Christian baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding?
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As a group, the actresses and their director were at times a goofy, giggling quintet, cracking wise and riffing on one another's jokes.
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Captured by mad scientists, new host Jonah survives a blitz of cheesy B movies by riffing on them with his funny robot pals.
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They blend elements of black, death, and doom metal with complex riffing and a hint of psychedelia, producing a huge range of sounds.
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Ms. Adlon launches into the story of how she acquired the painting "Wine Fine" like a punk docent riffing in her own museum.
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It's a brief verse riffing on the various performances many homeless people must undertake in order to render themselves visible to passers-by.
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"I want to be a female monster," she and her friends purr, in chorus, at once mocking and riffing off Chris's purple fantasies.
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"Zach is really great in the moment, so he's constantly riffing during it and tagging jokes and adding really funny things," Aukerman said.
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Thus, for the Dead Leaders Club, riffing on the notion of sacrificing an animal might indeed lead abruptly to just such an act.
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Marnell was riffing on the popularity of psychoactive bath salts, which took hold across the U.S. in the first years of the decade.
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They're riffing on formulas found in what remains Cage's best game to date, but shifting them into different genres and new narrative experiences.
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As Polygon notes, eBay has a track record for riffing on Amazon's Prime Day in its competitive marketing, advertising "Primo Deals" last summer.
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And last night, during the panel for their HBO show, riffing was pretty much all they did—deep thoughts about their craft be damned.
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We&aposre going to have a lot of fun riffing on the five biggest or most fuzzy or most fascinating stories of the day.
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" READ: CNN's GOP Veep shortlist Hewitt, riffing off vice-presidential speculation, added: "God bless Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, but we need somebody young.
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By fusing and riffing off the words orgasm and organism, he coined his own phrase, "orgones," to refer to his work on the topic.
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I'm trying to do a modern empowerment tale of a young person while riffing off some of those classical traditional tropes from horror movies.
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I got to be very childish, riffing off Hitchcock's idea of using a landmark to create a suspense scene, for the hell of it.
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Queer life here is depicted as both critiquing and riffing on the town's Evangelical legacy, even as their own identities are tied to it.
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As the annual tradition of being outraged by the latest Starbucks holiday cup continues, these guinea pigs are still riffing on Pumpkin Spice Lattes.
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Even if explicit tags were helpful rather than counterproductive — which I doubt, given the stripping of metadata, the jokes riffing on the meme, etc.
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Riffing off Cross's blue credential, one fan wrote that they wished he'd been cast as the genie in Disney's new live-action "Aladdin" movie.
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That's never more true than when he's riffing in front of crowd of supporters, feeding off their energy and letting it all hang out.
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"We Gathered A Group Of Experts Together To Make The Worst Possible Apple Car," joked BuzzFeed's John Paczkowski, riffing on a possible MT headline.
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He picked it up like a sponge—even when he was three or four, he'd be riffing on Sly Stone, singing around the house.
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Celebrated impersonator Alec Baldwin is back as the leader of the free world, except this time around, he's not riffing on the current administration.
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Riffing on the idea that Olana is, in Mr. Prezorski's words, the "American Giverny," Mr. Olin looked to plein-air painting for his concept.
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" Critchley, riffing on Thomas Nagel's famous thought experiment about the unknowability of a bat's perspective, asks, "What is it like to be a ball?
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They're most known for the Wild Feminist collection and made news last year for riffing on Melania Trump's controversial "I Really Don't Care" jacket.
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They took it back to the '70s with "Toys In the Attic," riffing through the song while oversized inflatable toys descended from the ceiling.
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The band found the perfect formula for acid-washed riffing and catchy choruses that any punk, jaded or young, can fall in love with.
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Straight-razor guitar riffing, dramatic 80s synths, and funky bassline propel the song upwards to the heavens, where they encounter billowing, harp-like synths.
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These Shazaam truthers were all riffing off one another, giving each other subtle suggestions to form a false narrative that exists in their minds.
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Kalogridis and her fellow writers seem to have had a lot of fun riffing off Morgan's world from the novel in building their own.
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The culture of the app is based on users trying out the same sounds and dances, riffing on each other's work, and building trends.
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The lesson: How quickly an interviewee's riffing gets turned into clicks — somewhere along the way, this story got vaguely interpreted as a real possibility.
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We'll get back to SaaS multiples, the IPO market, and riffing on startups later today, but first, some bad news from the public markets.
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As things stand, a plausible explanation is that Mr. Trump was merely riffing off a March 3 article on the alt-right website Breitbart.com.
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A week later, the show aired an uncomfortable sketch riffing off a panel of actresses at the New York Film Festival discussing Mr. Weinstein.
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It took a while to explain the concept, but after riffing on it for a while we both were convinced it would be amazing.
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Riffing on these ideas, Self Portrait (Interior) includes a choose-your-own adventure audio narrative whispered into the player's ear as they explore the scene.
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Buren's defanged Duchampian style, missing in high-noon shine or larky brashness, has a primping and riffing aesthetic of high-handedness that left me cool.
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The video continues the fine tradition of Chuck Norris jokes and internet memes, riffing on the viral Dos Equis beer campaign with a similar tagline.
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He was riffing off a paper he'd read in which scientists used a similar topical gene delivery method to give a different gene to mice.
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Adams had plenty of material to work with, riffing on walk of shames, Luke's rejection face, Chris Harrison's diction, and Robby's penchant for white jeans.
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"The ability to start riffing on what other people are doing, it takes the idea of a hashtag to a whole different place," Karwowski said.
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As such, Kupka's paintings are not only eye-catching but can be appreciated as objects of occult ritual riffing on non-humanist modes of expression.
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He raps: And then at the end of his verse, singing and riffing on Bankroll's hook, he reflects on each member of the group. Juvie?
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They share in their creations as equally and naturally as they do the kitchen, treating their songs like experiments in riffing on each others' energies.
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For example, this year's WHCD will not feature a comedian riffing on both the president and his administration and the journalists gathered in the room.
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"InfoChammel is kind of riffing off that, and saying okay, if we're just going to have 500 channels of nothing, then here's nothing," he says.
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Trump also turned to his own election, riffing for a few minutes toward the beginning of his speech as he recounted winning 85033 electoral votes.
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Yet more specifically, she points out a cartoon in which Donald Trump has become Perseus and Clinton Medusa, riffing off Cellini's bronze of the pair.
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It's a bit sloppier now, with its leading performers riffing on their characters, as one might in the last punch-drunk days of a run.
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The "Mandarin" had its requisite, slashing severity, though occasionally a bit too much (as when the heroically riffing trombones ran riot over the other sections).
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This work was made by the artists Eva and Franco Mattes, who were riffing on the famous "ceiling cat" image first posted online in 2006.
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Her work outside the Team took off after a 2010 production of "Three Pianos," a boozy song cycle riffing on the work of Franz Schubert.
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Young people in particular have been drawn to the ability to share 15-second looping videos often riffing on established memes or popular sound clips.
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He's a contemporary artist, riffing on the macho bravado of the Panthers, an organization to which his father, now serving a life sentence, once belonged.
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At her best, her prose reads like Smith verbally riffing between songs onstage with her guitarist pal Lenny Kaye, burning up nights with rock poetry.
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It is riffing off research that shows that resilience and happiness, reinforced by the entire community, can be just as contagious as stress and depression.
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Small wonder the NBA-branded promos for the movie -- featuring Hemsworth and Thompson riffing with players -- generally feel more inspired than the movie as a whole.
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The segment is riffing on an IRL Ingraham interview that actually happened, and — believe it or not — Davidson's parody is pretty close to the real thing.
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Under gray, wet skies, this year's 15 finalists appeared on the open air stage on Oulu's central square, twanging, jangling, riffing, screeching and plucking the air.
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In the meantime, Mayer kept riffing as Roots frontman Black Thought brought out former bandmate Rahzel, who casually beatboxed like a synth was inside his mouth.
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"OY/YO" has its origins in a diptych of yellow-on-blue paintings, from 2009 and 2010, riffing on Ed Ruscha's iconic canvas "OOF" (1962/63).
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The cast has great chemistry, particularly in the warmer early scenes, when they seem to be riffing outside of the confines of the extremely melodramatic script.
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Brittle, preening guitar riffing forms most of the tracks melodic base, though Aaron, ever the genre synthesist, also leans heavily on glowing 808s and quasi-rapping.
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Since 2011 students, academics, bloggers and journalists have been using a hashtag riffing on the lolcats meme, #ICanHazPDF, to request paywalled articles from sympathetic Twitter users.
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Since we already have seen three models riffing on this once-beloved look, don't be surprised if you spot some high-rise bodysuits IRL sometime soon.
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The network will launch with a new podcast called "Good Company with Jake Owen," featuring the country music star and Bones riffing about life and music.
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I have been riffing on this idea of using technology to increase societal resilience, but this is a good example of how hard that can be.
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"What the fuck is going on?" he yells at his computer screen in the commercial, riffing on the volatile villain characters he's best known for playing.
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The movie is the reality that you're riffing on, whereas if you were doing a show that's topical, the world is the globe that you're in.
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"We're not gonna make America great again," Cuomo said at the event, riffing off "Make America Great Again," Trump's campaign slogan during his successful 2016 bid.
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Courtney's clearly riffing off the clown crisis that's ravaged America ... only in her case some simple black tape, fishnet stockings and colorful balloons did the trick.
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"I thought I made myself very clear," President Trump said, alternately riffing and note-reading on Tuesday from his chair in the White House Cabinet Room.
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Daniel Day-Lewis was riffing on the mysteries and curiosities of romantic entanglements — how people can be governed by desires that seem alien even to themselves.
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The "Joker" post was riffing on a larger "tickets to Joker" meme in which internet users stereotyped the kinds of people who would attend the movie.
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Riffing off Laura Ingraham's commentary on her Fox News show, Trump used Sotomayor's dissent as a jumping-off point to hit the pair of liberal justices.
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Sixteen years ago, Tran Tuan opened a food stall serving recipes he learned from his mother, regional classics that over time Mr. Tuan started riffing on.
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Conversation becomes performance art, and part of the pleasure of watching this peerless cast is the delight its characters take in listening to the others riffing.
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If men are from Mars, it looks like women are too," Grant says, riffing off the iconic book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
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"0 days since last time I was too scared to meme about a topic," one employee joked in a meme, riffing on a popular Futurama GIF.
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A schlub and some robots riffing on bad movies didn't necessarily sound like a recipe for longevity when "Mystery Science Theater 3000" debuted on Minneapolis-St.
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She's really learned to hone this passion on the Philly band's follow-up, Chosen Family, which sees her riffing not just harder, but smarter and weirder.
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Unlike the creatures of previous films, these migrant zombies move at fast speeds, with a sense of urgency, riffing on our fear of rapid migration rates.
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It balanced the angsty chorus primed for alt-rock radio with the classic rock riffing that Gossard and guitarist Mike McCready so freely gave themselves to.
