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Does an underling impress when standing in for their boss?
"Mere symbols of compliance are standing in for real privacy protections," he writes.
Are you still an everyman when you're no longer standing in for just anyone?
All rotate, with the centrifugal force felt at the walls standing in for gravity.
He did not hold mock debates, for instance, with someone standing in for Clinton.
The trail starts with a series of numbers, each standing in for a letter.
The world becomes a series of signs and numbers standing in for things themselves.
Jill Biden's swift action Tuesday night wasn't her first time standing in for security.
Kale Binder remained an ethereal concept standing in for all that could have been.
The reasons why start with the simple scapegoat logic of one standing in for many.
Hayes tells story after story of innocent black suspects routinely standing in for the guilty.
And part of our vision is that they're standing in for all the nameless others.
Scott Walker, standing in for Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, the Trump campaign official said.
He is standing in for the party's imprisoned founder, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The man leading the service was standing in for a rabbi who had died years earlier.
Who can forget Magic's 42 points, 15 rebounds and 7 assists standing in for Abdul-Jabbar?
Charles Kupperman, the man standing in for Bolton following his sacking isn't without his own controversies.
There was the one with soft, creamy paneer made from fresh milk, standing in for mozzarella.
Effectively, this means standing in for the mileage that is not covered by subways and buses.
Most VR "touch" is a gentle rumble from a controller, standing in for every possible tactile sensation.
Balenciaga's "glazed leather" and gold-stamped creation (standing in for yellow nylon straps) clocks in at $2,145.
Julia Roberts, standing in for the author Elizabeth Gilbert, sets out on a global journey of liberation.
Clémence Poésy portrays the French detective Elise Wasserman, standing in for Noren, as a brilliantly odd bird.
With the latest photos, however, she's closer to representing something fresh: Other women standing in for her.
He uses left/right grid symmetry, but there is that extra black square hanging out between 19A and 21A that enables him to build a SINGLE SCOOP cone, denoted by an O standing in for the ice cream scoop on top of a V standing in for the cone.
Lawrence, 27, interviewed the TV reality star, 37, while standing in for Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Goyal was standing in for Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who was undergoing medical treatment in the United States.
I gripped it even more proudly than the slip of paper standing in for my diploma that day.
It was a lovely canine moment: a real 28-pound beagle standing in for a beloved comics beagle.
Daenerys Targaryen was the Cinderella story, with misogynist horse lords and Qartheen warlocks standing in for the stepsisters.
Imagine you have a set of twins, with each twin standing in for the matter and antimatter neutrinos.
Joining him in importance this election is the nation itself, a character standing in for all of us.
Yeah, that was actually Tejon Ranch, in yet another instance of California standing in for Not California onscreen.
Fischer primarily shot "Styx" on the open sea, with Malta standing in for the west coast of Africa.
The band then released a video in September, with Weird Al Yankovic standing in for lead singer Rivers Cuomo.
His pugnacious deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has been standing in for him at White House briefings in recent weeks.
A different writer might have found poetry in the idea of the teams' failures standing in for the city's.
The result may make you think of Buffalo wings, with grilled pork steaks standing in for deep-fried chicken.
Jayasundara refused to quit and was later asked to go on leave, with his deputy standing in for him.
The all-new real estate also matches the branded revamp, with "inns" and "cottages" standing in for houses and hotels.
She broke onto the international classical music scene in 2007, standing in for Martha Argerich at the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Button, standing in for Fernando Alonso at McLaren while the Spaniard competes in Sunday's Indianapolis 500, qualified an impressive ninth.
Ms. Davis returns here, with the drummer Jared Schonig; standing in for Mr. Frisell here is the guitarist Ben Monder.
I am standing in for Ian Austen, who is smartly recovering from elections overload at his cottage near Algonquin Park.
On the right, an arrangement of tables, chairs and couches standing in for the bars and restaurants its characters visit.
Jayasundara refused to quit and was later asked to go on compulsory leave, with his deputy standing in for him.
The action eventually moves onto the alien ship, then to an unnamed country in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, standing in for Laos).
He made his debut conducting the orchestra in 2014, standing in for Mr. Jansons, and his international conducting career took off.
The nominees were subjected to "murder boards," three-hour mock hearings where they were grilled by volunteers standing in for senators.
At one point, Leichter's narrator is enlisted to work as a human barnacle, standing in for those that had gone extinct.
It's a thrillingly belligerent ceviche, and tastes like a trick of the mind: like kimchi, with fish standing in for cabbage.
The May trial focused on 13 property owners, standing in for hundreds of other property owners who have sued the government.
Further back, Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne — standing in for the injured Fernando Alonso — beat McLaren team mate Jenson Button on his qualifying debut.
The mini-series, in which characters speak both English and Irish Gaelic, was filmed in County Galway, standing in for North America.
Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter, has become a quasi-diplomat—standing in for her father in meetings with foreign heads of state.
Rather than standing in for Western instuments, the traditional instruments are allowed to determine the direction and melodic possibilities of the music.
But run the actions seen above with him standing in for Henson and suddenly the Bucks are that much harder to guard.
