As they grew up, Peppa was one of their touchstones.
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And some of the most beloved Japanese touchstones are robots.
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But none of that means it's completely devoid of political touchstones.
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It represents one of our few cultural touchstones documenting white supremacy.
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Most books, including most best-sellers, are not major cultural touchstones.
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In a few places, heavy metal touchstones have entered the mainstream.
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A common mistake when managing goals is not setting intermediate touchstones.
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Back on Earth, some of those photos became pop culture touchstones.
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The Beales became figures of mordant fun but also cultural touchstones.
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The touchstones are an enterprise and the pattern of racketeering activity.
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BORDERS OF ALL KINDS have become recurring touchstones among Latino artists.
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Touchstones Rochdale is much bigger, so we could accommodate bigger works.
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While Tomato's process was technological subversion, their artistic touchstones were more historical.
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But these cultural touchstones were set before the 2016 US Presidential election.
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It's about the cultural touchstones specific to each team's beloved home state.
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Were these touchstones at the start, or are any parallels merely coincidence?
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"Homeownership is one of the touchstones of being prepared for retirement," she said.
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To the irreverent, post-punk critical observer, these touchstones must seem played out.
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This year's pop culture touchstones crept onto the list in other ways, too.
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A random sample of touchstones: Lynn Swann, Tyrannosaurus rex, laundry detergent, onion rings.
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Every generation has its cultural touchstones, and Dylan McKay was one of mine.
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Indeed, the touchstones of the debate are a series of place names. Columbine.
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Here you will find touchstones of overlooked LGBTQ+ history in the Golden State.
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This is reflected already in Marvel Heroes' various community touchstones around the internet.
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What were your musical touchstones when you started thinking about new Chairlift songs?
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In reality, the filmmaker had a number of different 90s touchstones in mind.
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Again, it comes to the common touchstones — what connects us to each other?
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Its understanding of the art world seems thin, incorporating the most obvious touchstones.
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Her imperiously lusty performance in "Kiss Me, Kate" is one of my touchstones.
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From her roots through her rise, Ms. Harris's trajectory reflects touchstones of California.
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But the Zelda series became a constant for Gabe, one of his touchstones.
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Stranger Things is more invested in surprising viewers with a wave of nostalgic touchstones.
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Indeed, Sanders's compelling narrative on civil rights advocacy is strangely devoid of Southern touchstones.
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Psychoactives were made for this: Get really stoned and glean yourself some throwback touchstones.
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It is another trademark to subvert cherished cultural touchstones, particularly those relating to childhood.
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Both trials become cultural touchstones that were shown gavel to gavel on live television.
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His ear for pre-war American touchstones made Swartzwelder the ultimate Mr. Burns writer.
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All of these beloved cultural touchstones are based upon a real animal — Panthera tigris.
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Support for the Second Amendment was one of the touchstones of his presidential campaign.
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She comes to understand incommunicability and isolation as the emotional touchstones of her paralysis.
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It also has the same blind spot as many of these '80s touchstones: women.
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To depict a post-catastrophe world, the movie utilizes multiple post-9/11 touchstones.
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"This is a list of cultural touchstones, the things that define Jewishness," she said.
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For a British designer, Mr. Vevers has some wit to offer touchstones of Americana.
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The beat's hypnotic sway and her vocal cadence have become instantly recognizable musical touchstones.
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It's inspired an impassioned fanbase that speaks its own language of inside jokes and touchstones.
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All these groups and singers have been touchstones for girls to feel liberated and connected.
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In his latest, Café Society, all three of these familiar touchstones are back in play.
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I think I have started to understand some of the cultural touchstones of the R7s.
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With an anthropologist's eye, he outlines their different personality traits, their history and cultural touchstones.
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I think of it as representing archetypes and using the touchstones of pop and subculture.
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For that reason, they're all soon to be cinematic touchstones, at least in my mind.
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By that point, an entire generation had been raised without the touchstones of traditional life.
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Part of this stems from food's special power as the most accessible of cultural touchstones.
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Golda, an all-day café in Brooklyn, offers a number of almost parodically millennial touchstones.
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Her wide-ranging work covers topics from personal tales to national history and other cultural touchstones.
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Whatever your cultural touchstones are, "Blinded By the Light" is a moving reminder of their power.
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Mr. Biden's Roman Catholic upbringing and Irish heritage are, along with his family, his personal touchstones.
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It's touchstones are obvious—there aren't many board games that paint the police as unambiguous antagonists.
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I would help crowdfund a book from her about Stephen Sondheim, one of her cultural touchstones.
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ACROSTIC — Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon are our only touchstones in the world of crossword construction.
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In recent years, Sublime Frequencies has returned to some of the touchstones that inspired its founders.
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In another fifty years, video games will have enough time behind them to need similar touchstones.
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Going Public – The Napoleone Collection continues at Touchstones Rochdale (The Esplanade, Rochdale, UK) through March 11.
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Can you talk about some of the figures in art history who are touchstones for you?
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None of these outdated touchstones struck me as off-kilter, as I fancied myself the adaptable type.
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I think people just like to read all of those cultural touchstones that we all go through.
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Ask the makers for references and they'll give you original Syndicate and Grand Theft Auto as touchstones.
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She is good at wresting fresh nuance from familiar touchstones, and arranging them into incisive, opinionated narratives.
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But most of all, it reveals a band transitioning from struggling D.I.Y. outsiders to burgeoning cultural touchstones.
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Sentimentalists, ill-served in general by tennis's latest building spree, are going to lose some more touchstones.
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The creative director's new perfumes evoke touchstones from his own life, from Parisian nightclubs to California beaches.
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Movie adaptations of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" have remained iconic cultural touchstones since the first film in 1931.
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In December, the show moved to Touchstones Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, where it is still currently installed.
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Now, it's hard to remember a time when Saturday Night Live and Star Wars weren't total cultural touchstones.
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We've collected together nine essentials, from sci-fi touchstones and political satire to anime and a medical sitcom.
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Susan Roth has held close the idea of that exhibition as being one of the touchstones of Modernism.
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The film itself is standard, pseudo-futuristic conspiratorial thriller terrain, and director Tommy Wirkola's cinematic touchstones are obvious.
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Its touchstones are modern and Western — Parisian cabaret, Radio City-style variety shows and, since the 1960s, Broadway.
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The references exist because, for so many people, coming of age meant processing life through those cultural touchstones.
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Every year, searches for key Christmas, Hanukkah and other holiday season touchstones begin their uptick in late October.
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" It's a highlight in a career already filled with cultural touchstones, including Beyoncé's "Lemonade" and Barry Jenkins's "Moonlight.
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And even if the Violent Femmes haven't been part of any recent teenage culture touchstones, the nostalgia remains.
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These two men -- pillars of their profession, cultural touchstones, with names already inked into history -- had to talk.
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Eight little cultural touchstones — including a TV scene, a building, a pizza and a painting — worth your time.
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Images of the natural world, especially those of wild berries, are touchstones in many of Mr. Kenny's poems.
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Between "Formation" and "Insecure," which are very different, you were involved with two of the year's cultural touchstones.
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While honoring these touchstones, Vaccarello also updated them with frayed denim and slinky cocktail dresses with sculptural busts.
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Here are eight cultural touchstones that have informed our politics and showed how we, and the world, have changed.
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It's a thoughtful take on Spidey that carefully sidesteps the more obvious touchstones from past takes on the character.
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Strength and focus were the touchstones of his life, so he was naturally terrified of drugs and drug users.
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No series on British culture would be complete without a few other touchstones: football, imperial nostalgia and the wars.
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Aja: And yet the cultural touchstones he chooses to reference instead are nearly as inexplicable as they are insulting.
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FFXIV is a standard MMORPG in many ways, but it's set in a fantasy universe filled with familiar touchstones.
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There are obvious touchstones but it's an almost singular vision, which assimilates a bunch of genres into something new.
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It had touchstones of a specific black movie, but it was also a movie that we can all understand.
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They're shared cultural touchstones that facilitate the types of informal interactions that help people become comfortable in new surroundings.
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Still, Mr. Trump invoked the touchstones of his campaign, including a restrictive immigration policy that would primarily affect Muslims.
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It's dangerous to compare music from one region to whatever Western cultural touchstones one happens to have lying around.
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So, it's both unsurprising and a welcome return to form that Science Fiction appears to be assembled on touchstones.
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Video games have become essential touchstones in an increasingly online culture, bringing huge communities together through shared interactive experiences.
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We go back to our chosen fictional touchstones time and again, as constants against which to cast our variables.
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Hilma af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.
