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It’s a reminder that De Niro’s presence — as an actor and signifier of the gangster movie — looms so large that only he could play the iconic roles of Costello and Genovese.

Whenever I crossed over what that boundary was and it was like, “OK, I’m back in the ’hood,” there were just certain signifiers of lush city block aesthetics that I found to be really beautiful.

Edward Berger’s venture into a sequestered gathering of cardinals tasked with selecting a new Supreme Pontiff showcases the standard awards bait signifiers, granted.

Whole Foods replaced Mrs. Gooch’s, but after being deracinated by Amazon, it became passé, less and less a signifier of status.

This inverted perception: Where status once begot the signifier, the signifier now begot the status.