Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kiss is her first Broadway show since Jerry's Girls in 1986. During that run, she broke her leg in a car accident and was told she might never again walk, let alone skitter, strut and tango eight times a week as a combination film- noir diva and emblem of death...
...arguing that its name implies a territorial claim on a province of northeastern Greece also called Macedonia. The two sides have now struck an acceptable, if somewhat ponderous, compromise: Macedonia will be admitted as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Its flag, which Greece considers an emblem of Skopje's claim to Greek Macedonia, will be barred from flying at U.N. sites...
LEST IT BE THOUGHT THAT BILL Clinton -- a man with a propensity to hug, a devotion to Thelonious Monk and his own jogging track -- is altogether too tidy a baby boomer emblem, members of his generation ought to ask themselves: How many of them, if they were about to become President, would leave a black- tie party with Barbra Streisand to attend a midnight church service off- limits to cameras and reporters...
...odds that a compromise could be reached. They were hopelessly optimistic. congressional Deputies who filed into the hall were so sour about reform that they refused even to consider a motion to remove Karl Marx's rallying cry, "Workers of the World, Unite," from the Russian Federation's national emblem. In the face of such hostility, Yeltsin's conciliatory appeal for "honest and equal cooperation" went unheard. Deputies yawned and chatted as the President's supporters pleaded for strong powers to "guarantee" reforms. When that pitch failed, Yeltsin warned that if they could not find a way to agree...
Like the enigmatic emblem that serves as its title, the album, which its creator describes as "rock soap opera," flirts with esoteric meanings as it chronicles the love affair between a pop superstar named Prince and the princess of a fictional Middle Eastern kingdom. Still struggling to reconcile his animal instincts with his loftier passions, Prince once again bares his tortured muse -- a silver-throated satyr torn between heaven and hell. But this time around, the paradox is addressed with a wry self-awareness that suggests he has struck a productive truce with his old demons. Chaste confections like...