Sentences with phrase «more cultural reference»

The display looks left over from Richard Prince, and one might praise him for piling on yet more cultural reference points.

Familiar objects and more cultural references appear here, and again they seem to hold personal meaning to Rogers that are likely far from our own associations with these objects.

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Though dated in its cultural references, Greenleaf presents a powerful description of true servant leadership; leadership focused on every person your enterprise touches - employees, customers, and society in general - asking, «Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?

We were trained to talk about the Greek and Hebrew, and to reference the cultural, historical, and grammatical contexts of whatever passage were were studying, thereby giving us more and better ammunition against those with whom we disagreed.

Besides the ways Whitehead's theory of symbolic reference supports feminist attempts to purge cultural symbols from their sexist and patriarchal connotations, it seems clear from the following passage that Whitehead would applaud feminist hopes of producing symbols more faithful to women's experience.

Today's urban dictionary takes the definition a bit further, slamming Becky as a girl who's more than just a flirt, but back in 1847, a satirical novel started the whole «Becky» cultural reference.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions aCultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions acultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Although Britain becomes ever more a cultural 51st state of the US, there are certain references in popular culture that remain specifically American: baseball, the yellow school bus, and that line in a Paul Simon song about «going to the candidates» debate».

But keep in mind that a very wide age gap — 10 years or more — can mean that you and your partner have different life perspectives, goals, and even cultural references — and all of these challenges can complicate a relationship over time.

3) Age difference can make some general chat and cultural references a bit more difficult.

And popular cultural references definitely helps ease into a more comfortable conversation.

A richer plot, life lessons and loving Chinese cultural references rendered by turns sweet, scary and charming, with yet more fantastical kung fu, make this an engaging winner.

In which case, his barrage of f - bombs and references to mothers named Martha feel a little too familiar, and just far enough behind the curve of what is being discussed in the cultural conversation that they don't land with the same merciless cruelty that made the previous film, well, if not better, then somehow more incisive.

With numerous pop - cultural references, movie references, one - liners, visual gags and spoofs that parodied Hollywood and fairytales: Far, Far Away (Hollywood), Burger Prince (Burger King), Farbucks (Starbucks), Versarchery (Versace), Olde Knavery (Old Navy), Saxon Fifth Avenue (Saks Fifth Avenue), Gap Queen (Gap Kids), Tower of London Records (Tower Records), Friar's Fat Boy (Big Boy), Baskin Robinhood (Baskin Robbins), Banana Kingdom (Banana Republic), Marilyn Monroe's infamous pose from The Seven Year Itch (1955)- when Fiona's dress blows up, Meet the Parents (2000), Ghostbusters (1984), Mission: Impossible (1996), Alien (1979), Flashdance (1983), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Spider - Man (2002), From Here To Eternity (1953), The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even more, such as Joan Rivers» red - carpet appearance, and the TV show Cops (parodied as KNIGHTS).

While subtlety wasn't expected, the never ending mugging at the camera, poorly scripted references to varied cultural phenomenon of that time (photography, burking, mob protection), and stream of celebrity cameos (Bill Bailey, Ronnie Corbett) gives the impression that Landis was more concerned in operating the cinematic equivalent of a «shock and awe» campaign, rather than making a solid piece of genre entertainment.

The rent - boy Lucky Leo is one caricature too far and Dave McSavage playing a bishop carries too much weight as a cultural reference to work alongside the more serious tones surrounding the role.

... teachers who learn about, honor, and leverage the cultural knowledge, experiences, and frames of reference of their students — and their students» communities — make learning more relevant and effective.

Culturally responsive teaching is a theoretical framework created by Geneva Gay that relies on «using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them.»

While some works in the volume are overtly political — Ai Weiwei's irreverent CCTV Spray (2012) guides readers in making a spray - can device that can block out surveillance cameras — others more subtly reference the complex nature of cultural exchange in a rapidly globalizing world.

The images are all precisely dated, and track in and out of the political and social changes of the time, referencing the war in Afghanistan, the rise and fall of New Labour, Section 28, ASBOS, as well as more oblique, personal, cultural and seasonal markers.

«I liked them, but they seemed like they would be more interesting if someone else made them, someone who could better exploit their historical and cultural references,» he's said.

Drawing on Japan's political, cultural and social history, Takashi Murakami cultivates a world apart, both dark and fabulous, which combines Kawaii aesthetics with references to his country's traumas, such as the atomic bomb or, more recently, the tsunami.

By summoning a range of artistic, cultural and historical references, his art resonates even more today.

But it is puzzling, too — there is little thematic cohesion, and while it is easy to seize on Colen's artistic and cultural references, the substance of his own ideas is more slippery.

If such perception - events are more about ideas and concepts — our own, or those we glean through interactions with different communities or society at large — to what extent would notions such as popular visual tropes, specific cultural references, or language itself tend to be associated with physical sensations?

Absent the Postwar malaise, Existentialist angst, and Surrealist bent that shaped the cultural context of Action Painting for the New York School, the uniquely American reference of landscape in Abstract Expressionism is perhaps more visible on the West Coast, especially in the work of Jack Jefferson, Frank Lobdell, and Charles Strong, the artists most heavily represented in the show.

For more recent works, however, Jones has downplayed the camp aspect by showing found footage without soundtrack or splicing in ironic audio alternatives to lend layers of cultural reference to footage rooted firmly in a specific time and place.

In 2010, Scanlan told Bomb Magazine that he invented Donelle Woolford after creating a number of collages in his studio and deciding «they would be more interesting if someone else made them, someone who could better exploit their historical and cultural references.»

By working with industrial materials such as styrofoam and polyurethane, as well as with more traditional sculptural media like bronze, de Jong deliberately combines high and low cultural references and materials in quasi-allegorical mashups.

For More Sweetly, Mr. Kentridge enlisted the diverse sounds of a South African brass band and a team of sound and animation engineers in order to create a dizzying pastiche of cultural references for this unique version of the ancient dance, which riffs on Mardi Gras jazz and regalia, Mexican Dia de los Muertos imagery, Catholic funerary marches,»60s protest chants, traditional African dance, college marching band choreography, and military parades, just to name some of the influences present.

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Every image is rooted in a specific moment of attention, and while her work is contemporary in terms of its fragmentation and cultural references, it is perhaps more traditional in its commitment to the most fundamental aspects of picturemaking: drawing, colour, and texture.

A colleague on a private email discussion group I am involved with made reference to an interesting article in the International Herald Tribune from October 8, 2005, by Joost Smiers and Marieke van Schijndel called «Imagine a World Without Copyright» which posits, in part, that a world without copyright law would free up the public domain and prevent cultural monopolies... [more]

Countries like New Zealand, Canada and the USA are far more advanced in integrating culture through cultural safety and cultural competency into their health care systems (see references from NZ and the UK, for example).

School staff can provide meaningful support by incorporating each student's cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and frames of reference into the classroom to make learning more relevant for them.

The first step in this process was to implement the Strengthening Families Program as initially designed for a multicultural audience, including Caucasian, Asian, Hispanic / Latino and African - Americans, modifications were then made to include three components: 1) an all African - American video was produced with original scripts based on typical family life situations encountered by families of local substance abusers; 2) all art work utilized in the program manuals was redrawn to reflect African - American heritage, and 3) certain concepts and terminology used in the program were revised to be more in line with the African - American historical / cultural frame of reference.