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Each season has its touchstones for the mind and body, many of which you already enjoy, perhaps without realizing it.
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It's amazing how pop culture touchstones, like our favorite old movies, help to put the passage of time into perspective.
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Kino Kimono is Kim Talon and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley (so those aforementioned touchstones make total sense).
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The 50 suburban seats House Republicans still hold offer more targets for Democratic pressure on guns and other cultural touchstones.
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The hotel is less than 15 miles outside of downtown Boston, which offers a wealth of cultural and historical touchstones.
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The show, a mixture of science fiction, fantasy and horror, has attracted attention for its use of popcorn cinema touchstones.
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There's still plenty of organic gameplay to be had here, but you'll need the touchstones to get maximum exploration gratification.
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You can read it as a commentary on how the internet mixes and matches cultural touchstones, or it's just jokes.
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Mr. Bey's touchstones in photography included Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans and Gordon Parks, and even his own family's photo albums.
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"An assurance from a United States refugee resettlement agency, in fact, meets each of the Supreme Court's touchstones," he wrote.
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That includes, of course, some of the most memorable touchstones: the floating mountains, the bioluminescent forests and the flying banshees.
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But I'm curious what your dystopian touchstones are, and whether you think they succeed in telling the story they intend.
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They signify the depth of your bond, your sense of humor about the relationship, and which pop culture touchstones you share.
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The years would prove formative in terms of Shirzad's sense of himself and his cultural touchstones, said his nephew, Bob Mehr.
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A series that simply rehashes those touchstones would be unnecessary — and besides that, not competitive in today's exploding true crime economy.
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For Hulu, this is part of a clutch of shows from the '90s and 2000s that are touchstones of popular culture.
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While its visual touchstones are classic cyberpunk—neon lights and chunky, 80s-inspired technology—its subject matter is close at hand.
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When we recognize sounds, memories of their origins are revived, and their unique combinations create new sonic touchstones for future reference.
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Conservatives and people of the right value these things as well but have several additional moral touchstones — loyalty, respect and sanctity.
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"With an anthropologist's eye, he outlines their different personality traits, their history and cultural touchstones," Nellie Bowles writes in her review.
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Paul Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Eugène Atget, Garry Winogrand and particularly Lisette Model served as touchstones for Maier, if not direct influences.
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The first disc eases you in, with five pieces referring to various touchstones of the famous '70s and '80s fusion sound.
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Rather than erasing these cultural touchstones that has been present for thousands of years, perhaps the situation could be addressed elsewhere.
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Here's a play-by-play breakdown of some of the most iconic cultural touchstones our critics think you should know about.
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Almost immediately after his victory in 2016, "protest is the new brunch" and "#resist" became cultural touchstones both online and off.
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Still, few if any cultural touchstones from the 1970s have had the same long-term reach that the franchise has enjoyed.
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One might point to cultural touchstones like Beyoncé, "Hamilton," and "Scandal" as a preview of what this future will look like.
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The color palette, the touchstones of sci-fi of the 60s and 70s that has a sort of futurism in it.
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The show has lampooned a number of cultural touchstones, but also isn't afraid of ruffling feathers whenever it feels like it.
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All of these capitalist touchstones are a reminder that the nation that is free to buy stuff defeated the creeping socialist horde.
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Kristen Radtke's graphic memoir uses photos and the death of her uncle as touchstones to illustrate parallel forms of decay and loss.
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Seth's photos and the death of her uncle are touchstones throughout the book, serving to illustrate parallel forms of decay and loss.
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Minority Report, 1984, Enemy of the State—they've all become tiresome cultural touchstones for talking about the surveillance state, but they're here.
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He backed her project, and has since been lending his time and talent between creating some of pop culture's most memorable touchstones.
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Just as human influencers have become style touchstones for pet owners, these tail-wagging trendsetters are an inspiration to their fluffy brethren.
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For solace and inspiration, he turns to poets who have been his touchstones—Louise Bogan, Theodore Roethke, Sara Teasdale—before discovering Oliver.
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But routine remains important, and their daily touchstones — school, pickup, homework, dinner time — can help them feel the world is still working.
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Ward managed to meld many touchstones of life in Mississippi, from generational spiritual predispositions, to a poignant discussion about addiction and death.
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The mores of the Ellmanns' lives are exceedingly conventional, as are many of the novel's touchstones — weddings, baptisms, the death of pets.
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A welcome disorientation, even an epiphany or two, might arise from doing without conventional touchstones like, say, a mirror, or a refrigerator.
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Her midwives, she said, also understood how she felt without her having to utter a word because of their shared cultural touchstones.
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"Cléo From 5 to 7," from 1962, is one of its touchstones, even as it anticipates the feminist cinema of the 1970s.
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But unlike other brands whose plays for diversity mean getting more general and avoiding specific cultural touchstones, Popular Jewelry has instead doubled down.
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I don't know if that was the intent, but the occasional dialogue references to familiar modern touchstones like "fake news" can't be ignored.
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When Jones first arrived on our screens, it was one of the few pop cultural touchstones directly dealing with sexual assault and rape.
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Jalbert and Wilson have pointed to Wipers, Leonard Cohen, and Elvis Costello up as touchstones during the songwriting process, and they mean it.
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"At moments like this, you need some touchstones to figure out when the pain is likely to end," the "Mad Money" host said.
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If you loved Left 4 Dead or Friends or The Godfather, you could easily create dozens of posts about these pop-cultural touchstones.
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In the Holy Land, Trump wants to jumpstart the stalled peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, while visiting touchstones like the Western Wall.
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It finished ahead of blockbusters like Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill and enduring indie rock touchstones like Alien Lanes by Guided By Voices.
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Courtesy the Glass House © 2018 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society Other Nauman touchstones include huge sculptures of fantasized systems of underground tunnels.
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Whitfield Lovell reinterprets found imagery and references evocative cultural touchstones to add further layers and textures to his drawings and mixed media installations.
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Here we get touchstones from the period, including "Summertime Clothes," the Afro rave-up "Brother Sport," and a one-off version of Bleed.
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Wonder Woman also tries to speak the language of women's cultural touchstones—to manifest their fantasies of safety, of being seen and respected.
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My guess is that the movie worked for me because it's canny about which other pop culture touchstones it lures into its orbit.
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Even before today's debate, women's health care had emerged as one of the most polarizing — and politically incendiary – touchstones of the Trump presidency.
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It suggests that national security operatives had access to high-level voice technology long before Amazon, Apple and Google's solutions became cultural touchstones.
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All of these influences are so essential to the way I think about food that they're the touchstones of every recipe I create.
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Like other '90s touchstones that are recirculating in the culture — stylized covens, Marianne Williamson — the book has returned at a slightly ironic distance.
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"I'm seeing a lot of the touchstones of the most important part of my life, my twenties to my thirties, disappear," he says.
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They have become cultural touchstones for millions of Americans, who use King references to process a real world that sometimes seems stranger than fiction.
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The vast majority, like Sanders, say that remembering the Holocaust, leading an ethical life and working for justice are the touchstones of modern Judaism.
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Other ballet companies are seeking to make the art form more accessible—"dressing down" or including contemporary touchstones—rather than emphasising its elitist history.
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From Drake to Bieber to Tyga, Jamaican and Caribbean musical touchstones are cool right now; the sounds of dancehall are more common than ever.
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They span a wide range of genres, but in general, the films are touchstones that he feels are necessary for having grown-up conversations.
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He's someone who anyone in the arts community in Athens would say was one of the leaders or touchstones of the Athens arts community.
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These traditions and touchstones, falling by the wayside one after another, were ones many of us counted on to represent economic stability and comfort.
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Pop-culture touchstones are sprinkled into every vignette, so that you make memorable connections between the fear of demons and, say, a certain song.
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The NES, the SNES, and to a lesser extent the N64, are all touchstones for anyone on the older end of the millennial spectrum.
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The Kennedy Center tribute joins other touchstones -- like NBA championship teams visiting the White House -- that have fallen by the wayside since Trump's inauguration.
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They are friends, lovers, touchstones, specific reminders of periods of thinking, particular research in the making of a play and imprints of love affairs.
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Daria ended up being the longest-running show to come out of MTV's Animation department, surpassing even Beavis and other cultural touchstones like Celebrity Deathmatch.
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Plunging into this album's world for an hour is daunting These are all pleasant, engaging touchstones, and inspiration (even imitation) doesn't have to be damning.
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Like Warhol, Mr. Ai surrounds himself with stray cats, has a fondness for neon-tinted floral arrangements and takes pleasure in subverting hallowed cultural touchstones.