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Agony promised a lengthy trip to the underworld, one pulsing with the flesh of sinners, surrounded by a grotesque aesthetic riffing on the mind of H.R. Giger.
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That's our takeaway from this behind-the-scenes video, featuring stars like Ryan Gosling, Kenan Thompson, and Donald Glover riffing, goofing, corpsing, and just plain acting silly.
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Bandai Namco has encouraged the comparison to Dark Souls, using the phrase "Prepare to Dine" in its teaser material, riffing on From Software's "Prepare to Die" tagline.
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You can start a project and continue it on iOS while traveling, then put it right back into your pro machine when you're back and continue riffing.
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Sony's marketing department handled promotional work, riffing off videos, concept artwork, and materials from Sucker Punch so they were able to devise messaging that suited the game.
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Riffing on Darwin, Butler proposed that if the species can evolve to the detriment of the weak, so could machines, until they would eventually become self-sufficient.
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The scenes when Santa sings are among the truly surreal MST3K moments of wonder, topped only by the hilarious riffing sequence that accompanies his climactic sleigh ride.
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And after you shoot the hostage, you publish the Omnibus trailer, a faux-documentary riffing on the botched development of perpetually delayed video game Duke Nukem Forever.
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In a far corner, a jazz trio worked their way through the standards, the vocalist riffing up and down scales in a haunting series of nonsense syllables.
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And I like his Clueless Gamer segments, where he—and often a celebrity guest—play a new game, riffing around in a sketch and often playing terribly.
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Riffing off of the sacred powers of the drink, they help each other decode their night visions, which they believe to be directly related to the future.
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Ignore the game's misguided attempt at riffing on Strange Things, as seen in this trailer; there's good reason to pay attention to this game without that junk.
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If there was a decade Michele was riffing on, incidentally, it felt like the '80s, in satin-bowed evening dresses and decoration with a debt to Lacroix.
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And, for Pocsik, riffing on anatomical forms and manipulating materials go hand in hand — a carved, laminated wood knife board looks almost fleshy thanks to supple indentations.
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And while Musk didn't provide any explanation for his tweet, it is one of five messages he has posted in recent days riffing on the bee emoji.
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This is how I'd usually describe myself playing a particularly scary horror game, and nope, it's a music rhythm game riffing on games like Frequency and Amplitude.
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People are having a fine old time riffing on his genial manner, his festive sweater and the disposable camera he used to snap pictures after the event.
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For one thing, the often-distorted keyboards of Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Taborn — both also play acoustic piano on the album — handle much of the heavy riffing.
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The frequently hard-riffing interplay between the flutist and typist — at the Kitchen, it was percussionist Nathan Davis — proved lively across each of the work's three sections.
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In "Again and Again," modal riffing and a limber six-beat pulse drive promises of devotion and satisfaction: "I see everything in you tonight," Mr. Matthews sings.
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It was a very, very supportive and wild crowd and he was just riffing on some of the things that had been happening the last few days.
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Through their voices, Vollmann gives a documentary accounting of life on the margins, riffing on such themes as bigotry, idolatry, gender fluidity, vulnerability, consent, resilience and love.
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The master colorist of the couture and its anti-cynic, whose clothes often seem built on generosity of spirit, Mr. Piccioli was riffing on the subconscious backstage.
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On the spectrum from freewheeling to more structured, he falls in the middle, letting audiences tell their stories, then riffing until he finds the perfect punch line.
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The band is set on playing rock music filled with delicious hooks and satisfying riffing, introducing the world to what they're capable of with their debut album.
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When he places the same umber within two different hues of green, it's as if he is riffing off Josef Albers but with a more off-beat effect.
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"I don't think I'd even miss it," a player quips at her teammate—riffing at the notion that a sex strike would end the pay gap in tennis.
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"While controversial, Darth Vader achieved great heights in space construction and played a formative role in his son's life," tweeted @markusoff, riffing on the Star Wars movie villain.
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The team would then send the dialogue to Roiland, who would send back "over an a hour of dialogue and riffing" that would really make the game better.
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In his routine, the late comedian lambasts the flow of money in politics, riffing that members of congress should have to wear jackets tagged with their sponsors' logos.
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On Hardwired, Metallica betrays the thrashy return-to-form narrative with "Now That We're Dead," a seven-minute journey into British Steel-era Judas Priest riffing and snarling.
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He spent several minutes riffing on the "pledge" that Republican candidates all signed early in the primary contest to ultimately rally behind the party's nominee, whoever was chosen.
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Riffing on the narration-plus-archival-footage technique in "The Price of Gold," director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) weaves talking-head voiceovers into flashback scenes.
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Neochrome In a solo presentation, the sculptor Jamie Sneider offers an elegant, obliquely feminist contribution to the never-ending tradition of riffing on Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" of 20163.
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The Twitter hashtag #JeSuisBruxelles was trending as were cartoons riffing on the theme of the city's irreverent emblem, Manneken Pis, a small fountain statue of a boy urinating.
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When I finally got around to cluing the puzzle, I loved riffing on the conventional "Part 303, Part 2, ..." that appear in crossword clues from time to time.
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But the famed singer and actress was not just riffing between songs at a concert: She was introducing Hillary Clinton at a fund-raiser for her presidential campaign.
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The skit starred actress Laura Benanti reprising the role of first lady in a full-blown Christmas special that included musical numbers riffing the president and the administration.
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Riffing on the Democrat's "I'm with Her" slogan, Trump said he would be a champion of the downtrodden and forgotten whose wealth protected him from special interest influence.
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It doesn't help that Ashes of Ariandel is deliberately riffing on the Painted World of Ariamis, a famously nightmarish (and beloved) optional area in the original Dark Souls.
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As horns riffing on a folk tune came in behind him and the drums picked up, Stasiuk switched languages, half shouting, half rapping the same verses in Ukrainian.
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In frisky cumbias and high-velocity polkas with very brief swerves into rock riffing or rapped vocals, the band sang about food, love, drinking and dancing — especially food.
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Enes Kanter is one of the more outspoken players in the N.B.A., riffing about LeBron James or Kevin Durant or just about anything else that grabs his attention.
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Riffing off the work of Japanese-American artists and designers, and appropriating their aesthetics and forms, Orlianeta alludes to a creative lineage that the internment failed to stifle.
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And, in a way, something is, in that the film, as empty stylistic exercises sometimes do, offers its cast the chance to do some inspired, fast-paced riffing.
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A cardboard cutout of Raiders quarterback Derek Carr loomed over the hosts last week, and during one taping they sipped cold beer while riffing on the weekend's games.
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And his bluesy riffing buttressed the sultry, throbbing groove on "Son of a Preacher Man," a Top 22013 single for the British pop singer Dusty Springfield in 1968.
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Joe Biden was riffing again — an R.F.K. anecdote, a word about "civil wrongs," a meandering joke about the baseball commissioner — and aides knew enough to worry a little.
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Toy brands are riffing on the unboxing trend by developing special boxes or wrapping that specifically look good on camera, and by creating as many surprises as possible.
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So Hanks burst back onto the stage and began riffing in character as Sir John Falstaff, joking with the audience and imploring them to remain seated and be patient.
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I'm sure it's an important source of information for them because they're often riffing on or making material out of news stories that the Times is helping to break.
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"We've actually spent a lot of time riffing through what this language is going to sound like," founder and CEO Nader Hamda said in a telephone interview with CNBC.
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Once Susie is done riffing on Midge's sticky-handed children, tardiness, and access to not one, but two, Buckingham Palace-esque homes, it's time to get down to business.
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When they team up, Black's Lethal Weapon roots start to show, as the protagonists alternate between exasperation and admiration for each other, and express both states with terse riffing.
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" Riffing on multiple visualizations of the same scene, Quayola extracted data from the paintings using algorithms, then tweaked them in order to generate what he calls an "abstract entity.
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" Caan was riffing on the topic outside Craig's in West Hollywood -- where he took a second to make one thing perfectly clear ... "I mean, I never did anything wrong!
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Wednesday's disjunctive highlight was "Amore," a syrupy ballad-singing introduction leading into speedy power-metal riffing and huge melodies better fit for anime-series theme songs, if not Broadway.
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Riffing on the traditional women's work of piecing fabric together, the five artists in this exhibition have produced quilt-like works that belie the traditional definition of the genre.
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The game begins in a kid's bedroom, walls plastered with posters riffing on action movies of the 80s and 90s, plastic dinosaurs and space rockets all over the place.
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So it's no surprise that a fresh crop of sangucherías is taking root amid the Chilean capital's thriving food scene, riffing on traditional preparations and the typically kitschy settings.
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Pete's son Mario moved the business into the third generation in 1982, riffing on the traditional ciccolo, or prosciutto bread, introducing other specialty breads, including one swirled with provolone.
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Built around squeaking synth lines, trashed drum machines, and bassist/singer Amber Goers' dead-eyed riffing and trance-inducing vocalizations, they developed a singularly bleak take on darkwave semantics.
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President Barack Obama appeared at his final White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, riffing on Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Republican leadership, the media, and, of course, Donald Trump.
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" But the kill shot comes in the glorious line delivered by the riffing MST3K characters — glorious in the context of the movie, anyhow — "Trumpy, you can do stupid things!
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Rather than tearing things down and starting new, the artistic tendency of the city is to create layers, riffing on what came before and changing it in the process.
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At the very least, it has to have copious amounts of dead air to accommodate all that riffing, and a decent print to accommodate today's giant HD television screens.
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It was mostly just Page riffing on his desire for a different kind of tech industry that didn't have to be so beholden to corporate interests, shareholders, and advertising.
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It started, she writes, when she noticed the provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos riffing on the famous first line of "Pride and Prejudice," turning it into a dig at "ugly" feminists.
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It would not be shocking if you're unfamiliar with the types of levels 3D Maze House is riffing on; they've largely fallen out of style, outside of nostalgic revivals.
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They appear to be riffing off of his "Les Toits de Paris" ("The Roofs of Paris," 19242), a loosely brushed painting that has the relaxed touch of Henri Matisse.
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Factory kept the home-video market steadily supplied with VHS tapes and DVDs, which the cast and crew promoted at conventions and special events, between their new movie-riffing endeavors.
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I noticed by the end of the shoot with him that the confidence was there, he was riffing with Joey, and all of the sudden they were this comedy duo.
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Artists involved with Decolonize This Place have crafted a set of protest art riffing off of Warhol's Death and Disaster series — prints appropriating images of violent catastrophes and tragic accidents.
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The highly walkable city also has a new breed of hotels reinvigorating some of those medieval townhouses with minimalist décor, restaurants riffing on the country's hearty cuisine and spirited bars.
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My first pitch was riffing much more heavily on Aliens, but Dark Horse had several series already in that vein, so they asked me to tackle something a bit different.
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"On a trip back to Seattle, I found out that Grant was as passionately frustrated as I was, and we spent hours riffing on ideas and sketching mockups," explains Meistrich.
