"The scarlet letter is theirs, it is not ours" McGowan said.
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An A rating from the NRA should be a scarlet letter.
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But the "working mother" label could still be a scarlet letter.
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Then again, congressional contempt isn't the scarlet letter it used to be.
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She feels like she has a Scarlet Letter plastered on her forehead.
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"The Scarlet Letter" is best appreciated by folks of a certain age.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" explores the concept of the shadow-self.
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"He said, 'I have a scarlet letter,'" Mr. De La Cruz recalled.
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I have always known of the existence of that racialized scarlet letter.
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"'A' as in abortion movie, as in 'The Scarlet Letter,'" she said.
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Now, with valuations deflating, it's often viewed as more of a scarlet letter.
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"The notion of someone being negative is such a scarlet letter," she said.
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By doing that, I then had a scarlet letter carved into my head.
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Some felt "The Scarlet Letter" (1995) missed the novel's intention by a mile.
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Suzan-Lori Parks's twinned riffs on "The Scarlet Letter" conclude a rosy run.
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She felt like she was walking around with a scarlet letter around her neck.
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The Scarlet Letter Reports did not begin life as a TV series, Knox says.
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Watch the third episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports now on Facebook Watch here.
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Nobody labels them a distraction, the closest thing sports have to a scarlet letter.
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THEATER Suzan-Lori Parks's twin riffs on "The Scarlet Letter" finish a rosy run.
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"Today everyone has it branded on their forehead, like a scarlet letter," he said.
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Why do women wear the scarlet letter and bear the possibility of prison sentences?
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Watch the second episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports now on Facebook Watch here.
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She took up Hawthorne again in "The Scarlet Letter: A Reading," published in 1986.
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If you failed, he got to boast and you were awarded a scarlet letter.
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Watch the fourth episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports now on Facebook Watch here.
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They basically get a scarlet letter that says their reviews might be full of shit.
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You can watch the full episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports now on Facebook Watch.
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Even his most stunning performances had a "Doesn't Shoot Threes" scarlet letter stamped on them.
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Arvin, like Hester Prynne, the heroine of " The Scarlet Letter ," was persecuted for perceived sexual deviancy.
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"It's kind of like a scarlet letter that I will always carry with me," Webster said.
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"It's like having a big scarlet letter put across your chest for the rest of your life."
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He didn't want his scarlet letter to further affect his wife and child; the couple got divorced.
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None of this is to say that the culture, as a whole, needs to embrace the scarlet letter.
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Or maybe as a Hester Prynne-type stuck with a scarlet letter for doing something decidedly un-Victorian.
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But she also bristled at the "scarlet letter" Carver, and by extension its students, had been branded with.
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"It's a scarlet letter of shame," said Common Defense's McCoy, who served in the Marines for six years.
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In Paris, Krystal went on a two-on-one date, The Bachelor's scarlet letter for villains of the show.
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Her new series on VICE, The Scarlet Letter Reports, is focused on changing the dialogue around gendered public shaming.
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The Financial Services Forum, a trade group, wants to remove the scarlet letter that applied during the financial crisis.
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She staged a workshop production of the opera "Scarlet Letter" with a libretto by the feminist writer Carol Gilligan.
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For once we're listening to a woman who refuses to wear either a scarlet letter or a superwoman's cape.
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Katie Herzog is a gay journalist who knows exactly what it feels like to wear a digital scarlet letter.
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It really has to be right-left — it's got to be like a scarlet letter on candidates on both sides.
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"The Scarlet Letter Reports" is a new series hosted by Amanda Knox that explores the gendered nature of public shaming.
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"A" is also a riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," that great 1850 novel about Puritan guilt and repression.
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But now, and here, they feel like a scarlet letter, a sudden swerve in meaning that's been forced upon us.
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"If they decide management is not for them, then they move off and it's not a scarlet letter," says Gale.
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The film's producers claimed Facing the Giants was given the scarlet letter of PG because it proselytized Christianity to young people.
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In Emma Stone's star-making performance as Olive in "Easy A," she struts down the hallway, complete with a scarlet letter.
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Stone's portrayal of Olive Penderghast in the movie, a modern take on "The Scarlet Letter," earned her a lot of fans.
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He's found some peanut butter, new clothes (what was up with that Scarlet Letter deal?) and a way out to the motorcycles.