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The same was true on Monday, when he nominated Kavanaugh with a speech that took in all the usual touchstones and never veered off script.
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This is a genre whose high point is the Resident Evil series, whose touchstones include Mortal Kombat, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and Prince of Persia.
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These monuments are essential cultural and historical touchstones for a wide range of people and communities, representing a future that respects and engages all people.
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Of course, he was already cool, at least to those who knew him from "Cockfighter" and other under-sung touchstones of the 1970s American cinema.
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This Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter has listed Bruce Springsteen's angst, 10cc's camp and Elton John's emotive melodies as touchstones for her '70s-influenced indie rock.
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In its final moments, the piece took on the feeling of a meditative exhalation, suggesting prior touchstones like "Music for 18 Musicians," without seeming derivative.
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There are shrines to various touchstones of Augusta National lore and a vast, immaculate store that sells Masters merchandise, one of several on the grounds.
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You hold onto them, because they become touchstones of empathy, reminders of the vulnerability and sincerity that are the building blocks of the mature self.
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With all that going on, who wants to sit down and watch actors reprise decades-old roles or writers assemble tributes to pop-culture touchstones?
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By writing herself out of art history, af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.
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It's a blend of mid-20th century horror touchstones, particularly The Twilight Zone and Universal Monster movies, delivered with a striking black-and-white visual style.
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Here, you'll find Prince laying the foundation for his later masterpieces, but imbuing in each song touchstones of contemporary black genres like funk and R&B.
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A set of touchstones that shapes their sound, their lyrics, their live performances, and sets them apart from other artists who might be doing something similar.
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When we have none of those touchstones when tragedy hits us, such as the massacre in Orlando on Sunday, we each view the other with skepticism.
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They all got their start in the 1960s, delivered songs that became cultural touchstones, have kept recording into this century and can fill arenas on tour.
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The reception to this record was incredibly positive, showing that you're still making these kind of touchstones for people even years after something like Jane Doe.
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I don't necessarily mean obvious touchstones like GWAR, Ghost, Alestorm, Babymetal, Macabre, or (sigh) Mac Sabbath, who are loud and proud and open about their gimmickry.
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And unlike the skinheads of yesteryear, this group of memelords and shitposters don't even have a set of IRL touchstones to help them forge their identity.
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Touchstones that will return us to the spaces we heard them in, the people and machines that created them, and the way they made us feel.
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This granted the Romans the same provenance as the cultures around them and justified their claim to the Greek gods and cultural touchstones of the Trojans.
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They are running up against assumptions voters and pundits have about what presidential leadership looks like, battling a presidential archetype where men are the only touchstones.
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This one went down smoothly, and it left me with that pleasant, dreamy, jazzy feeling you get when you've been reminded of some wonderful cultural touchstones.
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Still, some officers bemoaned the loss of official handwritten logs, which many officers regarded as professional journals that after retirement remained as touchstones to their careers.
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Some of them are considered jazz-funk touchstones — notably "Mind Transplant" (1975), which features a front line of dueling electric guitarists: Tommy Bolin and Lee Ritenour.
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One of flamenco's touchstones, embraced by Noche Flamenca, is the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, who was executed in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War.
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Josephine Baker, the absinthe, "perfect corkscrews of lemon peel" in a martini glass: These become not touchstones of Lee Miller's lived reality, but metonyms for glamour.
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That event is one of the touchstones of Black Fashion Designers, which will bring together some 70 pieces from the collection of the Museum at FIT.
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I'd seen the big hits and the cultural touchstones — now I wanted to burrow deep into the found-footage catalogs on Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Shudder.
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That franchise and other pop-culture touchstones paint kink as a sultry extravagance of the rich, svelte, and white—a rarified space for those with pristine bodies.
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If you look at any movie listing or television schedule there is one undeniable truth: few things are trendier than dark, gritty reboots of previously sunny touchstones.
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Rap and food dovetailed even before Biggie Smalls was pining for "a T-bone steak, cheese eggs and Welch's grape"; the two have since become cultural touchstones.
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Inland, the landscape hit all the familiar "Under the Tuscan Sun" touchstones: cypress trees pointing up at billowing cumulus clouds, vineyards rolling back to medieval hilltop towns.
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These are touchstones, he says, because those records take you to a very specific place, build their own worlds and can make you feel positive (hiya Graduation).
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But the game harnesses '90s touchstones like Jurassic Park in a way that still feels original, and it's building on one of the most solid Vive genres.
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The brilliant French director Arnaud Desplechin likes to mix lofty touchstones with George Clinton beats, slipping in nods to "Ulysses" alongside the post-punk band Marine Girls.
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Here, based on interviews with more than a dozen friends, top aides and advisers inside and outside the White House, are 20 of Mr. Trump's outside touchstones.
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Pop culture touchstones like Frogger and Pac-Man are open for visitors to use alongside the more obscure but beloved additions, Galaxy Force II and Q*Bert.
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It's difficult to speculate why Gard and Evans have become cultural touchstones in a way that "Baby MB" and "Baby OT," from about a decade earlier, have not.
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While many of these touchstones are useful to know about in advance of the new seasons, why people care so deeply about FLCL is tougher to pin down.
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Interviews explore everything from the real-life touchstones that inform creative impulses to the actual human cost of signing on for such a demanding and high-profile project.
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Unlike in the earlier movies, the Roman Catholic Church is a supporting player in "Inferno," largely evident in landmarks and cultural touchstones rather than cults and murderous agents.
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Such model citizens as Rob Goldstone and Sam Nunberg flitted around the operation, while such moral touchstones as Roger Ailes and Roger Stone muttered advice from the sidelines.
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The cider house ritual is just one of many Basque Country cultural touchstones that make this autonomous coastal region a very different place than the rest of Spain.
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Even if you grant that there might be 30-somethings who use these names as touchstones or shorthand, the characters in this book haven't been drawn that way.
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Small, colorful dots came into view: people and cars, which seemed incongruous, implausible even, after the wind, water and ancient relics that had been our touchstones all day.
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Like so many other things that form generational touchstones, I thought that the board games that I played as a child would still be the gold standard today.
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In the spirit of inclusiveness, art critics and people with access to Twitter cited other touchstones of downright terrible likenesses, like the weird courtroom sketch of Tom Brady.
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This Mexican-American singer's music is often described as "ukulele electropop," but with its reggaeton and ambient touchstones, it feels much more eclectic than that label might suggest.
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I didn't have the same touchstones that LGBT kids do now — no Modern Family or Ruby Rose, no Bella Thorne coming out on Twitter or YouTubers sharing tearful confessions.
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Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, based on the best-selling novel by Ernest Cline, tried to split the difference, bringing an embarrassment of '80s and '90s nostalgic touchstones — DeLoreans!
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In speeches, he consistently returns to certain life-experiences, many that are touchstones from his life before Congress — his time in the military, his involvement in his college church.
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In it, Charli and singer Troye Sivan pay homage to various 1990s touchstones, like Steve Jobs, TLC's "Waterfalls" music video, Titanic, the Nokia 3310, The Sims, and so on.
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The touchstones for this approach were Weimar Republic artists like Otto Dix (who, in 1924, painted some of the mummies I photographed), Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, and Egon Schiele.
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Our top bottle was the 20123 Beautiful cuvée from K Vintners, a well-balanced wine that hit many of the syrah touchstones of roasted meat, flowers and red fruit.
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It's not that the chef, T. J. Steele, a white American who splits his time between New York and Oaxaca, is gussying up traditional Mexican food with luxury touchstones.
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The film and her character, a Nazi doctor with a taste for sex and torture, became cultural touchstones of sorts, inspiring, among other things, songs by several rock bands.
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We've said goodbye to "appointment television" forever, and the ability to BINGE WATCH is a boon, especially for people who work odd hours and missed out on cultural touchstones.
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Naturally, the Blade Runner comparisons are inevitable, given that Vangelis is perhaps best known for that film's much-imitated score, but there are other 80s sci-fi touchstones here.
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Nicolas Pelham charts their rise and fall In the fall of 2016, two American pop cultural icons became unwitting touchstones in the discourse surrounding the contemporary relevance of data.
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" His business partner Jeff Laub points to those cultural touchstones, and not the fascist origins, as their inspiration: "In all honesty, we didn't know the exact reference of the undercut.
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Neyfakh noted that initially, he wasn't overly familiar with the scandal, pointing to works like All the President's Men as the touchstones that broadly shaped the public's perception of it.
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Highlights include cafes in Greenwich Village, the Church of Saint Vincent de Paul in Chelsea, which used to offer daily masses in French, the Jeanne d'Arc Residence and other touchstones.