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Their album Cashmere was made in just five days, and it celebrates the unity between India and Pakistan by riffing (in the title) on its most contested of regions (Kashmir).
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She's often favored murky, foreboding production in the past, but "Lucky" is a clear-eyed sunburst, riffing on reggae tropes with her wonderfully genre-agnostic approach to postmodern pop music.
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We would sit around for hours, riffing on all the punny ways to talk about foot fungus powder, until it was 5 o'clock and time to go to happy hour.
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Here he was on Wednesday, near the beginning of his press conference, riffing unprompted on his progress thus far: We've had some great news over the last couple of weeks.
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In a December 2016 Secret Santa exchange, his teammate Jacob Herbers, riffing on Coffey's nickname, bought a sledgehammer at the Home Depot, gift-wrapped it and gave it to him.
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"Replacing the nation's motto with his campaign slogan is kind of tacky," the comedian Stephen Colbert said, riffing on the Republican National Committee coin on his CBS late-night show.
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And while Mr. Chappelle shows up at clubs and spends hours onstage riffing, gathering ideas through free association, Mr. Rock's process is much more focused and linear, like his comedy.
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Comey's designs, which early on suited the creative Brooklyn woman who wanted to look equal parts sexy, comfortable and dorky, are sometimes deeply personal, riffing on her own girlhood memories.
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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham had attributed the president's remarks about John Dingell to him "riffing" during a raucous rally on the day the House voted to impeached him.
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It also kind of sounds like a dance party, what with the rhythm section riffing on a drum 'n' bass pattern and doofy laser-beam synths zooming every which way.
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Those paintings aren't me riffing, they're not me using the material in the books and going somewhere else – they're painted as though from a model in a life-drawing class.
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That all the Shazaam truthers are riffing off one another, giving each other subtle suggestions — like in Loftus's studies — to form a false narrative that exists in all their minds.
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While Kourtney might be riffing on a composed salad, I would concur that these ingredients don't harmonize, or play off one another in any sort of 'salady' manner that I recognize.
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President Donald Trump — who doesn't not act like a comedian during his rallies and fundraising appearances — hasn't been shy about riffing on his oldest son's new girlfriend's formerly Democratic love life.
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A stand-up montage shows us some of Midge's shows, and she is legitimately fun to watch, riffing on motherhood and the horrors of spending the apocalypse with one's judgemental parents.
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For the label, Kopytov worked with design firm Dorogobogato, who—riffing on the pastry's round shape—turned pryanik into a ball gag and drew that ball gag in a woman's mouth.
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I feel like it was the same with Max Martin-era pop and that whole era of production in general, even the riffing is intentional, it really is a distillation process.
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The world of dreams is governed by "kettle logic" (a phrase developed by Jacques Derrida, riffing on Freud's original idea), whereby mutually incompatible concepts are fused together at the same time.
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The lawmakers said the measure would turn Waskom into a "sanctuary city for the unborn," riffing on the term used to describe jurisdictions that protect undocumented residents from federal immigration authorities.
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I'm too dumb to grasp the particulars, but I'm pretty sure it explains the existence of Starchild & the New Romantic, the George Clinton-riffing project of New York resident Bryndon Cook.
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Which you can play, by downloading it from Robert Prest, aka Superpomme's website—he's the same modder who made No Guy's Sky, which we covered here, and the DayZ-riffing DoomZ.
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But all of this isn't even touching on what is without a doubt Oopstacles' best feature, and the element that helps keep it true to the goofy gameshows it's riffing on.
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I thought we might develop a new kind of friendship, one that tested the boundaries of my capacity for wordplay and political analysis, riffing on everything from Congress to American Idol.
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"Build a wall against Trump" read one protester's sign, riffing on Mr. Trump's signature proposal for a wall along the Mexican border; others openly carried guns, as Ohio state law permits.
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And it's still inspiring comedy to this day: Even in 2015, Tina Fey couldn't resist riffing on prosecutor Marcia Clark's much-discussed signature style in her Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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But audiences used to seeing Mr. Trump ad-lib on the campaign trail — riffing on protesters, ranting at mosquitoes — saw a much more on-message candidate, sticking tightly to his script.
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This comic book is riffing off Rac Shade from Shade, the Changing Man, a character and comic created by Steve Ditko — a legend who was known for mind-bending, trippy work.
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None of these ever coalesce into full-blown riffing, and only a few pieces even have drums, meaning that Jóhanssonn mostly reconstitutes the separate parts of heavy metal into drone music.
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Immigration dominated Trump's day: He spent much of an afternoon speech to a small business association riffing about immigration and suggesting he could push for changes to the House GOP legislation.
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But even more specifically, the series feels like it's riffing on Fox's medical drama The Resident, now in its second season, which is too minor of a show to rip off.
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Then others seem to have sprung from the imagination of the creators, or they are riffing on a design and have gone so far away that they've just added something new.
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An unusual narrative device — Lilly's sections are told from beyond the grave — helps keep the story interesting, and Pywell clearly has fun riffing on the romance genre's tropes and overstuffed language.
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I knew it would be wordplay because of the question mark, so I was mentally riffing on what kind of "slice of one's workday" we were supposed to be imagining. Pizza?
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He is a painter as well as an avid printmaker, "forging" and riffing off of Goya and Orozco, Pre-Columbian and non-Western imagery, canonical modernist paintings, and popular culture icons.
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Mr. Duenas, a 21-year-old from Guam who currently lives in Houston, has built a sizable following on the app with comedy videos, riffing on popular songs, hashtags and memes.
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Yeah. Well, this is what we've kind of been riffing on this whole conversation so far, is that it was a huge way for Facebook to grow in the early days.
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"Battle Cry" is two-and-a-half minutes of just about the simplest two-note riffing possible, backed by, well, actual battle cries, broken up by a brief, abstract solo from White.
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Shows like Black Mirror work around the issue by utilizing the anthology format, and each season of Channel Zero tells a different narrative riffing on the internet urban legends known as creepypasta.
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We've found the best iteration of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" — it's Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams, riffing on the song's intro in the voice of Ned Stark (Sean Bean).
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After arriving at M.I.T., Mr. Reyes met with Mr. Chomsky to float the idea of a puppet play riffing on his criticisms of artificial intelligence research and the social impact of technology.
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Ellen starts off her special riffing on that premise, joking about a mansion large enough to get lost in, her lavish lifestyle, and a butler named Batu who feeds her cubed pineapple.
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The performance was clearly designed to provoke—riffing on the c-word and revelling in the discomfort generated by such a frank discussion—but it was also designed to amuse and move.
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She poked a little fun at her own work, riffing on the notion that nobody who works for the company knows what any of their products do or contain, like at all.
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Just as KISS had their army, Turbonegro relies on their "navy," Turbojugend (German for "Turboyouth," a name riffing on Hitler Youth, reflecting the same dubiously appropriate jokes of the band's song titles).
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Even the critics who liked it tended to categorize it as a fairly empty bit of entertainment, riffing on the teen horror genre just enough to keep you distracted for 102 minutes.
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Riffing of the ubiquity of meaningless inspirational quotes, Irish illustrator Laura Callaghan's new show Aspirational at KK Outlet shines a spotlight on real women who are inspiring in their own complex ways.
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The music encompassed four-on-the-floor disco thump, starkly simplistic synth-pop riffing, Minimalistic keyboard repetition, surges of noise-punk guitar, spoken rants, wild-eyed shouts and stretches of genuine melody.
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The whole thing plays out as if it had been thought up by someone who, while watching "Game of Thrones" and smoking a bowl, started riffing on walls, China and production money.
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Djokovic, who rarely gives in-depth interviews about his personal life but speaks in long, sometimes meandering paragraphs, shook hands firmly, took a seat and started riffing, apologizing intermittently for the monologue.
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Like that of the original television show, created by Stephen Hillenburg and first aired in 1999, Mr. Zinn's aesthetic combines the literal-mindedness and repetitively riffing wildness of a toddler's fantasy life.
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Riffing on Michels's "iron law of oligarchy," which holds that all democratic institutions will end up being run by an internal elite, Hayes proposes what he calls the iron law of meritocracy.
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When you're riffing on the Writers meme, you don't have to do much (if any) setup to establish that you are about to joke that the news is like a TV show.
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MST3K disciples produced overt homages like ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats, which had twin stand-up comics Jason and Randy Sklar riffing on some of the goofiest clips in the archives of sports broadcasting.
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They're also Hollywood BFFs, often seen giggling and riffing off one another on red carpets and in interviews, so it was a stroke of brilliance on W's part to the pair the actresses.
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He started riffing about the cost of another scene they were planning, a song called "Group Hang," about a date Rebecca plans with Josh that is ruined when he brings along his friends.
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A piece of art portraying Chinese president Xi Jinping in an unflattering light had made its way into the game, riffing on a Winnie the Pooh meme that had been banned in China.
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Pecknold said: "I think the pope is good at sending out grenades on these papal plane interviews, which are not authoritative teaching, they are just the pope riffing off events and answering questions."
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Riffing on Lumber 84's political Super Bowl LI commercial — which delivered a strong message on the importance of an immigrant workforce — the SNL bit mulls the thought process behind politically motivated advertising.
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Pretty much anything was a source for riffing — funny voices included — whether it was a painting of Daniel Lambert, who at his heaviest weighed 700 pounds, or a ghoulish model with flayed skin.
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Some of the best sequences focus on the comics hanging out at the local delicatessen, riffing on each other's foibles and jockeying to see who can produce the most creative and vulgar putdowns.
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She told some good jokes, but the best parts of this roughly 10-minute set were the riffing and the swagger that make live stand-up the most exciting art in the city.
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Never a convincing intellectual, she makes a point of keeping these lyrics beyond basic—declaring "we" a trope, jumping on the byword "jump," riffing on every stupid bird rhyme she can think of.
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Previous albums have presented studio-enhanced versions of the band onstage, while on "Concrete and Gold," Foo Fighters can switch configurations in an instant, from brute-force riffing to platoons of multitracked vocals.
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But he mostly avoided the topic as his fate was sealed in the nation's capital, instead boasting about the economy, bashing a lone protester and riffing on the size of his rally crowds.
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Unlike "Joker," this exercise in R-rated fan-flattery allows itself, and the audience, to have some fun with its noisy, hectic, self-conscious riffing on the conventions of comic-book-based entertainment.
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During the sentencing Thursday, she excoriated the defense over its closing argument, riffing on the refrain of "So what?" that the defense used in its unsuccessful bid to get jurors to acquit Stone.
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The task today is to paint the experience of seeing in a world mediated by screens, and these black-lit works continue that exploration, riffing off the Flavin Institute in a minor key.
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He plays to the audience like the notorious Andrew Dice Clay at his height, riffing the way Don Rickles once did in top Las Vegas rooms during his Rat Pack-era glory days.
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In their most famous video, "Delete Your Facebook," the pair implore viewers to delete their social media accounts while riffing about how Titanic blew out his ear drum and joking about shooting up heroin.
