Sentences with phrase «as celebrity power»

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«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

, and (3) How does their rise to both celebrity and corporate power alter what we understand as the American dream?

Michael Wolff's wickedly funny chronicle of his rags - to - riches - to - rags adventure as a fledgling Internet entrepreneur exposes an industry powered by hype, celebrity, and billions of investment dollars — and notably devoid of profit - making enterprises.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

Bono refers to his celebrity status as «silly» and «ridiculous,» yet he's learned that «it is a kind of currency» that has given him access to the world's power brokers.

My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy, Watch the Throne and Yeezus represented a hard thematic turn: They deal with the opulence of celebrity culture and the intoxicating power of wealth and fame — as well as, ultimately, all of the inner darkness they can bring forth.

And I am concerned that the Church is indeed conforming to the world — every time it preaches violence as a way to achieve justice, every time it glorifies celebrity and success, every time it reduces womanhood to subordination and manhood to power, every time it justifies cruelty or unkindness in the name of proving a point.

It's a drama of betrayed friendships and high - stakes power struggles, as the founders went from everyday engineers to wealthy celebrities featured on magazine covers, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show, and Time's list of the world's most influential people.

«Donald Trump's remarks were not only vulgar, they reveal that Trump used his power as a celebrity to sexually exploit women,» she said.

They cater to very high profile clients, such as Hollywood celebrities, high - powered CEOs, and so on.

Australia's top 50 richest entertainers and their gross income for 2004, as estimated by BRW magazine: - Sydney Morning Herald Online The Richest Celebrity Couples Right Now See if your favorite celebrity power couple made the list.

Bruce Jenner is now known as Caitlyn Jenner, she is an American TV personality, television personality, television producer, talent manager, businessperson The Richest Celebrity Couples Right Now See if your favorite celebrity power couple made the list.

Toby Kebbell (Rocknrolla) has joined the cast of Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice as Drake Stone, a celebrity illusionist, not unlike Chriss Angel, who joins forces with an evil sorcerer named Horvath (Alfred Molina), to «gain ultimate powers.»

Employing admirable restraint while focusing on the crack team of Boston reporters who exposed the pedophilic crimes being committed by members of the clergy, this riveting film ends up being about the awful abuse of power as much as about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit.

A movie that ends up being about the awful abuse of power as much as about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit, Spotlight is especially admirable in its restraint, not only in its approach to unsettling material but also in the relatively muted acting by all concerned.

The power of celebrity in on full display as DiCaprio scores interviews with such luminaries as UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon, President Obama, Elon Musk, John Kerry, and even Pope Francis.

Platform peddlers point to Lawson's best selling book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened (Putnam) as an example of the power of a platform, but it's really an example of celebrity influence.

Ranked by T+L readers as the No. 1 island in Africa and the Middle East and praised for its sheer beauty, it's no wonder celebrities (including honeymooning power - couple Kate Middleton and Prince William) flock to this heavenly archipelago.

Cynically we might say that it's because the museums have turned artists into celebrities and profit from their marketing, but I still believe that it's the unique power of those paintings, the color, the vision of the artist worked out in the physical material of the painting that fills a spiritual hunger that's as real, and as important as the body's need for food.

Rigidly comparing and contrasting works drawn from the broad period of the 1950s through to the 1990s, the show explores such shared themes as social and political power; the acceptance of cultural differences; mortality; and the tumultuous realities of celebrity.

Kruger continues to question and advertise various issues of power, control and affection — in 2016, she used the nude image of the American ultra-popular celebrity Kim Kardashian as a background for her insightful new slogan — It's all about me — I mean you — I mean me, which was published as the cover for W Magazine.

New York - based artist Thomas often depicts African American women presented as celebrities, and frequently explores notions of femininity and power in her works.

Brosnan, who has attended the event before, introduced the honoree by characterizing him as the contemporary artist who «unites the power of art and celebrity.»

Now the museum is getting bolder, with a series of installations by painter Alex Israel, whose pop - inspired canvases and objects touch on topics such as celebrity, glamour and power.

In the exhibition Bootleg Baby, content - rich icons such as Moors, Black Power figures, consumer logos, blackface children, cheap signage, graffiti, and celebrities are layered one upon another in paintings that are stacked and hinged on the walls as charms.