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The title sequence is practically a visual dictionary of "We Didn't Start the Fire"-grade boomer touchstones: a lava lamp, a joint, dog tags, a wheel of birth control pills.
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Kev's work as an mastering engineer, label owner, and facilitator embodies the crosspollination between electronic music, hip-hop, and jazz that is one of the touchstones of contemporary LA jazz.
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Ms. Ferrante's so-called Neopolitan Novels have found a passionate readership, especially among women — Hillary Clinton recently said she was reading them — and some look to them as feminist touchstones.
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My attention turned then to the touchstones and places that give Puerto Rico its beauty and culture and that I now realize I have taken for granted all my life.
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Valentine and I were trying to walk a line between something that we thought was ridiculous but also plausible — the two touchstones we have are The Handmaid's Tale and RoboCop.
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"I've definitely learned so much about how these two characters use breath differently, how they use resonance differently, and these are the touchstones I grab onto every night," he said.
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The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder tears through around 50 books per year and prioritizes reading over other hobbies, even if it means missing out on certain cultural touchstones.
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It is a risky strategy; part of the appeal of GIFs is that they are organically referential to collective nostalgia for previous pop-culture touchstones — not choreographed and overtly promotional.
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We live in a world where formerly unattainable futuristic touchstones like "flying cars" and autonomous vehicles are being treated with straight-faced sincerity by some of the biggest companies in world.
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To make matters worse, Mr Weigel must do this with a genre of music unfamiliar to the average reader thanks to a dearth of hit singles, radio play or cultural touchstones.
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The synagogue has long been one of the touchstones of Squirrel Hill, a rolling neighborhood about five miles east of downtown that is the center of the city's large Jewish community.
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If this is all sounding fairly airy and detached then it probably has something to do with one of the touchstones for his games: the postmodernist novels of author Thomas Pynchon.
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There are some books that become major cultural touchstones that everyone in the country wants to read and have an opinion on — your Harry Potters and your Fifty Shades of Greys.
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Police officer murders are always touchstones in debates over the death penalty, and the latest will likely figure into upcoming votes over whether to retain the punishment in Nebraska and California.
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Cleverly set in 1987 (when, incidentally, the toy-driven original animated series ended), this well-tuned vehicle leverages that nostalgia factor for all It's worth, especially in its pop-culture touchstones.
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While Amesbury House of Pizza's pies exhibited those two Greek pizza touchstones—the lacy, crisp edge and the fried bottom crust—The Pizza Factory's pies are comparatively stodgy and one-note.
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He said two shows that he considered touchstones for "Vice News Tonight" were "Saturday Night Live" and "Sesame Street" because they convey information using different formats determined by the subject matter.
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If conservatism is really a reactionary ideology, it means that its most profound moments and its greatest intellectual touchstones are going to be forged in the crucible of a revolutionary challenge.
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They also came of age at a time when military service was common; wartime bonds and shared cultural touchstones often trumped partisan differences; and zeal was not required for elected office.
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"A sleazy synth-rock dance record," he said, citing John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers' album with Eric Clapton, and also the Bee Gees, Cheap Trick, T. Rex and La Roux as touchstones.
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The filter bubble describes the tendency of social networks like Facebook and Twitter to lock users into personalized feedback loops, each with its own news sources, cultural touchstones and political inclinations.
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Perhaps no better work illustrates this than "The Last Angel of History" (1989/2016), in which the visual touchstones of the work are the very contrast between light and shadow itself.
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But what if this could be a real way to give oneself readings of a kind, a method of teasing touchstones from our future out of a square of luminous glass?
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The third season of The Crown will begin in 1963 and cover the following decade, depicting major cultural touchstones such as the rise of the Beatles and Britain's 1966 World Cup win.
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The movie is filled with jaw-dropping blockbuster moments that are all the more rich because of the way they're drenched in winks and nods to many familiar touchstones of pop culture.
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If there is one thing we humans love to do with our free will and consciousness, it is constantly remember cultural touchstones from our youth that made us feel alive and great.
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Lee, who runs the emoji advocacy group Emojination, has personally had a hand in creating more than 100 new emoji, many of those showing people or cultural touchstones that previously went underrepresented.
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But where Green is a loose mumblecore drama, Always Shine is a nervy thriller that owes as much to Single White Female as it does to deliberate touchstones like Ingmar Bergman's Persona.
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These ideas became apt touchstones for Gen X-ers as they dealt with an emerging tech wonderland of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the ins and outs of online and offline worlds.
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It was the beneficiary of a mammoth benefit, held at Lincoln Center in New York in 2001, that was in many ways a perfect representation of the touchstones of Mr. Hotchner's life.
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No longer are they so fixated on narrating their own success—in fact, they seem a bit desensitized to the trappings of fame, reorienting themselves to the street and its familiar touchstones.
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It's a movie that feels almost alien, like it sprang from some parallel cinematic universe where the most important cultural touchstones are Freud, Ingmar Bergman, and the Sea Captain from The Simpsons.
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As the primary purveyor of episodic titles, Telltale often struggled with finding hits outside of incredibly popular licenses like The Walking Dead, Batman, Guardians of the Galaxy, and other pop culture touchstones.
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Reviews out of the Venice Film Festival compared it to well-worn sci-fi touchstones "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Solaris," and "Apocalypse Now," in part due to its probing adventure narrative.
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"Rather than tackling the secular republican vision head on, he is transforming it" by harnessing some of the key touchstones of the secular republican tradition for his own purposes, Mr. Erdemir said.
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I'm a little young to harken all the way back to Sony's classic hi-fi gear, but the Clie, the VAIO UX, MiniDisc, Discman, Memory Stick, and Mavica were all touchstones for me.
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A Case of Distrust does this not by calling on cultural touchstones from its time period, but works by evoking a nostalgic style from the '50s that was used to invoke the '20s.
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By also invoking Emmett Till, one of the touchstones of the civil rights era's heroic period, James consciously linked the Black Lives Matter generation to the struggles and travails of an earlier period.
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By setting the game in the 60s, developer Hangar 13 has access to a wide catalog of familiar cultural material: musical touchstones, important moments of activism, huge changes in the national political character.
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It incorporates cultural touchstones from the '80s — including some great music — while sticking to its main theme: that the friends we make when we're young help us grow up and feel less alone.
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It made him a villain, but one that felt tangible and real, despite everyone loving Jimmy Valiant, and it made him and that feud one of the touchstones of mid-80s Southern wrestling.
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The album is described as a "soundtrack to nights where revelry and lust are never isolated from poor decisions and vanity," with musical touchstones including Iggy Pop, Gun Club, Hawkwind, and Sex Pistols.
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"I like to see people get chainsawed, their arms cut off, legs cut off — as graphic as possible," Ms. Whack said, citing Quentin Tarantino and "The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)" as touchstones.
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John G. Avildsen, who as the director of "Rocky" and "The Karate Kid" created pop culture touchstones by telling stories of down-and-out characters finding triumph, died on Friday in Los Angeles.
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One year later, the massacre's aftermath — filled with moments of anguish and healing for the victims, their families, the city, and its gay and Latino communities — has resonated with touchstones large and small.
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His 1980s and 1990s filmography is full of generational touchstones, with movies like Harlem Nights and Vampire In Brooklyn bringing the work of African-American actors and creators to cinemas across the country.
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Retrofuturism is a major factor in the enduring appeal of B-movies and science fiction from the '50s, art deco design, and cultural futuristic touchstones like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Akira, and Blade Runner.
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I think that EarthBound and Secret of Mana were the first touchstones we discussed—and just like I've never played through all of EarthBound, I don't think he's played all of Secret of Mana.
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I've had a hard time reconciling how well Ubisoft captures the look and feel of San Francisco with how inexplicably it removes or modifies large swaths of the city's historic buildings and cultural touchstones.
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Connecting Apple Watch design and interfaces to teen cultural touchstones would not only put the Apple Watch in demand for the Snapchat set, but turn each new design partner release into a cultural event.
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With the real Castle Black gone and the fictional one consigned to the dustbin of pay-for-play streaming services, tomorrow's bases will undoubtedly be named for emerging cultural touchstones, not last season's leavings.
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Recorded with a large ensemble, the music has a hustling, declaratory spirit and a broadly Pan-African take on acoustic jazz, with touchstones spanning from the Antilles to the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
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The movie is adapted from the 2009 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, who hit commercial pay dirt with a catchy title and the fusion of two ludicrously opposed, nominally irreconcilable cultural touchstones: Austen and zombies.
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Portrayed as tricksters, familiars and the all-seeing informant-companions of the Norse god Odin, they have been the muses of Tlingit shamans, touchstones for William Shakespeare and a main character for Edgar Allan Poe.