Investors seduced by the promise of increased profits are being left at the altar of derivatives standing in for real economic growth.
This mini-series, in which characters speak both English and Irish Gaelic, was filmed in County Galway, standing in for North America.
He is standing in for former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who left in April, amid a general shake-up at the department.
The thermometer is a sort of oblong, limbless take on Elmo, colored bright red, with an orange button standing in for his nose.
The form of her body is created in negative space, with the leather standing in for her own skin as an imperfect metonymy.
His gamble backfired when Antonio Giovinazzi — standing in for Pascal Wehrlein at Sauber — crashed, bringing out the actual safety car two laps later.
Jakku is not a wireless carrierAppears: 242:21 We start with a giant, 246-esque iPhone standing in for the opening title crawl.
In Pocket Mortys, you do the same — but with your grandson and his myriad of other-dimensional selves standing in for pocket monsters.
A spokesman for Xing said Vollmoeller has been traveling since early October and that finance chief Ingo Chu was standing in for him.
For this film, which also stars Kevin Costner and Jim Parsons, the building was standing in for the Langley Research Center in Virginia.
Chelsea Clinton fired back at President Trump's suggestion that she would have been praised for standing in for her mother at the meeting.
Standing in for the adobe of the original was another ancient North African invention: couscous—around seven hundred and seventy pounds of it.
We had our actor there and we had people standing in for the other performers and we built sets that had the proper topography.
It's a science fiction variation on Russia / US tensions, with parallel worlds standing in for Cold War adversaries, with first rate acting and writing.
In many ways, the film is reminiscent of the 2000 movie Chocolat, with the magic of books standing in for the indulgence of sweets.
Free of the burden of standing in for an entire political system, his personality has shone through in Houston's clubhouse (as has his hair).
In one, an anonymously written feminist play called "Swetnam the Woman-Hater, Arraigned By Women," the character standing in for Swetnam was named Misogynos.
Raab was standing in for U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was confirmed as having the coronavirus last week and is currently self-isolating.
Often people analyze "fire" in this legend as a metaphor for knowledge, with literal light standing in for the  "illumination" or "enlightenment" of mankind.
The metaphor for assimilation can seem a little too on-the-nose, with the curry-spiced savory pie standing in for the melting pot.
"Right now she can't dance at 100 percent and [troupe member] Jenna Johnson is standing in for her during camera blocking today," says the source.
In one series she wears a tight white T-shirt bearing working-woman cartoon character Cathy standing in for the "I" of the message: UNDERPAID.
The star parodied the Full House intro, with help from her partner Keo Motsepe, with Los Angeles' Echo Park Lake standing in for San Fransisco.
Under existing law, the crown prince could serve as regent if his father became too ill, standing in for the emperor in all but name.
Cottage cheese was once a reliable character actor, standing in for meat during two world wars, filling in for ricotta and starring on diet plates.
What if Forster's plot were transposed to contemporary New York, with gay men from different generations standing in for Forster's straight people from different classes?
Gordon will also be standing in for Earnhardt the following week at Pocono, where he also holds the Sprint Cup record for most wins (6).
Yeah, the whole plot is basically the same as Hook except featuring a certain silly-old-bear, and the Hundred Acre Wood standing in for Neverland.
When a car comes speeding down a road we're standing in, for instance, we predict it might hit us, so we get out of the way.
A nominee normally practices in mock hearings, known as a "murder board," with aides standing in for particular senators and firing off quick volleys of questions.
After the prologue, a writer (the beautifully mordant April Matthis, standing in for Ms. Callaghan) approaches a microphone and tells a series of increasingly corny jokes.
Of course, Axl is standing in for Brian Johnson during AC/DC's upcoming tour dates ... and he revealed which song he's most looking forward to belting out.
On the landing page, where users often see the colorful Google logo, standing in for the Google "L" is a stone marked up with the Ogham alphabet.
The trio (with a second pastor, Dave Brown, sometimes standing in for Mr MacKenzie) like to start their presentation with the simple statement that "life is difficult".
The 37-year-old Briton is standing in for Fernando Alonso in the Mediterranean principality while the Spaniard competes in the Indianapolis 500 on the same day.
Cheung is standing in for Lam, who is visiting mainland China, where Xi said on Monday the central government had a high degree of confidence in her.
Is this distorted person a type, standing in for Clinton, or a specific person who is sitting at a specific table, by a specific bunch of flowers?
Then there's Vice President Pence, who has taken on a wide portfolio, including standing in for the President on the campaign trail, while also projecting stalwart loyalty.
The vistas (with Australia standing in for Mexico) are staggering, the water a heavenly blue, and Ms. Lively is made to look like a very able surfer.
Social media has made it easy for politicians and others public figures to tell the world how they feel, with tweets sometimes standing in for press statements.
The only thing we're missing are the players, although I'm assuming those stairstep black square islands on each side of the grid are standing in for them.
A self-reflexive thread made Alviano into a Schreker stand-in, with the loss of his island paradise standing in for this composer's condemnation by the Nazis.