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That sound proliferated further with the rise of Yung Lean and his stable of producers like Yung Sherman, who introduced trance-synth elements to the mix (themselves riffing on Araabmuzik's 2011 album Electronic Dream).
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Instead of haranguing my writers to PIOTS (Put It On The Site), I can simply respond to their slightly off-task riffing with "[butterfly emoji] is this a post?" and get my point across.
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Mother Monster appeared to descend from the top of NRG Stadium to begin her show, which featured a medley of her biggest hits, lightning-fast outfit changes and even some riffing on a keytar.
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Lightspring/ShutterstockWhen Saturday Night Live aired a skit this weekend riffing on America's new heroin epidemic—a satirical fake ad for "Heroin A.M." to help addicts remain productive while using—many people weren't laughing.
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Riffing off Apple's ad that showed the MacBook Air fitting into an envelope, Lenovo takes the laptop and shows how much trouble you have to go through to connect various devices to the laptop.
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Riffing on Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports—a collection of slow drones that many hold as a formative text of the genre—Amobi, like Eno, crafts a collection of slow, sad compositions.
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Oklava opened in the autumn last year and is manned by Selin Kiazim—a chef as comfortable taking on classic Turkish Cypriot cuisine as she is riffing on the modern street food of Istanbul.
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There was a juicy teaser with Nintendo icon Shigeru Miyamoto and Universal Creative President Mark Woodbury riffing on the potentials of Nintendo additions to Universal parks last month, but it was low on details.
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He apparently took that advice about ragging on himself to heart, spending most of his time onstage riffing on how no one in his family ever tells him what the hell they're up to.
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At the beginning of his practice Ramírez Jonas plumbed history, choosing scientific accomplishments (experiments in flight, the first moon landing) and understanding those historic events as "scores," riffing on them like a jazz musician.
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But it all comes together around the amazing music, which mixes dubstep beats with bleeps and bloops from the 8-bit era, cleverly riffing on familiar melodies and sound effects from the original game.
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When a pyramid of American Standard urinals appeared as an immersive installation back in 2004, the work's creator, Reece Terris, wasn't just riffing on Marcel Duchamp's readymade, but also exploring how objects transform spaces.
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In the movie's concluding scene, Bale turns directly to the audience and, riffing off real Cheney interviews, lays out a serious challenge: If you disapprove of his methods, which terrorist attack would you allow?
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And the film's structure, which evokes the shiny, breathless vacuity of "all-access" promotional documentaries like "Katy Perry: Part of Me," does not crowd the riffing and noodling with too much plot or sentiment.
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But he reportedly spent much of his time during Capitol Hill remarks ostensibly about immigration policy riffing on topics such as trade, the Russia investigation and the primary election defeat of incumbent GOP Rep.
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"Y tu corazón idiota siempre me extrañará," Balvin sings — and your idiot heart will always miss me — riffing on a line from the singalong classic "Lamento Boliviano," by the Argentine band Los Enanitos Verdes.
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Once a "smirking teenage atheist, whose only religion was rock and roll, tight jeans and making rude comments to authority figures," Greg Lockwood eventually became a gun-owning, electric guitar-riffing, married Catholic priest.
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After he and Thor engage in some Steinbeckian George-and-Lennie riffing, the Hulk's inner mouse, Bruce Banner, takes over, and Mark Ruffalo eases in to help turn the temperature from hot to cozy.
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In the '80s, Mr. Fluevog became possibly the first retailer in North America to stock Doc Martens, riffing on their chunkiness and air cushioning in his own jazzy leopard print and pastel-colored uppers.
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Glaser's new special "Bangin'" shows off the comedian in her element, riffing on the awkwardness of sex as a way of making a larger point about the inherent repulsiveness and absurdity of human existence.
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Earlier Friday, during a speech at St. Anselm's Politics & Eggs series, Sanders criticized Buttigieg by name, riffing on headlines about the former mayor's contributions from billionaires and setting up his line later that night.
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He had introduced a T-shirt brand called Teuchiland — riffing on the Timberland logo with a reference to cannabis — that was a youth sensation, and building that business seemed much more interesting than studying.
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Riffing on the science theme, there were some 'original' low-tech gadgets like an old quasi-phonograph — essentially a metal speaker that amplified tunes from my phone when I rested it in the cradle.
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" Riffing on the city's reputation as the onetime "rubber capital of the world," Mr. Bloomberg insisted that his campaign was "not trying to invent the wheel" and "not trying to reinvent the tire, either.
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"We have a dream, a Chinese dream, as our president says, for the women's hockey team to win a medal in 2022," Ngok said, riffing on one of President Xi Jinping's favorite political slogans.
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Nor does the show spare its bread-and-butter viewership from the burns: When riffing about the Women's March, Bee made a point to skewer white women for skipping out on causes not their own.
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At one point, Holley repeats the words "Too young to die / Too young to die," and I wonder if he's riffing on the death of Mac Miller, which had been confirmed just five hours earlier.
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It's a fun idea — an opportunity for riffing on gamer culture and gaming addiction, with the self-aware shenanigans that made Wreck-It Ralph such a fun time (and Adam Sandler's Pixels, not so much).
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But unlike Fortnite's appropriation of the dance, Ribeiro's riffing is a cultural commentary; part of a long tradition of black people in America making light of their oppression by mocking the awkwardness of white culture.
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We also have writers and editors Peter Rubin, K.M. McFarland, and Angela Watercutter riffing on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live and editor at large Jason Tanz talking with Cage's showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker.
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I mean, not saying that they don't practice, but I can have a jam session any time of the day, and I can perfect a lot of my 11th-hour riffing in the final product.
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This is basically the equivalent of when you're at a party and everyone's riffing on a joke until someone inevitably takes it too far and nobody laughs and everything gets a bit weird and awkward.
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The music is slightly twisted indie rock, riffing with a guitar answered by a tootling keyboard but in 9/4 rather than the usual 4/4; like this election campaign, it keeps knocking itself askew.
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One writer riffing on the "indomitable blackness" of Otis talked about how he was placed on the cover of a Negro Achievements magazine in the 1950s and became a political activist in the black community.
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"Unchallenged Hate" and "Display to Me" ebb toward death metal riffing and drum grooves, but it would be 1989's Mentally Murdered EP that cemented the band's fascination with this new flavor of extreme metal.
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He allowed supporters an unprecedented degree of access, too, by broadcasting all of his events -- and often his drives in between -- live on Facebook, sometimes taking questions and often riffing on policy along the way.
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If he doesn't achieve the visual or narrative poetry of the filmmakers he's riffing on — the John Fords, Howard Hawkses and Robert Altmans — he still gives you plenty to look at, and it's never boring.
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By 2040, Fiat Chrysler was racking up sales with the Jeep brand worldwide, and the notion of a new midsize pickup riffing off the rough-and-ready, off-roading brand seemed like a slam dunk.
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Riffing on Vanity Fair's "Hollywood Issue," Ms. Alba assigns artists literary names that describe their philosophy, sensibility or reputation — "The Alchemist," for example, or "The Oracle" — and photographs them in environments reflective of their art.
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The issue exploded at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, when a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, riffing on a photograph of a lynched young black man, Emmett Till, provoked outrage from African-American artists.
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Meanwhile, his own "childhood ability to get ahead of myself and reason to apocalyptic ends" he sees reinvented in his son, Darragh, as a "kind of apocalyptic riffing," the media-age glibness of the young.
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Christmas wasn't the only cultural controversy Trump touched on during his brief speech: he couldn't resist riffing on some of his favorite recent controversies, namely; tearing down historical statues, and kneeling for the national anthem.
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Riffing on the organizing structures of archives, Báez has grouped the dozens of women that appear in the paintings into sections color-coded according to the religious pantheon of the Yoruba people in West Africa.
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"—Good Morning America (@GMA) December 19, 2019Grisham added: "It was a very, very supportive and wild crowd, and he was just riffing on some of the things that had been happening the past few days.
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After all, at a time when (ostensibly) witty putdowns and see-what-I-did-there reference-tossing have become the web's de facto lingua franca, what need could there be for more from-the-rafters riffing?
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When we were riffing on the episode before I went to script it, he just dropped Mezcalimony and we all lost our minds because the You're The Worst writers' room, we're all big fans of Mezcal.
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Snapchat Shows are part of the company's original-content push that has also brought in material riffing off popular TV shows from NBC Universal, video material from Buzzfeed, as well as shows from ABC and Turner.
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Some people even started riffing on White's addition of Damien, and couldn't help but keep adding things like the girls from The Shining, the nun from The Conjuring 2, Vigo from Ghostbusters II, and plenty more.
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PlayStation VR Worlds isn't a game so much as a collection of virtual reality experiences ranging from the aforementioned shark cage, to a futuristic take on Pong, to a heist scene riffing on Guy Ritchie movies.
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It's been five years since Telltale released The Walking Dead, a landmark in storytelling that provided a template it's been riffing ever since, tweaking the formula as it's adapted everything from Borderlands to Game of Thrones.
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Valeria Luiselli charts the couple's intellectual concerns and political commitments (and her own) in ruminative, layered prose that deliberately digresses more than it progresses, with a riffing, essayistic logic, subtitles that become refrains, and minimal plot.
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They open most episodes riffing on their own relationship and then cut to segments of couples doing stand-up, mostly taped live the first Saturday of every month at the Virgil, a club in Los Angeles.
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It also tracks with my own feelings on Final Fantasy VIII, and the way I've felt whenever Square Enix makes a splashy announcement riffing on Final Fantasy nostalgia and, once again, ignores Final Fantasy VIII's existence.
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It is often difficult to know whether Trump is working to a long-term strategic plan, testing out new political ground or just riffing in the moment to get past bad news and onto another subject.
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It's hard to empathize with him at first, especially when he's so happy about the possibility of joining the Führer's guard in the future and when he's so at home riffing with Waititi's paunchy, petty Hitler.
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Sarah EmersonAugust 12, 2016 Thought two: The film is definitely riffing on film portrayals of the Pacific Theater of World War II, yet call me insane, but do these shots kind of feel like Halo 5?
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He recognized each of the lawmakers in attendance, taking a jovial tone as he recognized them each individually and riffing on the origins of their relationships that he said had been strengthened in the last few months.
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In that Bible-riffing science-fiction comic about a young miracle worker, the skies ripple with cosmic swirls and each building façade is drafted with obsessive precision, but the foundations are indistinct, as if untethered from Earth.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Riffing on vaguely familiar iconography, Cayetano Ferrer's sculptures induce an uncanny hesitation; suddenly you're unsure of how well you know the places and things you pass by each day.
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Riffing on storybook landscapes and archetypes while adding a lighthearted touch to everyday objects, illustrator and painter Rebecca Green has amassed an impressive variety of works from her Nashville, TN base in a short window of time.
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Riffing on the dichotomy of nature and artifice, he combined navy wool and electric-blue pleated organza in a neat little coatdress, and appliquéd neon yellow and pink and green flowers to strapless gowns and organza shells.