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Seeing these items with my very own eyes, I realized what a shame it would have been for these cultural touchstones to have been lost or buried in storage where no one could see them.
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This is the first animated Peanuts special to include the iconic football-snatching gag from the comic strip, and both the special and the gag have remained cultural touchstones since their debuts 50 years ago.
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While artwork, merch designs and music videos help connect Wicca Phase to a carefully curated selection of cultural touchstones in a visual sense, Adam's own identity evades definition just as much as the music itself.
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Some of these nonsensical weapons play small roles in the movies they inhabit, while others, like these, have become cultural touchstones; serving as symbols of the fictional universes they inhabit and the fandoms they inspire.
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The voice Ms. Collins revealed at that concert, and on "Lodestar," falls several octaves below the soaring one that made her famous on traditional touchstones like "The Power of the True Love Knot" in 1968.
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" Guided by personal touchstones like James Blake, Radiohead, Beth Gibbons, and Portishead's Third, Ayer says he wanted to make a record that spoke to his tastes—something that sounded moodier, stranger, and "a little off.
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But the real touchstones that we talked about a lot in getting ready to make a film were more obscure, at least in terms of what you would think of for a bank robbery film.
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Taking its inspiration from magical realism, Southern Gothic, Tennessee Williams, and much more — act five of Kentucky Route Zero presents an unusual collage of touchstones for a young art form generally consumed with self-references.
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Opened in 2017 by the late restaurateur Danny Nusbaum, whose family started Pick A Bagel, it offers a number of almost parodically millennial touchstones, including açai yogurt and chia-seed oatmeal with date-oat milk.
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"Here's the bottom line: in this crazy week that's overflowing with earnings, I find these charts to be good touchstones that can try to help you navigate your way through potentially confusing situations," Cramer said.
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That saddens me in ways that it would regardless of what's happening in this seething country and this fractious world, but current events intensify my appreciation for customs now lost, for touchstones that have crumbled.
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The famed chat client more commonly known as AIM is one of the internet's longest-lasting cultural touchstones, and one of the few pieces of software that arguably changed how people interact with each other.
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Bottoms preached about her own journey to becoming mayor, framing her campaign and policies, which her administration has implemented in just a few short months, as touchstones in keeping with public service as a higher calling.
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But most importantly for us, he'll be on the lookout for emerging hardware technologies that will resolve themselves into household names and cultural touchstones as they are developed by young companies and adopted by the masses.
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For what it's worth, the sample rom-com pack includes such romantic touchstones as Shallow Hal and Superstar, and the 90s comedy one includes two movies from the 1980s, so take that promise as you will.
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At times, talking to Holmes was like shaking a Magic 8 Ball filled with quotes from his spiritual touchstones, the theologian Richard Rohr, New Age-y guru Ram Dass, and even the Upanishads, ancient Hindu texts.
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As the game's many pop culture references remind us, Technolust is Blade Runner rolled into Snow Crash, Max Headroom, Transmetropolitan, and several other cultural touchstones, topped off with an increasingly popular kind of '80s retro-futurism.
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But you also have the Aquabats (whose former drummer Travis Barker is one of the festival's presenters), Mustard Plug, and Less Than Jake, all of whom are touchstones for hundreds of amateur bands throughout the years.
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In addition to his speak-shouting delivery and the band's Here, Hear EPs in which Dreyer reads bits of pre-existing poetry over instrumentals, you don't have to look far to note Somewhere...'s literary touchstones.
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"The Coddling of the American Mind," by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, proceeds from many of the same premises and touchstones as "Splintering," but makes a much more disturbing and comprehensive analysis of recent campus trends.
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And while times have changed since then, the four albums that he recorded as a duo with the D.J. Eric B. between 1987 and 1992 remain significant touchstones for a certain strain of hip-hop lyricism.
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The designers took inspiration from magical realism, Southern Gothic, Tennessee Williams, David Lynch, the history of computer programming, and much more — an unusual collage of touchstones for a young art form generally consumed with self-references.
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But each of these cultural touchstones were dated, to say the least, and the early-aughts horror comedy trend, which arguably peaked with 2004's Shaun of the Dead a decade earlier, had long since fizzled.
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"The Trouble With Men" reprises this method; much of it is a collage of quotes, from his touchstones like Seneca and the literary critic Leslie Fiedler but also Reddit, porn chat rooms and Bernie Madoff's mistress.
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It was doing so, Frank argued, because Republicans had offered persuasive cultural arguments: They campaigned about abortion, guns, religion, same-sex marriage, and other cultural touchstones that worried conservative, poorer whites in rural states like Kansas.
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She and Saul met four years ago, working on a street style exhibition, and so this latest collaboration pulls from each of their strengths: her huge cultural archive and his massive load of clothes and musical touchstones.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Weekend (Saturday through Monday) A mosaic, a memorial book and a musical performance will be among the touchstones used to celebrate Dr. King's legacy this weekend at the Children's Museum of Manhattan.
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In its new petition to the Supreme Court, Google says the case is not only important to copyright law, but has "sheer practical importance," as it centers around two touchstones of computing: Google's Android and Oracle's Java.
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Mr. Lamar, whose songs about black identity had become touchstones of the Black Lives Matter movement, appeared on stage in chains and a blue prison uniform, surrounded by other black men, a clear statement on over-incarceration.
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"There's definitely a common denominator between the two," RZA said in a recent Detroit Free Press interview, citing 80s touchstones like Roland drum machines and songs like Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock" as major influences on both genres.
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Granted, those examples are somewhat obvious touchstones, but the movie also includes myriad smaller ones, not just in terms of pop culture but also in the attention paid to the specifics of milieus like homes and classrooms.
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Their two historical touchstones are the Symbolist poet Stefan George (1868-1933) and Ugrino, a community based on free love, founded in northern Germany in 1920 by the organ builder and writer Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-19823).
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I have internalized this kind of vernacular in spoken language, don't even notice it, and my literary touchstones include genres like the Beats and books like "A Clockwork Orange," so I'm, like, totally cool with its usage.
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And so the Christmas cookie battle between two cultural and culinary touchstones, Pan di Stelle and Nutella, and their superpower parent companies, the pasta giant Barilla and the chocolate giant Ferrero, strikes right at the Italian aorta.
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This is high-energy dance-pop, but filtered through an armory of touchstones that are so recent as to barely be memories — the Technicolor, spasmodic, thrashing punk-rap of Brokencyde; the hyperdigital electro-pop-punk of 3OH!
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For Quebec-born Kater, the Canadian folk songs of her childhood and the Appalachian music she studied while attending college in West Virginia serve as touchstones; Polwart, meanwhile, draws from the musical heritage of her native Scotland.
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The people of this generation share cultural touchstones as well — beyond just watching the same movies and listening to the same music, their lives have been shaped by the same global phenomena, from terrorism to the financial crisis.
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"Sixteen: Drummers Suite," due out later this month, is an ambitious work obliquely inspired by six of his jazz-drumming touchstones — its movements bear titles like "Elvin" and "Philly Joe" — for the improvising chamber orchestra he leads here.
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Everyone remembers Belushi's bits—the guitar smashing, the whiskey chugging—and the final parade of destruction and a half-dozen other jokes that have become touchstones ("fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son").
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Bozulich's country touchstones had elements of romance, danger, and self-destruction: She drew on George Jones's sad, funny songs about his struggles with alcoholism, and Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger, the 1975 concept album about a murderous preacher.
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This could easily coalesce to form little more than a Myspace "Influences" section that's more style than substance, but scratch just a little below the surface and you'll find an honesty and darkness largely absent from their touchstones.
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It would be hard to call those books cultural touchstones; they were girded in the tensile strength paneling of Franzen's moral instruction, and they did O.K. critically but not great, and certainly they didn't sell too many copies.
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By "modern days" he appears to mean since the 22009s and '220s, a period he calls "the heyday of North American category horror" (while citing, among other touchstones, a couple of novels written in the '240s and '123s).
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I would never have known about cakes like the "Maypole" or "Rocking Horse" — nor would I have known they were such cultural touchstones — if not for our attempt to throw open the doors, and invite in readers' stories.
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Not so with this more coherent bill, in which the Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu leads an evening that includes two touchstones by Sibelius, as well as the American premiere of a new work by the Icelandic Ms. Thorvaldsdottir.
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Mr. Antonoff borrows liberally from his touchstones, dipping into different decades — from the Zombies to Electric Light Orchestra to Fine Young Cannibals — for a collage of parts that sound, by design, straight out of a John Hughes film.
