Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sink M.C. Hammer into the ground like a stake. Spike's Joint in Tokyo (yes, that Spike) supplies Japanese trendies with film-related merchandise, from team jackets ($794) to the official Malcolm X baseball cap ($39) -- the one indispensable part of any streetwise uniform, a kind of overseas emblem for the whole rap army...
...prominent partner in a major law firm, rated one of the top 100 lawyers in the country -- there is no doubt that she is her husband's professional and intellectual equal. But is this reason to turn her into "Willary Horton" for the '92 campaign, making her an emblem of all that is wrong with family values, working mothers and modern women in general...
...tricolor flag of democratic Russia looked as if it had been hastily tacked to the courtroom wall underneath a metal emblem with the Soviet hammer and sickle. The 13 judges, seated at a nearby tribunal, did not appear to be completely comfortable in their new black robes with white linings. Minutes after the hearings opened, the court became embroiled in a free-for-all about how to deal with the fact that former President Mikhail Gorbachev had refused to show up. Show trials have always been a staple of Soviet political discourse, but the proceeding that began in Moscow last...
...Georgia lawmakers added a Confederate emblem to their state's flag, top, to express distaste for school desegregation. Last week Governor Zell Miller proposed taking it out: "We need to lay the days of segregation to rest...
Andy Warhol predicted that everyone would have fifteen minutes of fame. In this new world, he could be right. Hell, in a couple of years, we could all have our own cable channels. "Fifteen Minutes" is a fitting emblem for our generation...