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Nothing if not period appropriate, at least in its early years, the show positioned Eddy and Patsy as avatars of a hilariously clueless, grasping materialism, while riffing on the likes of spiritualism, family life and pop culture.
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But before we continue riffing on possibilities for Saturday's final, it is perhaps best to refocus on Tuesday, when Williams has to face Giorgi, who might be unseeded but is hardly unknown to the world's leading women.
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An unmarked door and a condensation-slick staircase led to a bohemian fever dream: a huge loft with jazz musicians riffing as dozens of artists worked at communal tables cluttered with paint and cups of red wine.
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Riffing on her basic technique, I came up with a deeply savory mix of nutritional yeast and rosemary (or powdered kelp), and another with both sweet and hot smoked paprika, along with a little cumin for earthiness.
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Warhol straddles a line between the photographic and the cinematic, while also riffing on the reproducibility of photography, asserting with needle and thread a bespoke, handmade element that makes the image-grids unique, intentionally ready-made, objects.
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He brought the convention to exuberant life, riffing from topic to topic: abusing the press, boasting of his role in publishing undercover videos that helped get Acorn, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, closed down.
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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said on Fox News that "the president is a counter-puncher" and was "riffing" off the energy at his rally, which took place at the same time as the impeachment vote.
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He went after each and every one, landing jokes about Bob Hope looking for a war, suggesting that Dean Martin should be slapped to keep him from passing out, and riffing about Ronald Reagan throwing temper tantrums.
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Or rather, a heightened version of himself that involved singing a song called "Wildling" to the tune of "Wild Thing" and riffing about his character's virginity, culminating with a wink to his then-girlfriend, now-wife Rose Leslie.
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I decided to take my partners outside to write a song on the porch with an acoustic guitar, and lazily bask in the sun with my head tilted up, riffing something punchy and angsty, not yet fully inspired.
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I could see his concern that if you've got a scene where Mark Ruffalo is riffing with Chris Hemsworth, Taika wanted all the Hulk / Thor banter to be completely improv — or to be able to be completely improv.
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Ricky Baker and Sam Neill's characters in Wilderpeople are actually riffing, like they're talking to each other, and it should be as transparent as that to Taika when he's got Ruffalo and Hemsworth, and they're having at it.
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The riffing, the stammering; the awkward, I'd-rather-not-be-here energy… for me, he was the highlight of the film, and the best example of Whedon's sensibilities fitting into the larger film, rather than clashing with it.
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Larry Summers, who has been riffing Alvin Hanson's secular stagnation meme since late 2013, has been most accurately describing the domestic phenomena that has the U.S. continuing its post-recession slump (or, more accurately, its slump in "NEBE").
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It is quite fun to imagine, for example, the conversation that preceded her making a friend or entourage member film this clip in April 2015, where Jessie burrows into her own jumper while riffing on taking a shower.
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It's all nuts, and the actors couldn't be having more fun, including Ralph Fiennes as an exacting auteur, Channing Tatum riffing on Gene Kelly, and Alden Ehrenreich giving it his aw-shucks all as singing cowboy Hobie Doyle.
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Rather than simply riffing off the recent runway trend of having women walk for menswear shows or men walk for womenswear shows, Hari's turn for Gucci is something like a metaphor for what gender equality supporters strive for.
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Citizen is a surprise hit of the fair, riffing on its groundbreaking solar watches of the '70s with the Citizen Eco-Drive One, a solar watch that, at 2.98 mm, feels only slightly thicker than a communion wafer.
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The key art, with a much more dynamic display of the characters running around Studiopolis (one of the game's zones, the first completely unique area made for Mania and not riffing directly from a previous 2D Sonic game).
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Tracing how women have been depicted in art history as objects of purity or desire, Diana Al-Hadid will exhibit new architecturally scaled sculptures riffing off timeworn female types at Madison Square Park in New York this May.
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While the creator and original host, Joel Hodgson, has ceded hosting duties to Jonah Ray, the Netflix version of the show still does the same thing as the original: It shows old, campy films while riffing on them.
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"I was just warming him up and doing some dopey exercises, and I'd teach him a little stuff from the show, and from there I could sneakily encourage him to start riffing on his own," Mr. Pinkleton said.
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One morning earlier this month, Desus Nice and the Kid Mero were in the Jam Room of Milk Studios in Chelsea, recording a new episode of their "Bodega Boys" podcast and riffing on everything that crossed their minds.
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In fact, the actress has pretty much made a career out of winning the genetic lottery, from playing a disturbingly hot zombie in Jennifer's Body to riffing off of attractive people stereotypes as Nick's fantasy woman on New Girl.
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Well, because the Internet has a short memory, here's a quick refresher: Way back in March 2014, The Colbert Report sent a tweet riffing on a segment about NFL owner Daniel Snyder launching the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation.
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The bit is not nearly as funny as Midge riffing on what men really want for their fiftieth wedding anniversary; the men in the room seem to agree seeing "another woman's boobs" would be a good place to start.
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A few weeks later they released a concept album of radio recordings centered on a plagiarism scandal in Reddit's tight-knit vaporwave community called PZA FILES: THE FIRST SLICE, adorned with cover art riffing on the Papa John's logo.
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In addition to riffing on Rauschenberg's artwork of erasure, Bentel's project recalls one of the iconic internet enterprises of the early 2000s: The Million Dollar Homepage, created by Alex Tew, then a student raising money to fund his education.
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" This, in turn, is followed by the songlike "Daisy Serenade," a lineated poem full of wordplay riffing on, among other things, the "Daisy" ad's voice-over, featuring President Johnson's twist on Auden's "We must love one another or die.
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As for the track itself, Krauss' signature breathy vocals clash with Miller's riffing, and though Sleigh Bells might have decided to do things slightly different this time, their essence is still very much the same as it always was.
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Patton Oswalt is the comedian who you might know from his role in The King of Queens, and he's also accustomed to battling Trump voters on Twitter, while also riffing on grocery store robots and children's birthday party clowns.
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He pops up in the play's second scene, and it isn't long before he's joking about the muggle driving test he managed to pass and riffing perfectly off Hermione and their daughter Rose (who definitely takes after her mother).
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Last year saw Mad Max, Just Cause 24, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Dying Light, Metal Gear Solid V, and Fallout 21, all going-nowhere sandbox games in terms of their basic structure, all riffing on the same mechanics and stories.
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He kept his hand in the game sending back monthly dispatches to the Cincinnati Post, as well as footage of his travels, which later became a documentary called "Bill's Excellent Adventure," riffing on the film "Bill and Ted's Adventures."
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But Gritty was well designed for his city and his era, everyone agreed, especially his social media personality, which works with the Flyers but also exists outside the team, riffing on pop culture and interacting with fans and foes.
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Working with Afroditi Krassa, a Greek-born designer based in London, Mr. Tibi transformed an empty archway under an active railway line near Southwark station into an airy, Bauhaus-riffing fantasy that conjures his hometown; trains still rumble overhead.
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Part of the annual Fringe Encore Series, which presents favorites from fringe festivals around the world, "Macbeth Muet" is like a cross between a low-budget puppet show and a silent movie, with all the riffing silliness that suggests.
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Sitting between two fern plants on a sparse set, Galifianakis did not dial back his trademark style of appearing uninterested and unprepared as he interviewed Clinton, riffing on her previous role as U.S. secretary of state in Obama's first term.
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With his latest novel, "The Blizzard," Vladimir Sorokin has written a small, strange story that has little to do with his current reputation as a Russian literary bad boy and everything to do with riffing on Russia's fabled literary past.
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But a new overarching story, one that can use new standalone films to build its galaxy of characters and locations film by film, makes a lot more strategic sense than riffing on the original trilogy for the next 15 years.
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Riffing on the lyrics of the artist's recent single "Another World"—a mournful ballad that contemplates the possibility of an impending apocalypse—the journalist asks her if she thinks that Obama's election will help usher in a period of peace.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Sunday, two new murals by Banksy riffing on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat appeared in central London on a street near the Barbican Centre, which is about to open a major Basquiat exhibition.
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Between the matinee and evening performance, a lottery is held for $10 tickets—thus Ham4Ham—and as the crowd awaits the winners, the cast performs a skit or a sing-a-long, sometimes flipping roles or riffing on Les Miz.
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We had you on and you talked about everything under the sun, sort of riffing off some of these great blog posts you do, we'll do some of that today, but I just want to get people up to speed.
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Riffing on what he learned from Robbins, the rapper would create his own motivational slogans, such as: "'There is no losing, only learning,' 'There is no failure only opportunities,' and 'There are no problems, only solutions,&apos" he told Robbins.
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The show's combination of bad B-movies and relentless riffing had earned it an active underground fan base, and in the 17 years since its demise MST3K had continued to live on thanks to word of mouth and online chatter.
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The show's combination of bad B-movies and relentless riffing had earned it an active underground fan base, and in the 250 years since its demise MST2100K had continued to live on thanks to word of mouth and online chatter.
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"Donald Trump is building a net over the beach, and he's getting the mosquitoes to pay for it," she said, riffing on the Republican presidential nominee's plan to erect a wall on the Southern border and have Mexico pay for it.
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While it's tempting to suggest that Green is riffing on the JonBenét case as part of a larger, multi-work meditation on how different societies treat their young female performers, she says that any thematic similarity is merely a coincidence.
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Travis Scott's "Piss on Your Grave" lost interest in its sludgy riffing before it even began while Miguel's Wildheart album was, for all its fuzz and Lenny Kravitz solos, still produced like an R&B LP for the most part.
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Although the six YouTube stars had spent years playing hustlers on their popular crime drama, in real life they were responsible adults with steady jobs and dependents, storytellers riffing on a bloody version of the West Bronx neighborhood they called home.
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But that game is fully committed to making those experiences fresh at every point, and I got the feeling while playing that it was more about riffing on the genre touchstone concepts than it was about delivering a throwback experience.
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His character may have been in the writing room, but in this stand-up special, shot in black and white at an intimate New York City club, Mr. Friedlander is in the spotlight, riffing on life in the United States.
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Choosing a favorite pasta is like choosing a favorite outfit: An obviously impossible task, and yet there are those you keep coming back to, riffing on endlessly until you're sure you've exhausted all combinations, then still finding more to love.
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During this time he began to produce, from scraps of balsa wood and cardboard, the first of what would eventually be more than 16753,000 tabletop architectural models, inspired by and riffing on what was around him: houses, barns, shops, bridges.
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The former F.B.I. director, a lover of order, sees little of it in a norm-smashing president spiraling toward impeachment, riffing on "sick and deranged" Democrats at a recent rally and playacting the dialogue of F.B.I. officials like an insult comic.
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"No matter who the presidential nominee is, it ... should be somebody whose centerpiece of the campaign is dignity of work," Brown said, riffing off of his "Dignity of Work" tour, which has brought the senator to several key primary states.
