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Anyway - has Frank Ocean subverted the concept of DIY?
Theirs was a love story that subverted traditional gender roles.
She subverted tropes to the delight of humor and story.
After all, you never know when they might be subverted
First, it undermined and subverted an enemy nation, as intended.
Hurston saved her conversations with Kossola, and subverted the formula.
This movie could have subverted the genre at least slightly.
At times, coalition officers subverted their own chain of command.
Because that is what it is being subverted into here.
Letting our elections be subverted by hostile actors *IS* disastrous.
"The legitimately elected parliamentary institution is being subverted - the National Assembly that was elected by the people - is being subverted by an institution that is not largely recognized internationally, the Constituent Assembly," he said.
How things can be misconstrued or subverted for individuals to gain.
To some, they killed feminism, subverted morality and embarrassed us all.
Those 'allow' boxes can be subverted with a maliciously manufactured click.
So rather than defend the rule of law, Trump subverted it.
The rigidity of the symmetrical design is subverted by color alone.
Josie and the Pussycats subverted those tropes off and on-screen.
She argued that Freedom Farm and Pig Bank subverted that past.
Filmmakers subverted the Code in clever ways until it was overturned.
They subverted the rule of law, they tried to undo an election.
Landmark characters have come along who have challenged and subverted those expectations.
I encountered in the exhibition subverted traditions within richly layered visual worlds.
But I always thought Murphy subverted these assumptions made about his character.
Should tuition money, he wondered, be subverted to pay for public relations?
Governance is weakened or outright subverted by organized money and partisan paralysis.
Elsewhere on the lake, assumptions about families and class are similarly subverted.
Ms. Dembélé's choreography suggested that such moments have to be subtly subverted.
Rock subverted that paradigm and launched a long and successful career as a
I said do they have any ideas of how that can be subverted?
But almost always, it seems, traditions are maintained, even as they are subverted.
Below are 25 of the best albums that subverted conventions and rewired synapses.
The letter of the law was maintained even as the system was subverted.
There are no masterpieces in this group, and reproducibility has been subverted in advance.
Agnes Varda subverted the rules as well by walking the red carpet in flats.
And then there was Jackson, who handpicked two coaches and subverted both of them.
Obama talked weak, acted weak and basically subverted American values on the international stage.
But having progressive legislation is no use if they're being routinely subverted or ignored.
And the goddess religions were subverted, with the goddesses themselves turned into sex idols.
At long last my superhuman tolerance was subverted and the drug hit me hard.
Over the years, Washington has subverted those original guidelines for both eligibility and administration.
Their discussion omits an important historical component, however, one that has subverted logical argument.
"But usually when something becomes a meme there's something that's being subverted," said Lunt.
In the course of a few minutes, the president subverted this case point by point.
Martin's novels subverted the typical hero's journey trope in favor of more realistic plot outcomes.
But that automated system was easily — and frequently — subverted, said two of the former employees.
Her subject matter largely circulates around subverted pin-up girls, implied bestiality, and rope bondage.
The genius of Schotz's invention is that it effectively subverted the cassette tape's existing mechanisms.
Like the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act's intent has been subverted by misguided case law.
Still, in trying to find new uses for the genre, too many have subverted it.
Most believed that the Republican Party had been subverted and captured by liberal racial dictums.
It can't be subverted, it does what we intend but — somehow society doesn't get better.
Some said their preconceived notions were confirmed, while others admitted the experiment subverted their beliefs.
It would mean the president had subverted the national interest to pursue a political vendetta.
Through those acts, the House alleges that Trump egregiously subverted the Constitution's separation of powers.
And then, over and over, our expectations are subverted, and we're watching something else entirely.
By using subverted stereotypes, the films were able to shift the narrative from harmful to progressive.
There was nothing on Bones that couldn't be subverted — especially if the jokes were good enough.
American artist Martha Rosler subverted it, in 1975, in her seminal video workSemiotics of the Kitchen.
This was not my work, but was amazed how one small edit subverted the entire message.
Every tool it designs for positive expression and connectivity can be subverted for polarization and misinformation.
Your safe state vote might be wasted, or it might even be subverted by rogue electors.
It argued that such multinational agreements subverted the power of individual governments to control national borders.
But this doesn't imply that the essence of both art and design has been entirely subverted.
Professional enterprise technology for agenda-driven video calls has been subverted for meandering, motive-less togetherness.
Many of the products they make have documented vulnerabilities and can be subverted in multiple ways.
Never has he subverted conventions more triumphantly than when he delivered a roast of Bob Saget.
A complaints process meant to address the issue has been routinely subverted at the highest level.
Software developers and computer-makers do not necessarily suffer when their products go wrong or are subverted.
Their previous film collaborations, You're Next and The Guest, both electrified and subverted their respective horror subgenres.
The stories carried by whisper networks are easily subverted, especially when the accused has enough social capital.
Many of these slogans are incorporated into his satirical work, their meanings subverted by the accompanying imagery.
Even models and ideas invented with good intentions can be subverted by a bad actor, he said.
You're made to feel subverted, even if these are issues already near and dear to your heart.
In addition, something not much talked about is whether the integrity of Equifax's data repository was subverted.
But the eventual scene of a helpless damsel at the mercy of a monstrous man is subverted.
By doing this, the administration has subverted the role of science in the agency's approach on issues.
He said he tired of having his verdicts subverted by superiors with little interest in the evidence.
"We have subverted the narrative where African religions have been seen as weird and demonic," she said.
Nixon's criminality subverted the 1972 presidential election, for which we are still paying a price in national cynicism.
Martin's novels and D.B. Weiss and David Benioff's adaptation had always subverted traditional narrative structures and story lines.
The main lesson of Tanzania is that constitutions which concentrate power in the presidency can quickly be subverted.
To ensure that undersea sex is not subverted by overfishing and environmental degradation will require global co-operation.
Yet after the Democratic Convention, this affirmative platform was subverted to an almost one-note, anti-Trump message.
He subverted the traditional pattern of a woman's marrying into the man's home by marrying into her home.
Her band has subverted expectations at several turns, even at the risk of pissing off her most hardcore supporters.
The tribunal itself ruled the changes unconstitutional, but the government has subverted the court's verdict by not publishing it.
You have subverted equal protections, and are committed to banning Muslims and refugee women & children from our great country.
There's obviously something phallic about the guitar, but in the hands of a woman, that maleness is subverted somewhat.
Even Brandeis's passion for devolving power to accountable levels of government has been subverted by the forces of bigness.
It turned out that riding an e-mountain bike had confirmed some of the cyclists' expectations an subverted others.
Together, she said, they confirmed "my worst fears and nightmares" that private interests had subverted America's national security concerns.
But there are incalculable other ways that enslaved people rebelled, subverted, and fought back, ways both subtle and unsubtle.
They subverted and built on stereotypes of pop punk, creating something new and entirely theirs while dominating the genre.
Democracy, without well-run controls, often can be subverted into the means for oppressing minorities and outright brainwashing people.
In this political climate dominated by unprecedented obstructionism in Congress, the will of the American people is being subverted.
It subverted assumptions about adult luxury, the adolescent tendency to under dress, and the multitude of possibilities in between.
But they are rules that are easily subverted, especially by those willing to murder their way to the top.
Not only have they seemingly subverted the work-life-balance model, but they've burned it to the ground completely.
Disney's film "Frozen" subverted and reinvigorated the fairy-tale princess movie; "The Force Awakens" gave us a female Jedi.
That there was this small group of creative gay men who stealthily — and maybe also inadvertently — subverted straight culture?
The New York Times reported earlier on Saturday that Spencer had threatened to quit if Trump subverted the process.
The French mechanical telegraph system was subverted in 1834 in a bond-trading scam that went undetected for two years.