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Though inclusion on the list would not automatically lead to sanctions, many feared that it would be tantamount to a scarlet letter.
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Stone starred as high schooler Olive Penderghast, who takes inspiration from The Scarlet Letter to enhance her social standings to mixed results.
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When Mr. Griffith taught the class about "The Scarlet Letter," Olive realized that the novel had elements that paralleled her own life.
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" Equally distinctive, and almost as popular with museums, were the gold-trimmed red capital A's inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter.
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On the road to Hangzhou, officers at two highway exits saw his digital scarlet letter and stopped him from taking the exit.
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Warren had a good line at the debate, but losing is not a scarlet letter in the race for the White House.
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The scarlet letter marking He-Who-Spoke-With-The-Ambassador will fade, to be replaced by interactions with reliable interlocutors in the bureaucracy.
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"Employees have to be coerced to file an EEO complaint because the second they do, they know it's a scarlet letter," she said.
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For Offred, who still hasn't gotten over the guilt of stealing Luke from his first wife, the scarlet dress is also a scarlet letter.
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The novel of seduction — in the vein of "The Scarlet Letter" and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," of Dreiser, Zola and Henry James — was dead.
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He retired a decade ago with a small pension and a 900-page opera called "Hester," based on "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Dembe's siblings are the least of the dangers they face: all Uganda is in a "Scarlet Letter" -like revolt against homosexuals in their midst.
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"It's like a scarlet letter," said Ms. Newton, who lives in the Bronx and now works with parents whose children are in foster care.
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Fortunately, you still don't have to go around for days wearing your scarlet letter just because you made the honest mistake of skimping on sunscreen.
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In a new interview with Broadly&aposs "The Scarlet Letter Reports," the 32-year-old actress remembers feeling "afraid" when she learned what was going on.
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The episode of the week for June 16 through 23 is "The Scarlet Letter" the third episode of the second season of Freeform's The Bold Type.
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It may be because to be seen with me, a PR person and someone who is an idiot in public, is to wear the Scarlet Letter.
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Not that it was about him; it was about those far less fortunate than him, who would carry this scarlet letter the rest of their lives.
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But I still contend that a vote for impeachment in the House alone is a historic chastisement, a scarlet letter that marks a presidency in memoriam.
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You can watch the full episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports, a new series in which I interview women who have been villainized by the media, here.
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That's nice—and he doesn't take too much off the table on the defensive end—but Booker can't shoot, and that's a scarlet letter in today's NBA.
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She's not the first women to be socially stigmatized for following her autonomous desires ("I belong to a line of red scent") and references Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter, in which a woman is forced to wear a red "A" for adulteress on her dress when in the presence of townspeople to shame her for the rest of her life ("There's a scarlet letter in my chest").
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We need players who zag while everyone else zigs, which is why it's time to appreciate what Payton can do, instead of branding him with a scarlet letter.
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To some, the Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL) from Starbucks is like the millennial scarlet letter, only meant to identify and humiliate the basics who actually enjoy the taste.
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"To continue to place a scarlet letter on an individual as if they had a life sentence is just wrong," said Veronica Cunningham, the parole association's executive director.
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Charleston students took their own spin on it -- they used the red "A" symbol from "The Scarlet Letter" and started a viral Twitter campaign using the hashtag #IamnotADistraction.
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FINs were scarlet letters, and I'd be filled with a sense of shame when I would ask my Muslim client, my brother in faith, for his scarlet letter.
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"This is a shaming list, a scarlet letter that the federal government is going to put on jurisdictions around the country," said Dennis Herrera, San Francisco's city attorney.
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Stapleton later wrote that she had been "branded ... with a kind of scarlet letter that makes it difficult to do my job" and left the company earlier this year.
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Starting this week, Knox hopes to change that: On Wednesday, Facebook Watch premiered the unscripted series The Scarlet Letter Reports, in partnership with Vice's Broadly and hosted by Knox.
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In the third episode of season two of The Scarlet Letter Reports, Davis explains how she became an advocate for women, an experience she didn't anticipate in her life.
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In "The Scarlet Letter," which is set in Puritan Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, the proud and beautiful Hester Prynne has a child whose father she refuses to name.
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Microsoft put another nail in the coffin of codes by branding players found guilty of using external tools with a CHEATER label, a scarlet letter that taints their Gamerscore.
