Hints and tips:
...Okorafor and Tade Thompson in bringing a refreshing Afrocentric perspective to genre tropes....
...in 1972, Linda Nochlin warns against “digging up worthy or insufficiently appreciated women”....
...But it was also when we rejected the suburban trappings and tropes of the ’70s and wanted to feel modern. The aesthetic we gravitated towards is now omnipresent, as it was intended to be by design....
...Competing for our attention today there’s the informational fog of war, some antisemitic tropes, “terminal monkeys” and a seemingly ever-growing cast of oddly named children....
...After such an upbringing, Leigh and her sister, Helena, naturally fled. Helena went to New York before settling in Jakarta and working in financial law....
...As we meet them, Helena Wilson’s Mülhahn is a sparky, headstrong young woman who chafes at the expectations of her....
...Every detail carries satirical and emotional weight, and Hogarth’s genius is to tie modern populist imagery to painterly brilliance and high-art tropes....
...own interest in this genre began with a photo of Paul and Linda McCartney shot in the early ’70s....
...Series such as The Division, Metro and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. use the post-apocalypse as a useful foundation to embed traditional game mechanics....
...Apparently the action takes place “thousands of years before the events of the novel”, so it’s hardly a straight adaptation, but it’s set in Middle-earth and draws on the same tropes beloved by nerdy teens...
...Shaffer writes with a keen eye for the tropes of the genre but also a sharply ironic sense of humour, as one might expect from an author who has penned a mystery series featuring Barack Obama and Joe Biden...
...The thesis is not new: the motherlessness of John Lennon and Paul McCartney is a pop-psych trope of some vintage. Nor is it scientific: greats with benign childhoods just catch the eye less....
...K&L Gates has hired Steven Olenick as a corporate partner in the New York office. He joins the from Loeb & Loeb....
...Maybe, Cho suggests, they find solidarity spouting choruses of extremist tropes against women online, watching pornography and going to brothels....
...Created by the French designer Pierre Yovanovitch, Le Coucou injects a quirky, modern twist into the classic Alpine design tropes....
...“I think she worked much harder in terms of producing a self that was really complex in writing than those sexy photographs ever could,” says Linda Stupart, whose involvement in the project includes premiering...
...If you can name one woman investor who is not UK superstar Helena Morrissey, I’ll give you a share of Berkshire Hathaway. (That’s worth nearly $300,000 for you non-Buffett followers)....
...The professionally accomplished but personally tragic woman has become one of our most enduring cultural tropes....
...Misery here, and in a nuanced interpretation of Toulouse-Lautrec, is gendered; women are blamed, while old men become the late 19th century’s tropes of vulnerability....
...This is a trope that has been reiterated by numerous other apologists. Being caught becomes “a voyage of self-discovery”, as if lunging at a colleague is the first step on the path to enlightenment....
...One of the most prevalent tropes in horror movies has been the possession of media by ghosts of malevolent spirits....
...Sir, Linda Colley’s article “Brexiters are nostalgics in search of a lost empire” (April 23) gets off to a bad start by repeating a standard US academic trope that some in Britain still hanker after empire...
...He is a big science fiction fan and notes that replacing food is a common trope of the genre....
...He points me to the movie Blade Runner, with Philip K Dick’s vision of high-rises covered by motion graphics and an airship that floats moving advertisements through the skies....
...Both, happily, were the case at Edun, where a front row of legendary 1990s supermodels, including Christy Turlington Burns and Helena Christensen, had gathered alongside Chili Pepper frontman Anthony Kiedis...
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