Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe it. A generation that has never known JFK helps to keep his cult alive. We embrace him as a symbol of an idealism that we never knew, of a time already a decade past by the time we were born...
Mostar's 16th century Old Bridge, one of the most exquisite examples of Ottoman architecture and a symbol of ethnic harmony in prewar Yugoslavia, was destroyed by Croatian gunners. Meanwhile, some of the deadliest shelling in weeks hit Sarajevo, killing at least 17 people, including several children at a school. The U.S. State Department warned that more than 4 million lives could be lost this winter because of the war, weather and disease...
...modelling industry is the clearest symbol of this dangerous attitude. When I read fashion magazines, I am usually repulsed by the pale skeletons which grace the pages. Basically, these magazines serve to make malnutrition fashionable...
...concealed jokes for the art-initiated, often genuinely funny ones -- as when, redoing Matisse's Still Life with "Dance" in 1974, Lichtenstein inserted a comic-strip blast of musical notes to give the figures something to jive to and popped a straw-bound Chianti flask (an archetypal kitsch symbol of the artist's studio) into the still life in the foreground...
...SHOW BOAT = CULTURAL GENOCIDE. The protest, under police guard, has not deterred many ticket holders but may have had a striking impact on potential sales: inside the theater, the only black faces readily apparent belong to ushers. As often happens when a work of art becomes a political symbol, those who denounce this Show Boat admit they have not seen it, and meanwhile their venom makes it uncomfortable for other members of the black community to judge for themselves...