Anyway, I felt like I needed to
write about these nominations, both for what they are at a baseline — incredible honors — but also because they mean so much more and represent bigger lessons.
Virtually every piece
written about the nomination of Betsy DeVos describes her along the lines of as a «Michigan philanthropist» or a «leading Republican donor».
Not exact matches
I'm simply reading what she
wrote about what the
nomination of Jeff Sessions to be a federal court judge meant and what it would mean in history for her.»
Gareth Thomas, the shadow Europe minister, has
written to David Cameron asking him to allow Lord Hill to be questioned by a Commons committee
about his
nomination as European commissioner.
Nominations closed last week for the Scottish Parliament election and later this week I will be
writing about the Conservaitve Party's campaign and prospects.
Earlier today we
wrote about how two of the candidates vying for the GOP
nomination to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand were sniping over the issue, with lawyer Wendy Long accusing GOP chair Ed Cox of using the issue to buck the campaign of Congressman Bob Turner, and Mr. Turner's spokesman Bill O'Reilly — who, it should be noted is related to Mr. Buckley — tweeting that the Long campaign is residing in «Bizzaroland.»
He recently investigated the Americans Elect
nomination process, and he has
written an interesting commentary
about it.
«MPs / members annoyed
about short
nominations timetable: I have to say I agree,» he
wrote on Twitter.»
Enter the remaining cast of characters, both major and minor: the janitorial staff of the classified underground wing of the compound, Zelda Fuller (Octavia Spencer in a role
written for her by del Toro) and the mute Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins, radiant in a star - making role); the attending government scientist Dr. Robert Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg), also a Russian double - agent; and, of course, Elisa's next door neighbor, Giles (Richard Jenkins, deserving of a Supporting Actor
nomination), who frets
about growing older and his hair loss, pines for love with a local pie shop employee and shares his passion for musicals with the equally besotted Elisa (they sit side - by - side on the sofa performing a quick soft shoe).
Get Out (
written and directed by Key & Peele's Jordan Peele, who also picked up
nominations for his direction and the film's screenplay) isn't
about the blatantly, obviously scary kind of racism — burning crosses and lynchings and snarling hate.
Evan
wrote about it for us here way back in March, not long after it picked up the Best Actress prize in Berlin (alas, my campaigning did not earn Kim Minhee a Seattle Film Critics Award
nomination).
I had planned to
write a full - blown rant
about the numerous blind spots and errors of judgment in this morning's Academy Award
nominations, but at this point I'm too tired and resigned to summon up the necessary fire.
Having said that, we are getting
nominations into indieBRAG from Black authors
writing about Black characters.
Still, my main fear that I
wrote about at RealMoney at the time of his
nomination has largely been realized in my mind.
The
nomination ballot and further details
about the Choice Awards are now available online, with the categories this year including Best Audio, Best Game Design, Best Technology, Best Visual Arts, Best
Writing, Best Debut Game, Best Downloadable Game, Best Handheld Game, Innovation, and Game of the Year.
Van's a fan Progressive bloggers are buzzing
about her
nomination, with The American Prospect gushing that she would bring «passionate commitment to working people, a high level of political smarts, and some genuine displays of raw guts that could make her a star of American liberalism» and Jonathan Stein,
writing for Mother Jones, calling her «a nominee to get excited
about.»
And so, looking again at the Ginsburg interview, I noticed a reference in the note on interviewer Bazelon to a newish blog at Slate called DoubleX («What Women Really Think»)-- not What Women Really Want, note — in which she and a number of other women
write about a wide range of topics, including, recently, the
nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the US Supreme Court.
In 2015, reports emerged
about Cambridge Analytica using Facebook data to aid the Ted Cruz presidential
nomination campaign, but Facebook only took action in August 2016,
writing a letter to Wylie telling him that the data had been illicitly obtained and that «GSR was not authorised to share or sell it».