Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Artist Eugene Kenney envisioned the eye, he did not expect it to be of a storm. What he had in mind was hanging a huge canvas eye of Horus, symbol of the all-seeing Egyptian deity, from the top of San Francisco's 853-ft. pyramid-shaped Transamerica Building. "An artistic idea that could be comprehended on many levels," contended Stephen Goldstine, president of the San Francisco Art Institute, and an insightful way to mark the museum's King Tut exhibit...
...were bussed in for the occasion--stood the containment building which will enclose the nuclear core, that energy-and-radiation-producing network of fuel rods, uranium pellets and cooling pipes. The containment, looking out over Long Island Sound, its grey exterior matching the thick cloud covering above, was the symbol of the nuclear power plant; to those who had come to protest it, it represented all that was evil about nukes. Though no protesters would actually reach the reactor building that Sunday afternoon (and only one tried), it was visible throughout the 850-sq.-acre enclosed construction site, its presence...
...expect it, though. Because the man who came to be the symbol of drink bourbon/rape women/roll fairies American masculinity was born Marion Morrison, and there was always a suspicion that, deep down, John Wayne wanted to be the Mayor of San Francisco...
...elaborate consecration of Poland and the universal church to Mary, the "Queen of Poland" whose veneration runs deep in the Polish consciousness. On Thursday, caught in a whipsaw of emotions, he went immediately from a fond visit to his picturesque home town of Wadowice to the still standing symbol that epitomizes human evil: Auschwitz. The concentration-camp site, he told a huge, hushed throng, is "the Golgotha of the modern world...
...Cracow, where he served as Archbishop, and Czestochowa, his country's holiest shrine, which contains the painting of the Black Madonna. Temporal leaders have come and gone, but the Virgin has remained for 323 years "Krolowa Polski"(the Queen of Poland).*Finally the Pope will visit Auschwitz, a symbol of Nazi infamy and to Poles a reminder of the estimated 6 million Poles, 3 million of them Jews, who died during the second World...