Ready to eat right out of the package, it is perfect for platters, such as this riff on Salade Niçoise with smoked salmon standing in for tuna.
"It is important for me to cast a person with similar complexion and physical stature to the actors they are standing in for," the source said to IndieWire.
The 2009 champion, who is standing in for Fernando Alonso while the Spaniard competes in the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, now looks set to start in last place.
LYNN SWEET, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: If the first lady or the person who is standing in for the first lady disappears, you want to know where she is.
Yan Lei's "Appetizer" (2002/22003) offers a glass tray with a rolled-up $21989 bill and the word "BIENNALE" spelled out in white powder, standing in for cocaine.
The show was criticized during its run for making the promiscuous, neurotic, commitment-phobic Patrick its central character, as if he were standing in for all gay men.
They're not standing in for brilliant ideas about humanity or the soul or anything else that you might substitute in the place of thick walls and thin corridors.
" It's not hard to imagine President Trump railing against the heavens, orange pate standing in for Lear's "white head," proclaiming himself "a man more sinn'd against than sinning.
Standing in for the ark is a 19-inch ship's hull, fabricated from wood and based on an Inuit model made of whalebone, which hangs from the ceiling.
George Stephanopoulos of ABC News spent his weekend running drills in a studio, practicing swing-state calls with a former intern standing in for the pollster Nate Silver.
If you're not as into the idea of Dougie standing in for a whole theory of the self, or how we construct our identities, or whatever, I get it.
They are physically perfect women made of pixels, standing in for women who have long been pressured to become physically perfect, without the advantage of that even being possible.
In a display case are drafting tools and a pencil standing in for those used by Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who drafted the plans which geographically divided Pakistan and India.
Italian Antonio Giovinazzi, standing in for the injured Pascal Wehrlein at Sauber, did five before the team swapped out the Ferrari power unit and then 62 more after lunch.
So is "Rise" kin to "Friday Night Lights," another show initially based on a sociological deep dive, with rehearsals in place of football practices, performances standing in for championships?
Standing in for the book's unnamed narrator is the little-known Italian actor Marcello Mazzarella, made up here with a dapper mustache and kohl-rimmed eyes to resemble Proust.
Standing in for a traditional runway is a circular set scattered with purple flowering butterfly bushes and broad-leaved princess trees whose boughs reach almost to the roof beams.
At its hellish climax, when Vronsky, Anna's lover (played as callous by Taner Sahinturk), takes a tumble, the peasant standing in for his mare is strung up and hanged.
Standing in for the OK Corral was Rajadamnern Stadium in Bangkok, packed to its creaking wooden rafters with touts and gamblers eager to witness this head-to-head showdown.
In all of this fracturing transformation, long-ignored colonial-era monuments made simply to be looked at have become newly visible, the old colonialism standing in for the new.
"It is important for me to cast a person with similar complexion and physical stature to the actors they are standing in for," the director of photography told the outlet.
Cheung is standing in for beleaguered Lam, who is visiting mainland China, where President Xi Jinping said on Monday the central government had a high degree of confidence in her.
And it clearly inspired Jay Z, who doubled down on the comparison by photoshopping himself into the original famous Life magazine photo of the protest, standing in for Tommie Smith.
None has a fixed role to play, with two old men on hospital beds ostensibly standing in for the mad king, and a pair of actresses suggesting Lear's three daughters.
It's like a tartar sauce with chopped hard-boiled egg and olive oil standing in for the mayonnaise and sour cream, and it pairs very well with cold poached salmon.
I do think it's interesting that both puzzles even involve X's standing in for parts of theme entries, although this one also includes a slash mark to mix things up.
If a dollop of mystery remains, the characters soon deflate it — they even pull up the cotton batting standing in for snow to reach an electrical outlet hidden beneath it.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, standing in for President Muhammadu Buhari who is on extended sick leave in London, has been meeting community leaders who act as proxies for militant groups.
Tuberculosis, a microbial infection characterized by sputum and wracking coughs, became the "romantic disease" of the 19th century, its fevers and pallor standing in for creativity, beauty and moral superiority.
And so, when I and the other ex-Christians in my audience walked into the space standing in for a church in Rochester, 1996, it wasn't just theater for us.
Button, the 2009 world champion and former Monaco winner, is standing in for Fernando Alonso in the Mediterranean principality while the Spaniard competes in the Indianapolis 500 on the same day.
The 23-year-old has taken part in two races this year, standing in for injured German Pascal Wehrlein in Australia and China without scoring a point at Ferrari-powered Sauber.
As the story approaches its conclusion, many scenes feel less like horror fodder and more like the makings of a madcap Spielbergian adventure, with the Warrens standing in for the Goonies.
The Doomsday Clock will stay at two minutes to midnight, the same time as it was last year and the closest it's been to the hour standing in for the apocalypse.
There, it will utilize the sets and ships previously used on Starz's Black Sails to adapt Gabaldon's elaborate sea voyage scenes, with the balmy new location standing in for the Caribbean.