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Before she hosted Broadly's Scarlet Letter Reports Amanda Knox was catapulted into the spotlight when she was convicted—and later acquitted—of murdering her roommate with her ex-boyfriend.
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With loser stink, a scarlet letter and an albatross now publicly affixed to me, professional colleagues—industry types that I thought were friends— hesitated to be seen with me.
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Possible sanctions include a fine; a complete ban of Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea; or a shaming that amounts to a reverse scarlet letter.
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One doctor in New York told me that patients, and their families, don't like being associated with the illness, as if they had a scarlet letter — "A" for auris.
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" She continued: "I have not unearthed a forgotten Jane Austen or George Eliot, or hit upon even one novel that I would propose to set alongside 'The Scarlet Letter.
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" Sara Moslener, who teaches philosophy and religion at Central Michigan University and has written extensively about evangelicals and sexuality, said Ms. Runkles's situation sounded "very 'Scarlet Letter' to me.
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Knox also recently hosted the VICE and Facebook show, The Scarlet Letter Reports, which saw her explore the nature of public shaming, which played a major part of her trial.
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But being fired feels like a scarlet letter, though, and few people have the luxury of waiting until their confidence is back up to start looking for a new job.
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"Those grades used to be seen as a kingmaker at election time," said Mr. Feinblatt, the Everytown president, who said they were now "a scarlet letter" for many swing voters.
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Today, in some parts of the country that seal of approval has become closer to a scarlet letter and a weight on the political fortunes of those who wear it.
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America shames people who have the audacity to struggle, fastening a scarlet letter to those of us forced to stretch and bend and cheat and break resources just to stay afloat.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%Summary: While reading "The Scarlet Letter" in high school, Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) finds herself at the swirling center of a rumor mill of her own making.
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For example, visiting an 11th-grade class at Beacon reading "The Scarlet Letter," Denby observes that the students are distressed by the malevolence of Roger Chillingworth, the betrayed husband of Hester Prynne.
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The tone of the column is one of seething condescension toward not only Trump, but his supporters as well, as though reality-TV watching brands one with a scarlet letter of disinterest.
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You are free to dress as you like, sure, but never distant in your mind is the fact that how those clothes hug your body can be tantamount to a scarlet letter.
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Pages and pages on Chaucer and ions and the Ming dynasty and isosceles triangles and "The Scarlet Letter," with notes of encouragement from my teachers written in fancy cursive lettering in the margins.
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In this episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports, I sit down with adult film star Brett Rossi who, in 2015, filed a domestic violence lawsuit against her former fiancé, celebrity actor Charlie Sheen.
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"A pre-existing condition shouldn't be some kind of scarlet letter Americans have to wear around their neck as they try to get the quality, affordable health care everyone deserves," Ms. Underwood said.
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That is only appropriate for a play inspired by perhaps the ultimate novel of American guilt, "The Scarlet Letter," Nathaniel Hawthorne's much-studied tale of the adulterous Hester Prynne of 17th-century New England.
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In any event, "The Scarlet Letter" proves so over the top that Ms. Liddell's ode to the superiority of men mostly prompted awkward laughs at one recent performance at the Théâtre de la Colline.
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But after the now-admitted killing of American resident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi earlier this month, the event has transformed from a star-studded gala into a scarlet letter in the eyes of Silicon Valley.
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"The heads of my department branded me with a kind of scarlet letter that makes it difficult to do my job or find another one," Stapleton wrote in a note shared on Medium on Friday morning.
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On the other hand, she is at pains to rehabilitate the 17th-century Puritans who, despite their crucial role in shaping America, are remembered chiefly as the ghastly zealots of "The Crucible" and "The Scarlet Letter".
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To that professor, I want to say the following: You threw my past up to me like a Scarlet letter; insinuating that because you knew what I came from, you could know where I was going.
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"This is the easiest playbook in the world for former members who want the dollars from lobbying firms but not the scarlet letter that comes with lobbying jobs," a former senior Senate staffer told The Hill.
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You may remember that in "The Scarlet Letter," set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th-century, Hester Prynne was forced to wear an "A" (for adultery) for having had a child out of wedlock.
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We're seeing a woman who refuses to wear either a scarlet letter or a superwoman cape, and she stands in sharp contrast to a self-aggrandizing president who may face serious consequences once this all unspools.
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Even in the Obama administration, where a Goldman pedigree was something akin to a scarlet letter, Gary Gensler was credited with reviving a moribund Commodity Futures Trading Commission and might have been Treasury secretary had Mrs.
