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That is, perhaps the only way to interpret the emblems of democracy. Despite the radical and rightist cant, the American symbols contain no occult powers. Saluting them or reviling them can do nothing to alter social policy. Placing a decal on a car window does not grant the bearer a moral superiority. Spitting on the flag is about as effective a challenge to the Establishment as sticking pins in a wax effigy of the Pentagon. The externals of America are, at best, only expressions of a fragile ideal. The land of the free and the home of the brave...
...back." The chorus is a quasi lullaby from a child's perspective: "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes . . ." Another song tells of a man killed in a car accident because he had covered his windshield with flag decals: "Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore/They're already overcrowded from your dirty little...
...aspic-like silicon gel, none of them bigger than a sheet of typing paper, in which objects are set and, as it were, embalmed. The gel has the disconcerting resiliency of flesh-it feels vulnerable and intimate-while its contents, which may be any thing from a cut-out decal of a rain bow trout to a diminutive plastic air plane, exhale a delicate poetry of sur realist juxtaposition; their like has not been seen in America since Joseph Cornell's boxes. Memory and touch, a poignant archaeology of the self: at its best, Paris' work is pure...
...automotive Tune-Up-Tape by Coursette System Inc. Equipped with the tape, the company claims, "someone who has never even changed a tire can now successfully tune his car the first time he tries." The package includes an engine diagram, tool and parts list, service sticker and window decal ("Owner-Tuned"), all for $9.95, considerably less than a similar job at the local garage...
...flag from a one-to a five-year jail term or a fine of $1,000 to $5,000. Peter Stowe, an economics professor at Southern Illinois University, was haled into court under the law. In their car's rear window, his wife had stuck a flag decal with a peace sign where the stars should have been. Says Stowe: "I'm willing to live with people who think that the flag is sacred. But I'd appreciate it if they wouldn't lock me in jail if I don't feel the same...