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Among his touchstones are the estates that Cecil Beaton occupied: The photographer once wrote that the lilac brick of Ashcombe House 21956 miles outside Salisbury, which he rented from 1930 to 1945, "almost numbed" him at first sight.
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" Richard Peña, who as director of the New York Film Festival helped introduce "Gleaners" to an American audience, praised that film and Ms. Varda's "The Beaches of Agnès" (2008) as "touchstones for a new generation of nonfiction filmmakers.
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Adhering to Netflix's spoiler-free demands, suffice it to say the threat adds to the already formidable list of pop-culture touchstones, from the innumerable movie and TV asides to the '80s pastime of hanging out at the mall.
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Weber died of Spanish flu in 1920, but "Politics as a Vocation", and the newspaper articles he wrote at the same time, remained touchstones for German debates on democracy and constitutional law for the rest of the 20th century.
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Similar to the awesome introductory vignettes of Halloween, each character meet and greet is laced with heartwarming touchstones that will leave you rooting for our heroes to make it to the end; then it's back to the zombie slaying.
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That's not bad for programs that provide educational TV for children, funds radio stations in rural areas, and have produced touchstones of American culture like the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple and Ken Burns' The Civil War.
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"In this class of Honorees, we are witnessing a uniquely American story: one that is representative of so many cultural touchstones and musical moments that make our nation great," said Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter in a statement.
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Her works, including paper etchings that resembled hanging skin, jars full of mysterious fluids and sculptures of bloody organs and crouched, defecating women, became touchstones for a generation that had survived the horrors and humiliation of AIDS and Reagan.
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The question was whether some of Bartok's celebrated touchstones — the Concerto for Orchestra, the "Miraculous Mandarin" suite and a concert performance of the one-act opera "Bluebeard's Castle" — would stand noticeably apart from the comparative rarities on each bill.
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Those are all people that have been very important in my career, and, in a weird way, having them around me in the film made this even more personal for me and gave me personal touchstones within the movie.
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Departed landmarks like CBGB or the Mudd Club are not so much addresses in downtown Manhattan as they are touchstones in the collective consciousness, occasionally reminding us of what was and of how much has changed — not least, ourselves.
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Famously hostile to unions and other liberal touchstones, Walmart offers store associates who work for hourly wages six to eight weeks of paid maternity leave; at a particular e-fulfillment center in Bethlehem, Pa., mothers can receive 10 weeks.
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Any of us has stuff lingering on our playlist or DVD shelf that are there only because they happened to connect at the right time and place, for whatever reason; Willoughby brings those touchstones with him wherever he goes.
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The case is one of several cultural touchstones the Supreme Court will take up this year -- including cases on employment discrimination against LGBT Americans, gun rights, and Trump's elimination of protections undocumented immigrants brought into the United States as children.
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But Jonah and Lisa were touchstones for everyone; obviously it's a very complex show, and while there were those of us who knew where our arc was heading, we didn't know the full arc of where each others' storylines was heading.
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Pnini's films may be about the passage of time, but their uncomplicated brevity harkens back to the actuality films of early cinema rather than to the more ponderous touchstones of the durational avant-garde such as Warhol, Brakhage, and Tarkovsky.
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Those cultural touchstones fed into a sense among young people "of being something else, larger than life, someone who could best any foe," said Nelson George, a longtime music journalist and filmmaker who served as supervising producer and a writer.
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Lest you think Abrams was hailed only as an American hero here, he was also the introduction point for the episode's titular "member berries" — a new superfruit that reminds anyone who eats them of all those special little childhood touchstones.
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And while the show was clearly taking aim at the overblown melodrama of Dawson's Creek and the relaunched Degrassi: The Next Generation, Clone High's use of era-appropriate touchstones gave it an air of authenticity that few of its contemporaries had.
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As we embrace and encourage diversity onscreen and off, celebrate nostalgic cultural touchstones, and scrutinize everyone's public and private lives, Keanu is suddenly directly at the center of the Venn diagram of what makes a truly likable celebrity in 2019.
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The group — which also includes bassist Jeff Tobias, the keyboardist Sam Morrison, the violist Karen Waltuch and the drummer Max Jaffe — cites "Minimalism, Krautrock of the '70s, and post-rock of the '90s" as touchstones, but with a "less bombastic" touch.
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Without ever undermining his seriousness of purpose, Rutherford himself alludes to an earlier episode of "South Park," along with the early '80s TV show "Fame," the comedian Eddie Izzard and a B-side by Tupac, among various other pop-culture touchstones.
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Certain Nakazawa preparations — the scallop with a tiny, fiery dab of yuzukosho; the live spot prawns whose heads are fried and served as a chaser after their tails have appeared in the form of nigiri — have become touchstones for sushi freaks.
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Despite her window dressing, Ms. Chiuri has never really tried to expand her concept of what female empowerment in fashion could be by forcing Dior beyond its own borders; despite her literary touchstones, she has never tried to rewrite the terms.
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In FACE IT (Dey Street, $199043), we see Debbie Harry — who collaborated with Sylvie Simmons on this book — slowly coming alive in New York's Lower East Side in the 199033s, amid a world where CBGB's and Andy Warhol are major touchstones.
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It might as well be a plea to viewers to acknowledge that, while the show might be most meaningful to those with an existing love for its genre tropes and cultural touchstones, it doesn't need to be limited to a specific audience.
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These internal conversations, made public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), add further context to internal deliberations of the Trump transition team ahead of moments that have become touchstones of the ongoing Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into Russia's 2016 election interference.
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From the very start, the series rejected contemporary culture in favor of references to Baby Boomer-era touchstones like The Flintstones and the Beach Boys and Rocky and Bullwinkle — which were already relics of another time long before Full House came around.
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The work examines heritage on several levels, as the photographer confronts the radical change in the region following the 2011 tsunami, discusses the efforts at rebuilding, and looks at how the past and present connect through cultural touchstones that still carry on. —K.
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"In a confusing time for the stock market, it's important for you to have some touchstones you can fall back on," he said, pointing to charts from technician Carolyn Boroden that look at Facebook, Apple and Tesla as some high-profile examples.
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It's not like every movie was good then — this is the same decade that gave us sequels like Cannonball Run II and Staying Alive — but what you will find is summer after summer of films that, good or bad, largely remain cultural touchstones.
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While I agree that we've become "complacent," I'd also argue that coming generations will have a fuller quiver of cultural touchstones than we ever imagined, even if Ed Sheeran keeps playing on every radio, in every supermarket, and through every elevator speaker.
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He ended up writing and directing "Vice," a film that uses real-life imagery, witty cinematic asides and cultural touchstones to explore the irreparable damage Cheney did to the planet, and how his blunders and plunders led to many of our current crises.
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But through the four episodes previewed the basic premise and tone holds together reasonably well, while dropping in touches like Josie and the Pussycats (an all-girl band at Riverdale High) that provide frequent Archie touchstones, even as the material drifts away from those origins.
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" He has invoked the deadly protests two years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Trump's assertion that there were "very fine people" alongside the white supremacists and neo-Nazis, just as Clinton cast the Republican nominee as a fundamental threat to touchstones like "bigheartedness" and "tolerance.
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She warned against college campus BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) movements and "the growing effort to delegitimize Israel," and name-checked historic figures and recent incidents, such as a recent killing near Tel Aviv, that are touchstones of the right-leaning, pro-Israel conversation.
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Disney Plus has reached 28.6 million subscribers in just three months — roughly one-third of the company's 2024 target — thanks in part to Disney's marketing machine, which started three months ahead of launch and used its TV networks, theme parks, stores, and other touchstones.
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"In a confusing time for the stock market, it's important for you to have some touchstones you can fall back on," the "Mad Money " host said, pointing to charts from technician Carolyn Boroden that look at Facebook, Apple and Tesla as some high-profile examples.
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You also say that it's "a love letter to the bootleg days, the Hollertronix days, the Radio Soulwax days, the DJ Spinbad days" are those kind of names real touchstones for you as a DJ when it comes to thinking about approach and technique?
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Wood Rocket, the company behind such recent cultural touchstones as Game of Bones 2: Winter Came Everywhere and that horrifying LEGO Movie porno, released the SFW trailer for their upcoming XXX Aladdin on Thursday, and it is... well, it's a lot, even for Wood Rocket.
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In two minutes and 13 seconds, he managed to birth a riot of rock 'n' roll touchstones, including the honking guitar cadenza at the start, the vamping vocal cadence in the verses, and a final wild solo every axman in Berry's wake has nicked.
