Word: emblemized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's five seniors on the ice had given four years of their youth to Harvard hockey. They had sewn their best days into the emblem at mid-ice, given thousands of numbered heartbeats to fighting in tense game after tense game...
...commemorate Mexico's Flag Day, two Golden Arches outlets in Mexico City papered their trays with place mats embossed with a representation of the national emblem. Eagle-eyed government agents swooped down and confiscated the disrespectful place mats. Saul Kahan, senior partner of McDonald's in Mexico, explained, "Our intention was never to give offense. It was to help Mexicans learn about their culture." Do not expect the chain to introduce a new dish called McEaglets anytime soon...
...first period, as Harvard was skating off the ice for the locker room, Johnny walked up to the Boston Bruin emblem at mid-ice and stopped...
...every woman a new land, whose secrets you want to discover?" The questioner is Sabina (Lena Olin), a painter and Tomas' frequent mistress whose principal props are her mirror and her quaint black bowler. The mirror is Sabina's canvas, her lover, her critic; the hat is an emblem of her willingness to walk out on a lover or a country when it gets too messy, too close. Like Tomas, she wears a wry smile for life's ironies -- the smile that knows and discounts all. Both need an outsider, in this summer of 1968, to show them what they...
...ideal German womanhood, and Shulamite, the cremated Jewess who is also the archetypal Beloved of the Song of Solomon, interweave in Kiefer's work in a haunting and oblique way. Margarete's presence is signaled, like a motif in music, by long wisps of golden straw, while Shulamite's emblem is charred substance and black shadow. Hence Kiefer's tragic image of Shulamite, 1983: a Piranesian perspective of a squat, fire-blackened crypt, the paint laid thick in an effort to convey the ruggedness of the masonry, whose architectural source (as Mark Rosenthal points out in his astute introduction...