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Not so with this piece about Robert Pattinson by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who is up against a star determined to say nothing, an interview subject who proposes bizarre bonding rituals, which she fields, hilariously, while riffing on his astonishing chin.
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But he appeared most animated when riffing about the Democratic presidential field, on the same day that voters in South Carolina headed to the polls to vote in the first primary where a majority-black electorate is set to weigh in.
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He'd be laughing and riffing, and then, without seeming to realize it, slip into the third person when he talked about his life in L.A., as though he were telling me the story of something that had happened to someone else.
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For the past several years, she's been slowly riffing her way through the blues-revival circuit and has released three strong albums — including one produced by Luther Dickinson — that marked her as one of the genre's most promising young talents.
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"He would sit at the piano and improvise, starting with his own melodies and then riffing on Ravel, Stravinsky or Sousa," Mr. Plotkin wrote, noting that guests tended to be "fascinating individuals" in the fields of music, acting and literature.
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At one point during the online streaming of the game last month, two white announcers for a Forest City radio station, KIOW, began riffing on the Hispanic names of some players from the mildly more diverse community of Eagle Grove.
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Resplendently coifed, wearing drag she describes as a "bar mitzvah mother thing," Sabrina bears a slight resemblance to Joan Rivers and exhibits a showbiz savvy to match, riffing on the difficulty of finding a hotel "hip enough" to house her contestants.
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Much like the Abu Ghraib series, Heyman's woodcut portraits feature the figure surrounded by swirling text, transcribed from their oral histories, while Ganje's letterpress printed broadsheets include more interview excerpts, riffing off Heyman's color palette in different typefaces, sizes, and orientations.
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The final result — riffing somewhere between Stephen King's The Dead Zone and Nick Sharman's The Cats — uses ITC Benguiat, a vaguely art nouveau font that has appeared on everything from Choose Your Own Adventure books to a 1987 album by the Smiths.
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In an Instagram post on Sunday, Woods' mother Elizabeth called out the pillows and t-shirts that are riffing off of the 21-year-old's Red Table Talk interview with Jada Pinkett Smith, and stressed she has nothing to do with it.
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With pounding synth-heavy music and a visual style riffing off of anime and cyberpunk, it's an unending stream of big-bad showdowns, the sort of challenging, mano a mano fights usually served up as level or quest climaxes in other games.
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The EP's five songs get their jobs done efficiently, with opener "Tout est de ma faute" thoroughly disorienting any poor, fortunate sap who presses "play" and closer "Bureau gris" stands out for providing a gasp of melodic riffing before submerging itself once again.
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Segments feature the skilled comedians and long-time friends riffing on the very competition shows from which "Making It" deviates so sharply, setting each other strange craft-related challenges, or talking about doing away with the competition altogether and building a commune.
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Putin, a former KGB agent, "doesn't have a soul," Clinton quipped on the eve of the 2008 New Hampshire presidential primary, riffing off of President George W. Bush's comment seven years earlier that he had looked into Putin's eyes and seen his soul.
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Riffing on the meta-leanings of the first film, the sequence puts Sarah Silverman's Vanellope von Schweetz in the same room as a host of classic Disney animated heroines, from Snow White and Moana, to Frozen's Anna and The Little Mermaid's Ariel.
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Putin, a former KGB agent, "doesn't have a soul," Clinton quipped on the eve of the 2008 New Hampshire presidential primary, riffing off of President George W. Bush's comment seven years earlier that he had looked into Putin's eyes and seen his soul.
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Most of her performances since then are like this: riffing on events in her daily life with an eloquence any standup would envy, not least because these sets are actually scripted dialogue played to look like the improvisations of a natural-born talent.
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We had expected to spend half the show riffing on WeWork's financials, alas… So we turned to some normal material, like Ramp's recent $7 million raise to take on Brex, and, SmartNews's recent round, which gave it an eye-popping $1.1 billion valuation.
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While Balvin carries these solid songs and colors dutifully within the lines, in contrast with his collaborator's comparatively wilder riffing, one can't help but suspect this might be a more conservative outing than the highly anticipated urbano blockbuster it's been billed as.
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With his work "Une Colonne d'Eau" at the Place Vendôme, the Los Angeles-based artist Oscar Tuazon is explicitly riffing on the square's most prominent landmark, the Vendôme Column, originally erected by Napoleon (it was torn down in 1871 and then rebuilt).
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" Part of his appeal lay in the fact that it was never entirely clear whether Reynolds was playing to his strengths or riffing on them; indeed, Pauline Kael once described him as having an "insider's jokey contempt for the whole entertainment business.
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"So many people are riffing on things they don't know about," says Patrick Parrish, Nuriev's New York gallerist, nodding to the fact that young designers are bombarded by so many digital images that they often lose sight of where an idea begins.
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The melody of "Mulatu," named for the composer himself, uses an unmistakably Ethiopian mode, while the track also has a crunchy wah-wah guitar, a steadfastly riffing horn section, a bullish saxophone solo and Mr. Astatke's own vibraphone shimmering in dark spaces.
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But it was also a staple of his live show, and the version he recorded a year later for the essential album "Leon Live" stretches past 15 minutes, with stomping fury and a charismatic, riffing segue worthy of a tent-show revivalist preacher.
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The finale of "Eight Days a Week," with the Beatles riffing on a rooftop, in 1969, and a wakelike blend of raw elegy and what-the-hell cheeriness filling the January air, echoes the ending of "Let It Be," a documentary from 1970.
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By unleashing on the South his athletes, famed female cheerleaders and performers, likely including the elite miniskirt-donning, electric guitar-riffing, all-female Moranbong band, Kim will mesmerize South Koreans, capture global spotlight, defuse tension and achieve a dramatic self-makeover as peacemaker.
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"When I started couture at Dior, the first thing I thought was that Monsieur Dior did couture in a very classic way, because there wasn't ready-to-wear," she reasoned, riffing through a litany of Dior's previous artistic directors (she's the seventh).
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Riffing on the many social media memes paying tribute to the bromance between the two politicians, the former president had some fun captioning a picture of himself somberly delivering his 2014 State of the Union speech, while Biden smiled and pointed in the background.
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For the record, we're riffing on their personal experiences, so all the feedback here is pretty anecdotal (case in point: you actually can have a hormonal IUD for less than three years — that's just the max amount of time doctors recommend you keep them inserted).
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Biden has plenty of company in this respect; John Delaney's branding goes even further in riffing on the Obama "O" (though, with two beams of light streaming out of the "D" in Delaney, it ends up looking more like an advertisement for Lasik eye surgery).
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"The courts are going to be very cautious in how they handle what the president says, specifically the extent to which he is simply riffing or engaging in political commentary as opposed to actually disclosing official government information and acknowledging actual government activities," Moss said.
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What shall I wear: a pun-based T-shirt riffing on Russian president, Vladimir Putin and the Quebecois dish poutine, paired with a brown leather jacket, and Georgio Peviani jeans, or a simple monochrome outfit that doesn't make me look like a Belarusian truck driver?
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Host Jimmy Kimmel generally brought a breezy tone to the telecast, from riffing on the acceptance speeches (he quipped that the late O.J. Simpson attorney Johnny Cochran was "smiling up at us") to a clever opening sequence that incorporated an unexpected cameo by Jeb Bush.
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Riffing off the format of those viral recipe videos that plague your Facebook feed, hunger nonprofit Feeding America and the Ad Council have released a video that shines a glaring light on hunger in the U.S. But the PSA is missing one key thing: food.
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For South Africans posting gym selfies, there is even a hashtag: #MkhabaMustFall, using a slang word for a beer belly, and riffing off the "must fall" hashtags seen in campaigns calling for colonial-era statues to tumble and university tuition fees to be axed.
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The Public School men's wear show that followed it extended and amplified that impression, riffing on references to '90s club wear: boiler suits and quilted parkas, leather Perfectos with floppy lapels, tunic-type shirts with clear origins in oversize throwback jerseys, flat-brimmed gunslinger hats.
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Sampling some glitzy guitar riffing from Electric Light Orchestra's "Evil Woman" and featuring vocals from producer Todd Edwards, the song is a punchy closing act that prizes delicate economy in the midst of 70s-aping excess—and a reminder that ecstasy still works in moderation.
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It's not just static—though I certainly have been known to appreciate records that are—they use varying shades of atonality to paint a complicated darkness, twisting feedback and squelches and real-as-fuck riffing around one another in these terrifying and brilliant assemblages.
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" Suhair recently found verses online written by an anonymous poet riffing on and answering those famous ones: "The one who hopes for something with not just his wishes but also his labor, will find it, even if he is opposed by humans and the Jinn.
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In Roberta Smith's review of 'Hopper Drawing' at the Whitney, she explains how viewers want "to get behind the curtain of Hopper's stillness and figure out what's going on," which explains why countless artists, filmmakers, and writers have been riffing on Hopper's work for years.
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As the novel goes on, Beatty keeps riffing on all of the absurdities and logical impossibilities that white supremacy asks us to believe, in ever spikier and funnier and more obscene passages that just get angrier and angrier as they get funnier and funnier.
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Eschewing introductions, the strangers — clued in to the clandestine meeting via a WhatsApp chat and directed to color-coordinate their outfits — stood in a circle near a movie theater in a strip mall, riffing on ways to stop the swell of migrants arriving at this border city.
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Voivod may have been the first to make the connection between jazz-fusion inspired riffing and the galaxies with their classic 80s albums, while simultaneously Joe Satriani chilled with the Silver Surfer and made the Marvel villain unable to star in any good movies from then on.
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" Riffing on the alarm raised by moderator Maria Bartiromo that "the world is on fire," Chris Christie warned that if "you're worried most of all about keeping your homes and your families safe and secure, you cannot give Hillary Clinton a third term of Barack Obama's leadership.
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" Riffing on the alarm raised by moderator Maria Bartiromo that "the world is on fire," Chris Christie warned that if "you're worried most of all about keeping your homes and your families safe and secure, you cannot give Hillary Clinton a third term of Barack Obama's leadership.
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As I was leaving Linde's office at Stanford, after we'd spent a day riffing on the nature of God, the cosmos and baby universes, he pointed at my notes and commented ruefully: 'If you want to have my reputation destroyed, I guess you have enough material.
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Which is very interesting to me, because I think of — I'm just riffing now instead of you — but I think of House of Highlights, the Instagram NBA highlight thing, we've had the folks from SBNation — sorry, from Bleacher Report — on here before talking about that product.
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Originally, Morgan wanted to call the new fuel 'Bagel' so that the full name would be 'Bagel and LOX' (riffing on the name for brined salmon served with a bagel and cream cheese), a brief flash of humor that her son says he rarely saw at home.
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Gaffigan's particular brand of hyper-self-aware comedy works because it gets inside your head: He riffs, then riffs on what the audience might be thinking about his riff, then finds a way to fully break the fourth wall by meta-riffing on the riff-riff relationship.