In his final turkey-pardoning ceremony in 2016 (with his two young nephews standing in for teenaged Sasha and Malia), Obama promised a "corny-copia of dad jokes," and he delivered.
Ahead of the Sin City shows, PEOPLE caught up with Lambert, 36, about standing in for Freddie Mercury, his onstage fashion — and how playing with Queen has inspired his own music.
Running lines in the video with director Paul Verhoeven (standing in for leading man Michael Douglas), Stone taunts, teases, flirts, and fascinates as the enigmatic writer and murder suspect Catherine Tramell.
Instead, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who is standing in for the country's sick leader, sent a vehicle to ferry the protest leaders to his office, where they complained about widespread corruption.
It's easy to identify the figures standing in for Jesus and Mary, but the meta-theatrical frame, with a filmmaker struggling to make a Jesus movie, is both ludicrous and banal.
Maybe the solution didn't lie in slices of brain, but in an entire brain, perfused the way Belanger was perfusing this one, with hemoglobin-rich fluid standing in for a preservative.
An almost silky consistency marks the mackerel that Soogil serves, nigiri-style, over wads of rice that have been seasoned with ssamjang (standing in for wasabi?) and wrapped in chard leaves.
When she was looking at the little doll that was standing in for Groot, you can see it in her eyes that she wants to pick it up and care for it.
It took about a day to make an initial version of the video with one of the artists' voices standing in for a voice actor's Zuckerberg impression and facial movements, he said.
His leftist rival Haddad, standing in for the jailed PT founder and former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had been trailing Bolsonaro since the first-round vote three weeks ago.
Chomp on fresh hearts of palm and radish as you go, and see what you think of that unripe Meyer lemon, standing in for the more hard-to-find citrus, som sa.
Cheung is standing in for embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, who is visiting mainland China, where President Xi Jinping said the central government had a high degree of confidence in her.
Cheung is standing in for embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, who is visiting mainland China, where President Xi Jinping said the central government had a high degree of confidence in her.
According to two experts, it's because Obama himself, standing in for a much larger set of issues, triggered a powerful set of reactions — powerful enough to, with Trump's encouragement, decide an election.
There was brief applause when second vice-president James Wani Igga, standing in for President Salva Kiir, said South Sudan "is emerging as a powerful nation with a world-class oil industry".
A unique setup employs two clutches, one between the gas engine and electric motor (effectively standing in for the torque converter) and a second between the motor and a continuously variable transmission.
Meghan also took a moment to thank her fellow hosts, Abby Huntsman, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and Yvette Nicole Brown, who was standing in for Joy Behar, for helping celebrate her father's life.
His leftist rival Fernando Haddad, standing in for the jailed PT founder and former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been trailing Bolsonaro since the first round vote three weeks ago.
Belgian rookie Stoffel Vandoorne, standing in for Fernando Alonso at McLaren after the Spaniard was ruled out on medical grounds after his big crash in Melbourne, scored on his debut with 10th place.
Enter some "alien potatoes" standing in for the army of King Antiochus, and a wise family dog named Applesauce, and you've got yourself a full-blown kooky comedy unpacking an ancient Talmudic tale.
With virtually no dialogue and precious little recognizable narrative, this surreal take on the Virgin Mary's pilgrimage (with the American Southwest standing in for the Holy Land) is intermittently lovely and consistently confounding.
At one point there was an effort underway to reconsider the area around the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Fort Greene as Bamcudi (standing in for the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District).
Standing in for the president's two daughters were two nephews, Austin Robinson, 6, and Aaron Robinson, 4, "who, unlike Malia and Sasha, have not yet been turned cynical by Washington," Mr. Obama joked.
At one point, to affect weightlessness, Treadway balanced her back against the chair, dangled her legs forward, and grabbed a beam above her head, as Stevens (standing in for the puppeteer) held her aloft.
They are putting their campaign needs in the hands of their young field organizers, who are knocking doors in subfreezing temperatures in Iowa, and political surrogates who are standing in for them at events.
I jumped on the clue at 33D ("Enco12a34"): the trick is to visualize the completed word and then arrange the letters that have numbers standing in for them in the numerical order you're given.
The object was to win a game of tick-tack-toe, with celebrities standing in for the squares, contestants representing X and O, and no one ever got thrown off an island or anything.
His hindquarters were collapsing below him; he couldn't bear to be touched there, and the vet's nurses, standing in for the vet, but not as skilled as the vet, caused him to cry out.
Less a politician than a character out of a movie, he is more likely to turn out to be a brow-furrowed, nasty Groucho Marx — with the American establishment standing in for the opera.
With the American flag's red stripe standing in for menstrual blood, the stars ripped at the female's feet and dotting her nipples, the piece acts as a battle cry tuned to a female pitch.
Todd: EPCOT also ends up standing in for something that's always present on The Americans: the thing you want to achieve or the place you want to get to that remains frustratingly out of reach.
And that, I suspect, is what people think they are doing when they watch "Succession" — their laughter standing in for the act of reaching over to the rich and fondling the poultry on their plates.