With an amusing heresy, he subverted the structures of pictorial space in order to elicit feelings of uncertainty and disorientation.
Our Moral Mondays movement is here because the extremists who control the state's GOP have consistently subverted our democratic process.
Crossing her eyes, waving her arms, swaying her hips, poking out her backside, she clowned and seduced and subverted stereotypes.
As Halliday Johnson's wisely curated exhibition demonstrates, women artists have long subverted the spurious narrative that they are technological neophytes.
She has subverted the period-drama genre—how many period dramas close on a shot of a desperate refugee camp?
Letterman subverted the format's tradition of geniality with his own grouchy personality, not fearing to display boredom with a guest.
The mundane nature of the contemporary office is here subverted, pulled apart, teased, and in the most disturbing works, analyzed.
They are an assembly of layers, both hardware and software, that can potentially be tampered with and even remotely subverted.
The market subverted Morris's ideals several times over, and now the rush chair sells for upward of $19993,500 on 1stdibs.com.
How Martin Wong and Tseng Kwong Chi subverted the outsider status imposed on them in early '80s New York City.
Schaberg's first book, "The Textual Life of Airports" (22001), explained how the airport mythologized and subverted air travel for passengers.
Democracies are never entirely stable, and once the rule of law is subverted, it's very difficult to get it back.
In several standout collections for this coming spring season, designers subverted the sleeveless knit with puckish attitude and provocative styling.
But the billboard's function as a medium remains integral to the art experience, even if the typical content is subverted.
Under Jacob Zuma, Mr Ramaphosa's predecessor, who governed in 2009-18, state-owned enterprises were looted and crime-fighting institutions subverted.
What if the necessary data links are attacked physically—for example with anti-satellite weapons—jammed electronically or subverted through cyberwarfare?
The platform can occasionally be subverted with a media blitz that shames some of the powerful into pretending to be responsible.
On a day to day basis, it looks like "no news," but that's because the public interest is being brazenly subverted.
The main reason Trump should be removed from office is that he has subverted American foreign policy for corrupt personal ends.
But Cottonmouth has subverted and reclaimed it, using it as a way of challenging the damaging expectations put on his community.
Elected leaders have similarly subverted democratic institutions in Ecuador, Georgia, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Ukraine, and elsewhere.
Wealth and stealth have often subverted the goals of measures that have impacted nearly every facet of life in the state.
By deluging Dyn's servers with junk messages generated by the subverted devices, the botnet prevented them from responding to legitimate requests.
Part of the power of Rowland's work lies in his demonstration that our most obscure laws can be navigated and subverted.
"Where the attorney-client privilege is subverted, so too is the truth-seeking function of the legal system," the report concludes.
I felt the need to record the violation as a millennial old way of being on the land was being subverted.
The offshore prison, in which government actions subverted the Constitution and violated international law, has made the United States less safe.
Despite its obsession with reproducing 1980s classics in high fidelity, Stranger Things subverted a key trope by complicating Nancy's romantic arc.
"Performance art was, for about 40 years, rejected, subverted by galleries and museums alike, and today it is accepted," he said.
Since most audience members are "vaguely fluent" in Powerpoint, Thurm says, their expectations are subverted when they're presented with something totally ridiculous.
In its mind, all is politics, whether grist for politics, or as an obstacle to be smashed or subverted for political ends.
The name "Big Hollywood" itself presumes that there's a monolithic power that needs to be investigated and subverted—specifically, by intrepid conservatives.
We, especially in the Latino community, cannot sit on the sidelines to watch the ideals that made this country great be subverted.
We now live in a similar moment, as corporations have successfully subverted worker and consumer plaintiff rights in nearly every conceivable arena.
From meta-sitcom to meta-talk show Shandling subverted another television favorite — the talk show — in 1992 with The Larry Sanders Show.
The CIA created conditions that subverted the essential task of an intellectual: to cast a critical eye on orthodoxy and received wisdom.
It is Austen's supposed predictability that is subverted by "Love & Friendship", the first film adaptation of "Lady Susan", directed by Whit Stillman.
It was composed of outcasts, nerds, the bullied, and it subverted the overweening masculinity of bands like Guns N' Roses and Metallica.
It has been subverted by gerrymandering, and is being weakened by those working to keep minorities and the poor from the polls.
What other examples can you list of other ways in which the needs of animals are subverted for the needs of humans?
Game of Thrones began, in both its books and the television show, as a story that subverted the tropes of the genre.
But it appears that Yahoo subverted user trust by creating the custom program, and excluded information about it from its transparency report.
It has been relieved of its infrastructure, supplanted in its home stadium and subverted completely, leaving supporters wondering where to look next.
In seeking to answer the questions that fuel her own artistic work, Untitled has subverted a form already known for its subversion.
In her work, she subverted typical gender roles, casting women as pursuers of men they desired instead of the other way around.
Mr Giuliani's adventures in Ukrainian politics undermined the American government's efforts to bolster its ally militarily and subverted its anti-corruption message.
In the end, Iran slipped into Iraq under Mr. Bush's nose, subverted the project, and recruited proxy militias to promote its interests.
From what I've seen, I really think that no matter what obstacles we put at the border, it's going to be subverted.
Something transformative in design and use is being subverted to now have no more merit that art collections, real estate or prize thoroughbreds.
Ms. Techamuanvivit, 49, opened her first restaurant, Kin Khao, on the edge of the Tenderloin in 2014, and subverted many of these expectations.
The list continues: Kendra Adams —a "strong trans women," according to her friends, whose subversive drag performances subverted stereotypes—was killed in June.
The Klingons have been reinvented, the Trek timeline has been subverted, and the plot hasn't yet conformed to the familiar Trek narrative structure.
Both Turner and Jackson subverted the expectations placed on feminine black bodies, capitalizing off their sex appeal without shame and dancing without inhibitions.
According to Google, Steinberg counts Dietrich, who subverted gender norms on screen and off, as a major influence on her alter-ego Velour.
That's one reason that season four, and particularly this episode, has been so exciting: This season has subverted our expectations over and over.
Reflecting ugliness in a traditionally "pretty" way—flowers, fragility, pale dresses—Katie Jane's lyrics and performance both embraced and subverted expectations of womanhood.
"Chokers have traditionally, within a fashion context, subverted societal norms and been a nod to subculture," Polyester editor-in-chief Ione Gamble explains.
His background in hacking circles has repeatedly informed his strategy as he explored and subverted established procedures in technology, the media and government.
That raises questions about whether the tear-gas response subverted the rights of asylum seekers, a group offered special protections under international law.
And things are going extremely poorly, with concepts like "fake news" and "alternative facts" being turned into buzzwords or subverted on their heads.
Instead, the CCP has subverted Western openness, exploited weaknesses in U.S. power, and invested heavily in 5G technology to advance its totalitarian agenda.
By the time it's over, Gilead is a relic, and scholars in a more enlightened time are studying the women who subverted it.
With a presidential election just eight months away, fears are growing that democracy in Senegal, long an example for west Africa, is being subverted.
In Syria it has subverted America's efforts to defeat Bashar al-Assad and threatened to shoot down American warplanes if they attack his army.
Unfortunately, the latter turned out to be a PTSD-inducing Klingon-on-human rape, one that shockingly subverted all our expectations about one character.
In South Africa, an elected leader who subverted institutions and let cronies loot with impunity was tossed out by his own party in January.
It repeated a long-standing demand that the president, Nicolás Maduro, restore the democratic institutions that he has subverted since taking office in 2013.
Like Chávez in Venezuela, elected leaders have subverted democratic institutions in Georgia, Hungary, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Ukraine.
The plaintiff claimed Pimco trustees "have been subverted by defendants and no longer serve in their 'watchdog' role" and cited the trustees' generous pay.