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Homegrown brands like Kappa and Fila, with which he collaborated for his Pitti Uomo outing, may be cultural touchstones for millions of male Italians (and, equally, United States hip-hop fans of the 1980s) and anathema to rappers who insist on fetishizing French designer labels.
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She dyes her hair, buys a flannel wardrobe, and bones up on such cultural touchstones as Katniss Everdeen and One Direction and on lingo like IRL, sorry/not sorry, truffle butter, and spit-roasting (which prove not to be the culinary terms they seem).
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He and his colleagues are hoping to examine those issues in future studies and also zero in on the best types and amounts of exercise to help us maintain our memories of that genial Beatles drummer and all the other touchstones of our pasts.
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What is clear is that Chip and Joanna have officially made the transition from reality TV personalities to cultural touchstones, and they've built a successful template for the future that can be replicated in any number of economically sluggish small towns across the country.
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On the stage of Black Panther, T'Challa was given the opportunity not only to lead one of the best superhero movies of the decade but also to lead a movie that almost effortlessly weaved in Marvel heroics, black cultural touchstones, and commentary on colonialism.
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Though she has pared down her DVD collection mostly to the ones she uses, she still hangs on to her DVD sets of Friends and Sex in the City — objects that have been made mostly redundant by streaming but are touchstones of sorts for her.
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Other issues, including recent campaign touchstones such as support for Medicare for All, free tuition for public four-year colleges and restoration of felon voting rights are must-haves for less than half of caucusgoers, regardless of whether they plan to participate virtually or in person.
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The diaries, which Liveright Publishing plans to release in the United States in 2021 as a single book, offer a glimpse into the life of a literary figure whose sharply observed psychological thrillers, including "Strangers on a Train" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley," became cultural touchstones.
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Other than The Smiths, Let Me Get What I Want pulls inspiration from a multitude of 80s and 90s touchstones: the aforementioned David Lynch's Twin Peaks, but also Brett Easton Ellis, Bruce La Bruce, Sofia Coppola's Lick the Star, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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During booming eras like the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, Black creatives often gathered in apartments, church basements, public libraries, and touchstones like the Harlem YMCA or the mansion home of A'Lelia Walker (daughter of Madam C.J. Walker, one of the first Black millionaires).
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JIMMIE DURHAM: AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD Art can be activist, and vice versa: Jimmie Durham's involvement in the American Indian Movement, downtown New York in the 1980s and identity politics in the 1990s serve as touchstones for an exhibition of more than 200 objects. Jan.
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The quickened pace of change of technology has increased the pace of change for the platforms on which we interface with culture; it is doubtless that our touchstones are fading in and out of vogue faster than they once did, just as our attention spans have decreased.
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Judging by footage of a performance at the Jazz Gallery, it's a bold experiment in song form: By pairing Ms. Halvorson's oblique harmonic sensibility with her own original lyrics, it suggests a kinship with a few of her non-jazz touchstones, like Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine.
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His staging with Maria Callas of Verdi's "La Traviata" in Dallas in 1958 and Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" at Covent Garden in London in 1964 "remain touchstones for opera aficionados and Callas cultists," Brooks Peters wrote in a profile of Mr. Zeffirelli in Opera News in 2002.
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Across three albums, King, a native of Greenville, S.C., and son of the blues and gospel artist Marvin King, channels the musical spirit of generations past, with touchstones for his jammy blend of blues, soul and R&B including the Allman Brothers, Otis Redding and James Brown.
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Owing a debt to several culturally significant horror touchstones, most notably "The Stepford Wives," the film niftily probes how African Americans are treated by well-meaning whites, before the slightly awkward exchanges and tone-deaf references give way to something considerably creepier lurking beneath the neatly manicured surface.
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They serve as cultural touchstones that model for audiences the kind of parenting these kids need (or, in some instances, the kind of parenting they don't), becoming a kind of 21st century version of the "very special episode" model that once introduced TV audiences to so-called taboo subjects.
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If the example set by the EPA at Pebble Mine is to continue, it's not just our country's perfect record in NAFTA investment disputes that may end — we will raise serious questions about our country's adherence to that rule of law, one of our nation's most important touchstones.
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Smalls himself refers to the collection of recipes, collected from his Lowcountry upbringing to his adopted home of Harlem in New York, as a "playlist" — a culinary soundtrack to a rich life, broken down into chapters, each under the heading of one of seven touchstones of African American music.
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Mr. Thielemann said that he had recommended Puccini's Madama Butterfly to her and thinks that her interpretations of the mature, subtle women of Strauss — the title character in "Ariadne auf Naxos," the Marschallin in "Der Rosenkavalier," the Countess in "Capriccio" — will be touchstones in the years to come.
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But looking at this, from the brief bit I played of it a year ago, that E3 2018 demo, it reminds me so much of something like Avatar [The Last Air Bender] or Legend of Korra it in terms of it's vibe and the cultural touchstones it's drawing on.
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In advance of The Rest of the Story, Refinery29 spoke to Dessen about young women, falling in love on the page, and what exactly is happening in the widening world of YA. Refinery29: Your books are not directly rooted in time or place and are relatively free of cultural touchstones.
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As of late, Kim has made a major return to her usual sartorial touchstones, stepping out in lacy bike shorts, latex everything, tops that are actually just bras, and a whole lot of "sheer nipple vibes" everywhere you look, which is what makes her latest ensemble actually a little surprising.
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Nothing can catch me off guard even if I've heard a given song before—and when one that I haven't manages to sound familiar, it's usually because it evokes childhood touchstones like Shudder To Think or The Swirlies—oddballs and noise-poppers who never got their due the first time around.
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CASALPUSTERLENGO, Italy — Europe confronted its first major outbreak of the coronavirus as an eruption of more than 278 cases in Italy prompted officials on Sunday to lock down at least 277 towns, close schools in major cities and cancel sporting events and cultural touchstones, including the end of the Venice carnival.
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It helped that lesbians were at the helm — Ilene Chaiken, the show's creator, along with writers like Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche, who made "Go Fish," a low-budget, grungy movie about queer women in Chicago in the 1990s — and they satisfyingly captured cultural touchstones of lesbian life at the time.
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The account regularly documents different touchstones of Torontonian life, like the miserable daily goings on of our 'Transit of the Year'-winning public transit service; local artists repetitively flexing in condos and parking lots; and the slow takeover of Canadian geese and their impending civil war with the racoons for the streets.
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There are many relevant touchstones for this kind of work: Luigi Russolo's 1913 manifesto, "The Art of Noises," and his concerts with noise-making devices (and speakers); La Monte Young's immersive installations; Glenn Branca's symphony for 100 guitars or Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army; and all the varieties of heavy-death-black-metal music.
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In the postwar years Mr. Daguin vociferously promoted Gascon food and wine all over France, and the Hôtel de France menu still reflects the touchstones of the cuisine: roasted magret, duck confit with Tarbais beans, a salad topped with cured duck breast slices and confited duck gizzards, a terrine of foie gras.
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His cultural touchstones, in TV (sad episodes of "The Simpsons" like "Lisa's Substitute," the "NewsRadio" episode that addresses its cast member Phil Hartman's death) and literature (Jonathan Safran Foer's "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease," Katherine Heiny's "How to Give the Wrong Impression"), use humor and tragedy to buoy each other.
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It seems like casual political trivia now, the stuff of Vanity Fair profiles, but at the time it blew my mind that there was a guy wearing a congressional lapel pin who knew about guys who wear safety-pin earrings, and who shared some of the same musical and cultural touchstones that defined my adolescence.
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Those touchstones that provided solace to McCain throughout his life are threaded through the religious services that begin today at North Phoenix Baptist Church, and continue at the Washington National Cathedral Saturday, culminating with a private ceremony at the US Naval Academy where he will be buried Sunday in a plot overlooking the Severn River.
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When I think back to growing up in 1990s Los Angeles, a handful of impressions remain sharper than others—the killing of Latasha Harlins, the '92 rebellion (what the media referred to as "riots"), the '94 earthquake, the O. J. Simpson trial—but often, when I reach back, it's the cultural touchstones I land on first.
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Williams' access into Suskind's life makes the film intimate and approachable, but there's a larger story here — about how we relate to the world through art, about how everyone sees different things in familiar cultural touchstones, and how the simplest things can become lifelines when they speak to one person in a specific and much-needed way.
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The company has built a market leveraging popular cultural touchstones like The Walking Dead — and it's the same intertwining of science fiction, fantasy, and comics culture (hello, fellow nerds) with the cultural juggernaut of Hollywood that has created billions of dollars in value for companies — and is ostensibly the market Wonder wants to mine for its own future growth.
