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...longer, knowing that the euphoria they had felt had not been sent from on high but from the fiery pits below. But she would continue wandering this world, scrubbing pots in others’ kitchens, emptying chamber pots in others’ chambers, and all the time the emblem of her sin would grow...
...mockable emblem of Eisenhower-era family values, a stand-in for geekiness, a pasttime so decidely unhip that it's hip," former Wall Street Journal reporter Stefan Fatsis once wrote about the best-selling board game Scrabble, which turned 60 on Tuesday. Fatsis would know: while researching Word Freak, his bestselling 2001 book about the game's most fanatical players, he became a self-proclaimed word freak himself, and he's not alone. More than 150 million Scrabble sets have been sold in 121 countries since its creation...
...nation's eyes were on her loss not because it was especially horrific--in a spate of shootings this summer, Chicago had seen plenty of tragedy. It was because her story was attached to another that had enthralled America. Her sister Jennifer is not just famous; she is an emblem of pop-cultural redemption, an American Idol favorite who was eliminated in the finals but went on to greater triumph with an Oscar-winning role in the movie Dreamgirls. She had transcended her backstory and her roots as a reality star to become a real...
...christened “The Satellite” but was little more than a glorified plow—failed to bear the fruits Etzler dreamed of. The Satellite and the mentality that would inspire someone to conceive of such a project is, Stoll says, “an emblem of our own assumptions.” The view of nature as having infinite resources and society as being destined to achieve ultimate prosperity by tapping those resources is the same utopian aspiration, he argues, that “the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Mall of America...
...one”—before finally ending with the emotionally compelling—“enjoying...so many festive colors, among the most salient being that joyous cheerful red, as if red had nothing to do with blood and sorrow but was rather the emblem of happiness.” The positioning of the fantastical next to the historical and both of them next to the possible throws into question what exactly is real. Moya examines Latin American politics and nationalism closely, especially the struggle for power between the Catholic Church and the government?...