If a subverted operating system managed to escape into the "wild" even once, then the security of every iPhone would be put at risk.
Sunday's episode is, at least, the third time Kang has subverted viewer expectations by delivering a big death and reveal before it was expected.
And what I have wondered about for some time is this whole issue of whether the N.R.A. is getting subverted as a Russian asset.
But the populists who did well in the election also say euro membership has subverted Italy's sovereignty — an increasingly resonant theme in the country.
The artist subverted the symmetry of the Brazilian pavilion by installing a slanted grate that stretches from the entrance to the building's back wall.
In doing that, she changed the lives of countless black viewers, and subverted a tradition too long dominated by white executives and white taste.
But what really sets this movie apart is that by looking for equality between its characters, it leaves a trail of delicately subverted expectations.
These projects and programs led "Learning from Documenta" to ask if stereotypes of ancient Greece will be subverted or exploited in the exhibition proper.
What does it feel like when the power is subverted, the tables are turned, and someone finally gets to make fun of Jeb Bush's pants?
In the US, Mario Sorrenti and his younger brother Davide also subverted the aspirational fantasies of fashion by situating it within the lives of consumers.
Trump, similarly, seemed to realize that a lot of the rules that guided polite politics could be subverted or even disobeyed entirely, to his benefit.
And occasionally, given how often modern horror films address technological anxieties, the dead battery trope can even be subverted into something more helpful and positive.
Fletcher's strengths subverted ageist and sexist expectations at the time: Her wisdom comes from years of experience, and her intelligence is enhanced by feminine empathy.
There are even worrying hints that independent hiring and promotion systems that should shield civil servants from shifts in political fortunes are somehow being subverted.
One clear takeaway is that the structures of social networks are being far too trivially subverted and manipulated by entities with malicious or determined intent.
What happened at North Carolina seems to have directly subverted college sports's central mission of staging athletics as a mere component of the players' educations.
They also subverted stereotypes; black students sat in the road with books open on their laps while white allies stood to protect them from traffic.
Even as gender roles are subverted, the dominance of the male is maintained: like so many male artists of his day, Péladan was profoundly misogynist.
But Mr. Trump's election last week subverted Mr. Obama's top foreign policy priorities, and he seemed to have arrived in Athens in a reflective mood.
The anonymous whistleblower helped demonstrate that Takata "falsified data, subverted testing procedures, and concealed reports its airbags were prone to failure," the law firm said.
What Ms. Gadsby glosses over is that it's a nimble art form, one whose conventions can be toyed with or subverted or stuck to rigidly.
Since its founding in 2013, the New York-based brand Vaquera has playfully subverted the concept of a finale look — a collection's final, showstopping ensemble.
Thom Browne subverted the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by turning him into a woman — and then turning his suits into trompe l'oeil sheaths.
Okpokwasili's work is often concerned with the gaze of her audience, and how the readings of a black performing body can be subverted and renegotiated.
Using relatively primitive methods, they subverted norms by making willfully unprofessional sounding recordings of their songs and, appallingly, had the gall to release them that way.
Roblox, a hugely popular online game for kids, was hacked by an individual who subverted the game's protection systems in order to have customized animations appear.
Californians took that trend and subverted it, inventing their own designs and viewing body ink as an art form rather than a type of social branding.
Many attendees I talked to pointed to Cadwalladr's talk as the most notable of the event, in particular her claim that Facebook had subverted Western democracy.
The reason so many reviews note the film's unsatisfactory sexual content is because, in marketing Jennifer's Body to the male gaze, its creators also subverted it.
Archetypes, such as a timid, "Rebecca"-like narrator, are toyed with, allowing the audience to feel a momentary sense of familiarity, before being discarded or subverted.
In the 1980s, when the one-child policy was new, Johnson writes, rural families subverted family planning enforcement by turning to traditional practices of domestic adoption.
But the fact remains that Ocean's 8 worked precisely because the common depiction of women as catty or incompetent was subverted and transformed into a strength.
Yes, there will be more need for confidentiality, but there is a newfound need to ensure that these systems can't be subverted to do real damage.
Like its manipulation of the Constitution's treaty process, this White House subverted that assent to convince Americans that they live in a different, less dangerous world.
Trump did not seem particularly concerned that he might be shunned or subverted at the convention when he spoke to me by phone one recent afternoon.
Almost all of kaiseki's rules can be subverted by the chef; knowing how and when to break them is the most confident expression of kaiseki mastery.
But there are no moral exemplars with power over Trump, and most have subverted national interests by appeasing Trump in pursuit of their own narrow ones.
Another hurdle, as "Bombshell" makes clear, is that a female performer who subverted expectations — who was smart and not just lovely — wasn't welcome in the world.
Many of them voted for Mr. Trump in 2016, and their very presence this winter quietly subverted the president's assertion that the border is in crisis.
This phenomenon has been deemed "surrogation," or reflecting the potential for critical thinking around strategy to be subverted by elevation or suppression of a single number.
What begins as a "Rapunzel" and "Sleeping Beauty" retelling is subverted in the second half of the novel when everything Soraya knows as reality is overthrown.
Mr. Ryan could have subverted the Freedom Caucus by reaching out to the Democratic Party to help structure a bill to tweak the Affordable Care Act.
I think many held out hope that somehow the convention could be subverted to deliver a more respectable and polished and safe pick for the party.
That relationship, however, will be tested by Mr. Trump's cultivation of Russia, which has long subverted facts and truth in its ideological struggle with the West.
The notion of the traditional portrait is subverted, and instead our eyes are drawn upward, mirroring the man's movement and leading us to the unknown subject.
While some may have thought the climax of the episode would be a classic TV-style disaster, cliffhanger or the aforementioned reveal, "This Is Us" subverted expectations.
In the first Kingsman, limbs are severed, spy tropes are methodically subverted, and Eggsy comes away with a sharp suit and a lesson about transcending social class.
David Bowie's dense catalog is a rich portrait of the ways in which he subverted rock and pop norms, exalted his fellow misfits and delighted in reinvention.
Of course, there are plenty of artists who have subverted gender and sexuality norms before and after Brian Molko—some of them in much more destabilizing ways.
At the same time, it is this very intelligence that has been misguided and subverted to cause a number of catastrophic events, like wars and other atrocities.
This sink sound began to signify many negative things to me, so I subverted it's meaning by digitally tearing it apart and using it in this piece.
While Western aid workers lectured on the superiority of a multiparty democracy, Mr. Hun Sen, who entered the leadership ranks during the Vietnamese regime, subverted that plan.
But it has taken superhuman effort, was yielded grudgingly at best, has often been reversed or subverted, and clearly never got to the root of the problem.
The rowdiness of the city is conveyed in summary, in blunt statements — "Violence made this city"; "we were London's scowling youth" — and only rarely staged or subverted.
Where Sanders subverted the format with his raw and cranky authenticity, Buttigieg embraced it, turning it into a one-ring circus for an oratorical one-man band.
In fact, he shows, it was not just frustrated third parties but the protagonists, Catholic and Protestant propagandists, who subverted faith by using arguments that undermined theism.
"We felt, under no circumstances, should a visa be issued to someone who knowingly subverted and wasted U.S. taxpayer money," Kent said in his October 225th deposition.
Oh, and she has also written and performed a one-woman show called Subverted, about destruction of black identity in America, in which she plays 22 different characters.
Three of them — Bêtes de Foire, Cirque Inextremiste and Akoreakro — could not have been more different in scale and tone, and yet each subverted expectations in delightful ways.
Cointelpro, the counterintelligence program of the F.B.I. that later spied on and subverted the work of groups like the Black Panther Party, was even implicated in an assassination.
