Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Because O.J. Simpson's celebrity means that for most Americans he is a flesh-and-blood human being. We comfortably call him "O.J.," even though we've never met him, because in our mind he's a friend. Even if convicted of murder, he'll never be an abstract symbol of evil like the typical death-penalty customer with three names -- Robert Alton Harris, Rickey ; Ray Rector, John Wayne Gacy et al. For once, in the competition of humanization between the murderer and his victims, the murderer would have an unbeatable edge...
There is probably not enough terror in Wolf to satisfy today's hard-core horror fan -- no chain saws or razor-sharp fingernails -- but there is a well- measured sense of pity for Will. You could, if you wish, find in him a symbol for all kinds of human bedevilment. Mix that with humor, intelligence and high-style filmmaking and you have a true summer rarity -- a genre movie for grownups...
...campaign is useful primarily as a symbol; what the University absolutely must do for its long-term health, officials say, is to turn Harvard's separate financial structures into a single, fiscal behemoth...
...happened to me andmy friend John G. Short '70 during the 1968 Dowsit-in. A recruiter had come to campus from DowChemical, the company that made napalm, analuminum soap made of various fatty acids which,when dropped from planes in wartime, wouldsometimes burn the backs off children. Dow bacamea symbol of greedy corporate investment in the warin Southeast Asia...
...casket, to be buried with him. In Dallas she had nothing but her wedding ring. She put it in. Then, turning to her husband's close aide, P. Kenneth O'Donnell, she asked, "The ring. Did I do the right thing?" O'Donnell told her to leave the symbol where...