According to them, the clock is designed to warn people "how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making," with midnight standing in for the point of no return.
Jake as Battle Cat completes the transformation, but He-Finn is definitely the star of this show, with a beefed up version of Finn's original 'Scarlet' sword standing in for He-Man's classic Power Sword.
The Doomsday Clock is now two minutes to midnight, as close as it's ever been to the hour standing in for the apocalypse because of threats posed by nuclear weapons, climate change, and fake news.
One type of performance artist would have precisely taken those actions, asserting their agency against the statue; the other type might've lead a candlelit procession, with a performer standing in for Joséphine and ritually dying.
Schubert's more overtly operatic "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen" ("The Shepherd on the Rock," standing in for Vienna) proved a better vehicle for Ms. Oropesa's charm as she traded phrases with the clarinetist David Shifrin.
Once in the Gulag, he is accused, after standing in for the company commander, of an "inappropriately convivial approach to work," which is seen as being due to his non-proletarian ("petty bourgeois") social antecedents.
It's worth considering whether this anxiety is standing in for a more fundamental fear: that you won't be able to love this guy over the long haul, that you're too "terrible" — too judgmental, too superficial.
Standing in for Towne, with whom the basic idea for "Chinatown" originated, is Julie Payne, who was his girlfriend at the time and later his embittered ex-wife; she and Evans both died last year.
The thing is a tightly wound two hours, like show creator Vince Gilligan's version of Good Time or a twisted take on After Hours with Skinny Pete and Badger standing in for Cheech and Chong.
And you can see them as standing in for any number of real-life groups pushed out of mainstream American society, be it the poor, the disabled, the mentally ill, the traumatized, or what have you.
O'Brien is the former, a Southerner with a grey goatee standing in for any good ol' boy, while Meyer is the latter, an ambitious but largely unqualified leader of the free world, taken to preposterous conclusions.
I always love how Canada seems to be a geographic substitute for everywhere else in sports movies, from Winnipeg doubling as Houston and Montreal pretending to be Baltimore, to Vancouver standing in for pretty much everywhere.
It would be too tidy to see our current situation as an endlessly repeating Altamont, with Bikers For Trump all too happily standing in for the rampaging Hells Angels of that End-of-the-Sixties shitshow.
Representing Facebook at the hearing is Colin Stretch, the company's general counsel; from Google it'll be Kent Walker, the search giant's general counsel; and standing in for Twitter is Sean Edgett, the company's acting general counsel.
Roman masculinity was a lot like the worst version of present-day toxic masculinity, with the act of penetration itself standing in for today's aggressive performance of heterosexuality: A Roman man penetrated others regardless of gender.
Hosting envoys from NATO countries in Israel, including the Turkish charge d'affaires standing in for the ambassador who was withdrawn during the bilateral crisis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to further close ranks with the alliance.
Here's a sampling of edited responses, with one very passionate "Hadestown" fan standing in for several others: Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta performed "The Laramie Project" in repertory with "Our Town" as its season opener in September.
And they're both concerned with the ways that artificial beings might be treated as slave labor, allowing for frequent riffs on the idea of androids standing in for essentially any oppressed group you can think of.
At times their rhetoric hardened into a sort of Trumpism for the left, with rapacious corporations, corrupt politicians and cowed regulators standing in for illegal immigrants and feckless liberals as the cause of all of America's problems.
In fact, it was his stint as a guest host on The Tonight Show, standing in for Johnny Carson, that first introduced Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown to Reynolds, and led to the idea of the centerfold.
LONDON (Reuters) - Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose will make his debut with AC/DC at a concert in Lisbon on Saturday, standing in for lead singer Brian Johnson on the veteran Australian rock band's world tour.
In 2014, the College Republican National Committee released a series of ads aimed at young women, based on the TLC program "Say Yes to the Dress," with Republican candidates for governor standing in for garish taffeta creations.
And even if I question the idea that everybody else in the room would be so ready to applaud for her, I'll allow it on the grounds of all of the characters standing in for the audience.
For most of it, there's also this male character, played by Mike Iverson, sitting on stage, watching you, standing in for all of the American Legion members who did the same thing when you were a teenager.
Technically, it is ideal; Wilson Chin's set, striking in itself, also hints at the historical connections with its grimy streetlamp standing in for Beckett's sad tree and its slice of sidewalk surrounded by a desert of sand.
But when the costume design team at "Saturday Night Live" attempted to contact the fashion label to recreate the sold-out garment for a sketch with Tina Fey standing in for Palin, they reportedly hit a snag.
Elsewhere, some obviousness creeps in, as with an anti-monument formed by a statue atop a cast-aluminum laundry basket standing in for a disintegrating globe, despite the appeal of the doll-like, carved-alabaster statue itself.
Particularly fun is a performance of "Ironic" in a classroom, where students — standing in for 25 years of trivia enthusiasts and know-it-alls — continually cut off Frankie's song to explain that, actually, the lyrics aren't ironic.
He calls Tony at various points "little Asian twerp" and "runty little half-man," as if standing in for any readers who might be weirded out by seeing a super skinny Asian dude in the role of hero.