Noah LangIrvington, N.Y. To the Editor: In the author's view, President Trump is so unstable that fundamental aspects of his agenda must be actively subverted by his staff.
But with the rebirth scene, we're shown something else: What we were trained to see as an aggressive action in video games (an enemy killing you) becomes subverted.
Across the state, the needs of New Yorkers, from subways to affordable housing, are subverted by powerful interests in a culture rife with ethical rot and outright corruption.
" The letter, portions of which were reviewed by The Times, also said that rules for delegating certification to Boeing "are not being followed, or alternatively are being subverted.
There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
But the maneuvering in the wake of Mr. Johnson's announcement showed that even this bid could fall prey to the same political forces that have subverted all previous efforts.
In April the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology retracted an article by scientists from Dalian University, in Liaoning province, because it suspected the peer-review process had been subverted.
However, the company did note it may not be a single threat actor carrying out these DNS hijackings, in which the resolution of domain name system queries are subverted.
As Zao's paintings start to carom stylistically toward the end of the show, you may wonder if his career is not a striking instance of talent subverted by ambition.
So it is not the case, as some have argued, that Ms. Rousseff's impeachment was a coup in the sense that a handful of elites subverted the popular will.
But at Kalinatek, to the effect of better characterizing our antagonists and defining a change in the story's pace, that dynamic is both reflected back at us and subverted.
His worst fear is both realized and subverted at once, in a way that he can take at least some pride in as his spirit watches his friends mourn.
Legal experts said the efforts by Mr. Edelstein, the departing speaker, to block a vote for his replacement was unconstitutional and subverted the results of the March 2 election.
Where formal processes fail or are subverted, the legal community should insist on informal reckonings before any rehabilitation, rather than turn a collective blind eye to allegations of harassment.
To opponents, the ruling validated an anti-Muslim agenda that betrayed American ideals, subverted the Constitution and upended the hopes of thousands of families separated by war and deprivation.
They paid a huge price, but their willingness to defy country music's deeply ingrained nationalism and tradition gave me hope that the genre's norms might someday be more widely subverted.
Adding teeth to the weak and easily-subverted Vacancies Reform Act should be a top priority not only for Democrats, but also for Republican lawmakers who value effective, ethical government.
Last night's episode, "What Comes After," not only undid that invigorating switcheroo, but it subverted the entire matter of Rick Grimes' expected departure, moving things in an entirely new direction.
The keffiyeh is worn by men throughout the Arab world, and here the associations with masculinity are subverted both by the (ostensibly) female hair and by the emphasis on sewing.
But that sound economic principle of a stable global financial architecture was promptly subverted because, via facti, only deficit countries were forced to adjust as they ran out of money.
Some fret that the FBI might even require the firm to start sending subverted code to specific suspects over the air, using the technology it employs to distribute legitimate updates.
If you convey enthusiasm through sparkles and emoji, or that something is important through capitals or quotation marks, it can now be subverted to convey ironic enthusiasm or ironic importance.
Having now witnessed the glorious mess that was the Fyre Festival, the only thing that is strictly untrue here is the part about "exceeding" expectations — though expectations were certainly subverted.
Bad actors last year subverted the game's protections to assault a child's in-game avatar — a serious problem for a game aimed at kids, and a PR crisis, as well.
They founded the Czech Surrealist Group in 1934, which challenged aesthetic and moral constraints, and subverted gender expectations (Toyen, born Maria Cerminova, chose her pseudonym from the French word "citoyen").
Besides infiltrating niche subcultures, racists have long taken songs, such as the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and subverted its meaning by substituting the existing lyrics to advocate for genocide.
ER: Great artwork by Fantagraphics god Jim Blanchard, who completely subverted expectations of what a record called King of the Jews would sound like by upending what it lookrf like.
In either scenario, experts say, attackers could also potentially use an IMSI-catcher or subverted telecom router to hack back into election systems and alter software to affect election outcomes.
The Henson Company, in its most ambitious project to date, has arguably already entirely subverted 2019 expectations by telling its entire, 10-episode story mainly through puppetry rather than CGI.
Harris subverted countless stereotypes with her dogged pursuit of justice, whether she was grilling Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, or taking a hard stance against Trumpian corruption.
" The president's actions, they wrote, "subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign.
Is the outrage that the Pats subverted the on-field concussion-evaluation rule, so his rightful place was on the sidelines rather than generating the greatest comeback in NFL history?
The iconic photo of a mother running away from tear gas with her twin daughters was immediately subverted online, where it was used by people who spread conspiracies and racist memes.
It is the first time they have subverted the pop formula and actually created something that rivals the classic pop songs of yesteryear from places like AG Cook's beloved Cheiron Studios​.
Ten years after the film, Romero subverted, parodied, and extended his own zombie tropes through the classic Dawn of the Dead, generally considered one of the greatest horror films ever made.
He wants to show that the distinction some make between a "good," literary CIA and a "bad" one that toppled leftists and subverted democracy around the globe is an artificial one.
Still no matter her form — or decapitation — her gaze is never averted, looking directly at the viewer as an assertion of her horrifying power that cannot be completely subverted by beauty.
Mr. Morales's resignation provoked swift and polarized responses from leaders around the world, highlighting his complex legacy as a champion of the poor who later subverted democracy to cling to power.
Mr. Morales's resignation provoked swift and polarized responses from leaders around the world, highlighting his complex legacy as a champion of the poor who later subverted democracy to cling to power.
In his latest movie, "A Most Violent Year," set in the Mob-controlled heating-oil business of early 1980s New York, Mr. Chandor subverted the tropes of the crime-drama genre.
Mr. Parent subverted convention from the beginning of his practice, when he and a fellow Beaux-Arts student won a magazine-sponsored competition in 22011 to design and build a house.
Sometimes that means imagining Colonial-era BDSM; sometimes it translates to probing the subverted same-sex desires of 1950s New York (see: Carol, based on Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt).
Aegon Targaryen, is the character most well-positioned to foil Dany's impending reign of terror, but I think the show has subverted this more traditional narrative through the character of Arya.
Mr. Lee was held incommunicado for 68 days before appearing in court and ultimately confessed to charges that he had "subverted state power"; he was sentenced to five years in prison.
But from a technical point of view, if an antivirus maker wanted to, was coerced to, or was hacked or somehow subverted, could it create a signature to flag classified documents?
Collaborating with a childhood friend, the artist Brian Calvin, Mr. Chavarria subverted classic American logos like those for Marlboros and Coors Light to read "American Mayhem" and "Cares Fight." slide show
This is the third floating ice shelf in recent years in Antarctica's Weddell Sea to fully or partly break up, the first two subverted by warming ocean waters and air temperatures.
While Mr. Erdogan's critics have denounced what they see as a bald usurpation of power that has subverted democracy and polarized the country, many Turks, frightened and uncertain, are not complaining.
They need to know what happened when Russia subverted our country and our democracy, and they need to know that their leaders are focused on making sure it never happens again.
These commissioned works sit alongside several vintage ones such as a pair of Shiro Kuramata "How High the Moon" sofas, whose typical rounded shape is subverted by their steel mesh material.
The many crisscrossing claims can make it difficult to draw a clear line between what is legitimate or illegitimate — between a revolution or a coup, between democracy being saved or subverted.
Without this scene, the storyline ends somewhat nonsensically, but it did create a "shocking" moment that subverted viewers' expectations that Littlefinger's ability to manipulate situations to his advantage was all-powerful.
The reason this is so worrying, according to Abramowitz, is that Trump is following an established playbook from countries like Hungary and Venezuela where elected leaders have subverted their country's democracy.
In a bid to maintain control of the country, however, the French government subverted the massive Algerian majority through a combination of flagrant voter fraud and the targeted arrests of Algerian politicians.
