Word: emblem
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...grapes that South Americans are using to make their breakthrough wines--the ones to finally set them apart from French Bordeaux and Spanish Rioja. Malbec, another recently revived red-wine varietal, already represents a quarter of Argentina's wine exports and is hailed as the nation's new vinicultural emblem. "Now we intend to place Argentine wines among the best in the world," says Ernesto Catena, 37, leaping over Malbec casks at his family's Catena Zapata winery in the Mendoza region. Even Uruguay, whose coups until now were usually only military, is seeing its obscure Tannat reds served...
...Fine Arts is currently showing “Draped in Dragons,” an exhibit that provides a fascinating look into Chinese Imperial court life through examples of robes, furniture, portraits and historic photographs. Details of court robes, such as the color, number of dragon claws and the emblem on an insignia badge, were all important for distinguishing rank and position in the society. The exhibit displays articles drawn from the MFA’s collection as well as borrowed pieces from collectors. Runs through May 2. Tickets (including admission to the MFA’s other galleries...
...voice rang with exasperation as he pushed Clarke to explain her interpretation. Did a feminist interpretation, he asked, determine the play’s opening scenes—which feature Karen MacDonald as an impudent Hippolyta, swollen with mute resentment of her husband Theseus (John Campion), the top-heavy emblem of dour autocratic unreasonableness? Clarke didn’t think so. “Quite often, I don’t know why I make the selections I make. I kind of instinctually and intuitively move through decisions...
...tempting to see Rumsfeld as an emblem of war itself, like Achilles or Ajax, lost in the calm, found in the fray. He is always fighting, always feinting, ever in conflict with something or someone or some idea. He's that way even when there's not much to fight about. Literal to a fault, Rumsfeld can spend a morning tangling over the interpretation of a poorly chosen word. He goes through periods when he takes on even friendly Senators and Representatives for sport. Devoted to trifocals, he seems to prefer to see things in conflict. You sometimes...
DICK GRASSO After he got the New York Stock Exchange up and running within days of the 9/11 attacks, the N.Y.S.E. chairman became a symbol of the country's resilience. But he was forced from the chairmanship two years later and became an emblem of corporate greed. Grasso resigned when it was revealed that he would receive $140 million in deferred pay, a staggering sum approved by the corporate titans he was charged with regulating...