Mori, who was standing in for PNG's new prime minister, James Marape, at an investor forum in Sydney, said the resources-rich nation was developing policies to keep more of the commodities it produces to improve its economy.
Villarreal gave the response during a forum sponsored by the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in New York that featured the presidents of Peru, Chile and Colombia, with Villarreal standing in for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
The 15-times grand prix winner made a cameo at this year's Monaco event, standing in for former team mate Fernando Alonso, who chose to skip the sport's blue riband race to compete in the Indy 500 instead.
Monday's court proceedings lasted just a few minutes, long enough for a judge standing in for Judge Ye Lwin, who has overseen the case against the Reuters journalists, to announce that a ruling would be made next week.
With the 29 lapis beads standing in for celestial bodies, the stars would be more than 100 small, brilliant-cut diamonds ranging in intensity from orange to yellow; the giant sapphire would occupy the center, like a sun.
The star of the aquamusical, DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson, standing in for swim star Esther Williams), is unmarried and pregnant, which will become a scandal if the newspapers catch on before Eddie can set her up with a husband.
The other islands similarly take cues from their real-world counterparts, with in-game locations like the Paniola Ranch paying homage to Maui's cattle country, and the Hokulani Observatory standing in for the increasingly controversial telescopes on Mauna Kea.
"Pure Country" is a country reworking of his own "Pure Comedy" from last year's album of the same name, with slide guitars replacing the choir and a faint southern accent standing in for Misty's precise delivery on the original.
Representing Facebook at the hearing is Colin Stretch, the company's general counsel; from Google it'll be Rich Salgado, the search giant's director of law enforcement and information security; and standing in for Twitter is Sean Edgett, the company's acting general counsel.
For better or worse, Swift grew up as her fans did — starting in adolescence and moving onward from there, her career has modeled the maturation of one young woman assumed to be a composite, standing in for her whole fanbase.
Some disability rights activists have criticized the novel for using disability as a metaphor, with the "freakish" bodies of Oly, Arty, Iphy, and Elly standing in for deviance and social weirdness, but Geek Love is actually a celebration of difference.
The street standing in for South Korea, the North's longtime rival and more prosperous neighbor, includes a seedy brothel, a tawdry bar and a shady blood bank, all seemingly designed to cast it as a paradigm of decrepitude and sin.
"That loss is certainly part of my psychology," the artist acknowledges, drawing a link between the way he sees the imprisoned cells in his paintings standing in for humans and the way a gravestone does the same for the deceased.
The idea animating the statute is that there will be proxies standing in for the role the public usually plays — the inspector general, who receives and reviews the complaint; and the intelligence committees, who, if necessary, can act upon it.
He had a sense of the Caribbean's grandeur that inspired him to write "Omeros," a transposed Homeric epic of more than 22000 pages, published in 21981, with humble fishermen and a taxi driver standing in for the heroes of ancient Greece.
Related: Daniel Day-Lewis reveals why he quit acting It is, in a way, a beautifully mounted indie-film version of "The Big Bang Theory," with Reynolds standing in for Sheldon, brilliant but extremely demanding when it comes to those around him.
We get a transcript featuring a "Representative" playing the part of asking dumb questions and "Medium" standing in for Zuck with his generic "we immediately built a fix" and "I will have my team look into it and follow up" response at the ready.
With the song now standing in for a culture war over content, it seems pretty unlikely that those folks will be equally stoked to see Legend and Clarkson's version even if it has the potential to propel "Baby, It's Cold Outside" into new relevance.
Jennifer Fox, like the character standing in for her onscreen, was a documentarian before making The Tale, her first scripted film, and the kind of documentarian who makes a six-hour movie mapping her personal crises against the experiences of women around the world.
Anohni soon took the stage in a veil and hood, flanked on her right by Oneohtrix Point Never, who helped with production on HOPELESSNESS, along with producer Christopher Elms, who appeared to be standing in for Hudson Mohawke, who also contributed to the album.
Mr. Pence is essentially standing in for Mr. Trump at the Asean meeting, and the president's absence was conspicuous; not only is Mr. Putin in Singapore, but Mr. Xi will attend the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders forum this weekend in Papua New Guinea.
Later that day, during a break on set — a glass-walled cafe ringed by trees in Toronto's East End, which was standing in for a catering business — he sat scrolling through his phone, putting together a playlist for the show's wrap party the next night.
This presentation parallels Manet's painting in surprising ways: though the figure of Olympia is said to have shocked French viewers with her active bearing and assertive gaze, here, the flowers standing in for the Black maid appear more animated — though they are also less human.
But c'mon, it's also kinda true, because let's face it: most delicious vegan cuisine out there is either deep fried or covered in enough condiments to mask the flavor of whatever is standing in for the meat that's supposed to be playing the star of the show.
On a recent night at a cultural center in Cairo, Bakkar performed a marionette version of an Umm Kulthum concert, with a puppet standing in for the famed Egyptian diva, who dominated the airwaves across the Arab World from the 1930s until her death in 1975.