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He won't leave his wife for Maya during his Senatorial campaign, and when news of their affair gets out, Maya heads to London to reunite with her friends and escape the scarlet letter now following her around.
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Hilarity ensues — it's an Emma Stone comedy, after all — and everything works out in the end after some self discovery, a pretty smokin' corset-and-pin situation, and many many references to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
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There were rare first editions of classics like "The Scarlet Letter," political treatises and hand-scribbled family histories, all stored within easy reach in seven football-field-size floors of stacks just below the main reading room.
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The brand is more of a scarlet letter than anything else -- OGE does not have any punitive power, and there is no indication the president has sanctioned other cabinet officials that have been embroiled in ethics violations.
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Similarly, when I first walked on set for The Scarlet Letter Reports, I quickly learned to depend on this crew to see the real me and afford the same courtesy to all the women interviewed on the show.
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For so long, it seemed to carry a cocaine scarlet letter that subjected me and many of my compatriots to dreary inspection rooms, where people are compelled to demonstrate they don't embody the worst stereotypes of their nations.
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A parking enforcement officer marks the tires of cars parked in time-limited spots; when the officer returns later, the mark, a sort of pre-emptive scarlet letter, reveals that it has been there an illegally long time.
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In the fourth episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports, season two, Amanda Knox travels to New York City to meet Waterbury, to better understand her experience confronting toxicity toward women in an institution she once admired and respected.
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Think "City Upon a Hill" ideals and "The Scarlet Letter"-style misogyny and you'll have a pretty good idea of this sly debut novel, which scarily hints that, since the 19th century, perhaps not a whole lot has changed.
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Such labeling not only stops ex-offenders getting jobs, it also ascribes to them a scarlet letter long after they've served their time, and prevents them from being seen for who they are: sons, sisters, parents, and community members.
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Four former Jones Day lawyers who anonymously sued the firm for sex bias have asked a federal judge to block the firm's bid to unmask their identities, saying it would brand them with a "scarlet letter" in the legal industry.
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In the season two premiere of The Scarlet Letter Reports with Amanda Knox, Holliday opens up about how her "career has kind of been based on controversy by accident," and how she coped with trauma she experienced in her youth.
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"In many ways, I feel like I walk around with a scarlet letter because many members who just have any primary, whether I know about it or not, tend to project that onto me," Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview.
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Conversely, if Trump captures a second term, despite the scarlet letter of impeachment, he may conclude that Congress in practice cannot constrain his authority so long as his party remains united behind him in Washington and at the ballot box.
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Think about it: If "Anna Karenina" had been by Leah Tolstoy, or "The Scarlet Letter" by Nancy Hawthorne or "A Doll's House" by Henrietta Ibsen — if "The Invisible Man" had been "The Invisible Woman" — would they have been hailed as classics?
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While Phia Ménard, a Frenchwoman, channeled the feminist anger that crystallized in #MeToo in "Saison Sèche" ("Dry Season"), the polarizing Spanish director Angelica Liddell rails against the same movement in "The Scarlet Letter," loosely inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel.
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Urban performed alone on a black screen, with words from the song flashing behind him and showing a list of words historically used to describe women, or female archetypes: sister, daughter, Virgin Mary, Scarlet Letter, baby girl, and Mother Nature all stream by.
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The act is usually depicted as a means of cleansing oneself from unholy erotic desires; The Scarlet Letter (21962), Brave New World (21990), the musical Sweeney Todd (21994), and some adaptations of the Hunchback of Notre Dame (21996) are particularly notable examples.
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I worried that the public shaming that inevitably follows these types of stories would crush her fiery spirit—that society's inherent sexism would brand her with a bullshit scarlet letter for an act that was never meant to be public to begin with.
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In the finale of The Scarlet Letter Reports, season 2 with Amanda Knox, Holder opens up about the consequences she has endured for not staying silent, and how today, as a lawyer, she works on behalf of people who've experienced sexual harassment.
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Ms. Parker has an expansive and thrillingly original imagination, and her riposte to "The Scarlet Letter" required two plays, both featuring a central character named for Hawthorne's ill-used Hester: "In the Blood" and "A," whose full title includes an unprintable epithet.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 13%Summary: Based on a classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Roland Joffé's 1995 adaptation of "The Scarlet Letter" portrays the unsettling circumstances of Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) as her Puritanical neighbors accuse her of adultery in her husband's absence.
