Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appointees Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy joined William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun in ruling that even offensive forms of political expression -- in fact, especially those offensive forms -- were what the Constitution was designed to protect. "Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered," Brennan wrote for the majority...
...most famous initials in the world, found almost anywhere computers are used. But last week the letters IBM appeared in the pages of the British science journal Nature in an unprecedented form. Two IBM researchers, in a scientific and marketing tour de force, had spelled out their corporate emblem by dragging atoms across a crystal of nickel one at a time. The result: the world's smallest corporate logo, measuring 660 billionths of an inch long...
...Malpede intended the work to be a celebration of womanhood and woman's fertility. At a crucial and trying moment early in the play Macha states, "Bind me to life." Both she and her daughter Etain (Courtney Williams) see themselves as bound to life, and the phrase as their emblem...
Unfortunately, the flag is also the emblem of the Confederacy, whose member states seceded from the Union in order to preserve preserve a way of life that included the enslavement of Blacks. Historically, and even today, the Stars and Bars symbolize a certain nostalgia for the racially stratified Old South and its reprehensible practices...
Jong's best seller Fear of Flying (1973) became an emblem for the sexual revolution and women's liberation. With Any Woman's Blues, Jong is trying to put her mark on the '80s, when safe sex replaced free love and materialism, and addiction treatment became the ruling ethos. With no irony intended, she creates as her heroine a sex addict who goes to A.A. meetings, a free-spirited artist who uses a Lalique bowl to paint a still life and wears Zandra Rhodes...