Instead, it was the fact that hers was the only nomination for a shrewd and surprising why-dunit, one that subverted crime dramas by giving you the killer at the season's outset.
"Senate Republicans have subverted the Senate's constitutional duty to advise and consent and potentially robbed the Senate from ever voting on a permanent secretary of the Department of Homeland Security," said Schumer.
The state had challenged the court of appeals' ruling, arguing that it "subverted the constitutional authority of a duly-elected legislature to fix punishments for criminal offenses" by ruling the sentence unconstitutional.
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" The magazine claims to be "an instrument for dismantling the everyday propaganda of the spectacle" and "the treatment of oneself as the enemy that needs to be provoked, subverted, and eventually overcome.
Squad. Image courtesy of the artist Fetishism, Russian folklore and culture, and Orthodox religion are the subjects explored and subverted in a new show by Russian-born London-based artist Karina Akopyan.
But Ulrike Franke, a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations who specializes in drones, said the systems were imperfect and could be subverted by people who understood their workings.
His staunchest defenders say that it's not Anthony's fault that the Knicks were, for almost all of his time in New York, subverted by the ownership dysfunction overseen by James L. Dolan.
That narrative is subverted in the 2004 comedy "Anchorman" when the station hires its first female reporter, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), who inexplicably falls for her loutish tormentor, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell).
At the time, I was interested in how Colony subverted the typical alien invasion story by digging into its characters' struggles with the idea of humans no longer being Earth's dominant species.
In season five's "Fool for Love," Buffy memorably subverted itself by allowing its title character to get so caught up in her quips that her adversary is able to land a devastating blow.
It is thanks to Snowden that we can now participate in an informed and democratic debate about how the US government subverted the power of the Internet in the name of mass surveillance.
However, because of the ICANN/AUC apparent quid pro quo, ICANN again subverted its own rules, by ignoring the recommendations made by the panel and rejected our application again at the final hour. .
His moves subverted the double-consciousness: He wore his black Chicagoan roots on his sleeve regardless of the white gaze, while he refused to let any monolithic concept of blackness stifle his ambition.
Banks have subverted the purpose of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, which was supposed to get them to lend and invest more, and open more branches, in low- and moderate-income areas.
In the video titled "Shadow Puppets and Instructed Mime" (1990), an androgynous looking mime (Julie Goelle) executing Nauman's off-stage cues (à la Richard Foreman) subverted his control with subtle gestures of independence.
" Mr. Morrison explained how the normal National Security Council leadership structure was subverted by Gordon D. Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, saying it was referred to internally as "the Gordon problem.
Jesus challenged the suspect values and unjust practices of the Roman Empire, questioned the authority of its leaders, subverted established social and political norms, drew others to his cause, and threatened political stability.
I had always assumed that the major threat to our democracy, if one arrived, would come through a "tyranny of the majority" that cast aside or subverted the constitutional protections of the minority.
You have subverted equal protections, and are committed to banning Muslims and refugee women & children from our great country ... Your words and actions push us all away from the freedoms we are guaranteed.
The laws were enacted to reduce gun violence politicians said was plaguing the country: Evidence before Congress at the time showed that firearm trafficking subverted state laws and led to an increase in shootings.
The company has long been viewed with suspicion by intelligence services in the West, who worry that the networking infrastructure it supplies to countries around the world could be subverted by the Chinese government.
But what kept The Student Nurses relevant while so many of the other films produced by Corman have become incredibly dated is the way Rothman blatantly subverted the pulpy genre she was working in.
Without it, the executive branch treats Congress with disdain, and the public interest is often subverted to partisan narratives that vary based on whether the Congressional majority is the same party as the president.
The clandestine, apparently meaningless actions subverted the official Soviet ideology of pragmatic labor and universal liability, bonding the members of Collective Actions into an alternative community with its own private rules, rituals, and philosophy.
In either case, size mattered in 2018, as shows with the breadth and breathlessness of Victorian novels or the miniaturist precision of New Yorker short stories played with and subverted conventional expectations of scale.
The play takes place in a world in which race relations are subverted — whiteness is marginalized, and there's brief derogatory talk of "beige babies" from the mothers, all of whom are women of color.
The IOC said it had also called on WADA to launch a "fully fledged investigation" into allegations that testing during the Sochi 2014 winter Olympics by the on-site accredited laboratory had been subverted.
"If you're also trying to peddle an alternative variation of whether the Ukrainians subverted our election, I don't want to be part of that, and I will not be part of it," Hill said.
It's little wonder that the years that followed were a boom time for shows like that, series that subverted TV's reassuring conventions and concerned themselves with characters who similarly felt adrift, jaded, and secretly terrified.
The media giant's video-sharing site has 1 billion active users a month, many of whom go there to learn and share conservative ideas only to find their quest for knowledge subverted by faceless ideologues.
"This court-ordered testimony could finally reveal new truths about how Hillary Clinton and the Obama State Department subverted the Freedom of the Information Act," Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch's president, said in a statement Tuesday.
The shirt's status as an icon of professionalism and formality is both upheld by corporate culture the world over, and subverted by countless artists, designer and other assorted "downtown types" (you know who you are).
All over the country, big telecom is being rejected and subverted, and you do not need to have a pile of money, an army of lawyers, or a degree in network engineering to take action.
Saar lifts the curtain to explore this secret society, using small scale, altered perspective, and curious objects to represent the unique stories of people who subverted binary notions of gender long before transgender was normalized.
By then, "We Could Be Beautiful" has so resolutely subverted the conventions of a psychological thriller that it seems not to be one at all — or if it is, it's of an entirely different sort.
Erdogan faces broader domestic and European Union criticism that he has subverted the judiciary in the course of a post-coup crackdown that has seen more than 4,000 judges and prosecutors dismissed from their posts.
I do really love engaging with genre, and whenever I do it, I'm not thinking in terms of what needs to be turned on its head or subverted or undercut — I'm thinking exactly the opposite.
Finding common ground in their desire to work against dominant progress narratives, the pair have subverted the standard penny machine to invite ideological questions about the nature of industry, memory, and ecological destruction and adaptation.
Perhaps that demand is met in full, or just in part, or it is quietly subverted — nothing in Olio is so simple — but the performance nonetheless is called in service of the larger oppressive arrangement.
For the designer invested in these questions, graphic design can function as a "trojan horse" in which ideology may be supported, rejected, subverted, annotated, and tested through the ways in which it's expressed and distributed.
"We cannot allow our laws to be subverted by the state-sponsored racism of other nations," said Nathan Gelbart, the German attorney for the group, which fights anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli discrimination around the world.
For Amos, however, the sideshow has been a home of varying degrees for several years—a place where she's met friends, healed old wounds, subverted expectations, and worked like hell to make her dreams come true.
He subverted the fulfillment of a president's right to nominate a Supreme Court justice — President Barack Obama's choice of Merrick B. Garland in 2016 — and have that nominee considered and voted on by the full Senate.
Pushing against the social, cultural, and political framework largely informed by a Western colonial order, the artists reacted to and subverted these established systems through lively collaborations, ephemeral performances, multi-media projects, and cheaply shot video.
Upstairs, the functions and restrictions of open expanses like rolling meadows and well-tended parks were both interrogated and subverted by Czechoslovakia's Magdalena Jetelová and Zorka Ságlová as they reconfigured landscapes with wooden blocks or baby diapers.
A Friday blog post from Trend Micro, an international cybersecurity company, confirmed the sharp uptick in Coinhive use earlier in the week, pinning it to a "malvertising campaign" that subverted a Google ad service used on YouTube.
Ultimately, the reason any heir to Game of Thrones will struggle to recreate its success is because the show subverted our fundamental understanding of drama, without disrupting the satisfying drip-drip delivery of legacy event TV shows.