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Whether or not this could be called a more innocent time, innocence is the central idea — the premise, the moral, the scarlet letter and the white whale — of "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," which takes place in that not-so-distant year.
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Investors and founders like Advani are describing the wreckage at 500 Startups as isolated to McClure — arguing that high interest in one of their landmark events means that the tech industry isn't going to brand a whole network of startups with a scarlet letter.
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"Sister, shoulder / Daughter, lover / Healer, broken halo / Mother nature / Fire, suit of armor / soul survivor, Holy Water / Secret keeper, fortune teller / Virgin Mary, scarlet letter / technicolor river wild / Baby girl, women shine / Female," the couple sing, as Kidman makes a heart shape with her hands.
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Okay, here's the chorus: Sister, shoulder Daughter, lover Healer, broken halo Mother nature Fire, suit of armor Soul survivor, Holy Water Secret keeper, fortune teller Virgin Mary, scarlet letter Technicolor river wild Baby girl, women shine Female Should we do this word by word?
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In this episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports—our show where host Amanda Knox talks to prominent women about the deeply personal journey of being sexualized, scrutinized, and demonized by the media—Amanda sits down with Amber Rose to discuss her fight against slut-shaming.
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Standing there alone, I tried to quell the urge to cry (yes, I can be dramatic; I'm a Pisces): I now had a very visible Scarlet Letter symbolizing all the things I didn't have in my life, most principally romantic love — and maybe common sense.
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Critic score: 85%Audience score: 77%In this high-school rom-com that breathes new life into Nathaniel Hawthorne's famed novel "The Scarlet Letter," Stone plays the teenager Olive Penderghast who lies about having sex with people to make her more popular — until it backfires.
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Isabella Picillo, 17, Oceanside High School: "The Scarlet Letter" and "Judge Partially Lifts Trump Administration Ban on Refugees" I stumble upon a New York Times article, "Judge Partially Lifts Trump Administration Ban on Refugees," that makes me wonder if Hawthorne, the literary genius, is wrong.
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"Think 'City Upon a Hill' ideals and 'The Scarlet Letter'-style misogyny and you'll have a pretty good idea of this sly debut novel," our reviewer Siobhan Jones writes, "which scarily hints that, since the 19th century, perhaps not a whole lot has changed."
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"You couldn't get three more different members of Congress than Jack Kingston, Phil Gingrey and Paul Broun, but they all had the scarlet letter of congressman hanging around their necks," said former Gingrey advisor Chip Lake, who lamented that experience has become a dirty word in politics.
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In The Scarlet Letter Reports, a new series launching this week on Broadly, I explore the gendered nature of public shaming through interviews with women who have been objectified and villainized by the media, including: Anita Sarkeesian, Amber Rose, Daisy Coleman, Brett Rossi, and Mischa Barton.
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In this episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports, Holliday lays her experiences coping with the public's mangled perception of her bare, opening up about her greatest vulnerabilities and how she continues to thrive, despite being subject to an overwhelming amount of hate, by returning to her roots.
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"Results should not be seen as some kind of a scarlet letter on the backs of agencies, rather as a light post on how to improve," said Connolly at a Tuesday joint hearing of the Oversight subcommittees on Government Operations and Information Technology to discuss the grades.
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In his book The New Scarlet Letter, Steven Raphael, an economist at the University of California in Berkeley, suggests that carrying a criminal record in the U.S. labor market is like being dubbed with a badge of infamy that forever brands these individuals with their past transgressions.
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Jeff Brandes, a Republican from Pinellas County who helped shape the new legislation, says he believes "being a felon shouldn't be a scarlet letter that you carry around the rest of your life," but that the new law follows "spirit and the letter" of Amendment 216.
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He would rather invite the Clintons AND the Obamas to his next wedding than have that scarlet letter ("L") branded on his forehead seconds after the last polls have closed on that night, the evening of the final episode of the permanently cancelled Donald Trump Sh-t-Show.
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The performance made visible the burden of being a survivor: Revealingly, the New York Times referred to the mattress as Sulkowicz's "scarlet letter, albeit an extra heavy version that [she] has taken up by choice," suggesting that there was still shame and stigma associated with surviving sexual assault.