Born 1982, Auckland, New Zealand Education 2009 Meisterschule, Städelschule HFBK, Frankfurt am Main 2005 BFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland Solo exhibitions 2018 «Games of Decentralized Life» Galerie Buchholz, Cologne 2018 «The Founder's Paradox», MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland 2017 «The Founder's Paradox», Michael Lett, Auckland 2017 «The Founder's Paradox», Michael Lett, Auckland 2017 «Shenzhen Entrepreneurial Form», Fine Arts, Sydney 2017 «FaaS — Feedback as a Service: Reflecting on messaging, debate and criticality inside a parliamentary discussion on internet governance», Bozar, Brussels 2017 «Simon Denny: Real Mass Entrepreneurship», C2 Space, OCT - LOFT, OCAT Shenzhen 2017 «Hammer Projects: Simon Denny», Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2016 «Secret Power», Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington 2016 «Blockchain Future States», Petzel Gallery, New York 2016 «Business Insider», WIELS, Brussels 2015 «Products for Organising», Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London 2015 «Secret Power», New Zealand Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale 2015 «The Innovator's Dilemma», MoMA PS1, New York 2014 «The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom», Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington 2014 «New Management», Portikus, Frankfurt am Main 2014 «The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom», Firstsite, Colchester 2014 «TEDxVaduz redux», T293, Rome 2014 «Disruptive Berlin», Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2013 «The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom», mumok, Wien 2013 «All You Need is Data — The DLD 2012 Conference REDUX rerun», Petzel Gallery, New York 2013 «All You Need is Data — The DLD 2012 Conference REDUX», Kunstverein München 2012 «Full Participation», Aspen Art Museum, Aspen 2012 «Envisaging Vocational Rehabilitation» (with Joanna Fadyl), Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster 2011 «Corporate Video Decisions», Friedrich Petzel Gallery 2011 «Corporate Video Decisions», Michael Lett, Auckland 2011 «Cruise Line», NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen 2011 «Chronic Expectation: CFS / ME Documentary Restoration», T293, Rome 2011 «7 Unreachable Elevators», IMO, Copenhagen 2010 «Negative Headroom: the broadcast signal intrusion incident», Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis 2010 «Negative Headroom: the broadcast signal intrusion incident», Halle Für Kunst, Lüneburg 2010 «Remote Tutorial: hate poems for travelers», Landings Project Space, Vestfossen 2010 «Introductory logic tutorial video», Artspace, Sydney 2009 «Celebrities» houses at night: a projection», Standard Oslo, Oslo 2009 «Starting from behind», Michael Lett, Auckland 2009 «Deep Sea Vaudeo», Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne 2009 «Watching Videos Dry», T293, Naples 2009 «7 Drunken Videos `, Luettgenmeijer, Berlin 2008 «Aquarium Paintings (with Nick Austin)», Center, Berlin 2008 «Ruined by Sheer Confidence», Caribic Residency, Frankfurt am Main 2008 «Alexandra Bircken / Simon Denny», Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal 2008 «Recent Haircuts», Uplands Gallery, Melbourne 2008 «Recent Haircuts», Gambia Castle, Auckland 2007 «Compression Club», Michael Lett, Auckland 2007 «Monthly Cowards», Gambia Castle, Auckland 2007 «Paltry Motion», Dunedin Pubic Art Gallery, Dunedin 2006 «Old Entertainment System», Window, Auckland 2006 «Scape», Art & Industry Biennial, Christchurch 2006 «Old Things», Michael Lett, Auckland 2005» Arranging Sympathies», Volume Series, The Physics Room, Christchurch

That's why, perhaps, nowadays Octavio still prefers to pedal, making him quite possibly the oldest cyclist on the planet.Octavio's story of pedal - powered longevity has made him a celebrity of sorts in his hometown; The Los Angeles Times profiled him last week on the eve of his 103rd birthday on Monday, and the city says he's a great role - model of healthy living and biking, touting him as the «oldest cyclist in the world.»

US defamation law allows private persons to prove and recover actual damages using a negligence standard (rather than the more stringent actual malice standard) 172 on the basis that private persons are more vulnerable to injury than public figures and their reputations are more deserving of protection.173 That recognition is consistent with the argument advanced herein, namely that there is something qualitatively different about individuals who possess reputation as celebrity: their discursive power to yoke the media to their reputation - constructing ends.174 Discursive power is the ability not just to erect a website putting his or her version of the story online (which virtually anyone can now do), but also the ability to cause mass media outlets to devote attention to his or her side of the story.

Few of us have the celebrity power, but as attorneys, we have a platform to stick up for what's right.

Hundreds of sister marches were held across the country and around the world as students, teachers, parents, survivors of school shootings and celebrities took their defiant message against gun violence and the gun lobby to the seats of power.