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But the music didn't sound as if it had been directly copied from these groups; instead, Ratking had cut its own path through a similar array of New York-specific experiences and touchstones—turnstile-jumping, uptown house parties, noodle houses and bagel shops, punk and rap music, intergenerational fraternization at skate parks, malt liquor and weed.
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Mr. Shults, who also wrote the streamlined script, lets the story emerge through such seemingly minor incidents, as well as through conversational snippets, private rituals and the sort of choreography of chaos that — as bodies and cameras pirouette — suggests he has put in time with some touchstones of Eastern European art cinema (Emir Kusturica, Alexei German).
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In FOOTSTEPS: From Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, Literary Pilgrimages Around the World (Three Rivers, paper, $22015), Monica Drake, the New York Times travel editor, brings together several dozen stories by journalists who went spelunking for the geographic touchstones of their literary heroes, from William Butler Yeats to James Baldwin, Edith Wharton to Pablo Neruda.
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As Marvel films go, Black Panther is rife with franchise touchstones: thrilling action scenes—the most daring of which begins in an underground South Korean casino and rockets into a car chase through the frenzied streets of Busan—are undercut with moments of human spirit and levity (Letitia Wright's Shuri and Winton Duke's M'Baku offer up well-timed blushes of humor).
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Although most Americans still look toward Harry Potter and Downton Abbey as the cultural touchstones of the United Kingdom, rap music has allowed the rest of the world to understand there's more to the Great Land of Opportunity than parking lots, questionable health-care policy and fat old men yeehaw-ing their way to a monster truck derby or a discount clothing superstore.
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The discontinuity between the movie and its source material means that classic Carroll inventions like Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas), the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor) and the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) are trotted out as members of Alice's posse, but except for some signature visual quirks and well-cast voices, they are less characters than decorative nostalgic touchstones.
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Once the plot kicks in, it's easier to ignore how indebted the series is to its main trio of influences (Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, and Stephen King), but in the long setup period, the game of "spot the pop culture touchstone" feels enervating far more often than it does inspiring, simply because these pop culture touchstones aren't particularly hard to spot.
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Because of our shallow social roots, our neighborhood and building became touchstones: the couple down the hall with the tiny puffball, a mere suggestion of a dog; the engineering staff who promptly and professionally fixed the smoke detector, the oven, a door hinge, and sundry others; the guy on the same gym schedule as me, whom I jokingly "raced" on an adjacent treadmill.
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Many of the memorable touchstones of the early Bush years might be defined as emo, which began as a musical style in the mid-80s born from the hardcore punk scene in Washington, D.C., and reached its commercial peak in the early 2000s, coming to redefine all aspects of (white) late capitalism through a lens of narcissism, privilege, misogyny and self-pity.
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Along the way, "The Movie Musical!" includes many cinematic touchstones: Paul Robeson belting out "Ol' Man River" in the 1936 version of "Show Boat"; Elvis's swivel-hipped title number in "Jailhouse Rock" (1957); Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow," the most popular theme song ever, in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939); and Gene Kelly's iconic "puddle splash" in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952).
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Since its first season, Netflix's spooky series has taken a healthy dose of John Carpenter-style horror (channeling the atmospheric, synth-scored vibes of films like The Thing, The Fog and Starman), added a hearty dollop of Spielbergian, suburban kid adventure (notably E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Poltergeist and The Goonies) and blended it all with the era's key pop cultural touchstones in gaming, music and fashion.
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Jeff Sessions's confirmation to the role of attorney general.) And his campaign in the general election, with help from former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, relied on culture war touchstones, as I wrote in December 2017: Roy Moore ran an entirely Trumpian campaign: a stylistic embrace of a brash, bombastic sentiment, an opposition to "political correctness" (and frequently, basic decency), and fully supportive of nationalistic populism.
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"I think we'd now look far more negatively on something that aped such obvious sources throughout the game, in the way that Flashback did," comments Karl Moon of the Cane and Rinse video game podcast—who just recently ran a fantastic Flashback episode (I already had this piece planned, so that was a nice coincidence)—when I ask him about all of the game's sci-fi touchstones.
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And sure, there's nothing wrong with drawing such aesthetic influence from someone––I, for one, wish more rappers would try to sound like Z-Ro, and will never be mad at a band for ripping off Modern Life Is War––but if an artist's frames of reference never go beyond surface-level touchstones it's hard to imagine them achieving any sort of innovation or depth.
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"Freedom of thought and speech on the American campus are under attack," Sessions said at Georgetown in September, in a speech that referred to several incidents that have become touchstones for free speech advocates — including the the controversy that erupted at Berkeley when right-wing columnist Ben Shapiro spoke, and the shouting down of The Bell Curve author Charles Murray at Middlebury College last spring.
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But if you're not a teen in 2018, you may recognize that while Superorganism do sound like no one else new right now, they also have some clear touchstones: the slow drawl of Stephen Malkmus; the who-gives-a-shit attitude of "Drinking In LA"; Beck when he still smoked weed but before he wore wide-brimmed hats; MGMT with the acid but also an iPhone.
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Filled with futuristic arcana and art world in-jokes (including one aimed at the editor-in-chief of this publication), it takes the form of a survey tracing a quarter-century of contemporary art history, using Powhida's benighted career arc and the rise of Grevsky™ — the corporate art-generating entity he co-founded with the collector Seth Stolbun in 2016 — as its touchstones.
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Throughout his career — he founded his first fashion label, Mary's Jungle, when he was 19693 — he's built collections referencing themes that together read like a checklist of certain generational touchstones: the beginning of the Iraq War (which inspired a T-shirt line, printed with slogans like "We won't fight another rich man's war"), the 2008 financial crisis and its effect on American politics (Pyer Moss's Bernie vs.
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Though it's the shortest-lived of Schur's sitcom touchstones, The Good Place managed in its four seasons to leave an incredible impression; what started as a silly series about how existence might look after death turned into a rapturously smart meditation on life, love, and what it means to be human — all the while believing in good and somehow pushing us to cautiously do the same. -P.
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The most famous of these moments have become important enough touchstones for online progressives that they're now memes, like BBQ Becky (who called the cops on people having a barbecue in a park), Permit Patty (who threatened to call the police on an 8-year-old selling water bottles), and Cornerstore Caroline (who called the police to accuse a 9-year-old child of sexual assault after he accidentally brushed against her).
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"An assurance from a United States refugee resettlement agency, in fact, meets each of the Supreme Court's touchstones: it is formal, it is a documented contract, it is binding, it triggers responsibilities and obligations, including compensation, it is issued specific to an individual refugee only when that refugee has been approved for entry by the Department of Homeland Security, and it is issued in the ordinary course, and historically has been for decades," Watson explained.
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The movie features his trademark sharp shifts in tone, but also melds Western imagery (a scene in the Mirando boardroom apes the image of the White House war room during the bin Laden raid), music (John Denver's "Annie's Song" features prominently), and cultural touchstones (the code names used by the ALF are reminiscent of Reservoir Dogs, especially with the sharing of true names between Mija and K and the matter of misplaced trust) with specifically Korean details.
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In the less visually alluring but more contextually illuminating "Jheronimus Bosch: The Road to Heaven and Hell," the art historian and author Gary Schwartz explores Bosch's links to the institutions of his hometown — including a particularly fascinating look at the secret society the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Dear Lady, in which Bosch was a sworn brother, cleric and possible exorcist — and to the larger religious, literary, institutional and artistic touchstones that charged his wildly creative imagination.
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Consider the narratives that are touchstones for this part of the discussion — the New Yorker bad-sex short story "Cat Person" and the controversial first-person account of being not-raped by Aziz Ansari (jointly described by one Twitter jester as an "ethnography of the degree to which millennial sex is a joyless mimetic spamming of half-remembered porn tropes"), as well as more sociological accounts of the ubiquity of female sexual unhappiness and pain (especially from that porn standby, anal sex).
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I'm sure different people would have different touchstones in terms of what has brought on this recent spate of nonfiction books related to race and gender, but the books that I think of as the ones that showed how personal writing by minorities can be big successes are Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me. Among trans memoirs, Janet Mock's Redefining Realness came out in February 2014 and it definitely influenced my own decision to write on trans issues.
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Except for the announcement on My Ogre Book's title page that the book has been printed "Under the Banner of the Arquebus of Silence / Ostend," there's not even a hint that the poet is Belgian—a curious omission in retrospect, since by the mid-1960s Broodthaers the artist was making a series of works using the colors of the Belgian flag; his mussel-shell pieces, too, accompanied at times by representations of frites, are playful meditations on Belgian identity and its cultural touchstones, not to say clichés.
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