Where Season 1 nicely subverted this predictable arc by letting Steve grow as a character and Nancy and Jonathan foster a trauma-induced friendship, Season 2 went back to the drawing board in the laziest way possible.
If they were not crushed by the centralized, rightist state against which they rebelled, they were mercilessly subverted—in Arendt's terminology—by the "professional revolutionists" of the left, a new personality type for the modern political drama.
The war had produced a further historic shift: Soldiers in Petrograd now greeted the striking workers with cheers, and the fierce Cossacks, on horseback, cleverly subverted their orders in order to allow the demonstrations to proceed unharmed.
It's a gag that encapsulates one of the best things about this film: It trusts young viewers to recognize the clichés they've been fed by other animated movies over the years and to appreciate seeing them subverted.
"Google has deliberately weaponized ambiguity, subverted democratic process, obfuscated key elements of concern such as data governance and revealed information to the public only when smoked out by aggressive criticism or through a media leak," he wrote.
This was subverted just a bit during Hannah Brown's stint on The Bachelorette, when she called out hypocritical and controlling contestant Luke P. The promo ends with a look into a dramatic conversation between Peter and Madison.
But in some ways, Mr. Morrison has simply picked up where previous Australian leaders left off, writes the Australian novelist Richard Flanagan in The Times: Since 1996, successive conservative governments have subverted international agreements on climate change.
But it has taken just four years of the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the country to realize how fragile that achievement was, how close it has come to being subverted.
My folk-song understanding of the river as a timeless tableau of placidity had swiftly been subverted by an appreciation for the arroyo's defiant fullness — a fullness achieved not in spite of volatility but out of it.
And as Juliana Smith writes in The Queer Sixties, "she pushed accepted notions of femininity to absurd extremes and thus, even if unwittingly, subverted the iconography of what it means to look like—and be—a "girl.
The fluency of concept and form in Paul D'Agostino's new, bifurcated show at Life on Mars marks a further consolidation of his rigorous attention to language and the infinity of ways it can be parsed, subverted, and remade.
They not only set an example that it was OK to express your emotions—something men are historically dissuaded from—but they also subverted gender roles, allowing me to feel more comfortable with the fluidity of my own.
Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey in order to obstruct Comey's investigation into coordination between his aides and the Russian operatives who subverted Hillary Clinton's campaign has shocked the conscience of nearly everyone in politics.
Predictable tropes you might expect from a typical Doom mod or first-person shooter to help you move through the space—straightforward and comprehensible environments and combat encounters—are reversed and subverted in many strange and humorous ways.
The usual virtual reality formula of a person controlling a digital avatar in the manner of video games is subverted in Corin's "Vexations" music video, in which the electronic musician's body movements get transposed onto a crumbling building.
Hardy Fox, a driving force behind the Residents, an avant-garde band that playfully subverted the conventions of rock music for decades while insisting on anonymity, which the group maintained by performing in outlandish costumes, died on Oct.
But in Armajani's works the order of the page is subverted, the composite parts placed spontaneously, the script rendered in a hurried khatt-e shekaste used for ordinary affairs rather than the elegant nastaliq used for important documents.
Like all stereotypes, that image of the American cheerleader is periodically challenged (Gabrielle Union's squad in Bring It On) and subverted (But I'm a Cheerleader) or turned into the backdrop for a noir-ish murder mystery (Dare Me).
Trump's relationship came under extra scrutiny during the campaign after Newsweek reported that one of his companies subverted the embargo of the island by funding a consultant's trip to Cuba to explore gambling opportunities in the late 1990s.
They took song elements that were popular in the scene at the time and subverted them: "Sunburn Vs. Rhinovirus" took almost-breakdowns into chaotic moments of self-doubt, Harris yelling "I'm de-de-decomposing!" frenetically over ten-ton riffs.
Brother Vellies makes the handwoven baskets and huaraches that many U.P.G.'s like to pair with their dresses, and created a capsule collection with Batsheva of her classic styles subverted in sheer iridescent (called the CD Rom) and latex.
FASHION-PARIS-HAUTE-COUTURE-VALENTINO/ Valentino adds subversive twist to classic gowns for Paris show PARIS (Reuters) - Italian fashion label Valentino subverted classic evening wear for its Paris Haute Couture show on Wednesday, displaying traditional gowns with unexpected twists.
While Black Panther breaks new ground in Hollywood, the film itself owes its vision to Afrofuturism, a 20th century cultural aesthetic that subverted sci-fi -- a white-dominated genre -- by placing black people front and center in futuristic worlds.
They didn't cause the same shake-your-head-and-blink double-takes as Clare Waight Keller's study of tuxedo dressing and the underneath at Givenchy, which promised a rigorous, tightly controlled take on black tie and then subverted it.
It has too much baggage and there's too much money on the line for AMC to take the risks that would result in longtime characters leaving without warning or plotlines from the comics completely subverted instead of just subtly altered.
And if we're going to leave the show anywhere, maybe we should leave it there — Game of Thrones subverted its own storytelling so massively that it chased itself right back to the place it had tried to avoid all along.
But Donald Trump has so subverted Washington logic with his wild, norm-crushing presidency that there is now a serious conversation -- at least among Democrats -- about whether he views the ultimate constitutional crisis as a weapon in his re-election campaign.
Based on the cult Terry Gilliam movie of the same name, Syfy's take has expanded and subverted the film's narrative in fascinating ways, and no one who calls themselves a sci-fi fan should let this gem pass them by.
One thing most of the bad examples seem to have in common is that they can function like a checklist: The critic praises "good" tropes that are present in the work, and asks whether "bad" tropes are subverted or questioned.
Even with the billions and billions of dollars spent, the new technologies, the smart walls (and dumb ones), the checkpoints and biometric ID devices, borders can always be subverted with some grassroots organizing, a little luck, and a joyful spirit.
There's something precious about the small versions of these experiments and I think there's something in all of us that loves to see that subverted—like setting the Chladni sand patterns on fire, with the same sound that created them.
The anonymous writer may have wanted to tell readers that responsible officials are protecting the world from an unfit president, but Mr. Harsanyi said the message he or she really sent was that American democracy had been subverted by unelected appointees.
While her debut single, "There You Go," recalled a Destiny's Child leftover, it was the injection of some Lilith Fair into her sound — as well as the performed defiance at having subverted her label's expectations — that made her a star.
When it's finally ensconced in a buyer's wardrobe, as all clothing is destined to be, that original intention can sometimes barely, if at all, be detected; sometimes it's misconstrued or even subverted—as it was so powerfully on last Saturday's runway.
In all her work she subverted both sides of the high-low equation, ridiculing and exaggerating Abstract Expressionist technique while imbuing popular culture characters with raw, uncontrollable feelings that were more real and gripping than the angst of the Abstract Expressionists.
His foundation is the same as that of so many men who rise to the top of our American-as-apple-pie patriarchal hierarchy, and yet he subtly subverted this expectation every chance he got, in every way that mattered.
And given the distracted and ineffectual way that the last pope ran the church, it's very easy to imagine a distracted and ineffectual attempt to restrict McCarrick being subverted and ignored by the cardinal and his allies in the hierarchy.
" As he wrote in his official autobiography, "I decided we had to send as powerful a message as we could to the Russians that we weren't going to stand by anymore while they armed and financed terrorists and subverted democratic governments.
Sure, the basic premise sounds like The Odd Couple with beaks, but with Haddish onboard and judging by how well BoJack Horseman subverted washed-up actor tropes, it's safe to say that Tuca & Bertie won't just be another mismatched duo story.
And that's before I even mention the ecstatic debauchery of bassline—which was still thronging when I touched down—Sheffield's greatest contribution to UK dance culture, and a genre that subverted UK garage to give the North an electronic identity.