It was a chilly November day last year, and the new cast of the Netflix series "The Crown" were arrayed across the gilded couches and crimson velvet chairs of a sumptuous state room at Wilton House, a 16th-century stately home standing in for Buckingham Palace.
In all the worst and least ennobling ways, the NFL is just the thing for an anxious and unhappy time; a fake war fought on television by good guys and bad guys, standing in for the realer, dirtier, longer ones fought out in the cold, everywhere.
As directed by Ms. Fornés, four of the play's second-act scenes are performed simultaneously in different parts of the theater, standing in for the rooms of Fefu's house, and the audience, divided into four groups, leaves its seats and makes the rounds of the locations.
Given the movie's shaggy-dog quest, Huston evidently imagined "Beat the Devil" as another "Maltese Falcon," his first film, even casting Peter Lorre, a featured player in "Maltese Falcon," for good luck, with the portly Robert Morley standing in for Sydney Greenstreet, a seeker of the falcon.
Olmstead and her husband, Bob, made the two-and-a-half-hour drive from their home in Sacramento to attend two of the Stanford women's home meets during Ledecky's freshman season, standing in for her parents when they could not be there to cheer for her.
"Craft" is not an object in a museum per se, but a manifestation of generations of skill and knowledge that give an object its shape, standing in for the life of the culture and community from which it came, even after an individual maker has long since died.
"Game of Thrones" seems to be about the evolution from a bloody, top-down monarchy-by-force to a more democratic way forward as humanity bands together to confront the White Walker threat, standing in for catastrophic climate change or some other Global Crisis to Be Named Later.
The sight of the beasts themselves is indeed fantastic, as is the lavish '20s New York that director David Yates presents, according to the first wave of critics who published reviews Saturday night (many of whom appear to be Harry Potter experts standing in for their respective outlets' regular reviewers).
As Empson makes clear, his hostility towards dogs was rooted in the widespread sense in Early Modern Europe that life was a brutal, elemental affair, with dogs standing in for a Hobbesian world of strife and struggle, in which human nature was likely to revert to the wildly untamed and animalistic.
And it cannily set up Strathairn to stand in for the side of humanity that is suspicious and afraid of the new, clinging stubbornly to the way things were, with Anna standing in for the side of humanity that embraces the future and is curious about what might be next.
In one way or another, much of the show — assembled by Charlotte Cotton, the center's first curator in residence, working with Pauline Vermare, associate curator, and Marina Chao, assistant curator — is built around the basic elements of Mr. Rickard's work: surveillance crossing into voyeurism, visual fiction standing in for truth.
It comes encased (with potatoes standing in for chicken) in crimped puffs of obligingly flaky pastry the size of dolls' fists, and is the essential accessory to hand-stretched and spun roti canai, a layered flatbread that's close to see-through at the center and thick and chewy along the circumference.
At the show's center — standing in for Forster's temperamentally opposite sisters, Margaret and Helen Schlegel — are the serious, self-doubting social activist Eric Glass (Kyle Soller, a poignant anchoring presence) and his flamboyant playwright boyfriend, Toby Darling, who has a Hidden Past he pretends never happened (an electrically vivid Andrew Burnap).
A tom yum-inspired tipple features makrut lime-infused vodka spiked with lemongrass and bird's eye chilies; the Barley Sunny uses malted barley, grapefruit zest, and dried tangerine peels; the Desert Rose mimics a tequila negroni, but with milder Aperol standing in for the Campari and a touch of dried sour plums.
Because nobody knows how to handle the succession to Khamenei, who is 78, has ruled for almost three decades and, as divine arbiter (a man standing in for the occulted 12th imam until his expected reappearance), embodies the anti-democratic intrusion of heaven on a system with a veneer of democratic institutions.
At Van Da, these include a spoonful of chopped scallions and the green oil in which they were sizzled, red rings of fresh Thai chile, some fish sauce, rehydrated dried shrimp and a flap of fried tofu skin, standing in for the pork rinds a banh beo vendor in Hue would use.
In some ways mimicking the features of existing third-party hardware accessories, Touch Bar was shown as a tool to help adjust blending modes during precise Photoshop editing sessions (standing in for some mouse functions) and as a scrolling tool for moving through Final Cut Pro X footage (possibly killing the popular shuttle wheel).
If the platitude about millennials participating in casual sex while secretly hating it holds any truth, then Taggart and Halsey are its avatars, standing in for whole generational attitudes; as singers they scream past each other and fail to connect, doomed to fuck a repetitively steady stream of anonymous ciphers for the rest of eternity.
Think about it: dense story arcs woven into meta-arcs, gory forensic police procedural elements, a paranormal undercurrent with "monster of the week" baddies, British Columbia standing in for the US. Series creator Chris Carter has been the marquee name ever since it debuted in 1993 and skyrocketed from a cult hit into a genuine hit.
A quick refresher course on where we stand: Fifty Shades of Grey introduced us to Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), the devastatingly handsome 28-year-old billionaire with a secret passion for BDSM, and Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), the virginal object of his affections who falls face first into his life while standing in for a friend's college paper interview.
