Word: emblemized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost no one ventures a smile. Far more typical is a picture of a vulpine carnival worker with a chilling gaze. A Texas factory worker, wearing a birthday corsage of dollars, even looks as if she knows that she will end up on a museum wall as an emblem for the empty promises of the working life. In case we miss the point, Avedon throws in three bloody head shots of slaughtered % steers and sheep--a few notes of medieval fatalism, played country-and-western style...
...someone who grew up with The Man with the Golden Helmet, it was more than a painting; it was an emblem of serious purpose, of melancholy reflection, of stoic courage. A reproduction hung for years in the living room of his father's house, over the bookcase. There is a certain kind of scholar, perhaps vanished now, whose entire quality of mind could be summed up in the fact that he kept Rembrandt's The Man with the Golden Helmet in a corner of his living room, over the bookcase. So somber, so grave, it was the first picture that...
...appears first as a silhouette on the African horizon, the dying sun behind him, the very emblem of romantic heroism, standing easy in a lost world. She appears at first in dream-tossed sleep, reinventing him and reimagining the landscape that shaped their love in ways that are perhaps immeasurable...
...other day I was inside the Coop, minding my own business while trying on a pair of official Harvard-Yale Game underwear emblazoned with the emblem of each school on the front and back panels...
...counterpoise to these exquisitely delicate objects is the 1,000-year-old, 1,200-lb. limestone Chacmool, the ceremonial figure that is the very emblem of Maya civilization in its later phases. Found at the most celebrated of all Maya sites, Chichen Itza in Yucatan, the semireclining statue is a splendid example of the Chacmools found guarding the entrances of temples. Typically, the male figure leans back on his elbows, pulls up his knees and turns a forbidding gaze on intruders at the sacred gates. A flat plate poised on his belly is believed to have been a receptacle...