Uncompromising, jarring and chaotic, the record subverted mainstream R&B and pop culture (see their deconstructions of Beyonce's "Drunk in Love" and "Formation" on that tape) and, in doing so, soundtracked the hedonism and articulated the struggles of Berlin's queer and poc communities.
I love that this show subverted my expectations up to the very end, and I can't wait to rewatch the whole thing to see what I missed the past five years while I arrogantly assumed I knew what it was all about.
It is not clear why some of Colonel Vindman's changes were not made, but the decision by a White House lawyer to quickly lock down the reconstructed transcript subverted the normal process of handling such documents, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Just like Facebook is struggling because engagement with the platform was subverted by bad actors and it didn't work like the company thought it would, if [these other companies] aren't producing the results that are [beneficial to more people], that needs to change.
Then they subverted the trusted Windows Update mechanism, through which Microsoft distributes patches and software upgrades to customers, to deliver those malicious files to targeted victims instead, doing so in a way that made it look like they came from Microsoft's server.
And John Cho is the cop who chases Jill around glassy dwellings and Moroccan-style mansions — SoCal's golden rays subverted by a moody indigo glow — as he tries to figure out why Jill, or anyone else for that matter, would want Heather dead.
But there is now growing evidence that, despite the valiant efforts of António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, and his deputy, Amina J. Mohammed, these goals are being subverted by our collective failure to agree on a means to finance them.
Election integrity activists object to the fact that the machine reads the bar code instead of the human-readable text on the ballot, saying the bar code could be incorrect or the software that produces the bar code could be subverted by hackers.
One by one, the ambassadors of Sweden, Egypt, Britain, France and Bolivia, among others, reiterated their view that President Trump's announcement had subverted the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a longtime bedrock of the United Nations position on resolving it.
"Last year's tragedy in San Bernardino showed again how our nation's legal immigration system can be subverted and exploited by those intent on doing this country harm," said Joseph Marcias, who heads US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in Los Angeles.
The vapid mean girl villain was a staple of the '90s teen movie, but the best iterations of the genre subverted expectations by giving her a heart and a soul: Bring It On managed to pull that off, and so did Legally Blonde.
As difficult as it is to go into why exactly Black Mirror Season 5 feels like a letdown without divulging the content of its episodes, the expectations surrounding the show are solid enough that it's possible to hint at which of those are clumsily subverted.
Just as the traditional martial arts expectation of reverse knee joints was subverted the moment the low line side kick started being used in MMA, Whittaker showed us another neat trick that most wouldn't have thought of as a viable answer to the side kick.
Mirai, the botnet that subverted thousands of poorly secured internet of things devices and set them to work on denial of service attacks, has been revealed to be the creation of a young developer who found that the black hat fit better than the white.
Once a frequently self-parodic narrative where Bond formulaically conquered exotic paradises using a combo of sexual prowess and high-tech spy gadgets, in recent years the series has subverted itself, exploring Bond's alcoholism, his shaky mental health, and his problematic attitude toward women.
I've spent a lot of time throughout this series with people who've made Go their life's work; it was a deeply moving experience to sit among them and hear their stunned gasps as a computer subverted everything they thought they knew about their passion.
The revelation that university personnel subverted the educations of hundreds of athletes at first seemed to be the equivalent of the bat signal for the N.C.A.A., whose core principle states that players are students first, with sports forming a part of their larger educations.
Thom Browne built a boardwalk complete with lifeguard chairs and striped cabanas, and then subverted the Nantucket clichés of seersucker, picnics, whales and lobsters by adding bondage and the risk of broken ankles to the mix and Michael Kors invented his own MK Beach Club.
We have dedicated significant time and resources to investigating our own intelligence agencies — it is only logical that we would do as much, if not more, to investigate a hostile foreign intelligence service that assaulted and subverted our most fundamental democratic process: a presidential election.
"With the research, regulatory and policy-making agencies captured, the courts closed to the public, the lawyers disarmed, the politicians on retainer and the media subverted, there is no one left to stand between a greedy industry and vulnerable children, except parents," Mr. Kennedy wrote.
With the help of the White House and a personal lawyer for Mr. Bush, Senator Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has subverted a long-established, nonpartisan process and hidden more than 90 percent of the material pertaining to Judge Kavanaugh's time in government.
It sounds kind of banal, and he even quoted Gertrude Stein's "A rose is a rose is a rose" in his show notes, but then he subverted expectations by focusing on the flowers' flaws: the moment when they begin to wilt and the decay sets in.
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The unorthodox mass Cardenal held at the Solentiname chapel incorporated group readings and open discussions of the Bible, allowing participants to take part in interpretation of the sacred text — a practice that subverted the idea of the priest as the sole valid interpreter of the word of God.
Gowdy genuinely seemed to believe he could bully Brennan into admitting there's no evidence connecting Trump campaign officials to the Russian intelligence operatives who subverted the election; instead he got the most detailed account yet of why the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign in the first place.
But for Tarantino's subversion to really land, you have to know the reality being subverted to a pretty high level of detail — and if you don't, the whole story starts to feel like it's about Rick and Cliff taking out their aggression on hippies or (more troublingly) young women.
" Among their actions was a march in the fall of 2016 that subverted the rhetoric of national celebration and optimism that once characterized May Day in the Soviet Union, when people would march on bright spring days with flowers and placards with hopeful words like "Peace — Labor — May!
David Perdue, another Trump ally, picked up on the legal response's argument that the Democrats had subverted the impeachment process itself -- even though the Constitution gives the House sole power to set the procedures of the process and the President declined to send representatives to Judiciary Committee hearings.
A decade that started with Spain conquering the world with its bottomless patience, wearing down opponents through the brutal hypnosis of tiki-taka, ended with soccer faster and more frenetic than ever as the priests of pressing and counterpressing — from their schools in Germany and Argentina — subverted the orthodoxy.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Justin CowartThe probe has since lived a year and a half in the harsh Jovian environment, delivering some of the most incredible images imaginable along with tons of science—some have said that it's completely subverted what we know about giant planets.
He not only was insubordinate, he subverted the Department of Justice and its core function, even though Loretta Lynch was compromised, there sat Sally Yates with all of her flaws who could have easily described what happened and could have just decided this case on behalf of the attorney general.
The public outpouring of anger began last weekend at the Nevada Democratic Party convention, where Sanders supporters who said Hillary Clinton's backers had subverted party rules shouted down pro-Clinton speakers and sent threatening messages to state party Chairwoman Roberta Lange after posting her phone number and address on social media.
With every tweet, speech and executive order, the nation is reminded of what is at stake as a result of the Trump chaos -- whether it's the possibility of a nuclear war, our elections being subverted by foreign governments, or the possibility of stripping millions of Americans of their health care.
But it remains to be seen whether Poland, once a champion of democratic changes after the fall of Communism and now at loggerheads with the European Union over sweeping changes to state institutions, which critics say have subverted democracy and the rule of law, will change its relations with Brussels.
There's always been something unnerving about her stillness onstage––brilliant in the way it subverted tropes of the pained male virtuoso guitarist, but unnerving nonetheless––but there was something about the taut posing and Clark's eerie gaze, always trained at a spot slightly above the audience, that was particularly cold.
In the previous film, Reichardt noted that the tighter field of vision subverted the expanses of classic Westerns to reflect the point of view of the settlers themselves, who couldn't see past their own personal horizons; here, it gives Cookie and King Lu's life together both intimacy and painterly beauty.
Mr. Higgins was forced out after writing a memo arguing that Mr. Trump was being subverted by an array of foreign and domestic enemies, including globalists, bankers, officials of the "deep state," Islamists and those questioning interactions between Trump campaign officials and Russia, according to a report in The Atlantic magazine.