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As time went on, I realized that our conversations had started reflecting that circular quality, with Vile riffing on the same reference points and subjects when talking about Bottle It In: Neil Young, the importance of experience, evolving while holding onto your roots, the weight of existence.
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But its most popular video, with 212 million views, remains the first "Talking Watches" episode, a nine-minute clip from 212 featuring John Mayer riffing on his favorite timepieces, Rolex chief among them ("A GMT is one of the world's greatest apps," the singer-songwriter said).
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What began as a New York University-led project commenting on the Central American migrant crisis quickly devolved into an international controversy riffing off of Mexican racism and xenophobia in the face of the 5,000 refugees fleeing gang violence and drug cartels in countries like Honduras.
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The Shift You might guess that a surefire way to make a hit video on YouTube would be to gather a bunch of YouTube megastars, film them riffing on some of the year's most popular YouTube themes and release it as a year-in-review spectacular.
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"When I was 21 I read something Claes Oldenburg wrote," he explained, riffing on the opening line of Oldenburg's 1961 manifesto, "I Am For ...": "I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum," Mr. McGuire intoned with a chuckle.
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His recent work has included high-profile spots like Pepsi's "More Than OK" concept with celebrities Cardi B and Lil Jon riffing on their signature catchphrase, as well as 2018's Mountain Dew and Doritos collaboration featuring Peter Dinklage, Busta Rhymes, Morgan Freeman and Missy Elliot.
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When Jay Sekulow made the rounds of political television shows on Sunday, he had two basic talking points: first, that President Trump's tweet on Friday that "I am under investigation" was just riffing on news reports, and that prosecutors had not told him he was under investigation.
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Mr. Wiley, who was the subject of two exhibitions during Mr. Lehman's tenure at the Brooklyn Museum, reserved the couple one of his equestrian series — riffing on specific old master paintings, but updated with contemporary African-American subjects — but it turned out that it wouldn't fit.
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The pair spend a lot of the movie in jokey comic riffing — it's obviously heavy on loose, ad-libbed dialogue — but the scenes that result play like two comics trying to be funny, rather than two characters who are inherently funny because of who they are.
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When you open up a typical podcast app, it doesn't take long to get an idea of what makes for a Very Good Podcast™ in the eyes of most curators—content from public radio stations, comedians riffing on bad movies, and pundits dissecting Trump's Twitter beefs.
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However, I wouldn't say Zoleta was only riffing on me, since she's fascinated by the internet and it seems she's invoking Gustave Courbet's painting "The Origin of the World" (1866), which was the subject of controversy not so long ago when Facebook banned its use on their platform.
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I hate riffing on the company's old move-fast-and-break-things motto more than most journalists who cover the company, but here is a case where Facebook's decision to empower its engineers to ship almost anything with a minimum of review has truly come back to haunt it.
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In the opening monologue, Cardi looked straight up ecstatic to be there, going joke-for-joke with Fallon, riffing on her pregnancy and her last Tonight Show appearance, as well as cracking a few jokes at Trump's expense in a segment called What is Up With That Coat?
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After two seasons and dozens of live Brooklyn tapings of the friends riffing on everything from work to love to life's daily annoyances — also featuring a tribe of Black, brown, and LGBTQ+ stand-up comedians — HBO tapped the duo to turn their hilarious show into a four-night special.
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Trump also mentioned the case of Kate Steinle, a woman shot to death in 2015 in San Francisco, while blasting so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to help federal authorities enforce immigration law while also riffing about violence in Chicago and local politicians' efforts to combat the issue.
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Harambe, the gorilla gunned down on Memorial Day weekend after a boy fell into his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, has lived on as a meme riffing off the absurdity of online outrage, a fringe presidential campaign issue and even a grotesque racist symbol of the alt-right.
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Given that publishers' book sales for trade (consumer) books were flat in 2016, according to the Association of American Publishers, and the Adult Books category saw a 2.3 percent decline, riffing off a popular TV show like "Younger" could be one solution to drumming up excitement around novels.
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After Industry is likely riffing on the concept of "after nature" — a term once applied to the genre of still life painting and often repurposed today — and the show's presence in an industrial complex–turned–art gallery satisfyingly nods to nature and man's never-ending competition for space.
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His cameo in "Prince" has the musician riffing on his own mysterious persona, as he helps Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) through their relationship issues in fitting Prince fashion: appearing out of thin air, playing an impromptu concert, and hosting a contentious ping pong tournament (why not?).
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In Gillis's most popular YouTube clip, his schtick is riffing on the fact that he's from, in his own words, the "white trash town" of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and ostensibly trying to appeal to people who resent 'wokeness' by lamenting political correctness and referencing camo outfits and country songs.
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Patrick Melrose isn't much of a challenge for an actor who's brilliantly portrayed real eccentrics like Julian Assange and Alan Turing, but it's fun to watch Mr. Cumberbatch riffing through the voices in Patrick's head during his cocaine binges in "Bad News" (more fun than it was to read).
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In doing so, he transformed a glittering awards show long known for self-reverential pomp into a 3 1/2-hour live ABC telecast punctuated by withering satire riffing on issues of inclusion and diversity raised by the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite social media campaign and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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I love picturing Lil Wayne listening to opera in his spare time in his fancy car, and I also love this line because I always forget it's riffing on the title Phantom of the Opera until I think about it more closely or in this case write it out.
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Even though Betsy is riffing on the shingle style, there is a difference between architectural complexity and a mess, just as there is a difference between a masterful use of vocabulary and replacing every word in a sentence with the longest synonym you can find in the thesaurus.
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Mark Hamill, who voices the evil Scientist on the prequel to the 1982 Jim Henson & Frank Oz classic, shined throughout the panel, riffing with both fans and a starstruck Taron Egerton, who yelled "It's Luke fucking Skywalker!" at one point before giving way to an advance screening of Age's first episode.
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THR notes that in the manga version of Detective Pikachu, which is what the movie is riffing on, Lucy has her own Pokémon, a Psyduck — arguably one of the most memorable creatures from the anime — but it's not clear whether or not the often-confused canard will appear in the film.
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At the formal announcement of his running mate on Saturday, Trump addressed the crowd on his own for more than 20 minutes, riffing on rival Hillary Clinton, building a border wall, and even his new Washington, D.C., hotel – but not on his newly minted "partner," Pence, The New York Times reported.
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By the end of the debate he had spent a lot more time talking about his tax affairs (on not paying federal income tax: "That makes me smart"); denying he had said things about the Iraq war and climate change that he had in fact said; and riffing about Rosie O'Donnell.
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It's riffing on the same ideas, and in both instances, one of the central reasons people take sharp issue with assertions is because of tone, as though he read a manual on What Are Video Games, came down from the mountain top, and decided to finally share it with us.
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In fact, what's happening here is no different than what has been happening in the auto and tech media for years: go back decades and you can find countless examples of magazines riffing on rumors and nonexistent products, complete with beautiful illustration of cars you'll never be able to buy.
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His retro fetish is apparent from the very first seconds, as the font of the opening titles and the waka-waka guitar on the soundtrack signal that we are back in the 1970s — 1977, in particular, we're soon informed, but the point is less historical accuracy than pop-cultural period riffing.
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Unassuming in a baseball cap and shorts, Hodgson was earnest and thoughtful, discussing Mystery Science Theater 3000's enduring popularity, how he decided to cast updated versions of beloved characters, and why new movies should be spared the merciless riffing treatment of robot sidekicks Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot.
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"✓ iNTERBEiNG," to give just one example, moves from night-drive guitar arpeggios into unpredictable glitchy ambience, befitting some of the slower Autechre tracks, before rocketing back off into a giddy synth riff and spidery riffing that kinda feels like Joe Satriani surfing over a nightcore remix of an Envy track.
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The comic tirade on Mr. Trump's maladroit presidential transition — riffing on his praise for Vladimir Putin, his Twitter feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meryl Streep's criticism of him at the Golden Globes, among many other subjects — was one of three that Mr. Meyers would deliver in a four-show week.
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If only because Mr. Trump did not bother inventing a slight for the also-ran Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate until late April 2016, riffing on his dismal record in primary contests (he won only his home state), and did not find occasion to use it more than once.
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In the smaller gallery are the photographs of works from the last eight years — a celestial ship (nicknamed the "Barn Boat") (2015), a Tower of Babel (2015), and two smaller works riffing on the "Triumph of Death" motif in art history (2010), including direct references to works by Pieter Bruegel and Sidney Nolan.
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" It's even harder to imagine them as enthusiastic members of a Polynesian folk music band called "Across The Isle," or Booker affectionately riffing about Hatch being a fiscal conservative when the latter tells Leslie that tickets for their band's show at Georgetown University are "$8 if you buy now; $10 at the door.
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Yet one would think that director Seth Gordon and a team of writers could at least have more fun riffing on its quirks, which they try to do with jokes about women looking as if they're running in slow-motion and the fact these lifeguards behave like cops, even though they're not.
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Self-styled as a hybrid of hardcore and grime, they consciously crib the best bits of both on their new EP DREAD, rapping about isolation and fear over guitar parts that remind me at least a little of the chopped-not-slopped riffing that happens on labels like La Vida Es Un Mus.
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In the episode called "Thirteen Ways of Looking at 'Star Wars'" — a compendium of outlandish and interesting interpretations of the movies — Mr. Sunstein muses on the nature of conspiracy theories, riffing in the space of a few paragraphs on Lee Harvey Oswald, psychoanalysis, literary criticism and "The Bible Code" to no evident purpose.
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"That was invented by enemies of the people, enemies of our state, who know that as long as I am in the Caucasus, the Western, European special services will not manage to change the situation here," he says, riffing on the official conviction that the West seeks to engineer regime change in Russia.
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Satirical website The Onion recently published an article riffing on this very theme called "I'm Tired Of These Punks Coming Through My Neighborhood Blasting Their Late-1990s, Ghettotech, DJ Godfather–Inflected Hip-Hop," and the results are not only hilarious, but also surprisingly informative about the history of the Detroit-born genre.
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On the contrary, this likable but lumpy production directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, which opened on Sunday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is never better than when its all-male ensemble is functioning as an awkward but interdependent unit — riffing with, scoring off and rubbing up against one another.
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Caroline Ellis wasn't the only adorable insect trying to fend off Benita Bizarre (played by Martha Raye) and her noisy jukebox ... she was joined by John McIndoe who played the guitar riffing grasshopper, I.Q., Wayne Laryea who played the key-tickling bumblebee, Harmony, and John Philpott as the skin-slapping ladybug, Courage.
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Stick with it, though, and the apparent anarchy of both the play and Mr. Bennett's thrilling embrace of it snap into place, the title riffing on a popular 19th-century melodrama ("The Octoroon" by Dion Boucicault) to make all manner of nonpolemical points about race, identity and the very workings of the theater.
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The Russians had launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, in 21965, and with America beginning to gear up for a Cold War race with the Soviet Union to reach the moon, Vin Scully, the master phrase maker in the Dodgers' broadcast booth, rose to the occasion in riffing on Moon's feats.