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The punishment came at the end of a two-day hearing at which the judge declared Cosby a "sexually violent predator" — a modern-day scarlet letter that subjects him to monthly counseling for the rest of his life and requires that neighbors and schools be notified of his whereabouts.
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"This is a shaming list, a scarlet letter that the federal government is going to put on jurisdictions around the country," Dennis Herrera, San Francisco's city attorney, told The New York Times last month after the Trump administration first announced its plans to release a list of noncompliant jurisdictions.
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Example: Isabella Picillo, 17, Oceanside High School: "The Scarlet Letter" and "Judge Partially Lifts Trump Administration Ban on Refugees" (Read the full student essay.) I stumble upon a New York Times article, "Judge Partially Lifts Trump Administration Ban on Refugees," that makes me wonder if Hawthorne, the literary genius, is wrong.
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CONCHA: Where, if you say anything negative -- or positive about this president in any sustained way for just being objective, you go issue to issue, and you say he did well here, he didn&apost do so well here, but if you do that it&aposs like a Scarlet Letter in the media.
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Women who want to terminate a pregnancy for almost any reason except imminent death still face a Scarlet Letter in the Emerald Isle; they have to leave the country and fly to England if they can afford it (3,265 women went in 2016) or order sketchy pills online and risk a prison sentence.
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" In an emailed statement, Mr. Kaiman said that the allegations "have irrevocably destroyed my reputation, my professional network, my nine year career in journalism, and any hope for a rewarding career in the future; they have branded me with a scarlet letter for life, and driven me to the brink of suicide.
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" Among the introductions included in "Late Essays" are those to Defoe's "Roxana," Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych," Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier," Robert Walser's "The Assistant," Heinrich von Kleist's "The Marquise of O" and "Michael Kohlhaas," Samuel Beckett's "Watt" and Patrick White's "The Solid Mandala.
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" (The buffoonish hyperbole of King's infamous "calves the size of cantaloupes" riff would be a later and more obviously Trumpish example.) When Bush-backed comprehensive immigration reform came up in the Senate that year, King held a press conference declaring that anyone in favor of the bill "deserves to be branded with a scarlet letter, 'A' for amnesty.
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And that's why, the more I think about it, the more I feel like the iPhone 7 has to be a little bit boring so that we can get really hyped about the next big iPhone, and it needs to drop the headphone jack now, so the 10th anniversary iPhone doesn't carry that particular scarlet letter.
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When a camp called Big Imagination brought a Boeing 747 to Black Rock City as an art project, then failed to get the permits it needed to move the plane off the playa within 2 weeks after the event, guerilla artists returned to the desert to spray a vast MOOP tag on its undercarriage — the Burning Man equivalent of a scarlet letter.
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The interminable failure of government to marshal all available resources, brainpower, imagination, and resolution of spirit, to finally solve Flint, Michigan's contaminated water problem, stands, in relief, as a giant scarlet letter branded on the breast of America; just supplant the shame-evoking, blood-curdling, familiar image of the red "A" for "adulteress" with an even uglier, ignoble, black "R," for racist.
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That a group of ninth graders could spend more than a week scrutinizing Barclays Center with the same attention they would give to "The Scarlet Letter" or a science fair frog was another reminder of just how fixed the arena has become in the modern identity of Brooklyn — and how even at a young age, New Yorkers can feel conflicted about this or any development project.
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But after the now-admitted killing of American resident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi earlier this month, the three-day event has transformed from a star-studded gala into a scarlet letter in the eyes of Silicon Valley, and has been close to decimated by cancellations from Western speakers, and most recently, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, which could test his multi-billion-dollar partnership with Saudi Arabia.
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Learning Network Resources Lesson | Women on the March: A Lesson Plan on Imagining the Future of Feminism Lesson | Crossing the Line Online: Sexual Harassment and Violence in the Age of Social Media Lesson | Text to Text | 'Speak' and 'Waking Up to the Enduring Memory of Rape' Lesson | Text to Text | 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'Sexism and the Single Murderess' Student Opinion Question | What Is Your Reaction to the #MeToo Movement?
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Before writing these plays, Parks notes in the Playbill , she joked to a friend that she was going to create a piece based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's " The Scarlet Letter "—which she hadn't read at the time—and call it "Fucking A." After reading the novel, she wrote two plays, and to see them one after the other is to understand how Hawthorne's book gave Parks permission to explore her own gothic sensibility.
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