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Today I welcomed the arrival of the beautiful @WhiteHouse Christmas Tree! We are excited to begin decorating the People's House for the holiday season! #WHChristmas
Tom Moyer of Apple allegedly bribed Santa Clara County officials for gun permits. bit.ly/2ITKk20
Inquiry 'found Priti Patel broke behaviour rules'
But this awful Minister will be safe in the knowledge that Johnson always hangs on to dreadful people until he is forced not to. She clearly is unfit for her job but the PM will ignore that. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-5…
This reminds me of my old boss and his friends in a slightly more recent photo (the Oz trial defendants, 1971)
Helpfully, Merriam-Webster, in illustrating the difference between metonymy and synecdoche, uses the same example for metonymy that Oxford Languages uses for synecdoche ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
4. Why is the woman tiny? Look at the whole piece. It's not a figure on a base, it's an expressive form. It's muscular, energetic, chaotic yet directed upwards. Per the commentary, it suggests "a naked woman emerging with strength from an amalgamation of other female bodies"
3. From a better vantage, the figure looks vital and imperfect, a progressive image of womanhood, female but not classically feminine. Obviously she's coded queer. But no, it's not a portrait. The plaque says "for Mary Wollstonecraft" (photo: Ioana Marinescu)
