Word: emblemized
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...these paintings, together with Millet's Angelus, had become the most popular works of art in the new age of mass production, disseminated by millions of engravings, postcards, knickknacks and parodies. The Sower became the Mona Lisa of socialism, but it served capitalism equally well as the corporate emblem of its owners, the Provident National Bank in Philadelphia...
...year and a half to make concrete these shadows of their selves. Coco Pekalis is a tiny child, an automaton, a Peruvian peasant; Lanny Harrison, a refined matron and a tomboy. Monica Moseley reads a book, clenches her fist defiantly, carries a globe on her head as her emblem. In the same procession, Blondell Cummings carries a lizard, Lee Nagrin a tree and Monk a house...
There was more to Precious, of course, than vaps. The rodent was an emblem of a lifestyle, a get-married, settle-down, buy-a-house routine that seemingly afflicted everyone in Danvers as soon as high school closed its doors on them. Bereft of such designs, I had difficulty relating to people who would want the beast yapping underfoot...
...John Wayne, whose old World War II movies with their caricatures of Japanese soldiers as villainous fanatics, were once campy favorites in Japan. A visit to Disneyland will be beamed by TV satellite to Japan. In San Francisco, the Emperor will drive through streets bedecked with chrysanthemums, the imperial emblem...
According to Robinson, the clown is a fitting emblem for Berio personally and for his music--a distraught, confused surface which believes a deeper pathos and sensitivity. And like a clown, Berio is deeply motivated by the theatrical impulse. So despite the fragmentation and lack of hummable tunes in his music you can sense that he has remained committed to the audible dramatic gesture...