For four years, the Los Angeles nightclub known by a word that can't be printed in this newspaper, served as rejoinder to the clean-cut world of West Hollywood gay bars -- a gritty setting where dance, performance and activism were blurred into a single act, and where the human body served as statement and canvas, displaying piercings, tattoos and all kinds of other bod-mods.
The 15 works are intimate, autobiographical self-portraits that also serve as statements about the censorship and the difficulties of life in the Soviet Union.
The baronial corner living room and the formal dining room — with room for 36 guests, windows facing west, north and east, and a white marble fireplace inset with onyx and pewter — serve as statement-making bookends to the duplex's entertainment spaces.
The Sheikh's mere presence on the Rowley Mile – never mind the metaphor he obligingly provided before the Qipco 2,000 Guineas, when hiding in the saddling boxes from a sudden, wild squall – served as a statement in itself.
Duch's sentencing served as "a statement to those victims and all of history," said Stephen J. Rapp, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, speaking to Al Jazeera English.
The castle also served as a statement of the earl's wealth and influence, and would have invited comparisons with the neighbouring royal castle of Bamburgh.
This basic geometric pattern, used for highly functional purposes, served as a statement on the lifestyle and cultural background of the time.
Andrew Hammp of Billboard called the show "electrifying" though he felt that "If SXSW served as a statement about how brands should fund artists' creative expression, Gaga's Roseland residency was about giving the people what they wanted..... [The] night ended rather abruptly after almost exactly 60 minutes".
Their dance routines, often in the midst of sumptuous Art Deco settings, were intricate tap or graceful ballroom numbers that served as sophisticated statements of romantic love.
His most notable work of the decade was his "trilogy of the sublime," which consisted of three films Passion (1982), Prénom Carmen (1983; First Name: Carmen), and the highly controversial Je vous salue, Marie (1985; Hail Mary)—that served as personal statements on femininity, nature, and Christianity.
The reference to unalienable rights, including "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," appears not in the Constitution but in the Declaration of Independence, where it served as an aspirational statement rather than as a binding legal one.
