Maybe it's too much to hope that we can come up with one, that we can really embrace an imagined future where our gadgets make us more connected instead of more isolated, where the internet is a force for good instead of a platform for sociopathy, where our silly outfits are free of cultural appropriation.
The court started by acknowledging that some depictions of celebrities deserve protection as free speech because "the appropriation of their likenesses may have important uses in uninhibited debate on public issues".
Yet the Rolling Stones were jokers not afraid to take themselves seriously, and that unself-conscious ambition propelled them above the awkwardness of their appropriations, freed them to speak unironically and to claim an exalted place in the tradition they first entered as interlopers.
Kennedy's appropriation of phrases like "free people," "equal protection," and "disparate treatment" baldly misdirects any uncritical reader from the truths of our history, the realities of our present, and what these words actually mean within them.
If the two houses were to pass a stripped-down budget, they would then, under the state's constitution, be free to send the governor their own appropriations bills.
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Student leaders at the University of Ottawa are not backing down from a decision to cancel a free weekly yoga class over concerns about cultural appropriation — a move that is at odds with the university's own views.
Once those bills are passed, however, the Legislature will be free to work out and pass its own appropriations bills, putting the onus on the governor to sign them or veto them.
AIDS, a riff off Robert Indiana's 1960s LOVE icon that proved itself to be as existentially potent as it is visually bold and conceptually audacious in its appropriation of the 1960's logo of free love.
By being self-financed, the commission would not only have a larger budget, but also be free of the political constraints of relying on Congressional appropriations.