Together, the witnesses have painted an image of a campaign led by Trump and Giuliani that subverted US foreign policy in Ukraine into a mechanism for domestic political gain that — sometimes with their willing cooperation and sometimes despite their best efforts — swept up career diplomats and Trump-appointed officials alike.
This is a very outdated prose style, but the gist of it is that the authors of the Constitution were concerned that officials of the US government might be subverted by foreign powers who could offer them gifts, offices, titles, or "emoluments" — an old-timey word for compensation for labor or services.
Critical appreciations of new wave tend to stress how strict aesthetic distance creates feeling through inversion — how emotions can be more affecting when presented with detachment — which is true of the Cars: the mock desperation of "Dangerous Type," or the amused infatuation of "You Wear Those Eyes," qualify as appropriately subverted pop ironies.
Then she met a priest — a Hot Priest (Andrew Scott) — and the series kicked off six brilliantly conceived and structured episodes that flirted with and subverted romantic comedy tropes before revealing that the show's real subject wasn't love, but the remarkable power of knowing that somebody sees you for who you truly are.
Kempowski's novel does contain those elements, but the anticipated stability of the storytelling is impishly subverted on the first page, when the author switches from his description of the house to the people who pass it on the road: All that strangers driving along the road saw of the place was the main house.
It pops up in the Canadian series Being Erica, the sitcom adaptation of Weird Science, and even an episode of My Name Is Earl where the trope is heavily subverted, as a character is trapped in a loop due to a brain injury and is the only one who's unaware of what's going on.
Consequently, I have come to terms with the idea that the iteration of Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire that I personally loved best, the one that subverted the expectations of the fantasy genre and created a massively detailed world, ended with Game of Thrones' third book and fourth season.
Robert Ray, who succeeded Mr. Starr as the independent counsel investigating Mr. Clinton, said that House managers were drawing on "their own interpretations" about Mr. Trump's motivations, and that impeachable conduct must be so serious that it subverted the nation's system of government — a bar, he said, that Mr. Trump's actions did not clear.
Frida Ghitis: The night belonged to the women After an exhausting day of hearing how President Donald Trump subverted US foreign policy on Ukraine, the Democratic debate brought a reassuringly strong discussion on foreign policy, offering solace to those of us worried about Trump's approach to policy, not just on Ukraine but across the globe.
From high school vampire slayers to cartoon superheroes and FBI agents, the 90s and early 2000s gifted us with a diverse range of badass sistas who, despite the occasional corny one-liner, flung us head-first into narratives that subverted the passive female stereotype and endorsed headstrong women with a surprising amount of skill in combat.
While the internet can provide plenty of information about incarcerated individuals (it's easy to Google a mugshot) and unsettling statistics about the prison system in totality (according to the ACLU, the US houses 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world prison population) inmates themselves are barred from getting online, therefore silenced and subverted.
" She added on page 340: "It is a fiction that the Ukrainian Government was launching an effort to upend our election" and told Mr. Castor that "if you're also trying to peddle an alternative variation of whether the Ukrainians subverted our election, I don't want to be part of that, and I will not be part of it.
Although the congressional investigation had produced damning evidence about how high level officials had subverted the laws prohibiting US support to the Nicaraguan Contras, North won over the public -- swept up by "Ollie-mania" -- through a patriotic performance, whereby he excited many Americans who concluded he had only been attempting to do what was best for the country.
The court ruled that the Republican-drawn map had subverted popular will by delivering 13 of the state's 18 seats in the House of Representatives to Republicans in 2012, 2014 and 2016—despite the fact that there are more registered Democrats than Republicans in the state and that roughly half of voters opted for Democrats in each of those elections.
As a film, "Boyz n the Hood" subverted expectations by casting Laurence Fishburne as Furious Styles, a black patriarch, intellectual and community activist trying to raise his son in an environment filled with familial love and mindfulness of the dangers of easy cash through the drug trade, random violence from gangs, and the omnipresence of Los Angeles Police Department officers.
While the party has done a lot of work to bridge the divide, some Democrats worry that the leftward pull the Sanders' campaign exerted will be subverted by the desire to win as many seats as possible in 2018 and to do so by matching candidates and their positions to the views held most widely in their districts and states.
Letters To the Editor: Re "Leaks Bring Down a Democratic Leader" and "In Hacking, Russia Is Accused of Playing in American Politics" (front page, July 25): It's not about who hacked the Democratic National Committee's computer servers, or about President Vladimir V. Putin, or the personality squabbles: It's about the evidence that the nominating process was manipulated and our democratic process subverted.
But now, our biggest reality TV star is Kim Kardashian, a woman who spun a sex tape into gold, a woman who posts nude selfies, then twirls on her haters, while her fans come roaring to her defense, claiming that she has subverted the male gaze because she's the one creating the image and she's the one sharing the shot.
WASHINGTON — Just before his state visit to Britain was to begin, President Trump subverted diplomatic norms by rattling an already precarious political situation there: He suggested that the next prime minister of Britain "walk away" from trying to reach a deal to withdraw from the European Union and that the far-right populist Nigel Farage be sent in to negotiate.
On Thursday, Schiff laid the groundwork for the charge of abuse of power by going over a set of known facts: Trump subverted the authority of the American intelligence apparatus by enlisting his personal lawyer to work with a foreign government in an effort to dig up dirt on a domestic political foe: Donald Trump chose Rudy Giuliani over his own intelligence agencies.
During those hearings, witnesses gave sworn testimony painting a picture of a campaign led by the president that subverted US foreign policy in Ukraine into a mechanism for domestic political gain, and many of the witnesses who arguably had a greater degree of insight into Trump's role in the scandal, like US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, testified toward the end.
And it's an aesthetic we often find subverted in pop culture, in the bloody, sexual, queer vampire novels of Anne Rice (an on-and-off Catholic convert), or in the highly erotic "cone bra" designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier for pop singer Madonna (who, down to her stage name, is another example of the trope) — hell, even the "Archie goes Grand-Guignol" TV show Riverdale.
But learning more about how Pollock worked with his subconscious to paint and how he made physical manifestations of his psyche in his work and how he subverted tradition in art and how he actually, well, made the paintings we all claimed we could do but never did, it changes the perspective a bit on why art is considered art even if we think anyone could do it.
Claims for a broad inclusion into "Chinese art" are subverted by similarities to Western painters; any homage to a Western style is undercut by allegorical readings and historical context; a formalist approach is undercut by Western and Chinese precedents; any declaration that "what you see is what you see," to quote Frank Stella, is undermined by the human eye, which can't, of course, see the sculptural impasto of these works simultaneously from different angles.
The camera lingers on the two women, aestheticizes them, yet doesn't reduce or objectify them—and this magic trick is performed as though it's easy, as though many conventions that have long been naturalized can drop away without even needing to be subverted, as though you can just snip the misogyny out of classical painting, eroticism, romance, out of so many areas of high culture, and leave their energy and beauty uncontaminated.
This place is heart of the Alt-Right — the place that made Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE viable, and ground zero of a movement that firmly believes: — The laws have been subverted and the rules of the game are rigged;  — The president is a felon and an imposter;  — The big banks launder drug money, and;  — The UN runs giant sex slavery rings that utilize children as young as four-years-old for prostitution.
MORE is guilty of treason and should be jailed because he subverted the Constitution, destroyed American institutions and illegally weaponized the IRS, FBI, and U.S. national security apparatus to spy on American citizens and disrupt an American presidential election; quietly told the Russian leadership that he would have more "flexibility" to give in to their demands after his re-election; and ridiculed 2012 GOP nominee Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyA US-UK free trade agreement can hold the Kremlin to account Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Overnight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces MORE for suggesting that Russia was a threat to the United States. Treason!

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