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When filmmaker Steven Soderbergh made Ocean's Eleven in 2001, he was riffing on a 1960 film that was best known for featuring the likes of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr. Accordingly, he stocked the cast with what felt like modern-day Rat Pack equivalents: actors like Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon.
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In addition to Machneva's deadpan textiles riffing on Soviet Realism, Ortiz's ceramic proposals for statues to the oppressed, and California artist Janiva Ellis's uncomfortably superb paintings depicting black pain, a personal favorite that ostensibly has nothing to do with politics is Hong Kong artist Wong Ping's 13-minute animation "Wong Ping's Fables 1" (2018).
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With the hype gaining steam, the RealTouch appeared poised to fulfill the lofty promises that had been made about cybersex ever since the writer Howard Rheingold popularized the term "teledildonics" in 230 to envision the possibility of fully embodied computational sex—riffing on computer visionary Ted Nelson's idea of "dildonics," offered way back in 260.
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Their sophomore self-titled record would come to prove what the band's sound would be defined as for records to come, a kind of riffing perfected by guitarist Will Swan that goes back and forth between playful and aggressive, topped off with the push-pull vocals between then-vocalist Kurt Travis and screamer Jon Mess.
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Mr. Kondabolu has long been a gifted, brainy comedian on the subject of race — the title of his first comedy album, "Waiting for 2042," referred to the year when the Census Bureau estimated that white people will become a minority — but he's looser onstage now, riffing with the crowd, often treating it as a foil.
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Like its predecessors for the home market—the NES-honoring Nt Mini, the Super Nintendo-riffing Super Nt, and the Sega-honoring Mega Sg—the company is bringing an as-perfect-as-possible approach to retro home consoles like the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, and is doing so with a maximalist feel.
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A dashing figure in his checked shirt, polka dot tie and pocket square, Morley Safer – even his name had panache – was in his true element playing pool with Jackie Gleason, delivering one of his elegant essays aboard the Orient Express or riffing on Anna Wintour, but he also asked the tough questions and did the big stories.
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This New PS4 Controller Is Riffing Hard on Microsoft's Super Customizable Controller In a Very Good WayPhoto: ScufOne of the best controllers you can get for your PC or Xbox is the super customizable Microsoft Elite, but if you're a PS4 fan you'll have to go to third party peripheral maker Scuf to get any kind of customization.
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When Max Karlsson found out that he was going to be in charge of Sweden's official Twitter account this week, he was looking forward to sharing some of his photography, or riffing about music and technology — nothing too different from how hundreds of others have used the handle since Sweden opened it up to ordinary users in 2000.
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Season one of the show is primarily based on the initial chunk of Grossman's novel, riffing on the Harry Potter franchise with Brakebills, a Hogwarts-like post-graduate university for magic, but with drinking, partying, relationship drama, and sex that feels truer to a real college than any of the dating drama going on at Rowling's school.
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But Lego Dimensions, the toys-to-life branch of the Lego games—riffing on the Skylanders series—pioneered placement of figures on a USB-connected pad, transporting them from right in front of you to into the game—has had something of an identity crisis when it comes to co-op coherency between on-screen characters.
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There were many other singers who enjoyed letting Dorough's words roll around in their throats, including Tony Bennett, Blossom Dearie, Al Jarreau and, more recently, the critically acclaimed young vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant, who, as a card-carrying millennial, more than likely first heard Dorough's voice through her TV set riffing through the times-two tables.
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It's a knowingly fan-servicing affair, from its opening stage riffing on a cartoon episode to its Kremzeek collectibles hidden around the maze-like levels; but that Platinum quality can't be denied, which keeps it entertaining for those less into the robots themselves, and the storyline silliness that permeates its campaign represents a warm rush of comforting nostalgia.
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But on top of this winning premise, the show's co-curators (Audra Ang, Kian Lam Kho, Andrew Rebatta, and Herb Tam) invited artists Heidi Lau and Lu Zhang to create ceramic sculptures riffing on a signature dish by each featured chef, plus larger centerpieces extrapolated from the major cities and culinary traditions that figured into the chefs' development.
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The High End When the British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye set out to design his first skyscraper, a 66-story condominium building that will rise about 800 feet at 5.423 William Street in the financial district, he wanted it to stand out from the area's new glass towers while also riffing on the city's architectural past.
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"There will be plenty of petty non-stories the media can seize on to portray Trump as the kaiju manifestation of every ugly American stereotype, providing us with the hollow laughs that will briefly quell our omnipresent dread that he's just going to start riffing at some state dinner and kick off nuclear war," O'Neal wrote.
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VIDEOS OF THE DAY: A 90-year-old Auschwitz survivor returned to the camp 75 years after its liberation: Seth Meyers reviewed the accumulating evidence against the president: Riffing off Bolton's book, Trevor Noah said the president seems to have many "disgruntled" former employees and wondered why no one ever seems to leave the White House feeling "gruntled":
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"I'm part of a class of people who have emerged from their living rooms to get involved in the way that the world is run because we're not very happy with the job that's been done so far," he said, riffing on his usual topics: opposing political correctness, decrying immigration, and pushing for the UK to leave the European Union.
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Just track how often the Final Fantasy series has changed its battle systems and settings from entry to entry, a kind of general constant riffing on a big set of ideas that really do get refreshed and changed up from entry to entry.. Dragon Quest XI is the promised media object that unites these two forms of blockbuster, the film and the game.
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Lastly, we must also keep in mind that by the time the first NRA video aired on April 7, 2017, Sir Anish had already made public his criticism of President Trump by creating a "protest" artwork poster riffing on artist Joseph Beuys, "I Like America and America Doesn't Like Me," written in pseudo Antiqua-Fraktur font commonly associated with Nazi German media.
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When he finally emerged from the Oval Office, Mr. Trump spent another 10 minutes riffing about his administration's successes before getting to the point of the gathering, which included his new attorney general, William P. Barr, and the secretary of homeland security, Kirstjen Nielsen, sitting shoulder to shoulder with a group of "angel moms" hugging photographs of their slain relatives.
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Even while acknowledging their own past, Enslaved kept an eye on the present, inviting Einar Selvik to help perform one of the highlights from Monumension, "Convoys of Nothingness" and more recent collaborator Iver Sandøy to join all involved parties in a surprisingly true to form rendition of "Havenless" from Below the Lights, complete with frantic Moog static cutting across the song's black metal riffing.
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Much of that credit goes to Will Smith (Captain Steve Hiller), whose charisma and chemistry with his various costars elevated Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich's dialogue (depending on which version of the screenplay you read, it seems like Smith and costar Jeff Goldblum (David Levinson) did a lot of riffing) to something approaching the level of the film's groundbreaking (and Oscar-winning) visual effects.
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He notes that while CB radio was associated with long distance truckers in the United States, it was very much a spare room and shed hobby in the UK. Over the static, you might chat with Rubber Duck, Grasshopper, Wild Wolf, Snow Drop, Little Woman, Midnight Drifter, Blythe Spirit, Skinny Ribs, or Tango Polecat, who probably had an eyeball card coyly riffing on their nickname.
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From his Twitter rants to his off-script comments at pool sprays, his off-the-cuff riffing during what is supposed to be a formal speech to his out-of-control performance at formal press briefings, such as the infamous press conference that occurred the day after the 2018 midterm election, Trump appears impervious to being handled in any way and sticking to a script.
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Following a couple of great jokes, including one about Paul Giamatti's acting range (from "whupping Lupita in 12 Years a Slave to crying at Eazy-E 's funeral" in the space of one year), and a weak one dismissing the #AskHerMore anti-sexism movement, Rock's opening monologue led into a short package of sub-Hollywood Shuffle parodies riffing on the limited roles afforded to black actors.
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The insidiousness of the image is compounded by the added layers of meaning in switching the M&Ms of the now-familiar image to Skittles, which have come to symbolize the injustice faced by Trayvon Martin, and riffing off another popular (and vile) meme, "Trayvoning," which, as the name suggests, involves recreating the dead teen's last moments complete with hoodie, Skittles, and Arizona Iced Tea.
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Riffing on those classic disappointed tourist-type "...All I Got Was This T-Shirt" merch, it reads: "I Went To Planned Parenthood And All I Got Was A Breast Exam, A Pap Smear, Physical Exam, STD Testing And Treatment, Information And Counseling About My Sexual And Reproductive Health, Cancer Screenings, A Pregnancy Test, Prenatal Services, And Access To Affordable Birth Control," referencing all the medical services the organization offers female patients.
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Thede and her writing staff have a great eye for situations that start out in a normal place and slowly curl in on themselves until they're weirder and weirder and weirder, like with a series of sketches that recur throughout the season and feature the four series regulars riffing on friendship among black women — in what seems to be the only house standing after the end of the world.
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This week, she's set to release Skinless X-1 on Hausu Mountain (her second full-length for the Chicago purveyors of discombobulation and discontent), a 13-track collection of strange sounds from across the galaxy of underground music—from speed-demon techno to dewy laptop ambient, icy jazz samples, the colorful clicks and pings of online messenger services, mathy nu-nu-metal riffing, and well, just about anything else, swirled together in a loopy collage.
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" When he finds himself one day asking Nina to marry him, it is under a cascade of sex jokes—"I preferred taking the low road of indelicate candor," he says—and then, later, as the couple are riffing on the idea of a green-card marriage, Kailash isn't able to express his fear that the woman he adores might not love him back: "Characteristically, what emerged from my mouth was more insincere banter propped up with academic jargon.
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Adopting a voice that sounded much like that of Bobby Boucher -- the titular character in Sandler's "The Waterboy" -- the 53-year-old opened, saying, "I stand before you trembling with ample glee..." After riffing on his alleged unpopularity -- he nodded to his and awards host Aubrey Plaza's movie, "Funny People," which he said was the last time "critics pretended not to hate me" -- Sandler drew laughs with his mocking mention of being "quote-unquote snubbed by the Academy" a few weeks ago, when Oscars nominees were announced.
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There's my personal favorite, the "Karma's a Bitch" transformation videos, a meme allegedly based on a moment from TV drama Riverdale and started on TikTok's Chinese version of the app, Douyin, that involves a relatively plain-looking person suddenly and violently becoming a sexed-up version of themselves: Even though all of the videos are pretty produced—all of them have a voiceover or lip-syncing aspect, and most feature some kind of camera editing like zooms and smash-cuts—there's still something raw and riffing about the stuff Musers put on the platform.
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With its low-key format—primarily a man (either Joel Robinson or Mike Nelson) and two robots (Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot) riffing on B-movies with a few surreal sketches thrown in—and a rapid rate of goofs-per-minute, MST3K is still completely different from anything else we've seen on TV. Fully deserving of its cult status, it comes as no surprise that the series' return was sparked by an enormously successful Kickstarter in 2015, and that performers like Patton Oswalt, Felicia Day, and host Jonah Ray—who looks very comfortable in his yellow Gizmonics jumpsuit—joined up for season 11.
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