" The key word there is probably "all": this actual and also potential "all" could never be encompassed by enumeration but only by synecdoche or some other such "standing in for" that is essentially poetic or, as she writes in another poem, "indebted to lyric" and eschewing descriptive enumeration (blazon) in favor of "a sort of generic atmosphere.
With every season, the Departure has felt less like an event that took place on the series and more like its central symbol, standing in for everything from depression to death to God (and/or God's absence) to the simple fact that you can never truly know the people you love, no matter how much you think you do.
And while I wasn't intending to be anywhere near as fanatical, I felt as if I could still understand this pilgrimage's arc, with Supreme as the conceptual McGuffin standing in for what one wants but can't fully have: a coolness, an offhandedness, an ease with the body — in sum, the imagined perfection of the symbolic phallus.
From the art-deco aesthetics of the Talos-1 station to the constant picking up of anything and rummaging through bins, to your first weapon being a wrench and its "Neuromods" standing in for Plasmids, it's as close to a new BioShock game as you're likely to get anytime soon, right down to the crunch effect when consuming foodstuffs.
Those seven represented a big chunk of the strategic value and commercial heft of the planned association, with Stripe, Mastercard, Visa and Ebay standing in for a huge number of payment processors and merchant touchpoints that the new cryptocurrency would need, were it to dramatically scale to the size Facebook wanted right out of the gate.
Though there have been other historical instances where an actor has been replaced during a film's production, recasting a role or conducting extensive reshoots after a film has wrapped is rare, and usually only happens to this extent in the case of an unexpected death — for example, Paul Walker's brothers standing in for reshoots of Furious 7 after his death.
On the title track, Davidson finds that with nothing standing between her and the open land of Catalina, Arizona, the possibility for a connection emerges: Cold tonight, and I'm alone in Catalina, Overwhelmed with the sound of a mountain rock Rockabye, coyote Rockabye, jackrabbit Rockabye, myself Even Mountain Rock's lightest numbers resemble rebellion, with adventurous melodies standing in for real live growth.
Yet to the growing horror and exasperation of those working for him (whose testimonials are the spine of the documentary), it turned out to be smoke and mirrors, leaving those who bought tickets essentially stranded in a far-away locale with marginal food and tents standing in for the beachfront villas they were promised, creating a "Lord of the Flies"-type melee.
Standing in for the viewer, Tyrion has been trying to call out the sexism of other characters, including asking Sansa why she seems determined to dislike Daenerys and directly telling Varys that "cocks" shouldn't matter; his performance of male allyship only extends so far, however, as it's clear he too has his doubts about Daenerys, and Sansa and Varys have the final words in their respective scenes.
What typically happens in a family dynamic where the second-generation children disavow their parents' powerful and sentimental attachments to an identity that is more static and committed to properly standing in for the homeland, when they begin to lose their vocal accents, when they have greater purchase in their professional communities because they speak the common language, is conflict, anger, resentment, and a sense of loss.
"Lindsay injured her knee during camera blocking rehearsal Sunday morning while working on a number with the troupe," a DWTS source told PEOPLE, who explains that the girls from the troupe are standing in for her at rehearsal and pro Sharna Burgess, who was eliminated alongside her partner Derek Fisher earlier this season, is learning her routines in case Arnold is too injured to perform.
Most recently, on May 17, Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — standing in for the recused Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE — appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russian interference with the 85033 presidential election.
In August, Universal Pictures scrambled to contain a crisis that arose from the set of "Good Boys," an upcoming comedy, when a photo of a young actor in what appeared to be blackface makeup was leaked to TMZ; the makeup had been applied to a lighter-skinned African-American actor, who was standing in for a darker-skinned black actor in a lighting test.
In 2016, Cho — then best known as the stoner Harold Lee in the "Harold & Kumar" comedies and Hikaru Sulu in the "Star Trek" franchise — became the unwitting beneficiary of #StarringJohnCho, a social movement that imagined Cho standing in for, say, Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible" and Daniel Craig in "Spectre" as part of a wider calling for diversity in entertainment, and an Asian-American leading man.
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The scene that follows, of Tyrion in the dragons' den, is much classier than three minutes of sweet-talking CGI ought to be, but our feeling of the Imp acting as Daenerys-surrogate is as vivid as our sense that the dragons are fulfilling the role of any good pet, standing in for the lack of human contact that comes, for example, when you have murdered half your family and eroded the goodwill of the rest.
We dutifully ordered the $7 relish tray, a small quartet of olives, pickles, nuts and chips, then bypassed the night's special, a porterhouse for two, in favor of smaller dishes with a Middle Eastern bent, in the Gogian style: two tongues of eggplant lashed with a sherry tahini sauce; root vegetables shredded into slaw and brought to life by the New York-based La Boîte's Shabazi spice blend, modeled after Yemeni zhoug (a fiery chile paste, at once earthy and sun-bright); dainty lamb meatballs that proved just big enough; and a slab of grilled cabbage awash in date vinaigrette, standing in for steak.

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